COP15 ‘Addressing the Challenge’

Acclimatise is pleased to be a key adviser and contributor to this year’s landmark COP15 Climate Change ‘Addressing the Challenge’ publication released in December 2009. The publication features 70 contributions from many of the key players in today’s world, including heads of state, scientific bodies, economists, businesses and NGOs including:

• Acclimatise CEO: John Firth, CTO: Dr Richenda Connell and Commercial Director: David Beer


• G20 members: Rt Hon Gordon Brown, Barack Obama, Hu Jintao, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Dmitry Medvedev, Dr Manmohan Singh, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, Kevin Rudd, and Rt Hon Stephen Harper


• Prime Minister of Denmark, Lars Lokke Rasmussen


• United Nations Exec Sec, Yvo de Boer


• IPCC Chairman, Dr R.K. Pachauri


• Director-General of the WTO, Pascal Lamy


• UNEP FI Chairman, Rob Tacon


• World Bank Group President, Robert Zoellick


• Secretary-General of the OECD, Angel Gurría


• Managing Director of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and


• business leaders from HP, Iberdrola, Philips, Ford, Baker & McKenzie, Toyota, Bank Sarasin, Novo Nordisk, BMP Cintra, Deutsche Post, Hydro, and Dong Energy.

Acclimatise provided a four page article for the publication citing the need for action by business to respond to the risks and opportunities arising from inevitable climate change. The Acclimatise pages of the publication can be downloaded from our resources section where a link is also provided to access the full publication in an online eBook.

COP 15 Climate Change ‘Addressing the Challenge’ 2009 is a publication that is being released for the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. The ambitious industry led ‘Addressing the Challenge’ initiative is positioned to be the definitive information and reference source on climate change that will bring further clarity and purpose to the road map for governments, NGOs, corporate business leaders and their advisors to work together to reach a global commitment. The aim of the publication is to deliver the best analysis available today in countering the devastating effects of global warming and the measures all parties need to take to mitigate its damaging effects. Some of the greatest thought leaders in the world have been assembled to advise, debate and formulate best practice in the publication.

“We have a choice: do nothing or do something. COP15 stands for change, time for debate is over. Action is the only thing that may turn the tide of climate change, which is of our own making.

Collectively we are responsible for the current state of our planet and collectively we have to find the answers, as every single living organism needs help. So I ask you: “Do we have a choice”?” said Gary Nichols-Roth, Managing Editor, Sovereign Publications.

For further details on the publication please contact:
Alastair Baglee
Technical Director
Acclimatise
E: a.baglee(at)acclimatise.uk.com

or

Gary Nichols-Roth
Managing Editor
Sovereign Publications Ltd
T: 07985 730 152
W: www.tenalps.com

Gary Nichols-Roth is the Managing Editor at Sovereign Publications, a Ten Alps company, he was born in January 1964 and is a Psychology graduate from Leicester University. He joined Sovereign in July 2007 from a specialist media agency, specifically to work on Government based titles starting with Climate Change ‘Addressing the Challenge’, an industry lead annual publication which was heralded a great success working with the G8 leaders, distributed in April 2008. He has had over 15 years experience of combined publishing, conferencing and the media industries. Gary has worked on, produced and created several government publications including Britain in Europe 1 and 2 in 1997, and the Celebrated Ireland 2000. He began his career as a white collar senior civil servant working in County Hall, London for the former ILEA (Inner London Education Authority).