2 December 2015
Paris, 3 December 2015 – 16 leading European companies from across the built environment have taken a new energy efficiency commitment today for the buildings supply chain, to help drive delivery of ‘nearly zero energy buildings’ (nZEB) for new build by 2020, and refurbished buildings by 2030.
2 December 2015
Very promising signals were sent during the first days of COP21, but much more needs to be done to reach a global climate deal, explains Eliot Whittington, Deputy Director, The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group.
News: COP21 opens with a message from HRH The Prince of Wales
30 November 2015
30 November 2015 – COP21 international climate talks in Paris opened this morning with speeches from outgoing COP20 President and Peruvian Minister of the Environment Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, this year’s COP21 President, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, and Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
29 November 2015
Paris, 30 November 2015 – An unprecedented coalition of close to 40 governments, hundreds of businesses and influential international organisations has called today for accelerated action to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, a move that would help bridge the gap to keep global temperature rise below 2°C.
In the news: COP21 expectations (Eurometaux)
26 November 2015
26 November 2015 – In an interview with EuroMetaux, the voice of the European metals industry, our Director Sandrine Dixson-Declève explains what the business community expects from COP21.
Report: The business brief: Shaping a catalytic Paris Agreement
26 November 2015
26 November 2015 – A new We Mean Business report sets out 8 asks for COP21 to turn the Paris agreement from a diplomatic settlement into a catalytic instrument for business leadership.
Event: Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform – The missing piece of the climate change puzzle
23 November 2015
On 30 November 2015, the Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform and The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group join forces to handover the Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Communiqué on the opening day of COP21, in the presence of Heads of Governments and business leaders.
Events: The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group at COP21
23 November 2015
30 November–12 December 2015: We’ll be supporting a strong climate agreement in Paris throughout a series of events during the two weeks of COP21.
Comment by Eliot Whittington on Amber Rudd’s energy policy announcements
18 November 2015
18 November 2015 – The UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has set a clear direction of travel towards decarbonisation, but more is needed on energy efficiency, says our Deputy Director.
State of the EU Energy Union: How to make it work?
18 November 2015
Brussels, 18 November – Last year, the European Commission launched the Energy Union as one of its 10 strategic priorities. The European Commission’s Vice President Šefčovič recently completed an Energy Union tour of all 28 EU Member States and today he launched his ‘’State of the Energy Union’’ communication . To mark...
