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49-669: The Copenhagen Climate Council was founded in 2007 by an independent think tank in Scandinavia, Monday Morning , evolving into sustainability think tank Sustainia headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. The purpose of the Copenhagen Climate Council is to create global awareness of the importance of the UN Climate Summit ( COP15 ) in Copenhagen, December 2009. Leading up to this pivotal UN meeting,

98-638: A Business Roundtable in Beijing . The Climate Community is the official website of the Copenhagen Climate Council. The website is based on Web 2.0 principles. Exclusive news features so far include interviews with U.S. Energy Secretary Steve Chu , UN Climate Chief Yvo de Boer , the Danish Climate minister Connie Hedegaard , IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri , Professor Daniel Kammen , Lars Josefsson, CEO of Vattenfall . The World Business Summit on Climate Change takes place six months prior to

147-543: A 60% greater emotional response to climate crisis than to climate change . In Republicans, the emotional response to climate crisis was three times stronger than that for climate change . According to CBS News , climate crisis "performed well in terms of responses across the political spectrum and elicited the greatest emotional response among independents". The study concluded climate crisis elicited stronger emotional responses than neutral and "worn out" terms like global warming and climate change . Climate crisis

196-552: A Concerted World-Wide Response to the Climate Crisis" (1989) states: "All nations ... will have to cooperate on an unprecedented scale. They will have to make difficult commitments without delay to address this crisis." The words that reporters and anchors use matter. What they call something shapes how millions see it—and influences how nations act. And today, we need to act boldly and quickly. With scientists warning of global catastrophe unless we slash emissions by 2030,

245-501: A crisis". Five years earlier, 23% of U.S. adults considered climate change to be a crisis. As of 2019 , use of crisis terminology in non-binding climate-emergency declarations is regarded as ineffective in making governments "shift into action". Emergency framing may have several disadvantages. Such framing may implicitly prioritize climate change over other important social issues, encouraging competition among activists rather than cooperation. It could also de-emphasize dissent within

294-693: A crisis. Nor can we treat something like a crisis unless we understand the emergency. Greta Thunberg, December 10, 2020 In 2019, the language describing climate appeared to change: the UN Secretary General's address at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit used more emphatic language; Al Gore's campaign The Climate Reality Project , Greenpeace and the Sunrise Movement petitioned news organizations to alter their language; and in May 2019, The Guardian changed its style guide to favor

343-577: A lead partner in Covering Climate Now , an initiative of news organizations Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation that was founded in 2019 to address the need for stronger climate coverage. In May 2019, The Climate Reality Project promoted an open petition of news organizations to use climate crisis instead of climate change and global warming . The NGO said: "it's time to abandon both terms in culture". In June 2019, Spanish news agency EFE announced its preferred phrase

392-598: A neuroscientific study involving 120 U.S. people who were equally divided into supporters of the Republican Party , the Democratic Party and independents. The study involved electroencephalography (EEG) and galvanic skin response (GSR) measurements. Responses to the terms climate crisis , environmental destruction , environmental collapse , weather destabilization , global warming and climate change were measured. The study found Democrats had

441-553: A problem that seems overwhelming, and withdrawal. There could also be a "crisis fatigue" in which urgency to respond to threats loses its appeal over time. Crisis terminology could lose audiences if meaningful policies to address the emergency are not enacted. According to researchers Susan C. Moser and Lisa Dilling of University of Colorado , appeals to fear usually do not create sustained, constructive engagement; they noted psychologists consider human responses to danger— fight, flight or freeze —can be maladaptive if they do not reduce

490-425: A state of planetary emergency". They defined emergency as a product of risk and urgency, factors they said are "acute". Previous research had shown individual tipping points could be exceeded with a 1–2 °C (1.8–3.6 °F) of global temperature increase; warming has already exceeded 1 °C (1.8 °F). A global cascade of tipping points is possible with greater warming. In the context of climate change,

539-416: A successful transition to a low-carbon economy . Conference participants will present and debate relevant policy and business models that can support technology innovation in carbon emissions reduction. In an effort to create models of the relationships in business, policy, and technology to help guide innovative and rational decision making at the 2009 UN Summit, a suite of tools was developed, better known as

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588-633: A treaty that can be supported by global business. By promoting and demonstrating innovative, positive, and meaningful business leadership and ideas, the Copenhagen Climate Council aims to demonstrate that achieving an effective global climate treaty is not only possible, but necessary. The strategy is built upon the following principles: Published in November 2007, on the eve of the UN COP13 Climate Change Conference in Bali –

