One of the main roles of the Corporate Leaders Group is to develop and document insights from the business community that can help support stronger climate action. These outputs underpin many of the key milestones achieved by the CLG over time.The Corporate Leaders Groups' work covers a range of topics, and the current priority areas are highlighted below. Further themes and categories can be found in the right-hand column. |
Key themes
Aiming for zero |
Energy |
Industrial strategy |
Low carbon buildings |
Transport and mobility |
Just transition and green recovery |
Latest thought leadership
1 August 2017
29 March 2017 – The discussion was facilitated at a Parliamentary event bringing together business and Government, co-hosted by the Chair of the BEIS Select Committee Iain Wright MP, fellow Committee member Chris White MP and Jill Duggan, Director, CLG.
EU ETS provides competitive advantage and cost efficiencies for ambitious businesses
1 August 2017
10 July 2015 – Report released by The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group shows ETS has helped companies focus on carbon emissions reduction.
Event: CARBON EXPO: Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference, Cologne, Germany
1 August 2017
25–27 May 2016 – The Corporate Leaders Group is a supporting partner of this year’s CARBON EXPO.
"Business as we know it is dead" – CLG in the news at COP21
1 August 2017
12 January 2015 – The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group disseminated its key messages at COP21 through dozens of interviews our spokespeople gave while in Paris in December, media releases and blogs we published and press briefings we organised. Here is a selection of our press coverage.
Blog: The three ‘Rs’ of climate change: Reform, ratchet and relentlessness
1 August 2017
The three ‘Rs’ of climate change: Reform, ratchet and relentlessness Helen Spence-Jackson, Programme Manager 25 September 2015 As many of you know all too well, decision-making in Brussels can be a lengthy process, with careful compromises and a three-way ping pong match between the Commission, Council and Parliament along...
1 August 2017
23 December 2016 – The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group have provided a written submission to the UK Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee inquiry on Leaving the EU: negotiation priorities for energy and climate change policy.
Business leaders write to MEPs to urge timely reform of EU-ETS
1 August 2017
13 January 2015 – The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group has written to MEPs, calling on them to reform the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) to include a Market Stability Reserve (MSR) by 2017 at the latest, to keep the continent on track for developing a low carbon economy and energy system.
Event: Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform – The missing piece of the climate change puzzle
1 August 2017
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.
Business & Climate Summit, May 20–21, Paris
1 August 2017
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), through its Corporate Leaders Group, is an official partner of the Business & Climate Summit.
Video: why should business show leadership for the future on climate change?
1 August 2017
The Corporate Leaders Group, business leaders, policymakers and academics recognise the need for bold business leadership ahead of and beyond the crucial UN climate talks in Paris in December.
