Strengthening Global Collaboration on Business Climate Advocacy
Channel: Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Date: 23/11/2022

11 November, a reactivated global Corporate Leaders Network was launched at COP27. With this event, we aim to catalyse business advocacy on climate policy at a national level, bringing together policy, NGO stakeholders and international business networks.

Background:

Since 2010, the Corporate Leaders Groups (CLGs) have developed relationships with a number of business groups around the world. These groups have seen the need for co-ordination across the economy, both to ensure potential risks are managed, and to allow business to grasp the opportunities that the transition to a low carbon society could hold. Collaborations have included with the Japan Climate Leaders Partnership (J-CLP), CLG Chile, Foundation 2° (now Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft), BCSD Portugal, the CER Sustainable Business Network Slovenia, the Climate Leadership Coalition, the Dutch Sustainable Growth Coalition, Entreprises pour l'Environnement, The Haga Initiative, The Spanish Green Growth Group, and more. 

By linking these business networks working on climate change, the CLGs are able to share best practice, enable collaboration and provide strategic support to other national corporate leaders groups to increase impact, both within member countries and internationally. 

The CLGs are now seeking to formally re-establish the collaboration with these business groups through reactivating the ‘Corporate Leaders Network for Climate Action’ (CLN) and support the creation of new corporate leaders’ groups globally building on the format of the existing CLGs to create a strengthened network of corporate leaders’ groups. Previous members of the CLN are reinvited to join where their mission and strategies align.