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The World Climate Summit interviews the movers and shakers
who will be attending this year’s summit. Here we profile:
Barbara Kux, Member of the Managing Board and Chief Sustainability Officer, Siemens AG

1. Why do you work in climate change?
Quite simply, because climate change is our biggest global challenge – and one which is becoming more pressing with every year. We are committed also because the technologies to reverse climate change and bring about a low-carbon civilization already exist. Siemens can play a leading role in defining and driving this.

2. Which climate change project or initiative in your company are you most proud of?
In recent years, our company has gone from individual projects and initiatives to making sustainability the core of its business strategy. We are most proud, therefore, of the combined synergy possible when all of Siemens works together towards this goal. In the last fiscal year, for instance, our Environmental Portfolio resulted in carbon reductions of over 300 million tons at customer sites – a visible and growing intervention.

3. What are you looking forward to at this year’s World Climate Summit?
Such conferences can tend to create a wave of hope and disappointment – as political agendas come face to face. But there is also the very real opportunity of showing what good has been done already in reversing climate change, and how innovative programs across the public and private sectors are realizing smart infrastructures. At Siemens we are looking forward especially to the engagement and exchange with these partners

4. What are you most proud of and who are your personal heroes?
The generation that is answering climate change is already full of unknown heroes, from all walks of life. Perhaps the best role models going forward are indigenous cultures, tribes that have always been aligned to the earth’s natural resources. Their way of looking at the world is one that can refresh and re-inspire us. One of my favourite examples here is an African proverb: “Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children.”

About Siemens
Only by using innovative products and solutions we can combat climate change while continuing to generate economic growth. Siemens is a leader in sustainable infrastructure technologies with its unique environmental portfolio, which in fiscal 2010 accelerated growth with a revenue of € 28 billion and helped customers save up to 270 million tons of CO2. Walking the talk, Siemens is also aiming at reducing CO2 emission intensity by 20 percent within the company between fiscal 2006 and 2011. For more information please visit www.siemens.com.

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The World Climate Summit interviews the movers and shakers
who will be attending this year’s summit. Here we profile:
Harry Verhaar, Sr. Director Energy & Climate Change, Head of Strategic Sustainability Initiatives, Philips Lighting

1. Why do you work in climate change?
Tackling climate change is not only a necessity, but most of all is the most sensible and smartest way to put the world on a sustainable development pathway. This will have a triple benefit for citizens / consumers; our living environment as well as our economy.

2. Which climate change project or initiative in your company are you most proud of?
I am most proud of the global program that we created and lead internationally to phase-out in-efficient lighting and to switch to energy efficient (more and more LED-based) lighting solutions.

3. What are you looking forward to at this year’s World Climate Summit?
We are looking for the creation of more momentum towards sustainable development, showcasing energy efficient LED lighting as one of the very attractive areas where decisive action is being taken. We hope this will support the international UNFCCC process, and will inspire other sectors to create and step-up similar approaches.

4. What are you most proud of in regards to any climate change projects and initiatives?
The good news is that there are quite a few people – that participate in COP17 – that are inspirational examples. From a personally perspective I find Kandeh Yumkella, Christiana Figueres and Richard Branson such ‘heroes’, as they combine a constructive vision for sustainable development with a very skilled capability to communicate this vision to a broad range of stakeholders, thus creating momentum for change.

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The World Climate Summit interviews the movers and shakers
who will be attending this year’s summit. Here we profile:
Dr Graeme Sweeney, Chairman, Zero Emissions Platform, & EVP, CO2, Shell

1. Why do you work in climate change?
I am the Executive Vice President for CO2 for Shell. The world needs to reduce CO2 emissions but this action needs to be reconciled with population growth, economic growth and doubling of the demand for energy by 2050. Shell’s strategy is to invest to grow its production of oil and gas to meet growing demand for energy. However, we are committed to considering CO2 emissions in our commercial decisions and we are focusing on four key areas: supplying more natural gas to reduce CO2 emissions from the power sector, biofuels to reduce CO2 emissions from road transport, progressing CO2 capture and storage technology and implementing energy efficiency measures in our operations.

