Creating engagement between key, global stakeholders
Climate change is now one of the greatest challenges of our time and we need to address this from a political, environmental, social and business perspective. The South African summit in Durban (COP17) set a platform, a first step along the road to global action. All stakeholders need to ensure that we reach, sooner rather than later, a binding legal global agreement. The G8 Rio+20, will play a key role in the success of this important challenge.
CLIMATE CHANGE The New Economy will be published in June 2012 to coincide with the historical Rio+20 Earth Summit on 20th – 22nd June 2012.
CLIMATE CHANGE The New Economy is uniquely positioned to be the definitive information and reference source on climate change and will set out the agenda for governments, NGOs, corporate business leaders and their advisors. Our aim is to deliver the best thought leadership and international positions and analysis to counter the devastating effects of global warming and to ensure we reach a globally binding legal climate agreement.
CLIMATE CHANGE The New Economy is an ambitious publishing initiative positioned alongside the G20 leaders to be the definitive information and reference source on leading climate change strategies. It will help stimulate investments into innovation technology and ensure collaboration between governments and industry to meet the global targets post-Durban and beyond Kyoto.
Produced to the highest standard and finish, the publication will include contributions by world thought leaders, scientists, captains of industry and all G8 members, with a welcome by Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil, the introduction will be written by Sha Zukang Secretary General of the Rio+20, with the Foreword by Achim Steiner the UNEP Executive Director. (Confirmed).
CLIMATE CHANGE The New Economy will celebrate and sculpt the framework for global success by addressing the following issues:
- Helping governments and their agencies to create policy, leadership and understanding that will become the building blocks for key stakeholders to work with.
- Working with business leaders to help them achieve their goals, stimulate discussion with governments and key stakeholders as well as encouraging ideas and strategies that will be vital for their success as COP18 beckons.
- Showcasing new technologies, key research and the latest scientific developments in order to adapt to the climate risks and reduce emissions to an acceptable level.
- Creating collaboration between the parties to reduce economic risks and create opportunities. What new legislation, policy and specialist advice is required for all stakeholders to work together to combat the challenges and embrace opportunities as the world moves closer together to save our planet?
- Carbon Management strategies (now and beyond 2012). Addressing how the global carbon market will work, including trading schemes, carbon reduction and storage strategies needed to limit our overall climate effect.
- Developing the perfect adaptation strategy and policy. What are the key physical effects of climate change and which thresholds and core business objectives do they impact? How will both the public and private sectors need to adapt their thinking, structures, and business models within the new and changing climate parameters?
- Legal and insurance impacts of entering into climate change initiatives without taking the necessary advice.
- Infrastructure and energy requirements under future climate conditions. How will traditional methods and building designs be affected, what are the leading edge approaches being adopted and how are governments working with industry to encourage new design, techniques, planning and sustainable sources needed for success?
- Renewable Energy. How can we work together to meet our challenging targets? How can businesses help finance these deals? Will microgeneration, ESCOs and feed-in tariffs change the way businesses source their energy? What is needed by the government and leading energy companies to get more renewable schemes off the ground? There will be an in-depth look at wind and solar power.
- Reviewing the financial markets. How will the lending and investment community view and assess risk, stimulate finance, allocate capital and use climate factors to assess and influence business valuations and share prices moving forward?
- Education, skills and training that will influence future generations' perceptions, ideas and way of life. This will include community and public awareness programmes to educate everyone to learn to live within a low-carbon and sustainable society.
- Protecting the environment by working with businesses, international and local agencies and policy makers to achieve a long-term success.
- Creating strategies for world-class sustainable development programmes. Which sustainability strategies will have the best success rate and what have we learnt from past successes?