637-724: Is "inherently episodic"—crises are "either solved or they pass"—or as a temporary state before a return to normalcy that is not possible. Arnold Schwarzenegger , organizer of the Austrian World Summit for climate action , said people are not motivated by the term climate change ; according to Schwarzenegger, focusing on the word pollution might evoke be a more-direct and negative connotation. A 2023 U.S. survey found no evidence that climate crisis or climate emergency —terms less familiar to those surveyed—elicit more perceived urgency than climate change or global warming . In 2019, an advertising consulting agency conducted

686-622: Is causing or threatening to cause on our planet, especially where these effects have a direct impact on humanity". Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has used crisis terminology since the 1980s; the Climate Crisis Coalition , which was formed in 2004, formalized the term climate crisis . A 1990 report by the American University International Law Review includes legal texts that use the word crisis . "The Cairo Compact: Toward

735-420: Is needed to avoid untold suffering due to the climate crisis". Until the mid 2010s, the scientific community had been using neutral, constrained language when discussing climate change. Advocacy groups, politicians and media have traditionally been using more-powerful language than that used by climate scientists. From around 2014, a shift in scientists' language connoted an increased sense of urgency. Use of

784-469: Is only "effective for those already concerned about climate change, but complacent regarding solutions". She added it "is not yet effective" for those who perceive climate activists "to be alarmist Chicken Littles", and that "it would further reinforce their pre-conceived—and incorrect—notions". According to Nick Reimer, journalists in Germany say the word crisis may be misunderstood to mean climate change

833-437: Is used by those who "believe it evokes the gravity of the threats the planet faces from continued greenhouse gas emissions and can help spur the kind of political willpower that has long been missing from climate advocacy". They believe, much as global warming provoked more emotional engagement and support for action than climate change , calling climate change a crisis could have an even stronger effect. A study has shown

882-528: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) changed its language guide to say: "Climate crisis and climate emergency are OK in some cases as synonyms for 'climate change'. But they're not always the best choice ... For example, 'climate crisis' could carry a whiff of advocacy in certain political coverage". Journalism professor Sean Holman does not agree with this and said in an interview: It's about being accurate in terms of

931-593: The Climate Navigator . On December 8, 2008, the Copenhagen Climate Council hosted an official side event at the UN COP14 Summit on Climate Change in Poznań , Poland from December 1–10, 2008. The theme was Business Requirements to a Post-2012 Climate Treaty . At the event, Council representatives from business and science presented their key principles for a new treaty. The thoughts presented at

980-549: The ' World Business Summit on Climate Change' ; launching the ' Thought Leadership Series' ; launching the ' Climate LIFE' film, book, and digital exhibition; co-hosting with CITRIS the scientific conference ' Unlocking the Climate Code: Innovation in Climate and Energy' ; and the Poznań side event ' Business Requirements of a Post-2012 Climate Treaty' . Recently, the Copenhagen Climate Council has also hosted

1029-414: The Copenhagen Climate Council works on presenting innovative yet achievable solutions to climate change, as well as assess what is required to make a new global treaty effective. The council will seek to promote constructive dialogue between government and business, so that when the world's political leaders and negotiators meet in Copenhagen, they will do so armed with the very best arguments for establishing

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1078-571: The Danish government, host of COP15, and to world leaders negotiating the terms of the next international climate treaty. On June 19, 2008, Copenhagen Climate Council and Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) co-hosted an energy conference named Unlocking the Climate Code: Innovation in Climate and Energy . The aim of the conference was to identify the critical research and development achievements necessary for

1127-603: The UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, December 2009. To achieve this end, the Copenhagen Climate Council provides a Web 2.0 climate website – ' The Climate Community' – now evolved into the Global Opportunity Explorer. funded by UNGC , DNVGL and Sustainia - which features latest climate news, intelligence, solutions and points of view, an online climate community, as well as the rest of the Copenhagen Climate Council activities, such as

1176-585: The Virgin Group. At the summit, chief executives will discuss how business can help solve the climate crisis through innovative business models, new partnerships and the development of low carbon technologies. They will send a message to the negotiating governments on how to remove barriers and create incentives for implementation of new solutions in a post-Kyoto. The results of the World Business Summit on Climate Change will be presented to

