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Friends of the Earth, TckTcktck Partner: Meet 'The Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change'
Arup Consulting Engineers Bewley's Bord na Móna BT Diageo FoE Friends of the Earth Intel KPMG NTR PwC Siemens TckTckTck The Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change Vodafone. Zurich
Friends of the Earth – Irish Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change
Irish Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change
The Irish Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change is an initiative of Business in the Community, Friends of the Earth and Vodafone.
Currently the 12 members companies are Arup Consulting Engineers, Bewley’s, Bord na Móna, BT, Diageo, Intel, KPMG, NTR, PwC, Siemens, Zurich and Vodafone.
The group lanuched its first communique on Monday 21st September and presented it at a meeting to Taoiseach Brian Cowen.
Download the full communique here.
Download a one page summary on the group here.
Read the launch press release here.
The mission of the group is through leadership, to collaborate to trigger the step-change in policy and action needed both to meet the scale of the threat posed by climate change, and to grasp the business opportunities created by moving to a low climate risk economy. The corporate leaders will use their position of influence to work with government and consumers in making the vision of a sustainable, low-carbon society a reality.
Commenting on the launch, Friends of the Earth Director, Oisín Coghlan said “For too long the voices of business that were heard on climate change policy were those saying ‘not this, not us or not now’. What’s so good about the Irish Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change is that here is a group of business leaders saying ‘yes this, yes us and yes now”.”