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Oxsensis signs Copenhagen Communiqué, enters Long Term Test with RWE npower
Oxford, UK, 22nd September 2009. Oxsensis Ltd, pioneer of high temperature instrumentation for energy efficiency and winner of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Award in the Power / Energy category in 2008 and the Carbon Trust Award for Technology (small company) in 2007 has signed the Copenhagen Communiqué on Climate Change.
On the morning of Tuesday, 22 September, the business leaders of over 600 companies from around the world publish The Copenhagen Communiqué calling on world leaders to agree “an ambitious, robust and equitable global deal on climate change that responds credibly to the scale and urgency of the crisis facing the world today”.
The global media launch of The Copenhagen Communiqué, an initiative of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders’ Group, is timed to coincide with the UN Summit on Climate Change which is taking place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York later today. A copy of The Copenhagen Communiqué will be handed at lunchtime today to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and distributed to more than 100 Heads of State and Governments attending the summit [1]. The Copenhagen Communiqué has already secured the support of over 600 leading companies worldwide. They warn that, “Economic development will not be sustained in the longer term unless the climate is stabilised” and say it is “critical” that “we exit this recession in a way that lays the foundation for low-carbon growth and avoids locking us into a high carbon future”. The companies call for emission reduction targets to be guided by science and offer support for the emerging consensus to limit global average temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels. In turn, they recognise that this will require global emissions to peak and begin to decline rapidly within the next decade and reduce by 50-85% by 2050. The business leaders urge developed countries to take on “immediate and deep emission reduction commitments” and “demonstrate that low-carbon growth is both achievable and desirable”.
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