Business Leaders Outline Six Steps for Ambitious Global Climate Treaty
Business leaders today issued "The Copenhagen Call" at the close of the World Business Summit on Climate Change. Here is the statement delivered to Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and UNFCCC chief Yvo de Boer to take forward into the final six months of negotiations leading to COP15.
here is a summary
- Agreement on a science-based greenhouse gas stabilization path with 2020 and 2050 emissions reduction targets that will achieve it;
- Effective measurement, reporting and verification of emissions performance by business;
- Incentives for a dramatic increase in financing low emissions technologies;
- Deployment of existing low-emissions technologies and the development of new ones;
- Funds to make communities more resilient and able to adapt to the effects of climate change, and
- Means to finance forest protection.
See Copenhagen Climate Council Call for more detail
