Bali, 25 February 2010
- The internet is successfully facilitating
a transition from traditional so called
"brown" business models to new
green growth strategies. The "Low Carbon
World" website, a web-based communications
platform - www.LowCarbonEconomy.com - was
officially launched today (Thursday) 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) http://www.unep.org/climateneutral/
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. www.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 C02 in 2020,
if a rise in global temperatures is to be
curbed at 2 degrees 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 titled "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 home page for the
'Low Carbon World' initiative is available
on http://www.lowcarboneconomy.com/Low_Carbon_World/Data/Home
and will soon also be available on UNEP's
Climate Neutral website www.unep.org/climateneutral
. New information is being uploaded daily.
The Low Carbon Economy
Ltd is a company headquartered in the UK
established to help accelerate the transition
to a resource efficient low carbon economy.
They have developed and run www.LowCarbonEconomy.com,
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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