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Read more at: Business leaders call for higher ambition from EU as COP25 enters crucial second week
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Business leaders call for higher ambition from EU as COP25 enters crucial second week

9 December 2019 – As the second week COP25 gets underway in Madrid, business leaders from across Europe are urging the EU to drive and deliver higher ambition on the economic and just transition to net zero emissions.


Read more at: Business Briefing: Raising European climate ambition for 2030: A CLG Europe position paper

Business Briefing: Raising European climate ambition for 2030: A CLG Europe position paper

27 November 2019 – CLG Europe welcomes the clear and highly significant commitment from the President-elect of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to publish within her first 100 days in office a European Green Deal which will be her central priority and hallmark of her five-year term. As European business leaders CLG Europe also strongly endorses the President-elect’s commitment to set the EU on a path to becoming the world’s first climate neutral continent, and to achieve this by 2050 at the latest.


Read more at: Business leaders urge EU to increase 2030 emissions reduction target to at least 55%
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Business leaders urge EU to increase 2030 emissions reduction target to at least 55%

27 November 2019 – Members of the European Corporate Leaders Group (CLG Europe) are supporting a significant increase in the EU greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction target for 2030 in order to remain in line with climate neutrality by 2050.


Read more at: Business leaders urge the EU to create a new industrial strategy to decarbonise heavy industry
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Business leaders urge the EU to create a new industrial strategy to decarbonise heavy industry

3 October 2019 – A new policy briefing from Corporate Leaders Group Europe (CLG Europe), a business leadership group convened by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), sets out approaches for how business can reduce industrial emissions to net-zero by 2050 and calls on EU policymakers to deliver a clean and circular industrial strategy.


Read more at: Policy Briefing: Forging a carbon-neutral heavy industry by 2050: How Europe can seize the opportunity

Policy Briefing: Forging a carbon-neutral heavy industry by 2050: How Europe can seize the opportunity

3 October 2019 – As momentum gathers behind a long-term vision for a climate-neutral economy by 2050, increasing attention is being directed to sectors of the economy that are difficult to decarbonise, including heavy industry.


Read more at: Green Growth Summit 2019, Luxembourg, 3 October 2019
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Green Growth Summit 2019, Luxembourg, 3 October 2019

CLG Europe is preparing to host the Green Growth Summit which will take place on Thursday 3 October 2019 in Luxembourg in the afternoon.


Read more at: Businesses urge EU to walk its talk at Climate Summit
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Businesses urge EU to walk its talk at Climate Summit

22 September 2019 – On the eve of the UN Climate Summit businesses are urging the EU to demonstrate leadership in line with its aim of becoming the first climate neutral continent.


Read more at: World-leading sustainability institute adds Corporate Leaders Group Europe to stable of influential business networks as EU citizens’ concern over climate rises sharply
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World-leading sustainability institute adds Corporate Leaders Group Europe to stable of influential business networks as EU citizens’ concern over climate rises sharply

10 September 2019 – The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) will launch its Corporate Leaders Group Europe (CLG Europe) in Brussels, aiming to be the leading pan-European business voice supporting the transition to a net zero economy.


Read more at: Net zero knowledge hub for EU decision-makers
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Net zero knowledge hub for EU decision-makers

This knowledge hub includes thought leadership from European business leaders to help the next generation of EU decision-makers take action to deliver a prosperous, innovative, climate neutral economy.


Read more at: Event: High-level Green Growth Platform dinner: Reaping the economic benefits of the energy transition in the mobility sector – 10 June, Warsaw, Poland
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Event: High-level Green Growth Platform dinner: Reaping the economic benefits of the energy transition in the mobility sector – 10 June, Warsaw, Poland

On 10 June, high-level participants from across the mobility sector in Poland discussed the challenges and opportunities of the energy transition in mobility for the country and the wider Central and Eastern European (CEE) region.