European power utility Vattenfall urges the German government to support a rapid transition to clean mobility and remove regulatory bottlenecks.

The Climate Group is launching a new tool: the Climate Action Compass for Indian States. The compass will enable Indian state governments to assess performance on their regional climate action plans, as well as align them with India’s national ambition on climate.

Berlin, Germany: Leading businesses in Germany today joined forces to call on policy makers to rapidly speed up the shift to electric vehicles (EVs).

In 2014 The Climate Group, in partnership with Signify (formerly Philips Lighting), made a global call to action for all public lighting around the world to be light emitting diode (LED) by 2025. The role that energy efficient lighting technologies can play in reducing global energy demand, and the speed at which that reduction can be achieved, should not be underestimated or ignored.

Geneva, Switzerland: The need for the auto industry to speed up the switch to electric vehicles increased further today, as national postal companies Swiss Post and Austrian Post committed to electrify their delivery fleets by 2030.

Helen Clarkson, CEO, The Climate Group, responds to research released today by the International Council on Clean Transportation that electric cars are already cheaper to own and run than petrol or diesel alternatives:

The Climate Group's first annual report on electric vehicle initiative EV100 is published, demonstrating that more companies than ever are switching to electric vehicles, helping to combat air pollution in cities, lower business risk and future proof their operations as low emission zones are introduced globally.

Alongside the snowy crags and tree-lined slopes, the social, political and environmental landscape is far from serene in Davos this year. From the appalling murder of the Mayor of Gdansk in Poland, to the public and institutional fractures apparent in the Brexit process in the UK, and the devastating evidence of the IPCC report on the impact of 1.5 degrees of global warming for us all.

Helen Clarkson, CEO of The Climate Group, looks ahead to 2019 and how we will be speeding up climate action to combat global warming and achieve a world of less than 1.5°C.

When Hilton first rolled out its corporate responsibility measurement platform in 2009, it was a strategic investment in making smarter use of energy.