CLG-Europe

Blog: Building blocks for a sustainable future

16 December 2020 - As EU member states draft their National Recovery & Resilience Plans, Harry Verhaar, Head of Global Public & Government Affairs Signify, and CLG Europe Chair, underlines the climate benefits and cost savings of channelling green recovery investments into building renovation and energy saving technologies.

Blog: Building on the Ten Point Plan

4 December 2020 – Eliot Whittington presents a new analysis with Cambridge Econometrics that suggests the government's plan to accelerate the Green Industrial Revolution will not yet put the country on track to meet its net zero goals.

Ferrovial joins CLG Europe

October 2020 – Ferrovial, a Spanish multinational and world leader in the infrastructure and services sector, has rejoined CLG Europe, a cross-sectoral business leadership group convened across the EU in support of a climate neutral economy. CLG Europe is convened by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).

Eneco joins CLG Europe

October 2020 – Eneco, a Dutch energy company leading the energy transition in both Belgium and in the Netherlands has joined CLG Europe, a cross-sectoral business leadership group convened across the EU in support of a climate neutral economy. CLG Europe is convened by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).

Report: Maximising the benefits: Economic, employment and emissions impacts of green recovery stimulus in Europe

19 October 2020 – Europe is now considering how best to structure its recovery from the deep health, social and economic crisis stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic. New modelling demonstrates how a Green Recovery Plan maximises benefits compared to other options, providing positive long-lasting economic benefits, a boost to employment and reducing emissions. In the EU, the green recovery plan could save 2 million jobs in the EU in the next few years and generate longer term employment gains, while reducing CO2 emissions by more than 15 per cent.

More than 200 business leaders and investors urge EU heads of state to set higher 2030 emissions reduction targets

15 September 2020 - As the European Commission sits down to discuss proposals for a new 2030 emissions target in time for the State of the Union address tomorrow (Wednesday Sept 16), more than 170 European businesses, investors and business networks, including Microsoft, IKEA, Deutsche Bank, Unilever, H&M, Google, EDF, Signify and Apple are calling on EU leaders to back the ambition set out in the European Green Deal and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 per cent by 2030.

Over 170 business and investor CEOs urge the EU to raise EU 2030 GHG emissions targets to at least 55 per cent

Sept 2020 - Dec 2020: In a critical year for climate action, five years on from the landmark Paris Agreement and with the clock ticking for countries to ratchet up ambition before the end of the 2020, CEOs from over 170 businesses, investors and business and investor networks, including Deutsche Bank, Google, IKEA and Unilever, are calling on EU policymakers to support an EU 2030 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction target of at least 55 per cent, necessary to raise the pace and focus of transition efforts for the EU to become a climate-neutral continent by 2050.

Salesforce joins CLG Europe and The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group

July 2020 – Salesforce, the global leader in Customer Relationship Management (CRM), bringing companies closer to their customers in the digital age, is the latest organisation to join as a full member of both CLG Europe and The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group (CLG), two cross-sectoral business leadership groups convened across the EU and the UK in support of a climate neutral economy.

Webinar series 2020: Greening the economic recovery in line with climate neutrality

In 2020, the Green Growth Partnership organised a a series of events on ‘Greening the economic recovery in line with climate neutrality: From commitments to action’. Webinar recordings Launch webinar: Greening the economic recovery in line with climate neutrality: From commitments to action -...

Blog: Heavy industry has a historic opportunity to build back better and double down on decarbonisation

2 July 2020 – Could heavy industry companies capitalise on this moment to meet climate commitments, or will the opportunity be lost in the blast furnace of European politics, asks CLG Europe Programme Manager Chris Carroll.

Blog: Building blocks for a sustainable future

Blog: Building on the Ten Point Plan

Ferrovial joins CLG Europe

Eneco joins CLG Europe

Report: Maximising the benefits: Economic, employment and emissions impacts of green recovery stimulus in Europe

More than 200 business leaders and investors urge EU heads of state to set higher 2030 emissions reduction targets

Over 170 business and investor CEOs urge the EU to raise EU 2030 GHG emissions targets to at least 55 per cent

Salesforce joins CLG Europe and The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group

Webinar series 2020: Greening the economic recovery in line with climate neutrality

Blog: Heavy industry has a historic opportunity to build back better and double down on decarbonisation

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