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HRH attends Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change to discuss The Copenhagen Communique
28th June 2009
The Prince of Wales has today thanked business bosses for signing up to a memorandum calling on world leaders to take action to tackle climate change.
Companies signed up to The Copenhagen Communique which was launched today at a meeting of The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (CLG).
The communique is intended to act as a statement from the international business community ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.
The Prince told the Copenhagen and Beyond conference, in central London, that the business leaders present had the "brain power" to bring about the necessary change.
He said: "The aim of the communique quite simply is to ensure that the United Nations and the decision makers in Copenhagen are left in no doubt that the world's most progressive business leaders, representing many of the largest companies on the planet, expect to see a positive, unequivocal outcome from the summit.
"The louder and clearer we can make that message, the better it will be heard."
The CLG was convened by the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership which runs The Prince of Wales's Business and the Environment Programme, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year.