The Climate Group

The Climate Group webinar: what we've been up to

Date

29 October 2010

The Climate Group held the first of its quarterly ‘Update Webinars’ on Wednesday 28th October 2010, discussing the significant policy developments within each of its regions.
Financing Electric Vehicles

Date

28 October 2010

Leading financial institutions that have adopted the Climate Principles, and members of the EV20, met in Brussels to discuss how private sector finance can help the world make the switch to all-electric vehicles (EVs).
Public see the economic opportunity in addressing climate change, says HSBC’s Climate Confidence Monitor 2010

Date

27 October 2010

HSBC’s fourth annual Climate Confidence Monitor, a global survey of public attitude towards climate change across 15 markets, reveals that climate change remains one of the top world concerns.
Why climate change should be on G20 finance agenda

Date

26 October 2010

Damian Ryan, Senior Policy Manager at The Climate Group, discusses the relationship between global financial regulation and climate change, in light of last week's G20 finance ministers' meeting in Korea.
Putting people at the heart of low-carbon technology

Date

22 October 2010

Tashweka Anderson, Global low-carbon ICT Project Manager at The Climate Group, writes an op-ed for Guardian Sustainable Business on the role of people in the deployment and use of low carbon technologies.
Climate and energy escape worst of historic UK government cuts

Date

22 October 2010

The UK government’s much anticipated comprehensive spending review (CSR) appears to have taken a 'give-and-take' approach to funding for climate and energy initiatives.
China puts a clean revolution at the heart of its national development strategy

Date

21 October 2010

On 18th October, the Chinese Communist Party concluded its annual conference in Beijing, setting the tone for the upcoming 12th five-year plan, with sustainability, balanced development, quality and rapid growth listed among the major criteria.
New guide helps Victorian Business join The Clean Revolution

Date

19 October 2010

The Climate Group and the Government of Victoria today launched a new guide that will help Victorian businesses cut emissions, increase efficiency and save money.
The Climate Group founder Dr Steve Howard to step down as CEO after seven years

Date

14 October 2010

Dr Steve Howard has decided, after agreeing with the Board, that he will step down as CEO of international NGO The Climate Group at the end of the year.
Businesses call for EU policy move to 30 per cent emissions cuts by 2020

Date

13 October 2010

30 European companies today called on the European Union to increase its ambition to cut EU emissions to 30 per cent by 2020 from 1990 levels in the interests of strengthening Europe’s economic future, boosting jobs and providing greater certainty and predictability for investors.
UN talks inch ahead (again)

Date

12 October 2010

Progress, of a sort, appears to have been made at last week’s UN climate talks in Tianjin, China, with UN climate chief Christiana Figueres stating that negotiators had “gotten closer to the structure of a set of decisions at Cancun”.
Cities glimpse the future of Lighting at The Climate Group’s LED Safari

Date

10 October 2010

The Climate Group hosted city governments from around the world last month in California for its first ever ‘LED Safari’ – part of its global LightSavers initiative.
Wales sets out its fight against climate change

Date

07 October 2010

The Welsh Assembly Government launched its Climate Change Strategy today, setting out exactly how Wales will manage its fight against climate change and achieve its ambition of a 3% year on year reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Latest UN climate talks begin in China

Date

04 October 2010

The latest round of climate change talks kicked off today in Tianjin, China. The week-long meeting is the fourth session held this year, and the last before the UN’s annual climate conference - ‘COP16’ - to be held in Mexico in late November.