News: Over 300 signatures on business and investor open letter calling for stronger US climate action
April 2021 - Coordinated by the We Mean Business Coalition and Ceres, and supported by the Corporate Leaders Groups, a new business and investor letter supports a 2030 climate target for the US of cutting GHG emissions by at least 50 per cent compared to the 2005 levels.
Ball Corporation joins CLG Europe and The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group
March 2021 - Ball Corporation, a leading provider of aluminium packaging for beverage, personal care and household products customers, as well as aerospace and other technologies, is the latest business to join as a full member of both CLG Europe and The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group (CLG), two cross-sectoral business leadership groups convened across the EU and the UK in support of a climate neutral economy.
Blog: Recovery and Industrial Policy: Getting the EU’s plans in order for a climate and competitive advantage
17 March 2021 - Ahead of the expected mid-April revision to the EU Industrial Strategy, Chris Carroll, Programme Manager at the European Corporate Leaders Group, writes about the need to align EU Recovery Plan spending with longer-term industrial policy.
CLG Europe statement on the Climate Law trilogue negotiations: Sectoral pathways and independent scientific body
23 February 2021 – Ahead of the Climate Law trilogue in February 2021, CLG published a position statement on the importance of setting up an independent scientific body and sectoral pathways to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 and the goals of the Paris Agreement.
CLG Europe open letter to the Competitiveness Council underlines support for green recovery and industrial policy aligned with EU climate targets
18 February 2021 – CLG Europe Director Eliot Whittington sent a letter to the Ministers of the Competitiveness Council including a number of recommendations to better ensure the Recovery and Resilience Plans and the EU industrial policy are aligned with EU climate targets and the Green Deal growth strategy.
Director of the Corporate Leaders Groups joins distinguished leaders and peers from around the globe in signing a letter urging President Joe Biden to take bold climate action
25 January 2021 – Eliot Whittington, Director of the Corporate Leaders Groups, has joined 153 leaders from across the world in signing a letter urging US President Joe Biden to be the President “who will lead humanity off the cliff-edge” of the climate crisis and who will take bold climate action to build back better. Read the letter, which appeared in the New York Times on 24 January, 2021, below.