Climate Advocates look for new business models for sustainability. 

Two Climate Advocates based in Norway Dragos Talvescu and Dina Hestad entered centre stage at the international, two-day Oslo Sustainability Summit 2009. The Summit was held August 31 – September 1, 2009.

Dragos and Dina challenged the established business community to develop new, innovative, environmentally and socially sustainable business models. They also challenged decision-makers all over the world by pushing for a reinvention of the United Nations so as to be better equipped to fight climate change and to promote global development and equality.

Climate Advocates plead for a reinvention of the United Nations.

Oslo Sustainability Summit was organised as a direct response to the current environmental and financial crises and the major shifts in societal values, ways of thinking and modes of behaviour the crises require. The organisers wished to create a forum for innovative thinkers and leaders from all over the world to discuss new ideas in science, culture, governance and business.

This year’s Summit was honoured by participants such as Professor Stephen Schneider from Stanford University, Bill McKibben (award-winning environmentalists, founder of 350.org, and author of The End of Nature), Jahn Muehlfeit (chairman of Microsoft Europe), John Elkington (author of The Triple Bottom Line) and Professor Robyn Eckersley from Melbourne University (author of The Green State).