CSR Tip of the Week: Copenhagen Communique on Climate Change

2009 is a crucial year for climate change, with hopes that a new international climate deal will be signed in December in Copehagen.

The Copenhagen Communiqué has been developed by The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders’ Group on Climate Change. (www.cpsl.cam.ac.uk). This Copenhagen Communiqué follows on from The Bali Communiqué and The Poznan Communiqué published ahead of the UN climate meetings in 2007 and 2008 respectively, which both played an important role in building momentum in the international climate negotiations. Both secured the support of over 150 of the world’s largest companies around the world including Australia, Japan, China, India, Europe, USA, and South America and reinforced the message to governments that a large part of the business community wants a strong and effective climate change framework.

The aim of the Copenhagen Communiqué on Climate Change is to have 500 global business signatories and become the definitive statement from the business community ahead of the Conference of the Parties 15 (COP15) in Copenhagen in December, synthesizing some of the key thinking that has come from business over the last 2 years.

Businesses can sign the communiqué on: http://www.cpsl.cam.ac.uk

The global media launch of the communiqué with all its signatures will take place in September 2009