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Around 60 major players in the international wind energy industry have banded together to form a fund called the Global Wind Initiative (GWI), whose aim is to put wind energy at the top of the agenda when the next UN Climate Change Conference, COP16, takes place in Mexico in December 2010. According to reporting in professional journal Ingeniøren (The Engineer), the spur to form GWI was the disappointment felt by the wind energy industry with COP15 held last December in Copenhagen. Former MD of Danish wind energy solution company Skykon, Jesper Øhlenschlæger, commented: "The climate conference in Copenhagen was a disappointment. More could have been achieved if the industry had played an active role rather than being a spectator. GWI doesn't want to see yet another opportunity at COP16 go to waste. We need to see action, if wind energy is to become one of the solutions to the world's energy needs, and to climate change."

Around 60 major players in the international wind energy industry have banded together to form a fund called the Global Wind Initiative (GWI), whose aim is to put wind energy at the top of the agenda when the next UN Climate Change Conference, COP16, takes place in Mexico in December 2010. According to reporting in professional journal Ingeniøren (The Engineer), the spur to form GWI was the disappointment felt by the wind energy industry with COP15 held last December in Copenhagen. Former MD of Danish wind energy solution company Skykon, Jesper Øhlenschlæger, commented: "The climate conference in Copenhagen was a disappointment. More could have been achieved if the industry had played an active role rather than being a spectator. GWI doesn't want to see yet another opportunity at COP16 go to waste. We need to see action, if wind energy is to become one of the solutions to the world's energy needs, and to climate change."