Stepping into the future: Vestas windmill 
Raising the bar: Dr Pachauri 
My vehicle of choice for dealing with opposition to climate action 
Lise Kingo 
Final session: Blood, Rogers, Gowing, Tickell 
Blood and water: Shai Agassi waters David Blood 
Media@work 
Every which way: artwork at airport (detail) 
Airborne
After a pretty muddled start, with panels of CEOs allowed to meander on about corporate citizenship, the World Business Summit on Climate Change finally took off with a speech by Cate Blanchett and, the next morning, a panel moderated by the BBC’s Nik Gowing, who took the gloves off and really got to work on the agenda set at the beginning of the event by Al Gore and Rajendra Pachauri. Video coverage can be found here.
Really enjoyed meeting Tim Flannery – and running a forestry session with him. Wonderful dinners with Novo Nordisk, including an intimate session with Al Gore, and at the Danish National Gallery, where I caught up with Nicky Gavron of the London Assembly, among others.
The final statement, dubbed The Copenhagen Call, was somewhat stronger than some of the sessions had led me to expect – one virtue of such things being drafted in parallel to such events. It proposes six action steps.
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