Climate Change
Global solutions for a global challenge
Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, at last years Global Business Day.
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ICC as the world business organization is the business and industry focal point for the UNFCCC
The International Chamber of Commerce is the largest, most representative business organization in the world. Its thousands of member companies in over 130 countries have interests spanning every sector of private enterprise. ICC is the business and industry focal point for the UNFCCC. During the last December’s UNFCCC COP 13 meeting in Bali, Indonesia ICC along with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) organized a Global Business Day event that sent a powerful message that business desires a successful completion of a new global climate change framework beyond 2012. |
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ICC co-organized the Poznan Business Day and hosted side events related to UNFCCC topics at COP14
The Business Day was replicated during the COP 14 Conference in Poznan, Poland on 9 December where ICC along with WBCSD and other business partners hosted the Poznan Business Day. ICC also organized during this years COP following side events related to key UNFCCC topics:
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ICC participates on the development of an enabling post-2012 international framework
ICC and its member companies have historically been engaged in the UNFCCC process and recognize the necessity of cooperative international action. The Bali Action Plan, a plan for negotiating a new global warming pact by 2009, that world leaders adopted during the UNFCCC COP13 is the first step that paves the way for more clarity for business to better design company’s research and development programmes as well as investment plans. ICC stands ready to continue actively participating in formulating a post-2012 long-term international framework to address climate risks throughout the process towards UNFCCC COP 15 in 2009 and beyond.
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