Summary Report: B4E COP17 Dialogue 2011, Durban

COP17 Durban Dialogue
POWERING AHEAD TOWARDS
A CLEAN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
6 December 2011 | Durban Botanic Gardens
Summary Report

Participants agreed that to avert the worst of climate change we
must develop new models for channelling private sector resources
and entrepreneurial drive towards a more climate resilient economy.
Governments must support this with regulatory policy change and
financiers commit the significant investments required to scaling new
technologies and solutions for impact.
Three months later in December the B4E Durban Dialogue was
convened during the UNFCCC COP17, with over 300 international
decision makers committing to “Powering Ahead towards a Clean
Industry Revolution”. The dialogue moved beyond carbon, taking
a more comprehensive approach to climate change; highlighting
opportunities and innovation in natural resource efficiency and
sustainable consumption and production.
Delegates shared new ideas, discussed acceleration and addressed
global perspectives on a clean industrial revolution that will deliver
transformative change for society and our planet. In closing the B4E
Durban Dialogue, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a
higher level of collaboration between business, government and NGOs,
working together for real action on climate change.
In September 2011 the 2nd B4E Climate Summit
was convened in London. Business leaders from 26
countries called for greater action by governments to
support industry solutions to climate change.

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Contents
Opening Statements
Andrew Steer, Special Envoy for Climate Change, The World Bank 2
Morné du Plessis, CEO, WWF – South Africa 2
Mark Kenber, CEO, The Climate Group 3
Björn Stigson, President, WBCSD 3
Lunch
HM Nerurkar, Managing Director, Tata Steel 4
James Leape, Director General WWF International 4
Leadership perspective
Xie Ping, President, GCL Solar System and Solar Energy Ltd 5
Arun Bharat Ram, Chairman, SRF Ltd 5
Plenary discussion panel
Revolutionising business to deliver sustainable growth 6
Plenary discussion panel
Beyond carbon – Curbing climate change, creating opportunity 7
Business message from South African CEOs 8
Dinner
Sir David King, Director, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment 9
Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada, Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico 9
Ban Ki Moon , Secretary-General, United Nations 10

Andrew Steer
Special Envoy for Climate Change
The World Bank
Morné du Plessis
CEO
WWF – South Africa
In the decade 2015-2025, 10 trillion dollars will be
invested every year in developing countries. This
investment needs to be greened. Doing things
greener will cost more in the short run . Additional
help is needed from the public funds of developed
countries and private investors. Of the 10 trillion
dollars invested per year, 60% of this is private.
The Green Fund, which we’re very
optimistic about, includes plans for a
facility to engage the private sector,
which is very important.
This is the make or break decade – the decade where
if we do not make progress, we simply will fail over
the long term. The hopeful picture is that we are
seeing innovation like we’ve never seen before;
the problem is that it doesn’t add up to anywhere
near enough. We don’t need to start from scratch.
We need to learn from remarkable successes, and
negotiators need to put in the frameworks to
accelerate this.
By 2050, there will be more human beings living
in one instant than cumulatively in human history.
Securing sufficient food, water and energy for all is
a real and impending challenge. By 2020, Africa’s
ability to grow crops is projected to be just half of
what it is today. Though as individuals some of us
may be better able to buffer ourselves against the
coming crises, we are all bounded together from our
shared humanity. The science on climate change is
crystal clear but politics is still out of step with
the evidence.
Science has demonstrated that we can
reduce emissions to the required level
with the technologies available.
We need business to lead the way in demonstrating
that a low-carbon economy is feasible, and
profitable. Where governments are procrastinating,
business must and will step in and it will do so
decisively. That mantle rests on all of us now.
Opening remarks
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Mark Kenber
CEO
The Climate Group
Björn Stigson
President
WBCSD
Over the next 40 years, we must improve our carbon
productivity 10 times. This will not be achieved by
incremental change. In the last decade, we have
heard a lot about how business has set themselves
targets – but it’s just not enough. Things are
happening, but they are just not fast enough or large
enough. That is what the clean industrial revolution
is all about.
Change is difficult but it is also
something that humanity is uniquely
equipped to do.
Just in our lifetime, we have already achieved
fantastic change in the way we live and work, driven
by our ingenuity and innovation. For example, the
music industry has reduced its carbon emissions by
80% just as a by-product of digitalisation. We also
need to change the way we think, from focusing on
cost to focusing on opportunity. The cost is the entry
ticket to get to the opportunity rather than being
the pain we have to bear.
I have long argued that business has a legitimate role
in addressing sustainable development and climate
change, and today I have heard from the speakers that
business is very much wanted.
Leading governments have concluded
that if you want to be a leading economy
in the future then you have to be able
to deliver resource-efficient low-carbon
solutions.
