December 15, 2009
While attending COP 15 in Copenhagen, Denmark I was invited to a side trip to see Hamlet’s castle or more correctly the Kronborg Castle that was used by Shakespeare as the site for his Hamlet.I went there in part as a break from climate discussions, side events, display booths and the COP 15 location, the Bella Center.
It was an interesting visit only tens of miles to the north of Copenhagen. I took several photos of the castle, as any tourist would have done. Here are some of them.
I am now home in Colorado and read today on www.Grist.org that CEOs were gathering at the castle to share ideas (I guess) but seems they were there to show their wares and talk. From the article it is not clear if the CEOs were listening to others. Here is an introduction to the article.
“On Saturday night (12 December 2009) Kronborg was the setting for a modern-day royal court, a collection of CEOs and senior executives for several hundred international companies, gathered in the castle’s dance hall for a summit entitled “To Be, or Not to Be? New Leadership for a Sustainable Economy.”
Danish media titan Erik Rasmussen organized the event, with the help of Australian writer/explorer/activist Tim Flannery and others. The idea was to get business leaders talking about how they might lead the world to a low-carbon economy. The setting and theme were meant to remind attendees of the existential import of their task—for many of the world’s people, climate change is a life-and-death issue. “
Read the full article on Grist to determine if the CEOs in the face of climate change chose to be or not to be part of the solution to global warming or continue their “business as usual” to be part of the problem.