VELUX takes part in international climate work
The Kyoto Protocol of 1997 (the UN climate convention) currently forms the most important international framework for work on climate changes. Most industrial countries, with the exceptions of the USA, Australia and others, have committed themselves by the terms of the protocol to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 5% of the 1990 level between 2008 and 2012. EU member states are to reduce their collective emissions of such gases by 8% in the same time frame.
The overriding organ for the UN climate convention is the annual Conference of the Parties, when environment ministers meet. The conference is named by its number in the sequence and the most recent was COP 15 in Denmark in December 2009.
In 2009, the environment ministers gathered in Copenhagen for COP 15.
VELUX took part in the work that lead up to COP 15 and we were sponsoring, among other things, conferences such as Nordic Climate Solutions and the International Research Conference on Climate Change. VELUX CEO Jørgen Tang-Jensen also sat on the Danish government’s commercial climate panel, wtih the function to put forward the views of the business sector and ensure that companies’ interests are safeguarded.