2. Which climate change project or initiative in your company are you most proud of?
Replacing coal with natural gas in power plants can cut CO2 emissions by 50% and it’s a solution available now. Natural gas will stay attractive in the future too. It complements the intermittency of renewable electricity and, when combined with CCS, could cut power plant CO2 emissions by 90%.

3. What are you looking forward to at this year’s World Climate Summit?
Meeting others who are working to address the CO2 challenge and sharing ideas. No one person has a monopoly on good ideas and recent work by the European Union’s Zero Emissions Platform has actually found that increased cooperation in tackling the CO2 challenge delivers a substantial economic value.

4. What are you most proud of in regards to any climate change projects and initiatives?
Two main achievements stand out. Firstly, establishing a dedicated CO2 function within Shell, building the team and adding real value to the business on how to succeed in an increasingly CO2 constrained world. The second is helping to create the European Union’s Zero Emission Platform (ZEP). The ZEP is a complete multi-stakeholder, multi-disciplinary group working on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and is delivering tangible results in terms of progressing this essential technology.

5. Who is a personal or professional hero of yours, and how did they inspire you?
Isaac Newton

About Zero Emissions Platform
Founded in 2005 on the initiative of the European Commission, the European Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants (known as the Zero Emissions Platform, or ZEP) represents a unique coalition of stakeholders united in their support for CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) as a critical solution for combating climate change. Indeed, it is not possible to achieve EU or global CO2 reduction targets cost-effectively without CCS, providing 20% of the global cuts required by 2050. Members include European utilities, oil and gas companies, equipment suppliers, national geological surveys, academic institutions and environmental NGOs, and we collectively advise the EU on all matters related to CCS. Our goal: to make CCS commercially available by 2020 and accelerate wide-scale deployment. For more information please visit http://www.zeroemissionsplatform.eu/

Stephan Ouaknine, Chairman & CEO, Inerjys said, “Despite the activity and interest in renewables, clean energy only represents a sliver of the global energy mix. To catalyze the renewable energy revolution, we need entrepreneurs and technologists with better ideas on how to harness and store clean energy. And we also need smarter investment models that help these technologies reach the real world. Inerjys is part of this “smarter-investor” solution, and as a sponsor of the World Climate Summit, we look forward to collaborating with other leading thinkers in Durban.”

Robert Marshall, President and CEO, Earth Networks adds: “The world is experiencing an increase in more dangerous and extreme weather events. Society needs to be equipped and prepared with weather information and the earliest alerting systems available to mitigate the impact of storms, flooding, droughts and other extremes. The need for dynamic weather and climate intelligence at local levels is more critical than ever for saving lives and property from climate variability and building resilience. Technology now enables delivery of information and warnings to people in real-time, such as through mobile phones.

Earth Networks operates the largest global weather, lightning and climate observation networks to empower decision-makers and citizens with the most precise and advanced information. We recently launched an expansive greenhouse gas observation network to measure, quantify and map regional, local and city-specific carbon emissions and uptakes for accurate measurement, reporting and verification (MRV). Understanding the interplay between weather and carbon emissions, and the changes over time, is critical for improving climate science and assessing its impact on the environment. We look forward to collaborating with the delegates at the conference and closing reception of the World Climate Summit on topics such as establishing weather observation infrastructure, providing early warnings for extreme weather, and precisely measuring carbon emissions at local scales.”

About Inerjys: Inerjys invests in renewable energy technology companies, and builds renewable energy projects. We are interested in solar, wind, marine 2.0 (wave/tidal/river), and biomass energy generation; energy storage; and smart grid solutions. Inerjys believes current approaches to renewable energy are underperforming, and that a new investment model is needed. As both an investor in technology and developer of projects, Inerjys can act as a strategic customer to our portfolio companies and help them deploy better technologies in utility scale projects. Inerjys is working to become a global provider of renewable energy, and to make renewables affordable and abundant. For more information please visit www.inerjys.com.

