Climate Week NYC 2010
The Climate Group, with GreenBiz.com, offers coverage, analyses and an in-depth look at Climate Week NYºC 2010. Climate Week NYºC is a week-long series of high-profile events in New York City exploring how governments and business can work together to finance a clean industrial revolution. Climate Week NYºC represents a unique partnership that includes The Climate Group, the United Nations, the city of New York, the Carbon Disclosure Project, the New York Academy of Sciences, COP16 and is sponsored by Swiss Re, HSBC and others.
Featured Content
- How likely is a hurricane strike in New York? According to experts, it's not a question of whether a major hurricane will hit the Big Apple, but when. Perils Specialist Megan Linkin at Swiss Re......
- Global efforts to address climate change have been in disarray following the failed talks in Copenhagen. But even if all carbon emissions were stopped at once, climate trends would continue to expose......
- Given the impasse in the U.S. Congress on a climate and energy bill, EPA regulation under a so-called greenhouse gas emission tailoring rule is poised to take effect. But that's not likely to produce......
- As political, business and non-profit leaders gathered in New York recently for Climate Week to network and compare notes on their progress in managing their own carbon emissions as well as working......
- The former U.K. Prime Minister address government and business leaders at The Climate Group's Reception this week on how to re-focus business and political energy on climate action....
- With California's landmark climate legislation facing a challenge in the polls in November, Amy Davidsen, the executive director of The Climate Group in the U.S., offers her thoughts on the issue in......
- While adaptation strategies may seem like admitting defeat, it's essential to pursue them as well as climate change mitigation, speakers said in a Climate Week NYºC 2010 discussion led by the......
- "We are going to expand enormously -- our economy, our consumption, over the years to come ... But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction.......
- "The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage." -- Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio......
- Developing and developed countries alike must all now make the transition to a low carbon economy. Key to making that happen, in particular in developing countries, is to get finance flowing so......
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Climate Week Featured Quotes
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"We are going to expand enormously -- our economy, our consumption, over the years to come ... But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction." -- Tony Blair at Climate Week NYºC 2010....
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"The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage." -- Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio founder, 1916....
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"Cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050 will require investment of US$45 trillion. Financing of this magnitude will require the biggest public-private partnership of all time but will unlock a clean industrial revolution that will be good for the economy, good for jobs and good for the environment." -- Steve Howard, founder and CEO of The Climate Group, at Climate Week NYºC 2010....
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"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." -- Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and Nobel laureate, 1923....
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"While there is no silver bullet to dealing with the climate challenge, I am heartened to see a broad coalition from all sectors of society striving to achieve green growth within their own respective realms." -- Han Seung-soo, former prime minister of the Republic of Korea and chairman of the board of directors of the Global Green Growth Institute, at Climate Week NYºC 2010....
Carbon Disclosure Project 2010 Reports
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This report analyzes the CDP responses from the 500 largest public companies on the FTSE Global Equity Index Series (Global 500), with particular attention paid to the ways that organizations in every sector are capitalizing on commercial opportunites....
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This report analyzes the responses from S&P 500 companies to the CDP, with particular attention paid to the ways that organizations in every sector are capitalizing on commercial opportunites, particularly those from reducing emissions....