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The internet is successfully facilitating
a transition from traditional 'brown' business
models to new green growth strategies.
The 'Low Carbon World' website
- a web-based communications platform - was officially
launched in Bali, Indonesia at the United Nations Environment
Programme's annual Governing Council. |
The new website, a joint project between Low Carbon Economy.com
and the United Nation's Climate Neutral Network (CN
NET), aims to facilitate the move to global
low carbon economies - a necessary imperative if we are to
combat dangerous and escalating climate change.
The new website will assist knowledge transfer and simplify
access to information and tools that can be difficult to trace.
LowCarbonEconomy.com will list every country's carbon
policies, commitments, historical performance, future projections
and opportunities - as well as country-specific marketplaces,
networks, associations and standards which are relevant to
government departments and investment agencies.
"Everyone agrees that the transition to a low carbon economy
is an environmental and economic imperative and will require
increased collaboration globally - particularly between public
and private sectors. Until now, access to the necessary low
carbon information has been extremely restricted and very
time consuming.
"With this project we have changed that and we look
forward to continuing to work with UNEP and other major partners
over the coming months and years,"said Toddington Harper,
TLCE's Managing Director.
Annual global greenhouse gas emissions should not exceed
40 to 48.3 Gigatonnes (Gt) of equivalent CO2
in 2020, if a rise in global temperatures is to be curbed
at 2°C or less - whilst, between 2020 and 2050, global
emissions ideally need to fall by between 48 per cent and
72 per cent.
"The solutions for the transition to a low carbon economy
already exist and it is a question of removing barriers for
rapid and mass uptake. These barriers include technical, financial
and informational aspects. I look forward to seeing this project
develop further," said Achim Steiner UN Under-Secretary General
and Executive Director of UNEP.
The Climate Neutral Network (CN Net) celebrated its second
anniversary at UNEP's 11th Special Session of the Governing
Council in Bali, Indonesia, by hosting a side event - entitled
'High hopes, low carbon - making it work!' The side
event showcased work and success stories undertaken between
CN Net and The Low Carbon Economy Ltd (TLCE) over the past
12-months.
The Low Carbon Economy Ltd is a company headquartered in
the UK, which established to help accelerate the transition
to a resource efficient low carbon economy.
The company has developed and run the worlds largest and
most sophisticated website for the low carbon economy that
removes the obstacles related to knowledge sharing by empowering
people and organisations in both the private and public sectors
to connect with and share information about all relevant low
carbon information, solutions jobs and opportunities. Platinum
Partners include - Mitsubishi, Siemens, The Carbon Trust,
Shell and Verisae.
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