Third Meeting of Caring for Climate Signatories

Business Contribution to Global Sustainability ahead of Rio+20

(Copenhagen, 17 May 2011) – The UN Global Compact and UN Environment Programme’s Caring for Climate initiative convened its third signatories meeting – an event that took place in the context of "Global Compact Week" in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The meeting drew more than 100 senior representatives from business, civil society, Government, the UN and other interests. Focused on business contributions to global sustainability ahead of Rio+20, participants discussed ways to advance the initiative’s current workstreams – climate and development and low carbon leaders – as well as collective ways to address the climate-water-energy nexus.

During a special session on Rio+20, Mr. Brice Lalonde, Executive Coordinator of Rio+20, appealed to the initiative’s signatories to urge local and national governments to support solutions and ongoing efforts by business and to strengthen these efforts through coalition building.

The event featured joint sessions with the UN Global Compact's CEO Water Mandate to explore potential synergies between the two platforms and the energy-water nexus as well as with Global Compact LEAD companies about the role of business in providing access to sustainable energy for all.

Resources and Outcomes Meeting Report Meeting Agenda List of Participants Presentations Welcome and opening Remarks Georg Kell, Executive Director, UN Global Compact Office Kaveh Zahedi, Climate Change Coordinator, UNEP Lise Kingo, Executive Vice President & Chief of Staff, Novo Nordisk and Member of the Caring for Climate Steering Committee Rio+20: Objectives and engagement opportunities for signatories Brice Lalonde, Executive Coordinator, UN Conference Rio 2012 Sören Buttkereit, Head of Corporate Sustainability External Office, Siemens  Naty Barak, Head of Sustainable Development, Netafim Jorge Soto, Director of Sustainable Development, Braskem Roundtable Thematic Discussions Climate Change and Development  Heather Coleman, Senior Policy Advisor, Climate Change, Oxfam   Eliot Metzger, Project Manager, Next Practice Collaborative, Climate & Energy Program, World Resources Institute  Bryan Jacob, Director of Energy Management & Climate Protection, The Coca-Cola Company Low Carbon Leaders Project Dennis Pamlin, Director, Low Carbon Leaders Project John Kornerup Bang, Climate & Environment, A.P. Moller - Maersk Group Special presentation on new initiative Peter Brun, Senior Vice President, Vestas, Introducing the Windmade Initiative Joint Session of Caring for Climate and CEO Water Mandate Gavin Power, Deputy Director, UN Global Compact Office  Dominique Heron, Special Advisor to the Senior Executive Vice President, Veolia Environnement Martin Ginster, Water and Environmental Consultant, Safety, Health & Environment Centre, Sasol Maria Stareborn, Communications Director at Unilever Nordic, Unilever Business role in providing access to Sustainable Energy for All Renato De Filippo, Climate Change Manager, ENI Weijun Xie, Executive Director, China Minmetals Corporation Juan Ramon Silva Ferrada, Area General Manager Sustainability, Acciona

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(Last update 23 August 2011)