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The Copenhagen Call
To be - or not to be - climate-friendly
26 May 2009
Stepping into the future: Vestas windmill
Raising the bar: Dr Pachauri
My vehicle of choice for dealing with opposition to climate action
Final session: Blood, Rogers, Gowing, Tickell
Blood and water: Shai Agassi waters David Blood
Every which way: artwork at airport (detail)
After a pretty muddled start, with panels of CEOs allowed to meander on about corporate citizenship, the World Business Summit on Climate Change finally took off with a speech by Cate Blanchett and, the next morning, a panel moderated by the BBC's Nik Gowing, who took the gloves off and really got to work on the agenda set at the beginning of the event by Al Gore and Rajendra Pachauri. Video coverage can be found here.
Really enjoyed meeting Tim Flannery - and running a forestry session with him. Wonderful dinners with Novo Nordisk, including an intimate session with Al Gore, and at the Danish National Gallery, where I caught up with Nicky Gavron of the London Assembly, among others.
The final statement, dubbed The Copenhagen Call, was somewhat stronger than some of the sessions had led me to expect - one virtue of such things being drafted in parallel to such events. It proposes six action steps.
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