By Feike Sijbesma, CEO Royal DSM Carbon Price Champion CPLC convened by the World-bank Chair CEO Climate Leaders WEF Co-Chair Global Climate Adaptation Center As world governments meet in Madrid at the UN climate meeting (COP25) to negotiate the way forward on climate, our world is facing unprecedented levels of…

By Nigel Topping, CEO of the We Mean Business coalition If you lived in London or New York in 1884 you’d be facing a crisis — the Great Horse Manure Crisis to be precise. …

By Nigel Topping, CEO of the We Mean Business coalition When you sit in any building, in any of the world’s major cities, you are usually surrounded by an abundance of three key materials — glass, steel and cement. …

By Nigel Topping, CEO of the We Mean Business coalition “There is no technical or economic barrier to transitioning the entire world to 100 percent clean, renewable energy with a stable electric grid at low cost”. That’s the conclusion of Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering…

Welcome to the May edition of the Progress report, where we look at how certain policy makers are backing the rapid transition to electric vehicles (EV), despite some high-profile moves in the opposite direction, how business is responding with action and calling for even more ambition. Policy makers backing the…

It is a pivotal year in the fight against climate change. In 2018, the imperative to step up and shift the curve of emissions to well below 2 degrees Celsius has never been stronger. By raising their climate ambitions, businesses can make it clear to governments that they see the…