Durban, South Africa December 2011
Eikosphere team members attended the COP 17 in Durban and reported back that the most exciting event of the COP 17 was the World Climate Summit. The suummit had approximately 800 registered attendees from five continents and active discussions with over 100 speakers – all high-level experts in their industry and fields.
Participants heard from international luminaries and pioneers like President Jacob Zuma, 6 of his Ministers, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC, Dr. Zweli Mkhize, Premier of Kwazulu Natal, José Maria Figueres, Mary Robinson, and Connie Hedegaard, EU Commissioner on Climate Action and many CEOs from leading companies. Companies and organizations that participated included: Siemens, PwC, Alstom, Nedbank, Ernst and Young, The Coca-Cola Company, Vestergaard Frandsen, BMW, Avon, Vale, Brasil Foods, Microsoft, State of Green, Samancor Chrome, HP, European Investment Bank, Philips Lighting, Zero Emissions Platform, Suzlon, Nike, Standard Bank, Ogilvy Earth, Sasol, Unilever, UNICA, AON, Eskom, Digital Globe, Hydro Quebec, National Australian Bank, Climate Change Capital, ABSA, Global Green Growth Forum, Safika Holdings, Yellowwoods, UN Global Compact, UNEP FI, UN PRI, the UN Foundation, the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, Regions for Climate Action (R20), ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, the Global Green Growth Forum, the Carbon War Room, the Carbon Disclosure Project, the European Climate Foundation, Conservation International, IGCC, IIGCC, INCR/Ceres, International Union of Railways, the Business Council on Sustainable Energy and many others.
