Sustainia
organization
Sustainia, formerly the Copenhagen Climate Council, is a global collaboration between international business and science based in Copenhagen. It was founded in 2007 and is currently directed by Rasmus Schjødt Larsen.
History
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 Council was initially formed to create global awareness of the importance of the Copenhagen climate summit, and to ensure technical and public support and assistance to global decision makers when agreeing on a new climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol from 1997.
The council's manifesto was published in November 2007, on the eve of the 2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The document outlined 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 the recommendations to be delivered to the UN Summit.
Activities and projects
The Copenhagen Climate Council provides a Web 2.0 climate website, The Climate Community, which has since evolved into the Global Opportunity Explorer. The website is funded by UNGC, DNVGL and Sustainia.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5168461. VIAF identifies the subject as 140624475. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007, 1997 and 2050.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sustainia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.