I believe that the importance of global Realpolitik is declining while the importance of Geopolitics is steadily increasing. Geopolitics are increasing along with the importance and the awareness of the necessity for a series of diverse Climate agreements and treaties to manage the planetary Commons for the benefit of all of us… and the assurance of the continuum of our species. This year the Nobel given to president Obama overshadowed all others – but perhaps more important – was the Nobel of Economics given to Elinor Ostrom for her analysis of the economic governance of the Commons. Elinor Ostrom is an American political scientist and she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, for “her analysis of economic governance of the commons”. Not only is she the first woman to win the prize in this category but she is also dealing with the most important aspect of managing our planet. After the wild excesses of incessant and mindless corporate privatizations and attendant environmental privations and destruction, for lack of clear governance treaties – we now get smart. We need treaties to manage and govern our Commons. Treaties such as those we started working out in Copenhagen. Many new ones are required now for the Climate warming mitigation, for the atmosphere and the Oceans and the glaciers and the rainforests and all sensitive ecosystems… treaties that challenge the sovereign aspect of many corporations and countries and emitters and bring back to the global governance Commons what rightfully belongs there.  You can’t solve global problems unilaterally. Partnerships and alliances and global treaties are needed to deal with Oceanic acidification issues. Same for the glaciers and the Rainforests. If Papua new Guinea or another weak state like Haiti cannot deal with it’s environmental degradation and that conclusively affects all of us – then the power of the global governance of the Commons – kicks in. The good thing is that the US President Barack Obama and the EU leaders have fully grasped this. They are pragmatic leaders. Realpolitik has been a good school to educate – those leaders willing to evolve – about Geopolitics. That is evident when these leaders, and especially Obama, described the Copenhagen Accord as just a “first step” to dealing with global warming. Although they admit that as it  stands, it isn’t enough to address the problem and a series of ongoing negotiations and treaties have to continue moving us closer and closer, to elusive and constantly moving targets. Thankfully, we have experience with this sort of rounds of negotiations resulting in  treaties that are translated into International policies and legally binding agreements actionable in world bodies from the ongoing negotiations for the NPT agreements. Most importantly this sort of treaty is resulting in laws that are entered in the constitutions of the country signatories. Thus the NPT is the simile with the Copenhagen Accord and it’s follow on rounds of what might develop in Bonn and Mexico city. Treaties as a series of negotiation rounds that will look very much like the NPT process that has taken 50 years to mature and is still ongoing as fresh as half a century ago. Generations of Diplomats, Politicians and Policy Makers have been weaned at t the teat of the NPT and have let go of their baby fetters and grew to be realistic and effective statesmen. Let’s hope the same happens now for the Global Environment Treaties; as succesful rounds of discussions will show us. GET is the outcome treaty from a round such as Copenhagen… The Diplomat leaders amongst you and the negotiators and policy makers, reading this Blog will understand the parallels and the vast importance of this slow & lengthy yet effective process. To give you an understanding of the scale of the NPT: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - NPT, is a treaty to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons globally. It was negotiated for years and finally opened for signatures on July 1, 1968. There are currently 189 countries as signatory parties to the treaty, five of which have nuclear weapons and vast arsenals of the same: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China. Incidentally all five constitute the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. Only four recognized sovereign states are not parties to the treaty and for good reason. India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea, specifically because they have nuclear weapons programs in violation of the treaty. India, Pakistan and North Korea have openly tested and declared that they possess nuclear weapons. Israel has had a policy of opacity regarding its own nuclear weapons program – although widely acknowledged as having at least five atomic weapons. North Korea acceded to the treaty, violated it, and withdrew from it in 2003. But we are still working hard to bring them back in the folds of the Treaty and to prevent others, like Iran, from falling foul of it. That is what’s all about… Many environmental stakeholders have been bitterly disappointed with the Copenhagen outcome, which they argue falls short of the ambitious legally binding commitments that the planet demands in the face of fatal climate change impacts. I have one thing to say: They don’t understand the Diplomacy necessary to achieve effective global Treaties for long lasting Geopolitical results. The fundamental requirements for a successful global climate change treaty will be: The all important need to ensure legally binding, mid- and long-term targets for emissions