Alstom at the World Business Summit 2009, Copenhagen
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Last mile before COP15: Alstom to be involved in global discussions to shape a sustainable economy.
The World Business Summit on Climate Change, held in Copenhagen (Denmark) from May 24th to 26th, will mark a decisive step for business leaders around the globe as we approach the UN Climate Conference (COP15) in December 2009.
This summit is a one-time opportunity for companies, economists, and other leading thinkers, to make decisions on the role of the global business community into the Climate Change thought process.
This process, begun in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio, will give birth in December 2009 to an international agreement that will shape Climate Change management from 2012, impacting economic growth, business practices and regulatory processes on a global scale.
As a power sector leader, Alstom is acting today from strategic decisions made several years ago, bringing its wide range of technological solutions, innovations in clean power generation, and carbon emission reduction technologies, to help meet the climate change challenge.
One week to go to Copenhagen:
- Friday 22: Visit of carbon capture testing site in Karlshamn, Sweden
- Sunday 24, 8am: Alstom Power press conference with Philippe Joubert (President, Alstom Power) on Alstoms strategic and technological commitment to the green economy
- Sunday 24 13.30 pm: Opening with Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General, United Nations, Tim Flannery, Chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council
- Sunday 24, 14.15 pm: Keynote address by Al Gore, Chairman, Generation Investment Management and Former US Vice President
- Sunday 24, 14.35 pm: Shaping the new green economy, interactive debate with Indra Nooyi (Pepsico), Philippe Joubert (Alstom Power), Paul Polman (Unilever), Lars Josefsson (Vattenfall)
- Sunday 24, 16.45 pm: Getting to Copenhagen with Carlos Minc (Brasilian Minister of Environment), Kamal Nath (Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry), Todd Stern (US Special Envoy for Climate Change, State Department), Xie Zenhua (Director of State Environmental Protection Administration, China)
- Sunday 24, evening: Dinner with Philippe Paelinck (Alstom Power CO2 director), and Joan McNaughton (Alstom Power Senior Vice President for public & environmental policies)
Alstoms commitment to providing a range of solutions to address the climate change challenge, is a long-standing one.