Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, provided global business leaders with a rude awakening Friday morning.
The group of CEOs and executives from low-carbon industries, gathering in Copenhagen for “business day,” likely expected to hear an invitation that they join the low-carbon future.At http://www.cool-
“Your survival is based on offering the product that people want to buy. I don’t think you’re offering that attractive product on the international level,” Click http://www.cool-
Niels Due Jensen, Chairman of Grundfos Management, a Danish-based international heat pipe manufacturer, scoffed at the suggestion. “You might be a little blind and deaf if you don’t see all the Danish industries offering building and appliance efficiency technologies,”
Hardly intimated, de Boer stood his ground. “You all are doing a great job on a national level, not internationally. There’s no sense going to a delegate from Mali with a heat pump under your arms—it doesn’t work,” he said.
A Dow Chemical Company executive emphasized the difficult of marketing “low-carbon technologies”
Still, World Business Council on Sustainable Development President Bjorn Stigson, host of the event, supported de Boer’s criticism of his corporate partners. “We’ve been incoherent in what we have to offer. We need to be more cohesive,” he said.



