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- 2009 /
- April-June 09 /
Leaders talk solutions at climate summit
Public and private sector leaders converged in Copenhagen on Sunday to discuss the private sector’s role in tackling the climate issue with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and top climate experts.
May 25, 2009
Ericsson President and CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg, speaking at a meeting of Nordic business leaders with the UN Secretary-General in support of the UN Global Compact Caring for Climate initiative, stressed that a new 21st-century infrastructure was needed to create a carbon-lean economy.
“We must move away from dealing with emissions after they have already occurred, and focus instead on moving ideas, not people, with broadband being society’s new highways,” Svanberg said.
He noted that extensive offsets of CO2 emissions would require new ways of working and living and thus large-scale investments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
Svanberg conveyed the same message at the first plenary session of the World Business Summit on Climate Change, held shortly after the UN Global Compact meeting.
Through smart use and global deployment of broadband networks, the ICT sector could offset CO2 emissions by as much as 15 percent by 2020, though Ericsson estimates this figure could be even higher under an innovation-driven climate agenda.
The results of the World Business Summit on Climate Change will be presented to the Danish government, host of COP15 – tasked with creating a successor to the Kyoto Protocol – in Copenhagen in December 2009, and to world leaders negotiating the terms of the next international climate treaty.
See the "Shaping the New Green Economy” webcast here.