About Earth Networks: Earth Networks operates the world’s largest weather observation and total lightning detection networks and is building what will become the largest greenhouse gas monitoring network. Observational data and enterprise solutions from Earth Networks combine to inform and alert consumers, enterprises and governments around the world, providing them with advanced environmental warnings and intelligence for decision making and safety during weather and climate events, and for improved business operations. Earth Networks (www.earthnetworks.com) is headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area with offices in Mountain View, Calif.; New York, NY; Milan, Italy and a local presence in 50 countries worldwide.

E-profile
The World Climate Summit interviews the movers and shakers
who will be attending this year’s summit. Here we profile:
Mr. Wilson Mello, Vice-President, Corporate Affairs

1. Why do you work in climate change?
Climate Change is strategic for BRF. We know our activity is contributing to greenhouse gases emissions, so we are structuring a management in climate change, performing emissions diagnosis in our activities through the preparation of GHG inventory, identifying opportunities for emissions reductions and improving process efficiency. Furthermore, we understand our value chain impacts on the environment and we are looking for synergies with our supply chain in order to reduce indirect emissions in our activities.

2. Which climate change project or initiative in your company are you most proud of?
BRF has developed some initiatives to control and reduce environmental impacts (consumption and emission) of the company’s operation. As examples we can present:

• Energetic Excellence Program

The objective of this program is increase energy efficiency at Company’s operation. BRF counts on a working team for accomplishment of diagnosis and identification of opportunities for increasing energy efficiency of both equipment and processes, to ensure better natural resources management. Based on the studies, plans were prepared for each industrial unit and reflected in 420 actions of either an operational or investment nature. As a result of this work, BRF was able to record a saving of 341,496 GJ of electricity in 2010, compared with the preceding year, a reduction of 4.78% in total indirect energy consumption. Hence, in addition to reducing the environmental impacts caused by the extraction and processing of energy, these initiatives have allowed BRF to cut costs in product processing and increase competitiveness. Examples of improvements during the year were: updating of technology, improving the efficiency of refrigeration systems; standardization and training of operators. In 2011, Company’s target is to save 250 thousand GJ of electric energy. Moreover, it is important to mention that 94,89% of all directly energy consumed by the Company in 2010 came from renewable sources.

• 3S Program: Sustainable hog harming system

Project premises:
· Greenhouse effect gas emission reduction aligned to Kyoto Protocol guidelines;
· Potential reduction of 591.418 ton CO2 eq./year (40% of BRF Pig Farming Greenhouse Effect), according to UN methodology;
· 10 year-long project;
· Partnership: Sadia Institute of Sustainability, Perdigao Institute of Sustainability and AgCert;
· In 2010 the reduction amounted to 137,870 tonnes of CO2eq.

3. What are you looking forward to at this year’s World Climate Summit?
We expect to discuss the agenda and the roles of companies in relation to climate change. Also, BRF believes that the climate change theme is extremely important for the future of economic growth and the World Climate Summit will provide the opportunity to evaluate this context and understand how other organizations are addressing this subject. In this context, BRF wants to be an organization which makes a positive contribution to combating climate change, participating in and influencing public policies and sectoral policies on the subject.

4. Who is a personal or professional hero of yours, and how did they inspire you?
I don´t have only one person or source of inspiration. I admire the work of several people in the field of climate change, and I think the combination of experiences and opinions is what has enabled the society forward. I think we need to look at the global warming challenge in a systemic and multidisciplinary way, in order to provide a transformative change for the society and our planet.

About Brasil Foods
BRF BrasilFoods is one of the largest food companies in the world by market capitalization, leader in the global production of proteins, with a 9% share of international trade for the sector and the largest exporter of poultry meat. In 2010, the Company was ranked the third largest exporter in Brazil.  The product portfolio is made up of more than three thousand items, in the segments of poultry, pork, beef, processed meats, milk, dairy products, margarines, pastas, frozen dishes and vegetables and other processed products.

