On the subject of green, during the “Copenhagen Green Week” this October, Denmark convened Global Leaders to help spur green growth, when Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Ministers from Kenya, Ethiopia, Mexico, South Korea, South Africa, and Turkey and 200 global leaders from business and finance met at the inaugural Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) in the Danish capital.

The aim of the prominent 3GF conference held in "Copenhagen - Capital of Sustainable Meetings" was to establish key recommendations for realizing long-term green growth, and the event was held at the historic Moltkes Palæ (Moltkes’ Palace) in downtown Copenhagen. 

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon opened the inaugural Global Green Growth Forum with a focus on public private partnerships and recommending 3GF as a great platform for this to take place:

“The United nations is ready to work with governments, businesses and investors to spur green growth”, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon said.

Denmark’s new Prime Minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, then spoke about the need to develop new ways of making progress and the need for a platform to develop new public-private partnerships:

“We need change. We need innovation. We need renewed cooperation, across nations and across public and private sectors”.

After the opening speeches, delegates were invited to participate in workshop sessions at Moltkes Palæ covering renewable energy, energy efficiency, finance, and clean transportation for global green growth. 
 
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 Dec. 2011. 

More about sustainable meetings in Copenhagen/Denmark at: www.visitdenmark.com/meetings and www.meetincopenhagen.com
 
Pictures from 3GF in Copenhagen available at: http://bit.ly/ostuOV  

Twitter about 3GF in Copenhagen at: http://twitter.com/#!/3_GF  

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s full speech at the 3GF conference in Copenhagen available at: http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp 
 
Prime Minister HelleThorning-Schmidt’s full speech at the 3GF conference in Copenhagen at: http://www.stm.dk/Index/mainstart.asp/_p_13525.html