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The devil is in the detail on EU climate and energy plans, say business leaders – 25 February 2015

12 February 2016

For immediate release, Wednesday 25 February 2015 The devil is in the detail on EU climate and energy plans, say business leaders The success of climate and energy plans released by the European Commission today (Wednesday 25 February) now hangs on how effectively they are implemented, say business leaders. The Prince of...

Blog: Business as usual is dead: How businesses are transcending boundaries to fight climate change

26 January 2016

26 January 2016 – Philippe Joubert, Chair of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group and Senior Adviser at WBCSD, reflects on the outcome of COP21 and calls on businesses to take a leading role in implementing the Paris Agreement on climate change.

L’Appel de Paris / Paris Pledge for Action

16 December 2015

16 December 2015 – Global businesses, investors, cities and regions make Paris Pledge to meet or exceed the ambition set by the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Press release: Business leaders ask for clear long-term emissions goal to be included in Paris climate deal

9 December 2015

Paris, 9 December 2015 – With just 48 hours to go before the end of the COP21 UN climate conference, business organisations working with thousands of corporations and investors urged world leaders to ensure that a clear and specific long-term emissions goal is included in the final Paris agreement.

Press release: Leading built environment businesses commit to work together to deliver ultra low energy buildings

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.

Press release: Paris Climate Change Conference opens with unprecedented call by governments and businesses to end fossil fuel subsidies

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.

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.

Press release: The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group calls on G20 Leaders to fulfil their six-year-old pledge to end fossil fuel subsidies

12 November 2015

13 November 2015 – Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies would not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It would also benefit the wider economy.

Press release: Business leaders urge Finance ministers to step up their efforts to support Paris climate deal – 2 November 2015

30 October 2015

Business leaders urge Finance ministers to step up their efforts to support Paris climate deal CAMBRIDGE, 2 NOVEMBER 2015 — With just one month to go before Heads of States converge in Paris for the opening of the COP21 UN climate conference , 11 international business organisations today called on Finance Ministers to...

News: The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group asks EU to take action to reform fossil fuel subsidies and carbon price

26 October 2015

22 October 2015 – Business leaders from The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group today urged European Environment Ministers to take bold steps to reform the EU Emissions Trading System and phase out fossil fuel subsidies.