Published: October 10, 2011
Denmark's new Prime Minister Launches Global Green Growth Forum with 200 World Leaders
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - (BUSINESS WIRE) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will open the inaugural
Global Green Growth Forum at Moltkes Palæ in Copenhagen, 11-12
October. It will focus on key areas of energy and transport, cutting
across the pertinent themes of finance, regulatory frameworks and
international markets. Global Green Growth Forum is an initiative of the
Danish Government in partnership with the Governments of the Republic of
Korea and Mexico, and developed in association with the Global Green
Growth Institute, based in South Korea.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Prime Minister of Denmark (Photo: Business Wire)
The Danish Prime Minister / Helle Thorning-Schmid said,
"3GF offers a space for world economic leaders to
challenge conventional thinking and find new green avenues to growth.
Green growth has to be at the core of a sustainable strategy to get us
out of the economic crisis. To advance this global agenda, Denmark as
well as other countries actively engaged in the green transition must
take the lead, in close partnership with visionary companies and
investors. Together, we can foster the bold decisions necessary to make
all of us winners of tomorrow's green industrial revolution. This is our
common responsibility" .
High-level participants include: UN Secretary General, Ban
Ki-Moon; EU Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard;
UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Christiana Figueres; Prime Minister of
Kenya, Raila Odinga; Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi; Ministers
from Mexico, South Korea, South Africa, Turkey; UNEP Executive Director,
Achim Steiner; OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría; Chairman of the
Board, Nestle, Peter Brabeck-Letmanthe.
With a view to innovate the international architecture for green
growth, outcomes from the Forum will be fed into high-level political
processes, negotiations and forums worldwide: G20, UNFCCC COP17, Clean
Energy Ministerial, Rio+20 and the annual World Climate Summit, 3-4
December 2011.
About the Global Green Growth Forum:
The annual Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) is the high-level
public-private partnership that brings together 200 invited global
leaders from government, business, finance and civil society to
collectively spur green growth and design the architecture for a green
economy.
The exclusive Forum, to be held annually in Denmark, will provide
an interactive arena for industry and government leaders to develop
ideas and opportunities for joint action and enable strategic and
practical learning across sectors, countries and projects at a national
and international level. In addition, 3GF will both showcase and help
catalyze public-private initiatives that accelerate green growth at
scale as well as instigate creative, solution-oriented, thinking and
action on overcoming key barriers.
The Forum is supported by a range of private and institutional
partners including: ABB, BYD Group, Danfoss, General Electric, Hyundai
Motors Company, McKinsey & Company, Novozymes, Samsung, Siemens, Vestas,
Global Green Growth Institute, OECD, The International Energy Agency
(IEA), UN Global Compact International Finance Corporation (IFC) and The
Climate Policy Initiative.
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For more information on 3GF please contact the 3GF Secretariat
on:
+45 33 92 00 61 / 3gf@um.dk
or visit www.globalgreengrowthforum.com
or
For
more information on this story please contact Head of Press at Climate
Consortium Denmark:
Iver Høj Nielsen at ihn@stateofgreen.com
or +45 2249 6512
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