The Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change initiative, led by H.R.H. Prince Charles, under the University of Cambridge Industry Programme, brings together thirty European companies who share the sense of urgency in developing new policies with long-term approaches to tackle climate change.

ACCIONA is the only Spanish company that is part of the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change. It has been an active member since 2009 and as such works to further its work while it endorses its positions to fight climatic change.

The activities of the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change have resulted in several blueprints and roadmaps widely supported by the business world, such as the Bali Communiqué, the Poznan Communiqué, the Copenhagen Communiqué and the Cancun Communiqué.

Some of the activities in which ACCIONA has participated:

ACCIONA endorses The 2 º C Challenge Communiqué

• ACCIONA has endorsed The 2°C Challenge Communiqué, led by the Corporate Leaders Network for Climate Action (CLN) and the EU Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (EUCLG). These organizations, along with a group of 185 major corporations from 29 countries, call on governments to take strong action on climate change; failure to do so, states the Communiqué, "risks seriously undermining future global prosperity and inflicting significant social, economic and environmental costs on the world".

ACCIONA presents the Cancun Communiqué to the European Commission

• ACCIONA is part of the group that officially presented the Cancun Communiqué on climate change to the EU Commissioner for Climate Change, Connie Hedegaard, and Ambassador of Mexico to the EU, H.E. Sandra Fuentes-Berain, in a ceremony also attended by the ambassadors of Mexico, the United States and Canada to the EU.

ACCIONA among companies requiring the EU to accelerate the reduction of emissions by 2020

• ACCIONA endorsed the statement titled Increasing Europe's climate change targets benefits the economy and employment in the EU.

  Along with 29 other European companies, and as part of an unprecedented initiative, ACCIONA requested an increase in the level of emission reduction in Europe by 2020 to 30 percent of the levels recorded in 1990. Such a reduction would strengthen Europe's economic future, increase the level of employment and eliminate the climate of uncertainty and unpredictability that keeps investors away.

  Link to statement

Meeting with European Commissioner for Climate Action

José Manuel Entrecanales, chairman of ACCIONA, met in Brussels with European Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard, and several leaders of some major European companies to defend the possibility of a more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target.

Meeting with Commissioner for Environment, Potocnik, Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership Alumni Event

• ACCIONA sponsored the first Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership Alumni Event in Brussels with the direct participation of European Commissioner for Environment, Janez Potocnik, and Joaquin Mollinedo y Juan Ramón Silva on behalf of ACCIONA.

  During the event, the parties mainly discussed the need to expand business cooperation with regulators/policy makers and a cultural shift when it comes to the way we do business.