WCS 2011 Media Report

Media Report

For the World Climate Summit 2011, December 3-4, Southern Sun Elangeni, Durban, South Africa.

Copyright 2012 World Climate ltd. World Climate Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales No. 07186968

The World Climate Summit organizers would like to recognize and thank all the sponsors of the World Climate Summit 2011.


Media Partners

The 2011 World Climate Summit had a strong global media collaboration with several green media

leaders including


Media Presence

More than 120 global and national journalist covered the World Climate Summit

Global 31%

National 54%

Industry 15%

Media breakdown


BBC Bloomberg

Business Day (ZA) Business Report

Climatewire CNBC CNN

CNN International Daily Sun

Danish Radio Dow Jones

Egyptian Gazette Newspaper

energyNOW! ETV

Financial Times (US) Focus Magazin Ghana News

Agency Good Morning

Africa GreenBiz

Green Channel Green TV

Jeune Afrique (FR) L' economiste

Metro FM (ZA) Moneyweb

New York Times Politiken

Radio Mozambique Reuters News

Agency Simply Green

Magazine Spiegel (Germany)

Standard Paper (Kenia)

Sunday Times Sunday Tribune (ZA)

The Economist TheGreenInterview.

com The Guardian UK The Malta Business

Weekly Thompson Reuters UK Daily Telegraph

Top 40 media

Media Support World Climate Summit provided a dedicated media centre, open to journalists to use as an interview and report hub

Top Countries Media

Argentina Australia

Brazil Canada

Egypt France

Germany Ghana

India Kenia

Nigeria, South Africa

Tanzania Tunisia

UK US

Africa 52%

Americas 20%

Europe 22%

Asia 6%

Media presence per geography


Media Coverage


All Africa AP Planner Bloomberg

Business Live Businre

Calgary Herald China Business News

China Economic Review Click Green

Daily Dispatch De Telegraaf

DGAP Corporate News Dow Jones Global Edmonton Journal

EE News Energias Renovables

ENP Newswire Financial Times US Folha de São Paulo

Global Warming Focus Going Green.com

Greenbiz.com Greenwire News Agency

Hub Culture

Huffington Post Impact Economy

India Energy News IOL

Money Control Montreal Gazette

National Post News 24

News Press Ottawa Citizen

Pakistan Business News Pakistan Observer

Pakistan Press International Service PNA (Philippines News Agency) Professional Services Close-Up

Regina Leader Post Saskatoon Star Phoenix Stuttgarter Nachrichten

Telecommunications Weekly The Global Journal

The Herald The Nation (Pakistan)

The Star United News of Bangladesh Limited

Vancouver Sun Victoria Times Colonist Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua's China Economic Information Service

Coverage Title

The World Climate Summit received wide spread coverage across targeted global, national, online and broadcast titles

Media Coverage


From Green Leaders interviews...


"It is important for business to partner with government, civil society and NGOs to be a part of the solution, so being here (WCS) is not only having a voice, but is also coming and making real commitments and demonstrating progress“ __________________________________ “(WCS) provides a plattform for the global business community to interact with representatives of the governmnets and of civil society and find ways in which we can work together to advance an agenda of action in terms of mitigating climate change" "I attach alot of importance to plattforms such as the one provided by the WCS, where people can come together, broaden understanding with respect to the issues, look and discuss at what best examples in class are [...] and the even put together alliances, joint ventures, task forces that tackle these challenges in a better way“

Beatriz Perez / The Coca-Cola Company

Pres. Jose Figueres

Media Coverage


...To On site coverage and leading blogs


Global Leaders World Climate Summit was attended by a number of global leaders from both business and governments

•  President Dr. Zuma

•  Connie Hedegaard

•  Mary Robinson

•  Christina Figueres

•  Ute Menikheim

•  President Jose Figueres

•  Philippe Joubert

•  Caio Koch- Weser

•  Juan Costa Climent


Media Announcements During the World Climate summit a number of companies announced several new initiatives to combat climate change and accelerate the global green economy. • Siemens

• Philips Calls for rapid worldwide

• BMW

• Dow Chemical

• The Global Adaptation Institute

• Conservation International


WCS Messaging Channels

The World Climate Summit had an extensive online outreach through multiple online platforms:

•  Twitter; during the summit more than 350 tweets

associated to WGS

•  Youtube; more than 20 videos from the summit

•  Online community; +25 e-profile, announcement and

newsletter send outs to community of +4000 people


Multiple Media Platforms The Gigaton Awards : Many businesses today measure their emissions, energy consumption, and other sustainability metrics. Yet they still lack context regarding what's meaningful in terms of change and what's achievable. The Gigaton Awards aim to provide inspiration for business to progress to the billion ton carbon reduction per sector needed to help stabilize the climate - and show cutting edge initiatives across the global corporate community. The Winners 2011:

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