1225-400: The climate-change movement. Emergency framing may suggest a need for solutions by government, which provides less-reliable long-term commitment than does popular mobilization, and which may be perceived as being "imposed on a reluctant population". Without immediate dramatic effects of climate change, emergency framing may be counterproductive by causing disbelief, disempowerment in the face of

1274-523: The danger. According to Sander van der Linden , director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab, fear is a "paralyzing emotion". He favors climate crisis over other terms because it conveys a sense of both urgency and optimism, and not a sense of doom. Van der Linden said: "people know that crises can be avoided and that they can be resolved". Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe said in early 2019 crisis framing

1323-687: The event will feed into the development of the final recommendations delivered by international business leaders at the World Business Summit on Climate Change , to be held in Copenhagen in May, 2009. The speakers delivered their views on what they would toast to in Copenhagen. They included: Copenhagen Climate Council Chairman Tim Flannery ; Robert Purves from World Wildlife Fund International; Jerry Stokes , president of Suntech Europe; Dr. Zhengrong Shi , founder and CEO of Suntech; Steve Harper of Intel ; Susanne Stormer from Novo Nordisk ; Michael Zarin of Vestas; and Thomas Becker ,

1372-504: The instigation night of the Bali Road Map . The document outlines what the council believes is required to tackle climate change and how this can be achieved through a new global treaty. The Manifesto articulates a clear goal for the maximum level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by 2050. The document will serve as input at the World Business Summit on Climate Change , outlining key elements for further discussion and inclusion in

1421-683: The lead climate negotiator for the Danish government that will host the UN COP15 climate summit in December, 2009. The session was moderated by Nick Rowley , strategic director at Copenhagen Climate Council. On November 11, 2008, the Copenhagen Climate Council hosted a roundtable meeting with some of the most prominent business leaders in China and the Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard . The Copenhagen Climate Council

1470-480: The name of which was regarded as "a reminder of how much energy politics have changed in the last decade". The original House climate committee had been called the "Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming" in 2007. It was abolished in 2011 when Republicans regained control of the House. The advocacy group Public Citizen reported that in 2018, less than 10% of articles in top-50 U.S. newspapers used

1519-737: The naming of a phenomenon and the way it is framed "has a tremendous effect on how audiences come to perceive that phenomenon" and "can have a profound impact on the audience's reaction". Climate change, and its real and hypothetical effects , are usually described in scientific-and-practitioner literature in terms of climate risks . The many related terms other than climate crisis include: In addition to climate crisis , other terms have been investigated for their effects upon audiences, including global warming , climate change , climatic disruption , environmental destruction , weather destabilization and environmental collapse . In 2022, The New York Times journalist Amanda Hess said "end of

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1568-429: The newspaper's editors to adopt terms such as climate emergency or climate crisis . This kind of public pressure led New York City Council to make New York the largest city in the world to formally adopt a climate emergency declaration . In November 2019, the website Oxford Dictionaries named climate crisis Word of the year for 2019. The term was chosen because it matches the "ethos, mood, or preoccupations of

1617-643: The passing year". In 2021, the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat created a free variable font called Climate Crisis that has eight weights that correlate with Arctic sea ice decline , visualizing historical changes in ice melt. The newspaper's art director said the font both evokes the aesthetics of environmentalism and is a data visualization graphic. In updates to the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity of 2021 and 2022 , scientists used

1666-654: The pivotal UN climate change conference ( COP15 ) in Copenhagen, December 2009. The summit brings together business chief executives with the world's top scientists, economists, civil society, media leaders, government representatives and other leading thinkers to put forward recommendations for the next international framework on climate change to replace the Kyoto Protocol after 2012. Among the prominent participants so far are Al Gore , chairman of Generation Investment Management; Anders Fogh Rasmussen , Prime Minister of Denmark; and Sir Richard Branson , founder and CEO of

1715-482: The recommendations to be delivered to the UN Summit. Copenhagen Climate Council comprises 30 global climate leaders representing business , science , and public policy from all parts of the world. The Councilors to the Copenhagen Climate Council are: The central aim of the Copenhagen Climate Council is to create global awareness to the urgency of reaching a global agreement on how to tackle climate change at

1764-425: The scope of the problem that we are facing. And in the media we, generally speaking, don't have any hesitation about naming a crisis when it is a crisis. Look at the opioid epidemic [in the U.S.], for example. We call it an epidemic because it is one. So why are we hesitant about saying the climate crisis is a crisis? In June 2019, climate activists demonstrated outside the offices of The New York Times ; they urged

