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SWITZERLAND: CLIMATE CHANGE HIGH ON THE AGENDA AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ANNUAL MEETING IN DAVOS.
IPR Strategic Business Information Database, January, 2007
With 17 sessions on climate change at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting this will be one of the "greenest" ever at Davos. The Meeting, which begins tomorrow, will be held under the theme 'The Shifting Power Equation' and sees more than 2,400 global leaders, among them more than 800 CEOs, meeting for five days in the Swiss Alpine town.
Among the sessions on environmental issues taking place at the Meeting are: The Legal Landscape around Climate Change; Make Green Pay; The Security Implications of Climate Change; Economics of Climate Change; culminating with a plenary session entitled 'Climate Change: A Call to Action'. Among the panellists for that session are Republican presidential frontrunner John McCain, Senator from Arizona, USA; Lord Browne of...
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