reduction to limit global average temperature  increases to at least 2 degrees Celsius, a sizeable and transparent funding package with strong  governance to address adaptation and mitigation in the most vulnerable countries, and support  technology transfer and low carbon developed among the least developed countries. The urgency for  an agreement which is implemented immediately to reduce costs and impacts of climate change must  be reflected in the ambitious deal adopted globally; and world leaders, delegates and NGOs at  COP15 are well versed in understanding the political contentions associated with reaching such consensus. If this is the criterion we were hoping to tick off in Copenhagen, then it is safe to say that COP15  hasn’t delivered the deal the world was hoping for – a legally binding treaty with emissions cuts for developed counties (as well as some measures for developing countries), and a detailed finance  package; and several contentious issues have simply been postponed and relegated to COP16 in Mexico. The success of COP15 may be better judged in hindsight at the end of 2010, and especially after the early summer Bonn meetings when it is expected that there will be a significant number of new signatories from  both developed and developing countries, that will have presented their pledges for tackling climate change, and the world may be closer to the possibility of a legally binding treaty developed from the Copenhagen Accord. However, the likelihood of taking this weak agreement to a stronger legal treaty is likely to be a challenging path full of hurdles, backholders, misguided friends, pure enemies of a climate process and saboteurs. And although globally countries could reach a binding agreement on climate change in Bonn and then in Mexico City this year - I think we have a very short period of time – in which the world has to understand that Realpolitik is irrelevant if we can’t get the Geopolitics right.  Let’s get our act together and step up. And if that happens, Mexico could produce a binding agreement as an ongoing series of negotiations and similar to the NPT rounds of agreements – it will be succesive Rounds of discussions and agreements that will guide our lives and provide us with a comfort level that we are managing the greatest threat of our lives and the survival of the species. NPT is the method for the ongoing Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaties that allowed us to survive the Cold War from becoming a Thermo-Nuclear war in an instant. It’s a daunting, but certainly a doable, prospect, as our friend Rajendra Pachauri said, referring to the next summit, planned for later this year in the Mexican capital. In reality although the Climate talks in Copenhagen last month ended with a non-binding agreement to reduce rises in global temperatures, a result that has been criticised as insufficient – they actually produced a critical treaty named Copenhagen Accord. This trety was the global accord, agreed to by the greatest and wealthiest emission producers along with the poorest and most vulnerable nations to cooperate and limit their emissions. It is but the first round of GET. A first round of a Global Environment Treaty as  a comprehensive treaty to limit global warming from making this planet a Venus like blast furnace. But if countries are to reach a binding agreement in Mexico City, “there are a few critical factors which would need a superhuman effort,” so said, Pachauri the current chairman of the IPCC. The main factors are the following: “One is a strong commitment from the US,” he said. ”Two is that countries would also need to take steps such as agreeing on an institutional framework by which funding for developing nations to address climate change could be effectively utilised”, he said. I fully agree: A binding agreement in Mexico City is within reach if we manage these factors for the stakeholders right through Bonn and lead with strength to Mexico City. I also agree with Chairman Pachauri second contention: that it’s doable – but I want to add – that it’s gonna be really hard. And we have to build on every positive outcome and bridge building experience from the Copenhagen Accord. Going forward is a matter of governance of the Commons and being realistic that it might take a generation or more to get it right… Naturally the challenges posed by climate change would not be resolved anytime soon and people will have to learn to manage this and live with the ills of the planet under management. Also time is running out to get this sorted… But we have to understand, that we, who are policymakers will deal with climate change every day for the rest of our political lives. We have to participate in the negotiating rounds eagerly for a treaty always shifting, always addressing new issues, urgent needs and global as well as regional challenges. We clearly ought to stop thinking that this is something we can solve at the next conference of the Parties. It’s part of an ongoing process. Well – Let’s think of it as – Earth under New Management – Negotiations and Treaties. COP15 and the Copenhagen Accord are but a precursor to the future rounds of Climate talks. Now we have to create the equivalent of the NPT for the future of Geopolitics. I propose herewith we call the treaties resulting from all of our COP – Conference of the Parties – negotiations as ”GET” agreements. GET as in ”Global Environment Treaty” Yours, Pano. PS: Let’s GET ourselves a good agreement in Bonn and a global GET  agreement treaty in Mexico City this fall. See you there.