The company’s has several brands such as: Perdigão, Sadia, Qualy, Doriana, Rezende, Batavo, Elegê, Deline, Speedy Pollo, Fribo and Freski. The Company operates 60 plants throughout Brazil and three overseas (dairy products in Argentina and units of Plusfood in the United Kingdom and The Netherlands). BRF BrasilFoods operates 24 overseas commercial offices and has a relationship with more than 5 thousand clients in 140 countries on the five continents. BRF’s workforce of 113 thousand makes it one of the largest employers in Brazil. In 2010, it sold 5.7 million tons of product and reported net sales of R$ 22.7 billion, 59.6% of this to the domestic market and 40.4%, to export market.Read more about Brasil Foods at: www.brasilfoods.com.

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The World Climate Summit interviews the movers and shakers
who will be attending this year’s summit. Here we profile:
Mike Brown, CEO, Nedbank Group

After attending St John’s College (Harare) and completing schooling at Maritzburg College, Mike graduated from Natal University (PMB) in 1987 where he received the Jack Armstrong award as the best final year student.

Post having passed his final qualifying examinations as a Chartered Accountant in 1988, Mike completed his articles at Deloitte & Touche (Durban) specializing in financial services where NBS was a major client. After articles, Mike worked
for Deloitte & Touche in the USA and then spent a year working in London before returning to Deloitte & Touche Durban as an Audit Manager.

Mike left Deloitte to join NBS Treasury shortly thereafter in the role of Manager: Special Projects. He later moved to NBS Corporate and was instrumental in setting up the Structured Finance and Private Equity divisions within NBS Corporate which developed into significant profit contributors to the Group. Mike lead the merger of NBS Corporate and the commercial industrial lending division of BoE Private Bank, and was appointed as Deputy Managing Director of BoE Corporate and then Managing Director of BoE Corporate as well as a main Board director of BoE Limited.

Post the merger of BoE and Nedbank, Mike was appointed to the role of Managing Director, Property & Asset Finance and oversaw the complex four- way merger of the commercial and industrial property divisions of BoE/Nedbank/NIB and Cape of Good Hope to create the market leading Property Finance business in South Africa.

In June 2004, Mike was appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Nedbank Group and was an integral part of the team responsible for the design and execution of the successful turnaround of Nedbank Group.

In March 2009, Mike was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) designate, to succeed Tom Boardman who retired from the Group in February 2010.

On 1 March 2010, Mike assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nedbank Group Limited and Nedbank Limited.

1. Why do you work in climate change?
Any self-respecting business, that wants to be around for any length of time in the future, will have climate stabilisation and environmental sustainability as core components of its overall strategic objectives right now. With a global carbon budget that will last around 25 years before we all have to stop emitting carbon or face serious environmental catastrophe, the world is simply running out of time to do something about climate change. I firmly believe that business can, and must, take the lead in this and work together to realise the low carbon future we absolutely require.

But deadlines aside, for Nedbank Group, working to address climate change has been a natural progression along our more than 20-year environmental sustainability journey. Our commitment to the environment has earned us a reputation as South Africa’s ‘green’ bank. We have always held environmental awareness as a top priority for our bank, so the increased awareness, in recent years, of the need to address climate change meant that we naturally undertook to lead in this regard too. Our achievement of carbon neutrality in 2010 was a significant milestone in this carbon journey, and is one that we are now leveraging to maximize our effectiveness and influence in the carbon management space.

As a bank we’re not a high carbon emitter. But that doesn’t mean we can’t be a highly effective carbon ‘mitigator’. And we accept our responsibility to invest whatever resources we can – whether human, financial or intellectual – into being part of the climate change solution.

2. Which climate change project or initiative in your company are you most proud of?
Without a doubt, Nedbank Group’s achievement of carbon neutrality was a highlight of our environmental sustainability journey. It is an achievement of which everyone in the group is justifiably proud due the way it was achieved. We do not ‘buy’ our neutrality, we approach it from a ‘reduce first, then offset where necessary’ angle. This means everyone in the group had to work together to achieve some very challenging reduction targets – not just in terms of carbon emissions, but also relating to the use of other resources like water, electricity and paper, as well as focusing on lowering waste generation and transport usage.

Only once we have reduced as much as possible in any given year do we offset the remaining emissions through carbon credits. And in line with our commitment to integrated sustainability, these credits were obtained from African projects that are benefitting the environment and the communities in the regions they operate.

