Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the new
Prime Minister of Denmark

The new Prime Minister of Denmark, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, is leading a new initiative called the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) convening 200 world leaders from business, finance and government to spur the global economy in a green and prosperous way.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will open the inaugural Global Green Growth Forum at Moltkes Palæ in Copenhagen, 11-12 October. It will focus on key areas of energy and transport, cutting across the pertinent themes of finance, regulatory frameworks and international markets. Global Green Growth Forum is an initiative of the Danish Government in partnership with the Governments of the Republic of Korea and Mexico, and developed in association with the Global Green Growth Institute, based in South Korea.

“3GF offers a space for world economic leaders to challenge conventional thinking and find new green avenues to growth. Green growth has to be at the core of a sustainable strategy to get us out of the economic crisis. To advance this global agenda, Denmark as well as other countries actively engaged in the green transition must take the lead, in close partnership with visionary companies and investors. Together, we can foster the bold decisions necessary to make all of us winners of tomorrow's green industrial revolution. This is our common responsibility.”

High-level participants include: UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon; EU Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard; UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Christiana Figueres; Prime Minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga; Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi; Ministers from Mexico, South Korea, South Africa, Turkey; UNEP Executive Director, Achim Steiner; OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría; Chairman of the Board, Nestlé, Peter Brabeck-Letmanthe.

With a view to innovate the international architecture for green growth, outcomes from the Forum will be fed into high-level political processes, negotiations and forums worldwide: G20, UNFCCC COP17, Clean Energy Ministerial, Rio+20 and the annual World Climate Summit, 3-4 December 2011.

About the Global Green Growth Forum

The annual Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) is the high-level public-private partnership that brings together 200 invited global leaders from government, business, finance and civil society to collectively spur green growth and design the architecture for a green economy.

The exclusive Forum, to be held annually in Denmark, will provide an interactive arena for industry and government leaders to develop ideas and opportunities for joint action and enable strategic and practical learning across sectors, countries and projects at a national and international level. In addition, 3GF will both showcase and help catalyze public-private initiatives that accelerate green growth at scale as well as instigate creative, solution-oriented, thinking and action on overcoming key barriers.

The Forum is supported by a range of private and institutional partners including: ABB, BYD Group, Danfoss, General Electric, Hyundai Motors Company, McKinsey & Company, Novozymes, Samsung, Siemens, Vestas, Global Green Growth Institute, OECD, The International Energy Agency (IEA), UN Global Compact International Finance Corporation (IFC) and The Climate Policy Initiative.
 
For more information on 3GF please contact the 3GF Secretariat on: 
+45 33 92 00 61 / 3gf@um.dk or visit www.globalgreengrowthforum.com

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