Join the EP Global Leader 2009 award. Nominate your leader.

Environmental Parliament has asked world leaders to go to Copenhagen and fight to reach a just and equitable climate deal.
So far only 17 leaders have accepted the Environment Parliament challenge. Yet the Environmental Parliament will award this December
13th in Copenhagen, the ENVIRONMENTAL PARLIAMENT GLOBAL LEADER 2009
AWARD. - A Merit award of Global Leadership in International Relations
for ''Being in Copenhagen'' and working Internationally towards a just
climate deal. The leader with the greatest aspirational impact on
reductions of CO2 emission globally will win the EP Global Leader 2009
award. After all the carbon in the atmosphere is everywhere the same.

 Take the pledge: Start Your very own Environmental Parliament
campaign here with the name of your country and sign people up with
the intent of lobbying and signing up your leader to a simple pledge:
"Be in Copenhagen''. Nominate your country leader and ask other
environment activists to sign up for the campaign and lobby your
leaders. The more people support one leader the greatest their chances
of winning the award of EP Global Leader 2009.

The Nominees are the only elected global leaders, who committed to
''Be in Copenhagen.''

Listing priority is based solely upon the time of their pledge:

1) President Nicolas Sarkozy - France

2) President Mohamed Nasheed - Maldives

3) Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam - Mauritius

4) President Manuel Baroso -  European Union

5) Prime Minister George Papandreou - Greece

6) President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - Brazil

7) Chancellor Angela Merkel - Germany

8) Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi - Italy

9) Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama - Japan

10) President Felipe Calderón - Mexico

11) President Dmitry Medvedev - Russia

12) Prime Minister Gordon Brown - Great Britain

13) President Rafael Correa - Equador

14) President Lee Myung-bak - South Korea

15) President Jacob Zuma - South Africa

16) President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono - Indonesia

17) Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - Turkey

18) President Obama - USA

The group of PMs bellow are the stand out ones we lobby to ''Be in
Copenhagen'' for a successful summit that will bring us a fair
agreement. They are crucially important to 'Be in Copenhagen' if we
are to get an effective deal. Like Climate Prima Donnas they want to
arrive in Copenhagen only if they are ensured of a success - Therefore
please work and lobby hard to get them to pledge on the EP campaign
''Be in Copenhagen''. Being there will ensure a real deal. Success has
many fathers. So let them father for us, a great happy deal. But first
they got to show up. So ''Be in Copenhagen''.

President Obama is the most likely one to arrive early in Copenhagen
as he will be in Scandinavia on the same time for the Nobel Prize. A
short hop to Copenhagen is his duty to the world.  Obama can deliver a
deal for all - We believe He will. But only if the rest of the world's
leaders are there as willing participants to a fair climate deal.
Bellow are the hold outs that need to be swayed and moved:

Argentina: President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Australia: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd

Canada: Prime Minister Stephen Harper

China: President Hu Jintao

India: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

United States: President Barack Obama


It would be vitally important to lobby also your local leaders bellow,
to join the campaign of EP  ''Be in Copenhagen" and to live up to
their commitment ''Be in Copenhagen''. The greater the number of
Premieres there - the greater the chances of a deal. A well attended
Climate Bazaar is the best reward for all.... and the best chance for
a good deal. Show your initiative here.

Take the pledge: Start Your very own Environmental Parliament campaign
here with the name of your country and sign people up with the intent
of lobbying and signing up your leader to a simple pledge: "Be in
Copenhagen''. Nominate your country leader and ask others to sign up
for them. The more people support one leader the greatest their
chances of winning the award of EP Global Leader 2009.


Please lobby your local leaders bellow to come to ''Be in Copenhagen".


