While kids debate whether the juice in their lunchbox is named popper, juice box, prima, fruit box or Tetra juice, Tetra Pak is quietly greening their direction. Tetra Pak is a major packaging company that joined Climate Savers in 2005 to help it with its climate change strategy. The solution was a big focus on environmental activities towards energy efficiency, providing a new found bottom line relevance for the environment amongst its staff.

The communications industry is a high carbon polluter, but you would never suspect it. Nokia Siemens Networks is a company committed to reducing their carbon footprint, and have used their Flexi Base Station technology to dramatically reduce the emissions of their products to allow a more environmentally sustainable spread of communications throughout the world.

With the vast majority of WWF Climate Savers cases talking about energy efficiency, this example by Hewlett Packard illustrates the great results that can be achieved from reduced air travel. HP has reduced air travel by 43%, dropping CO2 emissions by 104,000 tons of CO2 equivalent between October 2007 and September 2009. It’s done so with its Halo Video Collaboration Studio technology, which simulates the face-to-face meeting.

As a case writer for IMD Business School, I was asked to write two cases for the WWF Climate Savers to present at COP-15, who would use them to highlight how climate change strategies make business sense. Sagawa is taking a proudly long-term approach to climate change mitigation by moving its truck and vehicle fleet towards diesel powered to compressed natural gas. It is convinced there is business sense in adapting to climate change. It knows profit and results will arise.

Elopak is one of Norway’s largest companies, a leader in liquid food packaging. It partnered with WWF Climate Savers very recently, in March 2009, and has already locked in environmental management practices in such a way that there’s “no turning back”. It is a great example for businesses looking to practically understand what it can do at the start of its climate change strategy.

The Savoy Hotel in London is 120 years old. Back then, construction, architectural and design features were not considerate of energy efficiency or environmental management. In 2007, Fairmont Hotels closed the world famous luxury hotel and embarked on an ambitious program to diversify the energy sources and increase energy efficiency. Based on a case study by IMD Business School and WWF Climate Savers.

Johnson & Johnson, global leaders in consumer health care and pharmaceuticals, joined WWF Climate Savers way back in 1999. As one of the founding partners, Johnson & Johnson are a true leader in climate change strategies in the corporate world. This is about as good as it gets for corporate environmental management, as Johnson & Johnson hit its emissions reduction target 5 years early. It used a capital relief funding program for CO2 reduction, which enabled the start up of 80 climate change projects in just 5 years.

Copenhagen is a city obsessed with climate change. From before you even land at CPH, you can see a wind farm that provides 3% of the power to run the city. From the airport, to the metro, to the central Copenhagen public squares, to the Bella Center itself, home of the COP15, it is clear that this city is breathing efficiency.