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Climate Change
Global solutions for a global challenge
| Businesses around the world are convinced that climate change is one of the major challenges of our time, associated as it is with real needs for energy, development and economic growth. As the science of climate change becomes clearer, the need to set the right priorities is ever more evident and political momentum to address these challenges is growing. Given the wide range of impacts and interconnectivity of the solutions required, collaborative effort will be essential to find a way forward |
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Global Business has strong desire to identify and deploy effective solutions to climate change
The threat of climate change is real, as recent publications, such as the fourth assessment of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, have made clear. Businesses around the world are part of the solution and are acting to meet the challenge of climate change, a challenge inextricably linked with urgent needs for more energy, increased development and greater economic growth. Many businesses have already made major changes in how they operate and have seized the opportunities for progress, entering new markets and introducing new processes, products and services that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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ICC is committed to work on cooperative and cross-cutting solutions
The global business community, represented by ICC, is committed to work with Governments and civil society to deepen understanding of the risks and vulnerabilities associated with climate change and to identify and implement solutions. Business and governments can make progress by working together, provided that nations find ways to address climate change in the context of national circumstances and priorities while maximizing cooperation across a mosaic of national and regional strategies.
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ICC Secretary General Guy Sebban and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon |
ICC ensures business input
ICC through its Task Force on Climate Change ICC will continue to monitor key issues and challenges surrounding the international negotiations on climate change such as the UNFCCC. ICC stands ready to participate and to make the case for cooperative solutions that optimize business contributions to addressing climate change and advancing sustainable development. Based on ICC’s long-standing relationship with the UN and widely recognized role as the world's business organization, the ICC continues to play a vital, dual role during these ongoing negotiations by
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Assembling, coordinating and presenting the activities and messages of over one hundred active business and industry organizations concerned about the potential impacts and opportunities presented by the negotiations; |
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Representing the policy positions of ICC member companies and associations. |
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ICC participates on the development of an enabling post-2012 international framework
ICC and its member companies have historically been engaged in the UNFCCC process and recognize the necessity of cooperative international action. The Bali Action Plan, a plan for negotiating a new global warming pact by 2009, that world leaders adopted during the UNFCCC COP13 is the first step that paves the way for more clarity for business to better design company’s research and development programmes as well as investment plans.
ICC stands ready to continue actively participating in formulating a post-2012 long-term international framework to address climate risks throughout the process towards UNFCCC COP 15 in 2009 and beyond.
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