Country:
Prime Minister:

Albania
Sali Berisha

Algeria
Ahmed Ouyahia

Andorra
Jaume Bartumeu

Angola
Paulo Kassoma

Anguilla
Osbourne Fleming

Antigua and Barbuda
Baldwin Spencer

Armenia
Tigran Sargsyan

Aruba
Nelson O. Oduber

Australia
Kevin Rudd

Austria
Werner Faymann

Azerbaijan
Artur Rasizade

Bahamas
Hubert Ingraham

Bangladesh
Sheikh Hasina

Barbados
David Thompson

Belarus
Sergey Sidorsky

Belgium
Herman Van Rompuy

Belize
Dean Barrow

Bermuda
Ewart Brown

Bhutan
Jigme Thinley

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nikola Špirić

Brazil
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

British Virgin Islands
Ralph T. O'Neal

Bulgaria
Boyko Borisov

Burkina Faso
Tertius Zongo

Cambodia
Hun Sen

Cameroon
Ephraïm Inoni

Canada
Stephen Harper

Cape Verde
José Maria Neves

Cayman Islands
Kurt Tibbetts

Central African Republic
Faustin-Archange Touadéra

Chad
Youssouf Saleh Abbas

China (PRC)
Wen Jiabao - or- Hu Jintao

Congo (Brazzaville)
Isidore Mvouba

Congo (Kinshasa)
Adolphe Muzito

Cook Islands
Jim Marurai

Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Guillaume Soro

Croatia
Jadranka Kosor

Cuba
Raúl Castro

Czech Republic
Vaclav Klaus

Djibouti
Dileita Mohamed Dileita

Dominica
Roosevelt Skerrit

East Timor
Xanana Gusmão

Equatorial Guinea
Ignacio Milam Tang

Estonia
Andrus Ansip

Ethiopia
Meles Zenawi

Faroe Islands
Kaj Leo Johannesen

Fiji
Frank Bainimarama

Finland
Matti Vanhanen

Gabon
Jean Eyeghe Ndong

The Gambia
Yahya Abdul-Azziz Jemus Jammeh

Ghana
John Atta Mills

Georgia
Nikoloz Gilauri

Germany
Angela Merkel

Gibraltar
Peter Caruana

Greece
George Papandreou

Greenland
Kuupik Kleist

Grenada
Tillman Thomas

Guernsey
Lyndon Trott

Guinea
Kabiné Komara

Guinea-Bissau
Carlos Gomes Júnior

Guyana
Sam Hinds

Haiti
Michèle Pierre-Louis

Hungary
Gordon Bajnai

Iceland
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

India
Manmohan Singh

Indonesia
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Ireland
Brian Cowen

Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu

Italy
Silvio Berlusconi

Jamaica
Bruce Golding

Japan
Yukio Hatoyama

Jersey
Terry Le Sueur

Jordan
Nader al-Dahabi

Kenya
Raila Odinga

North Korea
Kim Yong-il

South Korea
Han Seung-soo

Kyrgyzstan
Igor Chudinov

Laos
Bouasone Bouphavanh

Latvia
Valdis Dombrovskis

Lebanon
Fouad Siniora

Lesotho
Pakalitha Mosisili

Libya
Baghdadi Mahmudi

Liechtenstein
Klaus Tschütscher

Lithuania
Andrius Kubilius

Luxembourg
Jean-Claude Juncker

FYR of Macedonia
Nikola Gruevski

Madagascar
Charles Rabemananjara

Malaysia
Najib Tun Razak

Mali
Modibo Sidibé

Malta
Lawrence Gonzi

Isle of Man
Tony Brown

Mauritania
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf

Mauritius
Navin Ramgoolam

Moldova
Zinaida Greceanîi

Monaco
Jean-Paul Proust

Mongolia
Sanjaagiin Bayar

Montenegro
Milo Đukanović

Montserrat
Lowell Lewis

Morocco
Abbas El Fassi

Mozambique
Luisa Diogo

Namibia
Nahas Angula

Nepal
Madhav Kumar Nepal

Netherlands
Jan Peter Balkenende

Netherlands Antilles
Emily de Jongh-Elhage

New Zealand
John Key

Newfoundland
Danny Williams

Niue
Toke Talagi

Niger
Seyni Oumarou

Norfolk Island
Andre Nobbs

Norway
Jens Stoltenberg

Pakistan
Yousaf Raza Gillani

Palestinian National Authority
Salam Fayyad

Papua New Guinea
Sir Michael Somare

Peru
Yehude Simon

Philippines
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Poland
Donald Tusk

