via: Ms. Shirlee Algire
"187 days, 16 hours, 6 minutes, and 47 seconds – that’s the time remaining
until the United Nations Climate Change
Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen this December, according to the “countdown”
clock on the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change website. When that clock reaches zero, world
leaders will negotiate a successor to the Kyoto
Protocol – hopefully before the climate’s “clock” reaches zero and the world
spirals into climate catastrophe.
The global business community isn’t waiting -- this past week, 700 global business executives attended the World Business Summit on Climate Change. They issued the “Copenhagen Call,” a six-point statement listing the steps required to pass an effective global climate treaty. Two of the steps focus on supporting low emissions technologies, for example by creating “incentives for a dramatic increase in financing” them."
Read more at the source: CSRwire
Contributing Writers Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon of Sea Change Media
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