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Corporate Leaders Groups

Business leadership for a climate neutral economy

EU Energy Union: businesses call on Heads of State to secure low carbon power

22 September 2015

19–20 March 2015 – Leading European businesses including Acciona, EDF Energy and GlaxoSmithKline have written to Heads of State and Government to call for an EU Energy Union that equally focuses on securing energy supplies and reducing carbon emissions.

Business & Climate Summit, May 20–21, Paris

22 September 2015

The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), through its Corporate Leaders Group, is an official partner of the Business & Climate Summit.

Corporate Leaders Group welcomes reform of EU carbon market

22 September 2015

7 May 2015 – The European Parliament and Council have given the green light to a Commission proposal to bring forward reform of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS).

Joint letter to the Commissioner Arias Cañete

22 September 2015

15 June 2015 – The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group (CLG), EURELECTRIC and IETA call on Commissioner Arias Cañete to move forward with plans to revise the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

EU ETS provides competitive advantage and cost efficiencies for ambitious businesses

22 September 2015

10 July 2015 – Report released by The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group shows ETS has helped companies focus on carbon emissions reduction.

The Corporate Climate Communiqués since 2007

22 September 2015

Since 2007 The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group (CLG) has created Communiqués which set out the business case for an ambitious, robust, effective and equitable UN climate framework and offers a progressive global consensus on the shape of an agreement.

A Vision for a Strong, Sustainable UK Economy

22 September 2015

27 January 2015 – These case studies illustrate that members of The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group have found that action to reduce emissions can deliver growth and benefits to consumers.

We Mean Business: The Climate has Changed

22 September 2015

September 2014 – Climate action was once perceived by many governments and many businesses as about sacrifice. Today, the value proposition is very different.

A Decade of Progress

22 September 2015

27 January 2015 – The first ten years of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group.

10 years of carbon pricing in Europe – A business perspective

22 September 2015

July 2015 – This report, commissioned by The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group, was produced to mark the ten-year anniversary of the EU Emissions Trading System. It is based on a series of interviews with companies covered by this cornerstone climate policy who have made notable progress to reduce their carbon emissions during its lifetime.