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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!

Population Sanitation Disease Density Urbanisation Poverty Inequality Nutrition

Uncertainty & Insecurity

water energy climate food

Making the Connections

Water Supply Crisis Food Shortage Crisis Rising GHG Emissions Severe Income Disparity Energy & Agriculture price volatility

WEF GLOBAL RISKS LANDSCAPE 2012

WEF global risks landscape 2012

PEST Analysis

Economic

• Resource security, scarcity & crunch
• New trading routes
• Commodity values & volatility
• Allocation of resources
• Comparative advantage

Political

• Complex trade-offs/ choices
• Trading partners
• Geopolitical landscape
• Shifting stakeholder expectations
• Regulation, subsidies and trade tariffs

Technology

• Evolving & disrupting
• New solutions, markets and growth
• Risk – not all are proven
• Deployment and infrastructure
• IP, protection, transfer

Social

• Health
• Poverty and social mobility
• Migration and remittances – intra and

international

• Social unrest and conflict

Focusing on Cost/benefit and Scale

PENSION FUNDS INSURANCE INDUSTRY

CAMBRIDGE NATURAL CAPITAL LEADERS PLATFORM

NATURAL CAPITAL BANKING SECTOR CLIMATE CHANGE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Banking Environment Initiative

Professional Services Sustainability Initiative

Cross-sectoral groups Sectoral initiatives

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-

• ne 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

• n 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

• f green growth?” Creating a viable

and believable green growth story is the only way forward!.” ”

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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