WBCSD Emphasizes Need For Public Private Cooperation To Find Solutions For Climate Finance Challenges

WBCSD President Björn Stigson gave a keynote address to an informal meeting of finance ministers, who were invited to Geneva on September 2 and 3 by the Swiss government to discuss how to secure and leverage financing to curb global warming, ahead of the UN climate conference in Cancun. Governments were focused in Geneva on identifying sources of the USD100 billion of annual funding by 2020 that was committed under the Copenhagen Accord and how a new climate fund could be structured. About 40 countries attended the conference. For further information click here.