Caring for Climate         

The Business Leadership Platform

Co-launched by the Global Compact, UNEP and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in July 2007, Caring for Climate assists companies in the development of effective climate-change policies. It also provides a channel for the business community to contribute inputs and perspectives to key governmental deliberations. The climate initiative which has been endorsed by more than 300 companies from 65 countries has two main objectives:

• To mobilize business globally, especially in emerging markets, to take actions towards energy efficiency and a low-carbon economy through product and service strategies, supply chains and shaping accordingly consumer and public attitudes.
• To inform, through the example of good practices, current climate negotiations, in order to contribute to the successful outcome of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The global sectoral approach for enhancing sustainable development, as it has evolved in the case of WBCSD/CSI, has been identified by the “Caring for Climate” Initiative as a unique example of best practice world-wide, underlining the significance of proactive engagement at both corporate and sectoral levels. 

Planting trees, FYROM.