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The Climate Group, The Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change and WWF Climate Savers Programme have today published a joint declaration to EU institutions and ministers to highlight the economic and strategic benefits of advancing their current 20 per cent greenhouse gas emissions reduction target...

The Climate Group held its third annual North America members’ meeting in New York City to discuss the current challenges and emerging opportunities in a clean energy economy...

Emissions from energy use in Australia's Eastern States have fallen this summer by 1.6 per cent or 1.2 million tonnes according to a new Climate Group report published today.

Taobao.com - Asia’s biggest online business platform - joins The Climate Group's global leadership coalition today, aiming to help 170 million Asians adopt low carbon life-styles...

The four new states and regions signed The Climate Group's leadership principles at the Climate Leaders Summit in Copenhagen.

Johnson Controls Inc. have announced today at the Climate Leaders' Summit in Copenhagen that it has joined The Climate Group...

Google, GE, The Climate Group and NRDC are among a group of companies and organizations calling on governments to support citizens' access to real-time home energy consumption information...

The Climate Group, BT and the Digital Energy Solutions Campaign (DESC) today launched 'SMART 2020: Pathways to scale' a website that will track progress made by the information and communications technology (ICT) industry in tackling climate change.

The Catalan Government and The Climate Group convened this high-level conference in Barcelona

More than 100 business leaders, scientists and thought leaders attended the event, which we co-hosted with the Queensland Government.

Commissioned by the NSW Government, The Business Guide to the Low Carbon Economy: New South Wales was prepared by The Climate Group and Climate Group member ARUP.

A leading German industrial center, North Rhine-Westphalia's government is committed to lead also in the low carbon economy.

The Climate Group announced last week that it will work with Cisco to build on the success of its Connected Urban Development (CUD) initiative by bringing together additional cities and business partners around the world in a new CUD Alliance.

Research shows between 30 to 57% of car buyers across five countries are interested in purchasing an electric vehicle.

Recognizing that local and subnational governments are and will continue to be responsible for implementing up to 80% of mitigation and adaptation actions, the initiative in Bonn this week will go a long way to ensuring the road after Copenhagen will be a success.

ScottishPower and The Climate Group have entered a unique agreement to fight climate change together by sharing knowledge about the introduction of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology...

Day 2 of the World Business Summit on Climate Change - a gathering of top business leaders, policy makers, negotiators, experts and scientists - was dominated by the working group sessions focusing on the means to achieve a rapid transition to a low carbon economy...

The Climate Group, in collaboration with Governor Jennifer M. Granholm and the Royal Danish Embassy, convened government and business leaders at "Switching Gears": a summit on bringing low carbon manufacturing jobs and industry to the Midwest region. At the meeting, leaders from Michigan and Denmark signed a MoU agreeing to share knowledge and learning en route to the new energy economy.

Four of the world's leading airlines today called for {CO2} emissions from international aviation to be included in a new global climate deal...

"We might have to mark this as the day Grid 2.0 was born", says The Climate Group's Molly Webb....

On 6 February, business and government members of The Climate Group gathered to discuss the implications of a global deal on climate change on business operations in Europe....

Through a combination of energy-efficiency measures, the Manchester-based store's carbon footprint is 70% less than an equivalent store built in 2006.

The Coca-Cola Company, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Nestle Waters NA and Pepsi-Cola North America join The Climate Group as part of innovative recycling initiative...

A group of major international financial institutions has joined with The Climate Group to launch a new code to guide best practice across the sector to deal with the risks and opportunities of climate change.

The HSBC Climate Confidence Monitor 2008 - a survey of 12,000 people across 12 countries worldwide - reveals 78% of respondents want their countries to take on their 'fair share' in reducing global {CO2} emissions.

CEOs of three of China's leading companies today became the newest members of The Climate Group's global climate coalition...

As of 24 September 2008, CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. (CBRE) became the first commercial real estate services company to join The °Climate Group...

The °Climate Group has welcomed the news that G8 leaders have agreed a long-term target of halving global emissions by 2050 but cautioned that this must just be the beginning of further concerted work over the next 18 months...

Dell recently announced a new initiative that will help it achieve its goal of powering its headquarters campus in Round Rock, Texas - home to more than 10,000 Dell employees - with 100 per cent green power...

On the 1st of April, 2008, City of Miami Mayor Manny Diaz announced that the City would join The °Climate Group...

