(Source: MARKETWIRE)Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that it has established the Global Climate Change Meeting Platform (GCCMP), a powerful network of Cisco TelePresence(TM) and conferencing technologies that will extend the reach of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15). The GCCMP will also support future climate change discussions by allowing remote delegates and peers to join those discussions in a more environmentally sustainable, efficient and inclusive manner.

The GCCMP, which includes Cisco TelePresence and audio and Web conferencing services, is designed to help COP15 delegates and stakeholder groups around the world conduct discussions on the issue of climate change without the time, monetary and carbon costs associated with travel. Initially, the GCCMP will connect Copenhagen's Bella Center conference venue with a number of government, U.N. and Cisco locations around the world over a private Internet Protocol (IP) network. The GCCMP will enable climate negotiators and support teams to conduct meetings and negotiations with peers, experts, stakeholders and media irrespective of their location before, during and after COP15.

Earlier this year, Cisco was chosen by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark as the official technology partner of COP15, which takes place in the Danish capital between Dec. 7 and 18. The Conference of the Parties (COP) is an annual gathering of the members of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change to assess progress in dealing with the issue of climate change. The objective of COP15 is to set a global agreement among all of the countries of the world in reducing greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activities.

Facts/Highlights:

--  Cisco's Global Climate Change Meeting Platform will enable live video,
audio and Web conferencing facilities to the 12,000-15,000 delegates from
more than 192 countries, plus some 3,000-4,000 media representatives from
around the world, at COP15.
--  The COP15 main conference facility, the Bella Center in Copenhagen,
Denmark, will feature four Cisco TelePresence rooms, specially designed to
make local and remote meeting participants feel as if they are in the same
room. The rooms will be connected to 77 Cisco TelePresence rooms, the
Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy, and select Danish embassies around
the world at no cost to COP15 participants.