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From the UN negotiations in Bali in 2007 through to Durban in 2011, the Communiqués have set out a concise business case for an ambitious, robust, effective and equitable UN climate framework.
They have offered a progressive global consensus on the shape of an agreement and on the national policy that is needed for countries to deliver on the aims.
The 2°C Challenge Communiqué is the fifth in a series of climate Communiqués originally developed by The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (CLG).
The Communiqués are seen by many as the definitive voice of the progressive international business community in advance of the annual UN climate conferences.
Starting with the negotiations in Bali in 2007, previous Communiqués quickly gained wide business and NGO support, with 950 companies endorsing the message of support for an "ambitious, robust and equitable global deal on climate change" before the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009. Support for their messages have come from CEOs around the world, including the US, EU, Japan, Australia and Canada, to Brazil, Mexico, Russia, India, China, South Africa and Turkey; ranging from the world’s largest companies and best-known brands, to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
2010: The Cancun Communiqué on Climate Change
The Cancun Communiqué on Climate Change built on the significant momentum created by The Copenhagen Communiqué, and made it clear that the case for a comprehensive international framework to tackle climate change still stands and is increasingly urgent, and urged governments to both redouble their efforts to achieve this framework and also to take necessary and appropriate mitigation actions in parallel with such efforts. The Cancun Communiqué secured the support of over 400 companies based in 36 countries. The CLG launched the Cancun Communiqué in Brussels with Commissioner Connie Hedegaard and Mexican Ambassador to the EU H.E. Sandra Fuentes-Berain. The lunch was attended by ten Ambassadors and Heads of Mission, MEPs, journalists, and members of the EU and UK CLGs. The Cancun Communiqué was also launched in Cancun at the World Climate Summit.
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2009: The Copenhagen Communiqué on Climate Change
The Copenhagen Communiqué on Climate Change was signed by 950 companies from 60 countries including the US, EU, Japan, Australia and Canada, to Brazil, Argentina, Russia, India, China, Korea and South Africa; ranging from the world’s largest companies and best known brands, to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It represented a truly remarkable consensus from the world’s most senior corporate leaders on the business case for a robust, effective and equitable deal in UN Climate Framework. A press conference with global media was held in New York on 22 September 2009 and a truly impressive and diverse group of global of global CEOs presented The Communiqué to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon at the UN Climate Summit. It was also hand-delivered to the then UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, by the CEOs from the UK Corporate Leaders Group in December 2009 at a Low Carbon Business Event at the Prime Minister's home in London.
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2008: The Poznań Communiqué on Climate Change
The Poznań Communiqué was launched by the CLG ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznań, Poland. The Poznań Communiqué set out what the CLG believed should be the key elements of an international deal on climate change and was endorsed by the business leaders of over 150 companies worldwide. The initiative represented an impressive coming together of the international business community and included some of the biggest companies and brands from around the world.
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2007: The Bali Communiqué on Climate Change
In 2007, the CLG published a Communiqué to governments gathering at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali. CEOs from over 170 global companies signed The Bali Communiqué and it was published in a centre-page spread in the Financial Times and International Herald Tribune on the eve of the conference. It was an unprecedented move by business and received significant worldwide media attention.
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"We believe a framework that encourages global cooperation and stimulates a low carbon economy while holding countries, corporates and individuals to account, is imperative."
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