1. Adapting to Climate Change with ICTs
Björn Stigson, WBCSD President
December 10, 2008
COP14, Poznań

2. WBCSD Coalition of 200+ leading companies
Market capitalization: 8,000 BUSD
Total member company employees:13 million
Global outreach
Supplies products and services to half of the world’s
population every day

3. Which sectors do our members represent?3

4. Elements of a Low Carbon Economy

5. Business and Sustainable Development
Mission: Efficient provision of goods and services that society wants
Reward: Shareholder value
SD Issues
Business societal contract
rules & constraints
Business license to operate, innovate and grow
The Space for doing Business
Mission: Functioning Societies
Reward: Sustainability
Governments 5

6. IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2008
Current energy trends are patently unsustainable – socially, environmentally, economically.
To avoid “abrupt and irreversible” climate change we need a major decarbonization of the world’s energy system.

7. Reductions in energy-related CO2 emissions in the climate policy scenarios
Source: IEA. WEO Presentation by Dr. Fatih Birol

8. The Global Energy and Climate House
Post-2012 Global Framework
Markets
Finance
Land use
Technology
Burden sharing
Global
Mindsets
Regulations
National
Data
Infrastructure

9. Business Input into Climate Negotiations
Yvo de Boer,
Bali Global Business Day
"A new framework must make business sense if it is to succeed."
"What policies do you, as Business, want to see in a new global framework?”
Need for specific recommendations from Business in a timely manner

10. WBCSD’s Copenhagen Roadmap
Policy Development
The “Building Blocks”
Energy Efficiency & Demand-side Management
Technology
Carbon Markets & Financing
Sectoral Approaches
Group A
Adaptation
Land Use Change & Forestry
Group B
Virtual Negotiator
provide the business context
develop positions
draft negotiations text
Contributor
provide business perspectives and solutions

11. Sectoral Approaches Has become a mantra in international circles
But, means very different things to different people
SA’s will require a strong business involvement & proposal for solutions

12. WBCSD Sectoral Approach TF
Forest Products Industry
Buildings
Cement
Mobility
Electricity Utilities
Maritime
Aluminum
Steel
GeSI
Chemicals
Oil & Gas

13. A 3rd Industrial Revolution
Clean, Lean & Mean 13

14. “Business cannot succeed in a society that fails.”
Going Forward
“Business cannot succeed in a society that fails.” 14