Business Views on Addressing Climate Change Beyond 2012

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Business views on addressing climate change beyond 2012 COP10 side event Buenos Aires, 13 December 2004 Laurent Corbier Program Director, Energy and Climate

Overall context Rising population Those themes Development interact… Poverty alleviation Energy supply and consumption …how do we understand Impacts and global warming and face the challenges ? Millenium Development Goals (2000) WEHAB, (2002) Buenos Aires _ 13 December 2004

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Business has an important role to play Business’ contribution is key to design and implement « workable » solutions, that respond to the « 4A » principle: Accessible, Affordable, Acceptable impacts, Adequate returns. This implies: ¾ getting a shared understanding of the facts, and of the challenges and dilemmas, ¾ participating to the design and implementation of workable framework conditions: bringing realism and pragmatism into the debate. Buenos Aires _ 13 December 2004

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setting the scene…

Facts and Trends to 2050 Energy and climate change

The business agenda Conditions for sustained action

¾Markets

¾Visibility / predictability

¾Cost-effective frameworks and mechanisms ¾A level playing field

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Moving forward….a new approach is needed

¾ For immediate implementation:

Ö energy efficiency and conservation,

Ö enhance the contribution of renewable sources and non emitting technologies,

Ö workable, cost effective and “market-realistic” mechanisms, Ö prepare for the longer term: innovation & technology;

¾ Key elements for an effective long term response: Ö global framework, decentralized implementation, Ö realistic and quantifiable objectives,

Ö a major effort on technology development and deployment; new types of cooperation needed Buenos Aires _ 13 December 2004

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Thank You !

WBCSD

www.wbcsd.org

¾ 175 leading international companies ™ ™ ™ ™ ™

35 countries 20 major industrial sectors Total turnover (2003)

4’400 BUSD

Employees

12 M

Customers each day

2.5 B

¾ Regional Network ™ ™

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Membership by geographical distribution Europe - EU North America (incl. Mexico) Asia (Japan & Korea)

EU 66

Europe - Other Latin America

Japan 21 Central & Eastern Europe

North America 51

Oceania Asia Africa & Middle East

EU, NA and Japan: 80% Regional Network: a counterbalance Buenos Aires _ 13 December 2004

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