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
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.
Corporate Leaders Group respond to the open consultation on Building our Industrial Strategy
1 August 2017
17 April 2017 – The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group provided a written submission to the UK Government Green Paper on Industrial Strategy.
Leading businesses and investors urge the UK to show leadership towards a zero carbon economy
20 July 2017
A letter from leading companies and investors, sent to the Prime Minister yesterday, urges the UK government to raise ambition to tackle climate change and show leadership towards a stronger, more prosperous and sustainable economy.
12 July 2017
13 July 2017 – Jill Duggan, Director of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group reflects on the EU moving back into leadership mode, as it helps to keep climate on the G20 agenda.
Blog: Business to EU governments: Make Europe’s Industries Great Again
21 June 2017
23 June 2017 – To survive and thrive, Europe needs to regain its proactive approach to policymaking to ensure that its industries are given the right signals to compete by being both low carbon and high value, writes Jill Duggan, Director of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group.
CLG brings together Romanian business leaders and policymakers to seize low carbon opportunities
15 June 2017
16 June 2017 – Members of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group (CLG) today joined with senior politicians, policymakers, business leaders and civil society from across Romania to explore some of the challenges and opportunities on the European and Romanian low carbon agenda.
