MISSION STATEMENT
As conversations of weather occurrences and suggested anomalies become more frequent and mainstream in the scientific community, as well as at the grass-roots-level, the need to embrace and index substantive information into an authoritative conduit to encourage more research and development~~~IS IMPERATIVE.
Pertinent themes as Global Warming, Climate Change, and Melting Ice Caps has stimulated discussions, seeded forums, and spawned additional research, all to foster consensus, and recommend courses-of-action.
The intent of CLIMATE; THE CONVERSATION, is to be The Bulletin Board, The Platform, The Podium, and The Credible Source & Bibliography for such astute, sincere, and scholarly considerations.
Sincerely;
Administrators:
Andrew M. Marconi
Lou Marconi (SuiteLou0819)
Business decisions will prove key to Climate Summit success
Business leaders will play a crucial role in the success of Tuesday’s Climate Summit, according to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
“The effects of climate change are already widespread and costly,” he says in a 5-minute video released this week by the UN Global Compact that
focuses on the key role of business. “We need government leadership to
limit global temperature rise, build resilience and steer the world to a
meaningful climate agreement in Paris in 2015. But business too has a
crucial role to play.”
The video focuses on a number of business leaders who have already taken action to stem the impact of climate change.
“We’re increasing our energy efficiency through new technologies and processes,” says Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO of Pepsico.
Nooyi adds that her company is reducing its water consumption, thereby protecting its license to operate in communities, and working with farmers to make its agricultural practices more sustainable.
“As the leader of a company that is in the business of food and beverages. I deeply understand the critical impact of climate change on food and water supplies and that’s why I believe all of us need to take action, now,” she says.
The president and CEO of Ikea Group says his company is committed to making its operation sustainable. “We have put aside 1.5 billion euros as a first step in order to produce the same amount of energy as we consume,” says Peter Agnefjall.
The company has also invested in 700,000 solar panels and more than200 wind turbines.
The CEO and general manager of Italy’s largest power company, Enel, says it is investing in some 4,500 megawatts of renewables over five years. “We will reach carbon neutrality within 2015,” says Franceso Starace, who calls for a global agreement “of at least the largest and most polluting countries around the world to take action heavily on climate change.”
The chairman of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, known as Sinopec, says fast action is necessary. “If we don’t, the consequences on people’s economies and ecosystems would be catastrophic,” says Fu Chengyu.
The chairman of Royal DSM, a Dutch-based company active in health, nutrition and materials, calls climate change “one of the biggest issues” faced by mankind.
Feike Sijbesma says his company is working to make cars lighter, thereby cutting fuel use; to make electronics greener; to use agricultural waste for new forms of energy; and to boost the output of solar cells.
“We need to take up our responsibility in this climate summit right now, for the benefit of people today and generations to come,” he says.
Statoil’s CEO, Helge Lund, says one quarter of all carbon stored from oil and gas production is stored by his company. He calls for a price on carbon emissions as an efficient way to secure innovation and to create a level playing field.
“I hope the Summit this week will be really productive and provide for a common understanding that eventually makes the global community do the right thing next year in Paris,” he says in a reference to the planned December 2015 meeting to nail down a binding agreement among the world’s nations.
“As I see it, inaction is not an option. We know we have to act and we know what it would take to achieve significant progress.”
This is another poignant example of how a singular initiative can become a catalyst to spearhead conscious-awareness on so many levels; in so many manifested ways, means, and venues. Parades, oratory, street-corner-handouts, rallies, social-media---all are directly asking the general public to take heed on an issue that is not going away, and the longer the lack of attention is exascerbated, will only exponentially accelerate the deterioration of the delicate-balance that exists having our atmosphere be the profound life-giving and life-sustaining existential component that it is.
Once effected and given the time and place to demonstrate this SUMMIT's cause-and-effect intentions in a positive way, its message can influence the critical-thinkers, and the power-brokers on a critical-mass larger scale. The UNITED NATIONS, with its sense of purpose and direction in terms of global influence, and inspiration lends itself to such possible considerations; as Transformational. As an international embracing organization who has always tended to be on the vanguard of so many pioneering initiatives~~~it appears that that sense of cultural clairvoyance becomes the catalyst for another Visionary Epiphany to make a course-correction in sustaining the Earth's cultural-lifestyle energy-needs with solutions not in conflict with Mother Nature, having her innate ability to keep the Mother Earth whole~~~~and Alive. The impact of this endeavor currently taking place within The United Nations should contribute favorably to the economic-scales needed to stall, and then reverse, the impacts of pollution, and its affects on the precious atmosphere so that the focus of Climate; The Conversation---makes this worthy of continued enthusiasm and consideration.
Lou Marconi (SuiteLou0819)
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