But pride in this achievement aside, Nedbank Group’s carbon neutrality has unlocked many more doors to the group in realizing its vision of leading in sustainability. It has positioned us to collaborate closely and effectively with like-minded organisations in the public and private sector in order to develop policies and strategies that will help address climate change. In addition, carbon neutrality has provided platform on which Nedbank can develop environmentally driven products, services and solutions that will enable the climate change mitigation efforts of our individual and corporate clients and all our other stakeholders.

3. What are you looking forward to at this year’s World Climate Summit?
To my mind, the solution the world need to climate change will only be found when we put our heads, and hearts, together. Events like the World Climate Summit facilitate this kind of collaboration and serve to unite the world via a shared vision for the future and the role we all have to play in achieving it.

So, while it is certainly exciting to be able to hear what people and businesses around the world have achieved and learned regarding climate change in recent months and years, I think it is going to be even more exciting to witness, first hand, the shared commitment of all participants to finding or developing the climate change solutions that could, literally, save the planet.

About Nedbank Group
Positioned as a ‘bank for all’ Nedbank Group is South Africa’s fourth largest banking group
measured by assets and provides a range of wholesale and retail banking, insurance,
asset and wealth management, and carbon financing and renewable energy investment
advisory services. The group primarily focuses on southern Africa, but has a vision to grow its
business reach across the African continent.

Widely regarded as South Africa’s ‘green’ bank, Nedbank Group is recognised for its
sustainability leadership. This is the result of the group’s integrated approach that combines
the four pillars of environmental, social, economic and cultural sustainability to ensure that it
delivers sustainable benefits for all its stakeholders, the environment, and the communities in
which it operates.

The bank recently became the first financial services organisation on the African continent to
achieve carbon neutrality. This achievement capped an environmental sustainability journey
of more than 20 years characterised by a number of notable achievements, including:

• the first African financial services signatory to the Equator Principles,
• one of only three companies with JSE primary listings to be included on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index,
• Member of UNEP FI
• Signatory to the UN Global Compact

Read more about Nedbank Group at: www.nedbank.com.

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The World Climate Summit interviews the movers and shakers who will be attending this year’s summit. Here we profile:
Jeff Seabright, VP, Environment and Water Resources, The Coca-Cola Company.

Jeff is the Chief Environmental Officer and leads the Company’s three environmental focus areas: water stewardship, sustainable packaging, energy management and climate protection. Jeff has propelled the Company’s sustainable growth strategy by directing a team of nearly twenty experts to increase operational effectiveness, to create innovative processes and to inspire global action.

Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company, Jeff served as a Foreign Service officer at NATO and was a staff member for U.S. Senators John D. Rockefeller IV and Timothy E. Wirth. Beginning in 1994, Jeff served as Director of the Office of Energy, Environment and Technology for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In 1999, Jeff played an integral role in the negotiations of the Kyoto Protocol, following an appointment by President Clinton to The White House as Executive Director of the Climate Change Task Force. He then joined Texaco, Inc., (now ChevronTexaco, Inc.) as its Vice President for Policy Planning. Immediately prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company, Jeff was an environmental consultant for clients ranging from the United Nations to Fortune 500 companies.

Jeff has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Oberlin College in Ohio and a Master’s of Science in International Relations from The London School of Economics. He is the Vice Chair of the World Environment Center and a board member for the Environmental Technology and Trade Advisory Council, a component of the EPA’s Federal Advisory Committees (FACA).

1. Why do you work in climate change?
Climate change is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) societal challenges of our time. As part of The Coca-Cola Company, I have an opportunity and a certain duty to make a significant, positive contribution.

2. Which climate change project or initiative in your company are you most proud of?
Our eKOfreshment, Sustainable Refrigeration Program, has the potential to catalyze change in the commercial refrigeration sector. HFCs are projected to grow to between 9-19% of climate change emissions by the middle of the century. HFC-free solutions are available; we have deployed 400,000 already and we’re working to phase out the use of HFCs in all new cold drink equipment by 2015.

