Business leaders and environmental champions convene in Singapore

Following a highly successful event in 2007, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Global Compact has announced the second B4E (Business for the Environment) Global Summit to be held in Singapore from 22 to 23 April 2008.
"If the world is to successfully navigate the Bali Road Map to the crucial climate convention meeting in Copenhagen in 2009, ways and means need to be found to mobilise and focus the trillions of dollars in the world`s financial and capital markets on the greening of the global economy," said Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UNEP.
"This `greening` is already underway driven by the existing emissions reduction treaty - the Kyoto Protocol - and the anticipation of even deeper cuts from a post-2012 climate regime. I look forward to the B4E conference playing its part in stepping up, accelerating and mainstreaming these real, tangible but currently fledgling transitions. Ones that promise a more resource efficient world and a new way of doing business in the 21st century," he added.
Held over two days, the B4E Global Summit will ...