Portugal
José Sócrates

Qatar
Sheikh Hamad ibn Jassim ibn Jabr Al Thani

Romania
Emil Boc

Russia
Vladimir Putin

Rwanda
Bernard Makuza

Saint Kitts and Nevis
Denzil Douglas

Saint Lucia
Stephenson King

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Ralph Gonsalves

Samoa
Tuila'epa Sailele Malielegaoi

São Tomé and Principe
Joaquim Rafael Branco

Senegal
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré

Serbia
Mirko Cvetković

Singapore
Lee Hsien Loong

Slovakia
Robert Fico

Slovenia
Borut Pahor

Solomon Islands
Derek Sikua

Somalia
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke

South Africa
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma

Spain
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Sri Lanka
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake

Swaziland
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini

Sweden
Fredrik Reinfeldt

Syria
Muhammad Naji al-Otari

China (ROC)
Liu Chao-shiuan

Tajikistan
Okil Okilov

Tanzania
Mizengo Pinda

Thailand
Abhisit Vejjajiva

Togo
Gilbert Houngbo

Tokelau
Pio Tuia

Tonga
Feleti Sevele

Trinidad and Tobago
Patrick Manning

Turkey
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Turks and Caicos Islands
Galmo Williams

Tuvalu
Apisai Ielemia

Uganda
Apolo Nsibambi

Ukraine
Yulia Tymoshenko

Vanuatu
Edward Natapei

Vatican
Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone

Vietnam
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng

Yemen
Ali Muhammad Mujawar


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Take the pledge: Start Your very own Environmental Parliament
campaign here with the name of your country and sign people up with
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"Be in Copenhagen''. Nominate your country leader and ask other
environment activists to sign up for the campaign and lobby your
leaders. The more people support one leader the greatest their chances
of winning the award of EP Global Leader 2009.

Start an Environmental Parliament site here with the name of your country and sign people up with the intent of signing up your leader to a simple pledge: "To be in Copenhagen''

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Environmental Parliament (EP) is a volunteer social, economic and
political organization. EP is an NGO registered with the UN.
We invite you to volunteer for the environment. Our meetings, are
attended by scientists of all stripes and colours, devoted to the
serious debate of Ecological impact and we address the most imminent
environmental issues of global dimensions. Theories such as
Paleofuture, Climate forcing dangers and Consequences, Ice cap
science, and most importantly the EP-SMC (EP - Science Media Centre).
We  collect the volunteer think tank scientists, who contribute the
necessary rational debate materials and then we formulate Policy. Non
sectarian policy initiatives and public campaigns such as the 10x10
climate campaign. Reduce the CO2 foot print by 10% by the end of the
year 2010. It is a huge success and an imminent tipping point for the
health of the Environment we share with the other living beings of
this planet. Then the policy initiatives are translated into
Government policy and are offered in a non partisan fashion to all the
political parties to sign on them. If we reach consensus then we can
offer it to the government as ready made policy initiative to be acted
upon... Or be a virtual participant. Invite others - spread the word.
The Environmental Parliament is build on consensus.
Consensus building amongst the mosaic of the various environmental
organizations to reach consensus on the top issues and advocate policy
changes from the member political parties and observers. All the
environmental NGOs have member status as well as the political
parties.  However the state governments can have only observer status.
The London Meet up group meets at Kensington Hall, or at the Friends
House or at the Museum of Science and Technology and the Imperial
University; rotating amongst the four main facilities respectively in
the same calendar order, every Sunday afternoon at 3pm. Therefore
there is one meeting in each facility at least once a month. Meetings
are always Sundays at 3pm.  Please ask the organizer for an
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You can get started by becoming a free member of the Environmental
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The EP is in Bangkok attending the UN meetings and supports the
process of a just Carbon Pricing and a Climate agreement. For a
comprehensive global agreement to be reached in Copenhagen, this
December, the priority should be to agree on the following
essentially basic elements:

 - Measure and reward with equitable Carbon pricing the Natural Earth
Ecosystems of forests, wilderness, national parklands  an  rainforests
as Carbon Sinks.

