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Greens/EFA Conference Running out of time: Why the climate negotiations should be speeded up Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Director Prince of Wales’s EU Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change

We are our worst enemy!

Making the Connections water Population Disease Density Uncertainty & food energy Urbanisation Poverty Insecurity Nutrition Inequality climate Sanitation

WEF global risks landscape 2012 WEF GLOBAL RISKS LANDSCAPE 2012 Water Supply Crisis Food Shortage Crisis Severe Income Disparity Energy & Agriculture price volatility Rising GHG Emissions

PEST Analysis Economic Social  Resource security, scarcity & crunch  Health  New trading routes  Poverty and social mobility  Commodity values & volatility  Migration and remittances – intra and international  Allocation of resources  Social unrest and conflict  Comparative advantage Technology Political  Evolving & disrupting  Complex trade-offs/ choices  New solutions, markets and growth  Trading partners  Risk – not all are proven  Geopolitical landscape  Deployment and infrastructure  Shifting stakeholder expectations  IP, protection, transfer  Regulation, subsidies and trade tariffs

Focusing on Cost/benefit and Scale

Cross-sectoral groups NATURAL CAPITAL CLIMATE CHANGE CAMBRIDGE NATURAL CAPITAL LEADERS PLATFORM Sectoral initiatives BANKING SECTOR INSURANCE INDUSTRY PENSION FUNDS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Banking Professional Services Sustainability Environment Initiative Initiative

Creating the Political Space

Implementing locally, regionally, and at scale and for replication value!

International Change : Communiqués  From Bali (2007) to Durban (2011)  Concise business case for an ambitious, robust, effective and equitable UN climate framework. Most importantly for clarity and leadership!  Progressive global business consensus (1,100 companies in more than sixty- one countries) on the shape of an international agreement and on the national policy that is needed for countries  Support from CEOs around the world, including Africa, Australia, China, EU, Central and South America, India, Middle East, Russia, China, South Africa and Turkey etc..;  From Fortune 500 best-known brands, to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

UN Negotiations- a state of play  2015 Agreement that will apply to all, including major emitters is essential.  Any effective deal must have at its heart measures to cut carbon emissions.  Any such agreement should include proposals able to deliver large scale mitigation and incentivise private investment.  Under the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action , negotiators will work to define new market mechanisms under a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol but have, as of yet, not developed the necessary rules.

A new type of Communiqué – a start to a series  This year, as part of a series of communiques that take a more detailed look at specific questions  The Carbon Price Communiqué makes the case for setting a price on carbon emissions as one of the main building blocks of an effective and ambitious climate change policy framework.  We propose that this is the first of a series of communiques that tackles different questions around climate change policy at an international level.

The Carbon Price Communiqué

A global call from business With Contribution from:

The Communiqué- sending a signal  The Communiqué voices the pro- business logic of carbon pricing and links it to the potential to deliver real results and increase ambition.  Our objective is to :  Show support for national discussions about climate policy and carbon pricing  Provide a push to the UNFCCC negotiations to refocus on carbon pricing and on increasing ambition  Provide a focal point for visible business support for carbon pricing as a key pro-business strategy for tackling climate change alongside complementary measures  Demonstrate that Europe is no longer alone on this issue!

Why the need?

EU 2020 Vision: “ make the EU the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion” President Barroso , May 3 EUCLG meeting :“how do we move from an era of austerity to an age of prosperity if people do not believe in the benefits of green growth?” Creating a viable and believable green growth story is the only way forward!.” ”

When an Unstoppable Force meets an Immovable Object Something has to give! Thank You! Sandrine Dixson-Declève Global Perspectives International Faculty & Executive Consultant, Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership sandrine.dixson@gmail.com Slide 21