Entrepreneurs around the world are seeking to weigh in … – Le Parisien

May 20, 2015, 9:13 p.m. | Updated: May 20, 2015, 9:13 p.m.

The Business and Climate Summit, held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, Wednesday noon meeting since 1700 visitors from 50 countries, and should lead to “a series of recommendations (which) will be presented to policy makers to help conducting dialogue for the climate conference in Paris. “
” We need your support, your governments, to deploy these policies “for reducing CO2 emissions, called Pierre-André Chalendar, CEO of Saint-Gobain and President of the Association for Environmental Enterprises (EPE), co-organizer of the summit, which brings together some forty large groups.
The summit is one of the main events in ahead of the COP21, and is organized in response to the appeal launched in September 2014 by the Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-moon, who asked the private sector to engage before the December conference.
It opened Wednesday afternoon with the announcement by the President of the Republic François Hollande of the establishment in January 2019, two years before the deadline, the carbon market stability reserve allowing to “have a carbon market that will be able to have an impact on investment decisions.”
“If we really want to send signals to the market so that companies can take decisions based on a economic optimum, which can be an ecological optimum, the carbon price question is inevitably asked, “continued Francois Hollande.
The international conference on climate, COP21 will be held in Paris in early December, and aims to a global agreement to limit global warming to 2 ° C.
Welcoming the meeting of the economic world, the Minister of Ecology Segolene Royal said on Wednesday “very important that the economic and financial world continues to consider that the constraints are ecological weight “.
” In this challenge, we have to a chance, a chance for jobs, against poverty, for democracy, “she called, referring to a” third industrial revolution “.
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius is expected Thursday.
-” Not just a matter of profits “-
the OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria,” companies have several key roles to play, “and it is necessary to emphasize” the “absolutely critical role of the private sector.”
He called for “consistency in a much broader range of policies,” and said that “this is not just a question of profits, it is a question of life or death”. In order to the CEO of Statoil, Eldar Saetre, “the real challenge is to be able to . agree on the necessary and effective measures “
A methodology was developed by four organizations – WWF, Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), United Nations Global Compact and the World resources institute – met the group “Science based target” to help companies to set CO2 emissions targets. The goal: to mobilize 100 companies by the end of 2015.
“80% of the 500 largest companies in the world have targets for reducing their emissions of greenhouse gases or energy management, but it is estimated that only a dozen of the most proactive companies take into account the need to contain the rise in global average temperature below 2 ° C, “explains the group.
About thirty French associations, Climate Action Network France, which brings together several associations had denounced “the myths and risks associated with certain technologies promoted by companies during the COP21″

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