 - Agree on binding emission reductions for all industrialised
countries based on energy intensity reductions greater than 3% per
year and  just carbon pricing for energy use.

 - Measurable, committed and appropriate change action by developing
countries to limit emissions and reduce energy intensity.

 - Reduce intensity of energy globally and enact framework for action
on renewable alternative energy and adaptation to climate change.
 - Reduce deforestation, forest degradation and promote sustainable
forest management in all regions and especially the tropics.
 - Account for agricultural biomass burning and update accounting
rules for changes in emissions, due to land-use changes & forestry.
 - Expand international carbon markets to generate financial support
for developing countries and promote cost-effective emission cuts.

 - Desubsidize the entire energy sector so all energies compete on
merit and honest prices.

- Provide international finance to developing  countries to supplement
financial flows from the carbon market and domestic investment.
- Create Personal Carbon allocations for capital flows and Technology
transfer cooperation and funding to accelerate development of a
 global low-carbon  economy.

The EP & the UN launch the GLOBAL 10x10 CAMPAIGN in NYC and across the US, this September 2009. 

1) United Nations EP World Forum and 10x10 campaign of the Environmental Parliament in NYC September 23rd at Columbia University.

2) EP World Business and Finance Forum vs Poverty at the Clinton Global Initiative Sep. 24th in New York City.

3) United Nations, EP and First Nations Forum on the Paleofuture Climate Initiative at Columbia University Sep 26th NYC. 

4) World Business & Government Forum on Sep. 27th in Washington DC. Georgetown University.

5) World Technology and Business Forum in San Francisco 29th Sep. Stanford University.

6) Carbon Show - London - September 30th - Carbon Allocation and Offsets for the people. The Carbon Show 2009 to promote the EP 10x10. campaign for CO2 reductions. The timings for the session will be 30 September 11.45-12.30

7) Politics of Climate Change vs Greenwash. Town hall Meeting and Debate at Friends House, London, High Holborn, Sunday Sep 13th at 3pm.

(Green Carbon Allocation

and Offset)

Press Release: The 2009 ''World Business Forum'' of EP, in London on August 15th, concluded with a resounding Consensus Commitment to the 10x10 campaign for Britain and the UK starting in London this September. The movement is spearheaded by the Entrepreneurial Business Community and funded by leading VC & PE firms and innovative Investment Banks. It will be supported by News Media organizations and the Innovative Green Capital Global Fund.

10x10 campaign launch vs Climate Change

World Business Finance and Government Forum 2009

Technocrat Challenge for Green Tech and Green Finance

World Business Forum 2009

Programme - Agenda - August 15th 2009

11:00 Registration

 11:00 Press Briefing – Coffee – Tea – Enterprise Meetings - Networking

 11:30 Buffet Lunch

 11:30 Welcome and Introduction Speech

Formal welcome to the Environmental Parliament at the University of London 

The Chairman of the Environmental Parliament  Pano Kroko.

An introduction to the purpose and aims of the EP World Business Forum

on Climate Change, Enterprise and the Environment.

‘’Business, Technology and New Enterprise models for low carbon growth’’

A how to Primer for the Green Web.

 12:00 Keynote Speech and the Launch of 10x10 UK campaign

Pano Kroko - Chairman of Environmental Parliament -  ’Business, Global Governance and Climate Change’’

'The Politics of Climate Change"  Presentation of ideas influenced from Lord Anthony Giddens of LSE new book

Introduction of the EP 10x10 global campaign www.environmentalparliament.org/10x10  

and the www.yes10x10.com 

 12:30 Plenary Session – Business of Climate Change – Multinational Enterprises

A low carbon economy will only be achieved through Technology, Business and Cultural change,

with focus on technological developments, strategic institutions and global agreements such as the UN, Copenhagen accords and the WTO. New enterprises will have to interpret and monetize this change,

for the rest of the society.

