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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.

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.

11 December 2020 – On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement EU leaders have agreed a 2030 emissions cut of at least 55%, delivering a significant step forward on climate action. This welcome move comes after the European Corporate Leaders Group coordinated a letter of 200 signatories from the business and finance sectors calling for EU ambition on its near-term emissions pledge to be raised.

4 December 2020 – Eliot Whittington presents a new analysis with Cambridge Econometrics that suggests the government's plan to accelerate the Green Industrial Revolution will not yet put the country on track to meet its net zero goals.