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
Business voice grows as more than 60 companies call on MEPs to reform the EU-ETS
1 August 2017
17 February 2015 – More than 60 major companies and business groups from across Europe have written to key MEPs to ask them to vote in favour of early reform of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS), to include a Market Stability Reserve (MSR) by 2017.
1 August 2017
University of Cambridge report: EU ETS provides competitive advantage and cost efficiencies for ambitious businesses New report: 10 years of Carbon Pricing in Europe: A business perspective LONDON. 9 JULY 2015 Read the report here A new report, out today, finds that the existence of the EU Emission Trading System (ETS) has...
Blog: Business as usual is dead: How businesses are transcending boundaries to fight climate change
1 August 2017
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.
1 August 2017
2 March 2016 – Today a major new coalition of businesses, cities, trade unions and NGO, are calling on EU leaders to act on the Paris Agreement and ensure that EU climate policies are coherent with its goals.
1 August 2017
17 March 2016 – The Budget for the next generation missed the opportunity to inspire a low carbon vision for the UK despite having some positive steps in the right direction.
Corporate Leaders Group reacts to EU ETS reforms
1 August 2017
15 July 2015 – Today the European Commission presented proposals to revise the EU Emissions Trading System.
1 August 2017
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.
Report: The business brief: Shaping a catalytic Paris Agreement
1 August 2017
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.
Corporate Leaders Group reacts to Amber Rudd’s first speech on climate action
1 August 2017
24 July 2015 – Today saw the first major speech on climate change made by the Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd. Read our initial reaction.
Corporate Leaders Group welcomes reform of EU carbon market
1 August 2017
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).
