Corporate Leaders Group

'We need a robust plan': Business leaders urge PM to accelerate net zero transition to tackle energy crisis

Policy

'We need a robust plan': Business leaders urge PM to accelerate net zero transition to tackle energy crisis

Letter to Liz Truss urges government to prioritise energy efficiency, renewables, and industrial decarbonisation as part of 'robust' energy security and net zero strategy

clock 21 September 2022 • 6 min read
Research: Climate-friendly cost-of-living policies offer best outlook for UK economy

Policy

Research: Climate-friendly cost-of-living policies offer best outlook for UK economy

Home and business energy efficiency drive would boost GDP over long-term while cutting CO2 and fuel poverty, CLG report finds

clock 27 June 2022 • 4 min read
Ignore the net zero sceptics - the UK needs a national conversation on climate action and resilience

Climate change

Ignore the net zero sceptics - the UK needs a national conversation on climate action and resilience

Look at the climate impacts we are seeing and tell me with a straight face we don't need to act now, says CLG UK co-chair and Anglian Water CEO Peter Simpson

clock 02 March 2022 • 4 min read

Policy

'A once in a lifetime opportunity': Top businesses urge EU to turbocharge net zero strategy

Ahead of publication of imminent 'Fit for 55' legislative package, leading business groups call on Brussels to accelerate green recovery

clock 06 July 2021 • 4 min read

Policy

Bridging the gap: What can businesses do to accelerate UK climate action in 2021?

UK plc needs to demonstrate 'aggressive fast and transformative' climate action in the run up to COP26, according to the Corporate Leaders Group

clock 23 June 2021 • 6 min read

Management

New UK Business Group Alliance for Net Zero formed in bid to accelerate 'Race to Zero'

Coalition formally launches to mark six month countdown to crucial COP26 Climate Summit

clock 29 April 2021 • 3 min read

Policy

Building on the Ten Point Plan

Eliot Whittington of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group presents a new analysis that suggests the government's welcome plan to accelerate the Green Industrial Revolution will not yet put the country on track to meet its net zero goals

clock 01 December 2020 • 4 min read

Skills

Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership appoints Clare Shine as new director

Former barrister, journalist, and sustainable development consultant to take over the reins at influential green business institute from departing director Dame Polly Courtice

clock 23 November 2020 • 3 min read

Policy

The best way to tackle the jobs and economic crisis is with a green recovery

Maria Mendiluce and Eliot Whittington warn it would be an 'act of economic suicide' were Europe to fail to seize the opportunity offered by a green recovery

clock 06 November 2020 • 5 min read

Management

Corporate Leaders Group signals growing SME focus as Low Carbon Ltd joins stable

Low Carbon Ltd has become the first SME to join climate advocacy body the Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group

clock 07 October 2020 • 1 min read
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UK coal mine approval: Is this the worst ever climate policy decision?

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'Both climate vandalism and economic incompetence': The green economy reacts to Cumbria coal mine approval

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Vanguard quits Net Zero Asset Managers initiative

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