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Environment RSS FeedsTrade and investment as environment protectors - Writing in the Polish Warsaw Business Journal, on the occasion of the UNFCCC in Poznan, ICC Secretary General Guy Sebban urged negotiators to bear in mind the inextricable link between climate change and trade and investment. Mr Sebban also highlighted the need for strong protection of intellectual property rights to ensure private sector investment in new technologies....Feed Source: www.iccwbo.org ICC highlights urgent need for clarity to UNFCCC - As United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations intensify, ICC underscored during the last week of the UN climate change conference that business urgently needed clear rules and frameworks for the investments required to address climate change. ... Business leaders exchange views on climate change agreement - ICC yesterday hosted a side event during the UN climate change conference in Poznan where business leaders expressed their opinions on what is needed in a post-2012 framework agreement on climate change, in order to accelerate investment in clean technologies.... ICC urges clear rules for post-2012 climate agreement - Business needs clear rules to invest in technology to curb the effects of climate change, Guy Sebban, Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce, said during the opening session of Pozna? Global Business Day yesterday. ... Business outlines ways to spur clean technology - Boosting technological know-how in developing countries through better frameworks for education and training would help business to facilitate more rapid advances in clean technology, ICC told negotiators at the 14th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznan.... Global Business Day at Poznan Climate Change Conference to feature high-level panellists - ICC and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) are jointly staging a Global Business Day to give governments clear business insights and ideas to help them progress towards a workable climate policy framework.... Business strongly advocates post-2012 climate agreement - World business is united in its call for a global post-2012 framework agreement to curb the effects of climate change, ICC said on the second day of the 14th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC). ... ICC and UNEP host climate and resource efficiency forum - As the world faced a rash of challenges needing global solutions ? from food shortages to financial market turbulence ? more than 100 leaders from business, government and non-governmental organizations convened in Paris today and yesterday for a climate change and resource efficiency forum.... ICC launches climate change survey - To ensure the voice of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is heard in the global climate change debate, ICC?s Commission on Environment and Energy is conducting a survey with ICC?s World Chambers Federation (WCF).... Award winners prove that fighting poverty is good for business - Ten private companies were recognized today for their work in improving the lives of the world?s most disadvantaged people. From a family-owned soybean business in Ghana, to one of the leading telecommunications companies in the Philippines, these firms prove that making a profit and ?doing the right thing? are not mutually exclusive.... ICC Secretary General participates at high-level UN events - ICC Secretary General Guy Sebban will join over 100 heads of state, ministers, private sector and civil society leaders in New York this week at the high-level events scheduled for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly.... ICC hails G8 pledge to halve emissions - ICC welcomed a historic statement by the G8 group of industrial nations today to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and calling on all major economies to commit to meaningful mitigation actions in the international agreement to be negotiated by the end of next year.... Carbon trading after 2012 envisioned - ICC peered into the future of carbon trading here during the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting of Subsidiary Bodies.... ICC panel explores trade-climate change links - The most important multilateral negotiations with wide-ranging impact on the world economy are going on simultaneously: to agree on a global framework to address climate change, and the Doha Round of multilateral trade talks. To explore the links between these interrelated issues, trade and climate change, ICC hosted a side event at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) last week in Bonn.... ICC holds sectoral workshop at UNFCCC - It was standing room only at the ICC side event Friday on sectoral approaches to climate change, held during the meeting of subsidiary bodies of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). And those who couldn?t, watched - on UNFCC?s webcast.... ICC promotes business-government collaboration at G8 energy ministers meeting - World business stands ready to work closely with governments to find comprehensive and viable solutions for rising energy prices and demand for energy, ICC said in a letter to energy ministers who will be attending a G8 meeting in Aomori, Japan from 7 to 8 June.... Deadline extended for World Business and Development Awards - The deadline to submit nominations for the 2008 World Business and Development Awards in support of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been extended from 30 May to 15 June 2008.... ICC promotes collaboration with governments at G8 environment ministers meeting - The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has put forward a series of practical proposals to address environmental concerns through cooperative actions between governments and the private sector in a letter to environment ministers attending the G8 environment ministers meeting, 24-26 May in Kobe, Japan.... World business urges multiple solutions to increase agricultural productivity, while protecting biodiversity - As the search intensifies for ways to tame soaring food prices, the International Chamber of Commerce is urging COP-9 negotiators to consider multiple solutions as the most effective way to spread sustainable agricultural practices needed to feed a growing world population.... ICC: Access and benefit sharing must embrace business diversity - An international regime on access and benefit sharing (ABS) of genetic resources must consider the wide variety of ways business sectors use these resources, the International Chamber of Commerce said today, speaking at the 9th Conference of the Parties (COP-9) of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD).... ICC steps up business engagement in COP-9 biodiversity negotiations - As the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) opens here today, world business is committed to help create an international framework, supple enough to safeguard biodiversity and promote its sustainable use, the International Chamber of Commerce said.... ICC reaffirms its support to trade and development at UN conference - A few hours before the opening of the meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, which took place from 20-25 April in Accra, Ghana, a select number of senior business and government delegates met in closed quarters to discuss the current global challenges facing the world. The food crisis, the rise of new forms of investment protectionism, climate change, the Millennium Development Goals and the emergence of the new South, were the key topics of discussion. ... 2008 World Business and Development Awards launched - ICC, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) are pleased to open nominations for the 2008 World Business and Development Awards in support of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The awards recognize the contribution of the private sector to help achieve the MDGs through their core business.... ICC offers sectoral solutions at Bangkok climate change talks - ICC addressed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bangkok this week, delivering a presentation on sectoral strategies as a possible path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.... Biological diversity task force gets new leadership - Annik Dollacker, Head, International Affairs/Sustainability, Bayer Crop Science, and Michael Hauser, International Policy Director, Monsanto, have been appointed as the new co-chairs of ICC?s Task Force on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) under the ICC Environment and Energy Commission. ... Copyright © 2009, OkieWebs. All Rights Reserved. |