Other Initiatives
Copenhagen Consensus Center
The Copenhagen Consensus Center analyzes the world's greatest challenges and identifies cost efficient solutions to meeting these challenges. The Center works with multilateral organizations, governments and other entities concerned with mitigating the consequences of the challenges which the world is facing.
With the process of prioritization, the center aims to establish a framework in which solutions to problems are prioritized according to efficiency based upon economic and scientific analysis of distinct subjects.
The Copenhagen Consensus (CC) approach is based on the CC process, which is based on the simple idea that resources should be spent where they do most good. The CC approach revolves around carrying out cost-benefit analyses of solutions to the World's major challenges in order to evaluate the potential of each solution. The overall aim with the different projects organized by Copenhagen Consensus Center is to:
- Improve the foundation for prioritizing between limited resources
- Bring about specific policy recommendations based upon extensive economic analyses by top level economic experts at Nobel Laureate level and specialists within each problem
- Create debate in the national and international media
- Lobby policy makers to base their prioritization on facts
Clean Cargo Working Group
The Clean Cargo Working Group is a working group of the nonprofit business association Business for Social Responsibility working to promote sustainable product transportation. Clean Cargo historically focused on ocean freight, but has extended its focus to include international transportation through all modes of transport and social aspects of international transport.
Members are leading multinational manufacturers and retailers (shippers), carriers and freight forwarders (carriers). Shippers increasingly include environmental performance of product transport into their corporate footprint, environmental management systems and supplier codes of conduct. Carriers realized their responsibilities as well as opportunities to improve environmental performance of freight transport as an industry. Offering responsible transportation becomes a competitive advantage.
The Clean Cargo Working Group develops voluntary environmental management guidelines and metrics to help evaluate and improve the performance of freight transport. The aim is to integrate product transport into corporate supply chain management.
The Clean Cargo Working Group is an unprecedented partnership that allow cross-industry dialogue and networking. The cooperative and multi-industrial approach enables significant advances in environmental stewardship and sustainability in an otherwise very competitive market.