While Dell and Standard Chartered recently announced their membership of The °Climate Group, current members including BT, Virgin Airlines and the government of South Australia are also making headlines with their own exciting new low carbon innovations and initiatives...

Dell today became the first computer company to join The °Climate Group, underscoring the company's commitment to environmental leadership, energy-efficiency and carbon-neutral operations...

Standard Chartered, one of the world's leading international banks, has today announced a new partnership with The °Climate Group to play a key role in the transition to a low carbon economy...

Climate change shot to the top of global agenda in 2007. The °Climate Group pauses to consider the ground covered in 2007 - and to assess the challenges and the events that await us in 2008...

New additions to membership demonstrate increasing momentum....

HSBC Climate Programme, launched in the UK in May 2007, rolls out in China with ambitious targets set to 2011...

In front of 740 US mayors, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that the City of New York would join The Climate Group and the 'Together' campaign being launched in the US early next year.

The Government of Ontario recently unveiled "Go Green: Ontario's Action Plan On Climate Change." This ambitious five-point action plan against climate change promises to tackle climate change province-wide through an innovative blend of low-carbon targets, incentives and solutions....

°Climate Group member South Australia has released an unprecedented solar "feed-in" legislation. This move by the State Government will see home owners with solar panels receive double credit for power they feed back into the grid...

The awards, presented by HRH the Prince of Wales and Former US Vice-President Al Gore, recognised the companies' achievements on climate change, environmental and social leadership.

Google, the largest search engine on the web, has become a member of The °Climate Group in order to help meet its commitment to become carbon neutral by 2008...

Barclays, a major global bank with 27 million customers in more than 50 countries, announced it has become a member of The °Climate Group.

News Corporation, one of the world's largest global media companies, has become a member of The Climate Group in order to help meet its commitment to making a long-term positive impact on climate change...

Industries join forces to provide simple solutions for individuals On April 23rd eight major UK companies joined with Tony Blair to unveil 'Together', a campaign to provide consumers with compelling products and services that make it easier to reduce their {CO2} emissions...

The Climate Group has produced a briefing note outlining the top ten steps organisations can take to develop their carbon footprint. The tips are based on conversations with member companies taking a leadership position on carbon footprinting, such as Sky and Starbucks...

The first-ever comprehensive plan by a large city to cut carbon emissions, the plan sets out how London will reduce its carbon emissions by 60 percent of 1990 levels by 2025.

Dr. Steve Howard, CEO of The Climate Group - an organisation dedicated to advancing business and government leadership on climate change - will facilitate a business leader panel featuring Jim Rogers (CEO, Duke/Cinergy), Roger Ferguson (Chairman, Swiss Re America Holding), Sir Richard Branson (CEO, Virgin), Joe Pettus (Senior Vice President, Fuel & Energy Operations, Safeway) and Rick Lazio (Government Relations, JP Morgan)...

The new global science and technology prize - The Virgin Earth Challenge - will award $25 million for a commercially-viable design which will result in the net removal of atmospheric GHGs.....

Climate Group member InterfaceFLOR has launched a new report warning that companies rushing to claim sustainable business practices need to back up their commitments with investment...

"Our plans for the year are ambitious but more than matched by the scale of the challenge and opportunity we collectively face..."

Joining our leadership coalition: American International Group (AIG), the world's largest insurer; Virgin, one of the world's best known branded venture capital firms; and Man Group, the world's biggest hedge fund, a leading global provider of alternative investment products and solutions as well as one of the world's largest futures brokers.

Marks & Spencer has announced "Plan A", which will have an impact on every part of M&S' operations over the next five years. The 100-point plan means that by 2012 M&S will, among other things, have gone carbon neutral...

Swiss Re is supporting investments and purchases made by employees that contribute to reducing {CO2} emissions with its new "COYou2 reduce and gain" programme...

Arup, the global design and business consultancy, has joined The Climate Group in order to share its expertise in delivering real solutions to mitigate against the effects of climate change in the built environment.

HSBC, BP and Swiss Re, founder members of The Climate Group, are all cited as 'best in class' in the Carbon Disclosure Project's Climate Leadership Index (CLI) released today...

Swiss Re Head of Sustainability Business Development, Chris Walker, has accepted an 18-month assignment with The Climate Group to commence and lead the organisation's operations in the Eastern United States.