We need to find more cooperation between business
and governments. I agree that business has the
majority of the technologies; the financial resources
and management skills that is needed to drive change
but business needs regulatory framework support
as well. WBCSD has launched Vision 2050 last year
where we have outlined what type of transformation is
needed to implement public-private partnerships. The
focus of these partnerships should be on solutions and
then on connecting them to national action plans.
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HM Nerurkar
Managing Director
Tata Steel
James Leape
Director General
WWF International
I am greatly surprised by the passion, the
commitment and the concern people have now
for the sustainable growth. Apart from the
governments and NGOs, it is now our customers,
our suppliers and our business partners who
are demonstrating and demanding a lot for
sustainable growth. The political, ecological and
social changes over the last few years have made us
think differently about our businesses. In my view
business can work with various social stakeholders
to bring a significant change. Businesses should
look at the opportunities like waste management,
waste utilisation, energy production, storage, energy
distribution and transmission.
By sharing knowledge and streamlining
the end to end business processes, we
can certainly bring about new business
innovations which make the world
more sustainable and peaceful.
Lastly, I want to quote a saying by the founder of
Tata Group; ‘What comes from the society must go
back to the society many times over’.
This week much of the world is focused on climate
change but the challenge we face is much broader
than that. We are coming out of a century where
graphs show exponential growth in population, carbon
emissions, energy consumptions and the pressures
they are putting on the planet.
Our challenge is not only about saving
the planet but also about providing food,
water and energy to everyone on earth.
Technological innovations are hugely important but at
the same time we need innovations in business and
policies which will allow us to get those technologies
into the economy. Governments are coming up with
creative ways to build green intergrowth and to
provide financing that can catalyse much larger levels
of private investments for green growth to take off.
Moving forward, companies should willingly step
up and engage the governments to help drive them
towards the policies needed to support the green
economy on a larger scale.
Lunch
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Xie Ping
President
GCL Solar System and Solar Energy Ltd
Arun Bharat Ram
Chairman
SRF Ltd
China’s energy demands are growing rapidly and,
going forward, we will face a real challenge of
energy supplies since China has very limited energy
resources. At the same time, we are also working on
reducing carbon emissions.
During the last five years, China has
reduced its energy consumption per
GDP by 20% and reducing CO2 emission
by 20%. In my opinion, solar energy will
play a major role in China’s low carbon
energy developments.
China has already formed a large-scale production
base for solar energy which accounted for 45%
of the global solar energy production. China has
also developed a complete supply chain where 16
companies have listed internationally. Renewable
may not solve all of the problems but it is clearly
a direction China must go in order to reduce the
carbon emissions.
The effects of climate change are particularly severe
for the developing countries e.g. India given the
vulnerability, inadequate means and limited capacity
to adapt to its effects. India is currently fifth largest
CO2 emitter globally and with changing consumption
patterns as income levels go up, India’s emissions
are said to go up dramatically. In June 2008, the
Indian government has released a national action
plan on climate change which outlines a strategy
by which India will adapt to climate change while
maintaining a high growth rate. It focuses on eight
areas including energy efficiency and is intended
to deliver maximum benefits to development and
climate change mitigation.
It is imperative that governments
should provide a clear and long term
vision to the industry.
Indian industry is committed towards taking
measures to reduce green houses gas emissions and
will continue to play an active role in this space.
Leadership perspective
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Revolutionising business to deliver sustainable growth
Key Points
The new era of business calls for a bottom-up
approach instead. Like-minded companies should
forge industry coalitions to enable sharing of data,
standards and innovations. With greater synergies,
business can drive revolutionary changes in an
accelerated pace.
Ranjit Barthakur
A valuation of the entire ecology is needed
to understand the true cost of utilising public
elements. If the world can successfully move to
economic green indexing, we can achieve a
paradigm shift.
Sean de Cleene
Present innovations need to be further accelerated
to keep pace with massive consequences of climate
change. Both policymakers and businesses should be
bolder and more open in their approaches. Business
should drive a bottom-up vision instead of waiting
for international processes to rethink solutions.
Li Junfeng
Global stakeholders should place greater emphasis
on developing the renewable energy industry to
produce positive social changes. These include
gaining domestic private and public support, as
well as allowing opportunities for foreign direct
investments.
Caio Koch-Weser
To revolutionise business approaches, businesses
need to embrace a paradigm shift. Business
communities should embrace a bottom-up approach
through formations of industry coalitions and seek
policymakers with their ideas and innovations.
Sim Tshabalala
In formulating sustainable visions and goals,
stakeholders tend to forget civil society. In Africa,
green policies and business innovations are created
with the underlying mission to eradicate poverty,
inequality and unemployment. Social development
and sustainable growth are interconnected and
participating stakeholders must carry out steps in an
all-inclusive manner.