Chair: Mr Robert Tobin, Green Capital, UK

Panel of Speakers: Anu Sismani, Carlos Redding, Myriam Hopper, Albert Kallio.

 12:30 Parallel Worksession 1) Bringing About Change – Greening of Asset Management -

 Green Private Equity

What are the great opportunities I converting and greening assets.

Potential barriers and what is required to make traditional targets of

Private Equity green and thus reap the stimulus packages for climate change.

Chair: Professor Joe C. Smilly, Harvard University, US

Panel of Speakers: Lillian De Tomasso, Pano Kroko, Cecile Thompson, Dr Fred Persis

 12:30 Parallel Worksessions 2) Venture Capital - Technological Change – Web3.0 – Green Tech

What are the New successful Business Models and the new web Innovations to monetize the

Technological Change and fuel a low carbon growth? The case of GreenCarbon.mobi

Green Carbon Ltd : A Revolution in the making for popularizing Climate Change action and Offsets. A new Green carbon company: the Google of the Climate Change world. 

Chair: Ms Helen Bittwer of Juniper Research Management

Speakers: Pano Kroko, Raj Kakarlapudi, Mayur Sri Raja, Yan White, Helen Sutton, Suresh Nagam

 12:30 Parallel Worksessions 3) Multinationals - Strategic Institutional Change

The role the Multinationals, Corporations, NGOs, Civil Societies and strategic institutional private and public  leaders can play to enable change towards a low carbon economy.

Chair: Professor Ms Melissa Lines, University of Washington, US

Panel of Speakers: Carlos Selimm, Dimitris Manos, Richard Cameron, Anthony Gibbs.

 12:30 Parallel Worksessions 4) Global Governance - Politics

Leadership and Management changes to make global low carbon growth a reality.

Chair: Professor Jason Bogdanovich, Stanford University, US

Speakers: Lilian Helmut, Fiona Asperberg, Klaus Henry, Victoria Small.

 14:30 Break - Coffee - Tea - Networking

 15:00 Heads of Corporations Session

The Frozen Middle: Middle management engagement need for Climate Change corporate adaptation and

Societal change. The critical need to work towards low carbon growth.

Leaders and Heads of Corporations from the UK, the US and EU as well as from developing countries,

will present individual case studies on the profitable business generation from impacts of climate change.

 15:00 Parallel Worksession 1) Corporate Governance

There will also be a parallel opportunity to see a documentary and follow a presentation

about the Greening of the Corporation, a Documentary project on the lessons learnt from the

rehabilitation of the environmentally challenged Forestry and paper giant of Japan.

 15:00 Parallel Worksession 2) WEB3.0 is the Green Web

A selection of forward Technology companies in the areas of agriculture, finance, Offsets,

Web, Biotech, Internet, Mobile Communications, Energy, Clean Tech, Nano tech and Stem cell

Commercial applications and entrepreneurial market ready solutions, products and services,

competition for the award of the 2009 EP World Business Forum, Technocrat Challenge Winner.

 15:00 Parallel Worksession 3) Gift Economy

 Discussion of the Book ‘’Gift Economy’’ by Pano Kroko.

‘’Gift Economy -  Frozen middle Climate thaw - Change Leadership’’

‘’A little green book manual by Pano Kroko’’.

It is a unique leadership manual for Corporate, Civil and Political leaders to manage the

Frozen middle layer of all organizations that prevents change. A cultural revolution prescription

to the area of organizations and human institutions, that holds the greatest resistance to change.

Book introduction and the interview of the author will be conducted by General Laurentis Marmant.

 16:30 Closing Speech Ceremony

 Closing Speech by HH Lama Gumpta Rinposhe

 A social wine reception will follow and book signing of the ‘’Gift Economy’’ book by Pano Kroko.