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"Climate Change is one of the most complex, multifaceted and serious threats the world faces. The response to this threat is fundamentally linked to pressing concerns of sustainable development and global fairness; of vulnerability and resilience; of economy, poverty reduction and society; and of the world we want to hand down to our children...We cannot go on this way for long... We cannot continue with business as usual. The time has come for decisive action on a global scale"

(UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon 2007)

Combating climate change is increasingly being perceived as an opportunity rather than a burden and a path to a new kind of prosperity as opposed to a brake on profits and employment. I-propeller is ready to help your company to design new services to enter this growing market trend.

• Worldwide investment in sustainable energy more than doubled over a two-year period, from 2004-2006, and continuous to attract strong capital investment at all stages of the financial lifecycle, with US$85 billion forrcast for 2007
• The Stern Report on Climate Change has clearly illustrated that the costs of mitigating climate change today are significantly lower than those we will have to bear in the future if no action is taken. Subsequently, postponing or watering down crucial climate change legislation now will end up costing us more in the long-term.
• A study by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) has calculated that an annual global investment of $170 billion in energy efficiency improvements over the next 13 years, a figure far lower than the size of the current rescue package, would yield up to $900 billion annually by 2020. Following in this vein, raising the average global level of efficiency just for power plants to Spain's level, which has a 46% efficiency level, would alone remove 2.4 Gt of CO2 and save 770 mtoe (million tonnes oil equivalent), or up to 17% of annual global oil demand, thereby significantly reducing fuel costs.
• A survey of companies in six sectors-ranging from mining and energy to food and media-indicates that those with pioneering environmental, social and governance strategies are out-performing the general stock market by 25 per cent. Over 70 per cent out-perform their peers in similar sectors, the Year Book 2008 notes.
• A survey of some 150 companies with CSR strategies in the United States as well as France, Germany and the United Kingdom underlines corporations' growing environmental priorities.
• Cutting greenhouse gas emissions and boosting energy efficiency ranked number one among 54 per cent of those questioned followed by recycling, 52 per cent and waste reduction, 27 per cent.
• A McKinsey survey reveals that 60% of global executives regard climate change as strategically important and a majority consider it important to product development, investment planning and brand management. 34% of executives in China, 37% of those in Europe and 40% of respondents in India report that their companies frequently or always consider climate change in overall strategy. (Mckinsey & Company, 2008: How Companies think about Climate Change: A McKinsey Global Survey).
• Global investment in sustainable energy broke all previous records with $148.4 billion of new money raised in 2007, an increase of 60% over 2006