Climate Change Initiative

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The World Economic Forum's Climate Change Initiatives, run by the World Economic Forum's Environment Team, are an offshoot of the Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change, formed at the 2009 World Economic Forum at the request of Gordon Brown. [1]

The initiatives claim to 'help build multistakeholder partnerships between private, public and non-governmental actors to contribute to the environment-related Millennium Development Goals'. They appear to set up and oversee a number of 'task forces' which promote market solutions to climate change. In particular the 'Low Carbon Economic Prosperity' group describes itself as a task force of 'over 80 global companies and over 40 scientific experts and organizations' aiming to stimulate a 'clean revolution' within a 'high-growth and low carbon economy'. [2]. They push for market based solutions to climate change which stimulate economic growth, and the importance of industry-led policies.

See Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change for more.

Low Carbon Economic Prosperity Task Force

According to the World Economic Forum's website in January 2010, this appears to be the only active element of the Climate Change Initiative.

The task force is made up of more than 80 global companies, including:

and 40 'experts and organizations', largely representing corporations, investment firms and emissions trading lobbies (including the other major groups with very similar corporate membership), with some academics;

Development]], France

Kingdom

Department for International Development, United Kingdom

House, United Kingdom

Kingdom

  • William W. Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy, John F. Kennedy School of

Government, Harvard University, USA

International Development]], United Kingdom

Development]], France

Design/MDBC, USA

University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

People's Republic of China

School of Economics, United Kingdom

Notes

  1. WEF Climate Change Initiative "World Economic Forum Initiatives" Accessed 09/11/09
  2. WEF Climate Change Initiatives "World Economic Forum Climate Change page" Accessed 09/11/09
  3. World Economic Forum Climate Change Initiative, low carbon Economic Prosperity task force Participants Accessed 22/01/10