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CEO Climate Change Recommendations to G8 Leaders – Press Conference

Panel discussion I moderated discussing post-Kyoto framework (pre-Copenhagen) climate recommendations to G8 Leaders. With CEOs of Shell, Alcoa and RusHydro and Lord Nicholas Stern. Final report delivered in person to Japanese Prime Minister in Tokyo the following month.

Outlet: WEF, Youtube

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A global group of top business leaders is nearing completion of a comprehensive set of business recommendations on a post-Kyoto framework for global climate policy. The “CEO Climate Policy Recommendations to G8 Leaders” will help inform G8 leaders’ climate change discussions at their Hokkaido-Toyako summit this July.

Press Conference on Climate Change and Gleneagles CEO Statement: Business Recommendations to the G8 on the post-Kyoto Policy Framework. St. Petersburg, Russia, July 2008.

Speakers

Alain J. P. Belda, Chairman of the Board, Alcoa, USA

Vyatcheslav Sinyugin, Member of the Management Board, Unified Energy Systems of Russia (RAO UESR), Russian Federation

Sir Nicholas Stern, Special Adviser on Economic Development and Climate Change, HSBC Holdings, United Kingdom

Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive, Royal Dutch Shell, Netherlands

Moderator Richard Samans, Managing Director, World Economic Forum