3. What are you looking forward to at this year’s World Climate Summit?
More than just business showing support for the climate negotiations, the World Climate Summit offers an opportunity for business, government and civil society organizations to share and brainstorm solutions. I am especially looking forward to a more intensive dialogue on climate adaptation. We are very focused as a Company on water resource issues — and water is the medium through which climate impacts will be increasingly manifest, with potentially significant implications for Africa.

4. Finally. Who is a personal or professional hero of yours, and how did they inspire you?
My mentor on all things sustainability is Tim Wirth, former Senator from Colorado and now President of the UN Foundation. He is a tireless advocate for taking action to avert a climate crisis and I continue to learn from him.

About The Coca-Cola Company
At Coca-Cola, we recognize that climate change has the potential to significantly affect the sustainability of our business and supply chain. Therefore, we are increasingly focused on innovative energy efficiency and climate protection solutions to help reduce costs and minimize our environmental impact. Due to the size and scale of our global system—more than 900 bottling plants, a fleet of approximately 200,000 delivery vehicles and more than 10 million vending machines and coolers—our efforts to increase energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions can have far-reaching impacts. That’s why, for example, we set a goal to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), well-known contributors to global warming, in all new cold-drink equipment by 2015. We currently have more than 400,000 units of HFC-free refrigeration equipment in use throughout our system. Our investment in renewable energy resources, energy management devices for cold-drink equipment and fuel-efficiency solutions for delivery vehicles, has helped us improve our overall energy use and efficiency. Read more about: www.thecoca-colacompany.com.

About the World Climate Summit
The World Climate Summit 2011 www.worldclimatesummit.org (December 3-4, Southern Sun Elangeni, Hotel, Durban, South Africa) is the largest international business conference during the UNFCCC COP17. The two-day summit supports an active community of 400 global business, finance and government leaders as they develop new business models, broker public-private partnerships, scale projects, transfer technologies, and establish replicable financing mechanisms for the global green economy. WCS provides a strong media platform with CNN, TIME magazine and other local media partners. WCS is endorsed by the Province of Kwazulu Natal and the South African government. Some key highlights include:

• More than 100 VIP speakers such as Presidents, Ministers and CEOs
• More than 20 topics and themes discussed
• In-depth workshops in the Siemens’ Practitioner’s Lounge
• Business development opportunities in the Nedbank Networking Lounge
• CEO matchmaking sessions during lunches (private and exclusive)
• Media center with more than 40 journalists already confirmed for press conferences, announcements and commitments
• Gigaton Awards dinner gala on Saturday night
• Cocktail reception with the Premier of the Province of Kwazulu Natal on Friday 2nd evening
• Cocktail reception with the US Ambassador on Sunday 4th night (with ICLEI members)

Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen, CEO, Vestergaard Frandsen said, ““Innovative and sustainable solutions to the global water crisis are critically important. According to 2010 World Health Organization data, almost 1 billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water. Diarrheal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under five years old, and is responsible for killing 1.5 million children every year. Children who are malnourished or have impaired immunity are most at risk of life-threatening diarrhea. We are hopeful that the’Carbon For Water™’ program will also have a positive impact not only on diarrhea disease but also reducing respiratory disease by reducing particulate matter in the homes, a major killer of children in Kenya and the developing world. According to the WHO, pneumonia is the single largest cause of death in children worldwide. The use of the LifeStraw® Family water filter can reduce child mortality and improve maternal health by providing access to safe drinking water. When considered in these terms, access to safe drinking water from LifeStraw® Family can effectively address Millennium Development Goals 4, 5, and 6,”

About Vestergaard Frandsen
Vestergaard Frandsen is a private company operating under a humanitarian entrepreneurship business model, innovating technologies that improve health in developing countries. Earlier this year we distributed 880,000 household water filters in western Kenya. The filters give 4.5 million people the means to avoid waterborne illness, and also relieve environmental pressure as forest wood is no longer needed to boil water. These fuel savings are the basis for the carbon credits that finance the program. www.vestergaard-frandsen.com.

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