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Foreword
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations  
  A Global Green New Deal?
Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director,
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)  
Mitigation and Adaptation


www.nedbank.co.za

  European collaboration – sustainable forest management for climate change mitigation
Arne Ivar Sletnes, Head, Berit Hauger Lindstad, Policy Adviser, and Malgorzata Buszko-Briggs, Policy Adviser, MCPFE Liaison Unit
Fighting climate change through knowledge
Basque Government  
  Deploying low-carbon road transport
technologies into the UK market

Dr Peter Speers, Director, Low Carbon and Fuel Cell Knowledge Transfer Network, and Robert Evans, CEO, Cenex
Moving ahead on climate
Björn Stigson
President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
  Climate initiatives of the world’s ports
Dr Satoshi Inoue
Secretary-General, International Association of Ports and Harbors


www.megaman.cc

  Climate change and tourism
Dr Stefanos Fotiou, Programme Officer, Tourism and Environment Programme, UNEP, and Dr Murray Simpson, Senior Research Associate, Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Walking the talk in the UN – the road to climate neutrality
Niclas Svenningsen
Head, Sustainable United Nations, United Nations Environment Programme
  Sasakawa Prize – one action is more powerful than a hundred discussions
Yohei Sasakawa
Chairman, The Nippon Foundation


www.johnsoncontrols.com

  Global legislators leading the way
Rt Hon Elliot Morley MP
President, Globe International
Sustainable solutions
Paul Dickinson
CEO, Carbon Disclosure Project
  Companies and leadership on climate change
Georg Kell, Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact, and Doug Miller, Chairman and Founder, GlobeScan

Full disclosure – allowing for meaningful comparison of greenhouse gas emissions
Sean Gilbert, Director, Sustainability Reporting Framework

 


www.nickelinstitute.org/investment

The Johnson Controls path to sustainability
Johnson Controls
  Building a climate change solution
Ché Wall
Director, Green Building Council of Australia
Walking the talk in the UN – the road to climate neutrality
Dr Mathis Wackernagel
Founder and Executive Director,
Global Footprint Network
  Investing in sustainability – the role of Nickel
Nickel Institute
Ecoagriculture – sustaining world food sources while addressing climate change challenges
Jeffrey A McNeely, Chief Scientist, International Union for Conservation of Nature
  The entrepreneurial approach to climate change
Sir Richard Branson
Virgin Group
New incentives to halt deforestation
James P Leape
Director General, WWF International
  Climate change adaptation – old technologies but new urgency
Pasi Rinne
Chairman, ProAct Network

Environmental commitment in our DNA
OCÉ

 

Bioenergy towards a low-carbon future – meeting the challenges of energy security, food security and sustainable development
Dr Corrado Clini, Director General, Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea, Italy and Chairman, Global Bioenergy Partnership

Technology
Two needs and three-dimension challenge
Petrobras
  Communicating global e-sustainability solutions
Luis Neves

Chairman, Global e-Sustainability Initiative


www.petrobras.com

 


www.hp.com/environment

Energy & climate change – looking for solutions
Sandrine Dixson-Declève
, Executive Director, International Sustainable Energy Exchange and co-founder of the Partnership for Cleaner Fuels and Vehicles
 

Better manage assets to cut carbon emissions
Infor

Enel’s green revolution
Enel
  Environmental information – challenges for
monitoring, research and information systems

Professor Jacqueline McGlade
, Executive Director, European Environment Agency
The future is now – renewable energy and climate change
Steve Sawyer

Secretary-General, Global Wind Energy Council
 


www.orange.com

Energy technology perspectives – insights from 2008 and looking towards 2009
Nobuo Tanaka

Executive Director, International Energy Agency
  Nanotechnologies for environmental benefit – reversing the damage
Ottilia Saxl

Founder and CEO, Institute of Nanotechnology


www.gaia.fi

 


www.eads.com/madebyeads


www.unite.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/

  Greening air travel – tomorrow’s technology for greener aircraft is being developed today
Janez Potocnik
, European Commissioner for Science and Research
ICTs and climate change – the ITU perspective
Dr Hamadoun Toure

Secretary-General, International Telecommunications Union
 


www.edf.fr


www.tatacommunications.com

  Carbon capture and storage – permanent CO2 sequestration
Chris Davies

MEP, European Parliament
Telecommunication contributes to a carbonlean economy
Ericsson
 


www.akercleancarbon.com

Finance


www.visaeurope.com

 


www.bc3research.org

The need for a clever financial architecture as a key element of the global response to climate change
Yvo de Boer

Executive Secretary, UNFCCC
  Policies for a low-carbon world – it is urgent to act
Mark Kenber

Policy Director, The Climate Group


www.infor.com/goinggreen

  Community Development Carbon Fund –
commitment to the poorest

Joëlle Chassard

Carbon Finance Unit, The World Bank
Spurring the financial industry on climate change
Mindy S Lubber

President of Ceres and Director of INCR
  Insuring climate change and sustainability –
unleashing innovation and intelligent partnerships

Butch Bacani, Programme Officer, Asset Management & Insurance, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative
Beyond cap and trade – public finance in
international climate change policy

David Imbert
, Project Officer, Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy, and Jamie Brown, Head of Secretariat, UNEP SEFI Public
Finance Alliance, Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy
  Climate change and the dangers of undisclosed risk – a wake-up call for corporate directors
Mindy S Lubber

President of Ceres and Director of INCR

Sustainable opportunities – policy and investment solutions for climate change
Reto Ringger

Founder and CEO, Sustainable Asset Management

     
Actions

Shrink your carbon footprint now – four steps to change your business culture, not the climate
These Actions have been compiled by Peter Fries, a journalist specialising in energy and
environmental issues, and Cornis van der Lugt who is responsible for corporate environmental
and social responsibility at UNEP’s Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE).
1. Assess
2. Plan
3. Act
4. Communicate

Climate neutral network
CN NET


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