Mwambu Wanendeya
ICT plays an important role in climate change
mitigation although it emits 2 per cent of carbon
dioxide emissions globally. With the development of
smart grid networks, the ICT industry is confident
of bridging the digital divide while increasing global
GDP and benefiting human societies.
Plenary panel discussion
Mark Kenber, Chief executive officer, The Climate Group
Ranjit Barthakur, Founder & Chairman, GMS, Senior Adviser, Tata Consultancy Services
Sean de Cleene, Vice President, Global Business Initiatives, Yara International
Li Junfeng, President, Chinese Renewable Industrial Association
Caio Koch-Weser, Vice-Chairman, Deutsche Bank Group
Sim Tshabalala, CEO, The Standard Bank of South Africa
Mwambu Wanendeya, Vice President and Head of Communications, Ericsson Sub-Saharan Africa
Moderator:
Panelists:
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Beyond carbon – Curbing climate change, creating opportunityPlenary panel discussion
Key points
This panel addresses the potential to reduce carbon
emissions by delivering better water outcomes,
energy outcomes, food security, land usage
outcomes, biodiversity outcomes or collectively
better resource productivity.
Jeremy Oppenheim
Companies need to work hard in shaping their
industry standards which will ultimately bring a
greater transparency and measurement through
their supply chain. Governments should also build
long-term resilience about the resource-related risks
and opportunities and create safety nets to mitigate
the impact of these risks on society.
Chris Librie
Another 3 billion people which will enter in the
middle class by 2030 will be connected to each
other and thus the data needs will continue to grow
exponentially. The IT industry can play a pivotal
role in optimising the use of natural resources
particularly energy and raw materials. Connectivity
in both developed and developing markets will be a
source of economic growth in near future.
Scott Fleetwood
Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution
stated that ‘we have to produce same amount of
food in next 40 years which we have produced in the
last 8000 years’. The biggest challenge is that we
have to embrace new technologies which will allow
us to feed the world and preserve the environment
at the same time.
Steve Lennon
South Africa is going through a fundamental shift
in the power generation from coal and we are
taking steps such as reducing our existing carbon
footprints and making careful future investments
by maximizing the role of renewable, nuclear and
natural gas. As part of South Africa’s green growth
strategy, we are creating thousands of jobs locally
and building the local manufacturing sector.
Alison Hill
The main problem we face in the public health
development is creating sustainable change within
the populations that are most vulnerable in the
world. We also face a challenge on how to rethink an
innovative finance solution to achieve sustainable
development. A possible way to solve this issue is to
consider how we measure the baseline of resource
consumption.
Samantha Smith
I do believe that economic growth is not always
tightly linked to the development indicators e.g.
some Latin American countries not only do very well
on biodiversity conservations but they also do quite
well on poverty alleviation, human healthcare and
developmental indicators. In order to achieve the
target of 50-80% reduction in the carbon emissions
by 2050, then we have to go beyond incremental
improvements in the energy systems, agricultural
systems and the business models.
Jeremy Oppenheim, Director, Global Lead, Sustainability & Resource Productivity, McKinsey & Co.
Chris Librie, Global Director, Environmental Initiatives, HP
Scott Fleetwood, Executive Director, Global Industry and Government Policy and Affairs,
Novus International, Inc.
Steve Lennon, Divisional Executive, Eskom International
Alison Hill, Concept Development Director Climate, Vestergaard Frandsen
Samantha Smith, Leader, Global Climate and Energy Initiative, WWF International
Moderator:
Panelists:
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Business message from
South African CEOs
Key Points
Despite a large energy deficit, South Africa
remains optimistic about achieving balance in
the developments for both economic growth
and sustainability. All panellists agreed that the
South African government has created a well-
regulated environment for their businesses to grow.
Businesses are able to innovate extensively to
provide low-cost solutions for the entire nation with
strong support from the government.
Philippe Barton
Although the mining industry does destroy parts
of the community through immense emission
of greenhouse gases, De Beers see this not as
a challenge, but as an opportunity to achieve
sustainability successes.
De Beers has drawn up imperatives to minimise
energy usage in all extractive processes. It also
looks into water conservation during the process
to recover diamond. It hopes to build a waterless
diamond recovery facility in place of water wastage.
Research has also been done with universities
to analyse the impact of climate change on the
environment. These efforts enable De Beers to
achieve its business goals while addressing the
social well-being of their stakeholders.
Pascap Phelan
Solar Capital has developed 25 solar farms in the
Northern Cape, where solar irradiation and therefore,
electricity generation significantly surpass that of
Germany and Italy, both of which are countries with
the largest solar installations worldwide. Its next
goal is to expand its farms to the Northern and
Western Cape provinces, to supply electricity to the
South African energy grid.
