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 Cancún Global Business Day
6 December 2010 | Cancún, Mexico |
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 Cancún Global Business Day met in Cancún, Mexico, on 6 December 2010, under the theme “Building Bridges.” This fourth Business Day took place in parallel to the UN Cancún Climate Change Conference, which convened from 29 November-10 December 2010. During the opening session, participants were informed that the event’s theme, “Building Bridges,” referred to linkages between the private sector and negotiators as well as between actors in developed and developing countries.
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat, offered a keynote speech that reviewed the state of negotiations at the Moon Palace Hotel, the venue for the official talks. She challenged businesses to exert leverage in three areas: by looking at their value chains; by leveraging change within the sectors in which each business operates; and by leveraging their political constituencies.
The approximately 180 participants at Business Day, in the Westin Hotel, engaged in discussions regarding: review the experience of the Mexican Dialogues, a series of events that brought representatives from the private sector and government together in the lead-up to the Cancún negotiations; consider patterns for diffusion of technology; discuss the forms and strengths of South-South trade and its contributions to a green economy; and consider the global realities affecting responses to climate change and clean energy growth.
Cancún Global Business Day was organized by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and was sponsored by CEMEX.
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L-R: Jennifer Morgan, World Resources Institute (WRI); Brian Dames, CEO, Eskom Holdings Limited; Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA); Moderator Mark Spelman, Accenture; Gregory Barker, Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change, United Kingdom; Carmen Becerril, CEO, Acciona Energía; Yvo de Boer, KPMG; and Graeme Sweeney, Royal Dutch Shell |
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Event resource
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IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of the Cancún Climate Change Conference, 29 November - 10 December 2010, Cancún, Mexico
IISD RS coverage of Selected Side Events at the Cancún Climate Change Conference, 29 November - 10 December 2010, Cancún, Mexico
IISD RS coverage of the Development and Climate Days at COP 16, 4-5 December 2010, Cancún, Mexico
IISD RS coverage of the Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010, 4 December 2010, Cancún, Mexico
IISD RS coverage of the Oceans Day at Cancún, 4 December 2010, Cancún, Mexico
IISD RS coverage of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, 7-19 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
IISD RS coverage of Selected Side Events at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, 7-19 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
IISD RS coverage of the Copenhagen Business Day, 11 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
IISD RS coverage of the UN Climate Change Conference - Poznań, 1-12 December 2008, Poznań, Poland
IISD RS coverage of Selected Side Events at the Poznań Climate Change Conference, 1-12 December 2008, Poznań, Poland
IISD RS coverage of the Business Day at COP 14, 9 December 2008, Poznań, Poland
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