1813-400: The stakes have never been higher, and the role of news media never more critical. We are urging you to call the dangerous overheating of our planet, and the lack of action to stop it, what it is—a crisis––and to cover it like one . Public Citizen open letter June 6, 2019 In the late 2010s, the phrase climate crisis emerged "as a crucial piece of the climate hawk lexicon", and

1862-463: The term climate crisis invokes a strong emotional response by conveying a sense of urgency. However, some caution this response may be counter-productive and may cause a backlash due to perceptions of alarmist exaggeration. In the scientific journal BioScience , a January 2020 article that was endorsed by over 11,000 scientists states: "the climate crisis has arrived" and that an "immense increase of scale in endeavors to conserve our biosphere

1911-464: The term in U.S. media tripled to 150. Likewise, the Sierra Club , the Sunrise Movement , Greenpeace , and other environmental and progressive organizations joined in a June 6, 2019 Public Citizen letter to news organizations urging the news organizations to call climate change and human inaction "what it is–a crisis–and to cover it like one". We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as

1960-613: The terms climate crisis and climate emergency ; the title of the publications is "World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency". They said: "we need short, frequent, and easily accessible updates on the climate emergency". In September 2019, Bloomberg journalist Emma Vickers said crisis terminology may be "showing results", citing a 2019 poll by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation saying 38% of U.S. adults termed climate change "a crisis" while an equal number called it "a major problem but not

2009-419: The terms crisis or emergency in the context of climate change. In the same year, 3.5% of national television news segments in the U.S. referred to climate change as a crisis or an emergency (50 of 1,400). In 2019, Public Citizen launched a campaign called "Call it a Climate Crisis"; it urged major media organizations to adopt the term climate crisis . In the first four months of 2019, the number of uses of

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2058-470: The terms urgency , climate crisis and climate emergency in scientific publications and in mass media has grown. Scientists have called for more-extensive action and transformational climate-change adaptation that focuses on large-scale change in systems. In 2020, a group of over 11,000 scientists said in a paper in BioScience describing global warming as a climate emergency or climate crisis

2107-420: The terms "climate emergency, crisis or breakdown" and "global heating". Editor-in-Chief Katharine Viner said: "We want to ensure that we are being scientifically precise, while also communicating clearly with readers on this very important issue. The phrase 'climate change', for example, sounds rather passive and gentle when what scientists are talking about is a catastrophe for humanity." The Guardian became

2156-488: The word crisis is used to denote "a crucial or decisive point or situation that could lead to a tipping point". It is a situation with an "unprecedented circumstance". A similar definition states in this context, crisis means "a turning point or a condition of instability or danger" and implies "action needs to be taken now or else the consequences will be disastrous". Another definition defines climate crisis as "the various negative effects that unmitigated climate change

2205-470: Was " crisis climática ". In November 2019, Hindustan Times also adopted the term because climate change "does not correctly reflect the enormity of the existential threat". The Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza also uses the term climate crisis rather than climate change ; one of its editors described climate change as one of the most-important topics the paper has ever covered. Also in June 2019,

2254-618: Was adopted by the Green New Deal , The Guardian , Greta Thunberg , and U.S. Democratic political candidates such as Kamala Harris . At the same time, it came into more-popular use following a series of warnings from climate scientists and newly-energized activists. In the U.S. in late 2018, the United States House of Representatives established the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis ,

2303-742: Was appropriate. The scientists stated an "immense increase of scale in endeavor" is needed to conserve the biosphere . They warned about "profoundly troubling signs", which may have many indirect effects such as large-scale human migration and food insecurity ; these signs include increases in dairy and meat production , fossil fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation , activities that are all concurrent with upward trends in climate-change effects such as rising global temperatures , global ice melt and extreme weather. In 2019, scientists published an article in Nature saying evidence from climate tipping points alone suggests "we are in

2352-407: Was found to encourage a sense of urgency, though not a strong-enough response to cause cognitive dissonance that would cause people to generate counterarguments. Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning. The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived. — António Guterres , U.N. Secretary-General 27 July 2023 Research has shown

2401-594: Was founded in 2007. UN">UN The requested page title contains unsupported characters : ">". Return to Main Page . Climate crisis Climate crisis is a term that is used to describe global warming and climate change and their effects . This term and the term climate emergency have been used to emphasize the threat of global warming to Earth 's natural environment and to humans, and to urge aggressive climate change mitigation and transformational adaptation . The term climate crisis

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