Solar Capital believes that South Africa has created
an inspiring environment for the solar industry to
develop strategically by offering the most attractive
tariffs and investment returns. In addition,
businesses operate under a tender system where the
company with the best social goals will be selected
to deploy their projects. This is an effective solution
for social development.
P Sechemane
For South African economic growth to be actualised,
there needs to be a strong sustainable water system
to ensure access of water for all. Rand Water is
implementing various projects to maximise the
scarce resource while reaching out to rural areas
in the country. With strong support from the
government in legislating water policies, businesses
can ensure cheap and constant provision of water to
society.
Robyn Curnow, Anchor, CNN
Phillip Barton, CEO, De Beers Consolidated Mines
Pascap Phelan, CEO, Solar Capital
P Sechemane, CEO, Rand Water
Moderator:
Panelists:
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Dinner
Sir David King
Director, Smith School of Enterprise
and the Environment
Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada
Secretary of Environment and Natural
Resources, Mexico
As we put greenhouse gases into the atmosphere,
we must remember that half of these gases
emitted go into the oceans. We are not only
acidifying ad warming the waters, but raising ocean
levels and ultimately changing weather patterns.
Our human society has come to depend on the
weather systems critically as it affects food
availability and prices. Further, pressures from
rising population hinder environmental migration.
The situation may seem bleak but success will go to
those businesses that can manage and turn these
risks into opportunities.
There should be greater partnerships between
governments and businesses. Business should
innovate solutions for the marketplace with
the governments creating suitable regulated
environments for these businesses to operate in.
Through this, I believe there is possibility of a new
renaissance arising where we produce sustainable
products and resource-manage carefully. All of
these would emerge as a global phenomenon driven
by good governance, by good governments and by
good business communities.
Mexico is developing more public-private partnerships
for companies to work with the government. A special
program for climate change has been launched on this
basis, to work with companies to support Mexico’s
reduction of total greenhouse gas emissions by 7%,
on a voluntary basis.
The government is also contributing in emissions
reductions by providing 48 million incandescent
bulbs to the poor to help them save energy and
money. This shifts the action away from subsidies,
supports the poor and Mexico’s emissions target; a
clear win-win solution for the country.
The private sector is already active in a 3% emissions
reductions, translating into 70 million tonnes of
carbon dioxide by 2012. These goals are achieved on a
voluntary, unilateral and self-financed basis.
The green growth activities that is seen in Mexico
is successful, with the help of B4E and the United
Nations, but continues to require political will, sound
public policy and clear private action. It is in our
hands to establish public-private partnerships to
pave the way for green growth.
9

Dinner Ban Ki Moon
Secretary-General, United Nations
One of the main lessons I have learned during
my five years as Secretary-General is that
broad partnerships are the key to solving broad
challenges. When governments, the United
Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil
society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great
things. We have seen it in the field of women’s and
children’s health and in scaling up food nutrition.
And we are applying the same proven approach
to energy. Energy is central to everything we do.
It cuts across all sectors of government and lies
at the heart of a country’s core interests. Energy
also lies at the heart of our efforts to avoid
dangerous climate change. It is central to achieving
the Millennium Development Goals. It is key to
sustainable development.
The world population now stands at 7 billion people
– and rising. 40% of these people still lack access
to modern forms of energy. They are the energy
poor. Energy poverty means children cannot study
at night, clinics and hospitals cannot offer quality
healthcare.
Businesses and economies cannot grow in the dark.
We need to tackle energy poverty. Yet the clear
and present danger of climate change means we
cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely
too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new,
sustainable path to the future we want.
We need a clean industrial revolution.
Last year, the United Nations General Assembly
passed a resolution declaring 2012 the International
Year of Sustainable Energy for All. I was ‘energized’
by that resolution. This September, I launched my
Sustainable Energy for All Initiative. It is gathering
the broad-based support we need, from emerging
economies, developing countries, developed
countries, the private sector and civil society.
To help to develop an Action Agenda and catalyze
action on the ground, I have appointed a High Level
Group on Sustainable Energy for All. The Group
includes global leaders from business, finance,
governments and civil society around the world.
I am calling for action around three objectives, all to
be achieved by 2030.
First: to ensure universal access to modern energy
services.
Second: to double the rate of improvement of
energy efficiency.
Third: to double the share of renewable energy in the
global energy mix.
Taken together, these sustainable development
goals will enhance equity, revitalise the global
economy, and help protect our ecosystems.
Next month marks the launch of the International
Year of Sustainable Energy for All. You can
contribute to Sustainable Energy for All by making
your companies, practices and supply chains more
efficient. And you can put the weight of your
investment behind innovation.
Here in Durban, I urge all to take the long view, for
the sake of the future we want.
Thank you.
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