E3G

Investment and Technology: Business Action for a Stable Climate

By Jennifer Morgan

The Norwegian Government hosted a conference at the end of March entitled Partnerships for Sustainable Development: the Oslo conference on good governance and social and environmental responsibility.

E3G’s Jennifer Morgan was in attendance to participate in the plenary session discussion Environment & Climate Friendly Business Action: Investments and Technology as Drivers for Change.

An online video Webcast is available of the whole session (1hr 45 mins), with Jennifer’s closing speech located at the 1hr 31mins mark (use the slider underneath the video window to locate it).

Oslo Conference Webcast image

In the face of competition from a scheduled screening of Al Gore’s movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, Jennifer decided not to accompany her speech with her powerpoint presentation. Her presentation is however available to view online from the conference website, and is attached here as a pdf download.

The other speakers alongside Jennifer included:

Helen Bjørnøy, Minister of the Environment, Norway;

Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Germany;

Surya P. Sethi, Principal Energy Adviser and Secretary to the Indian Government Planning Commission, India;

José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo, CEO, Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), Brazil;

Egil Myklebust, Chairman of the Board, Scandinavian Airlines, Norway; and

Knut N. Kjær, CEO, Norges Bank Investment Management, Norway.