Connie Hedegaard, the outgoing European commission climate chief, also at the summit, said: "Some businesses are really doing a lot and I applaud them as much as I can.
The legislation in question directs a committee in the Governor's office to commission the climate study.
Though the academy had commissioned annual climate surveys that gauged incidents and attitudes toward sexual assault, those never reached General Dallager.
The government also agreed to carbon emissions reduction targets of 3% per year; to set up a commission on climate change; and to set more energy efficient standards for new buildings.
Instead, she says she was left embarrassed and angered by the lack of invitation to perform her song, a duet with J Ralph commissioned for climate change documentary Racing Extinction.
Sources say that, within the commission, the industry push was aided by architects of the ETS, such as Jos Delbeke, the director-general of the commission's climate department, who feared overlapping climate policies undermining the EU's troubled carbon market.
The event's organisers, founders of Norway's 15-year-old (highly successful) Quart Festival, wanted to see whether it was possible to make a festival truly green, and got together with Norwegian environmental organisation the Bellona Foundation (whose founder is the co-chair of the EU commission on climate change) and the UN Environment Programme in Arendal, on Norway's south coast, to that end.
In particular, it suggested that Obama should push for new national preparedness and infrastructure renewal plans, create a national commission on climate preparedness, and support improvements to weather and climate forecasting.
Sharan Burrow is a member of the Global commission on Climate and the Economy.
