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Climate change is a threat to all humanity so our core objective is to promote a global cooperative effort—ensuring that climate solutions are deployed at scale to enable us all to leapfrog to cleaner, more resilient economies.

ICC policy fora are our vehicles to build national and international consensus on business positions and rules supported by a variety of events and activities with business groups, governments, and wider stakeholders. ICC is the focal point for business engagement for UNFCCC during climate negotiations at COP

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KEY WORKSTREAMS

The following workstreams are where we focus UK efforts.

 

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  • ICC’s Observer status at the United Nations enables the business community to contribute directly to the work of the General Assembly, reflecting the vital role the private sector plays in implementing the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
  • Profile the voice of business leadership at the ICC SDG Business Forum
  • Promote coherent policy frameworks that underpin the delivery of the 2030 UN SDG agenda

 

Climate Action

  • Lead business representation in the United Nations’ climate/environment process to push for meaningful action at scale.
  • Pursue alignment of trade and climate change policies at the World Trade Organization.
  • Create greater operational certainty for business globally by promoting appropriate harmonisation of international environment laws with the Global Pact for the Environment.
  • Host consultations and provide input on carbon clubs, climate waivers and carbon pricing.

 

COP

  • Support the government’s goal to raise global ambition through national delivery plans and find a solution to the carbon trading mechanism
  • Work with the ICC and UK business networks to provide a focal point for international business engagement in the lead up to COP26
  • Promote the role of the private sector in delivering net zero carbon emissions by 2050

 

Green & Climate Finance

  • Build alliances to help mobilise private finance to support implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement.
  • to champion normative frameworks and partnership models to mainstream sustainable finance and enable related markets to mature
  • To serve as a platform for development of innovative financial products, such as green bonds and other sustainability-indexed investment vehicles 

 

Corporate Responsibility & Anticorruption

  • Mainstream human rights, anti-corruption and responsible business conduct as an important component of good corporate governance.
  • Build support around the need to implement the Business and Human Rights Guiding Principles with national frameworks.

 

International Policy Forums

We actively engage in the following international fora:

  • ICC Environment & Energy Commission
  • UN High Level Political Forum
  • ICC Sustainable Development Goal Business Forum
  • COP
  • ICC Corporate Responsibility & Anticorruption Commission
  • UN Human Rights Council

Institutional Focus

Institutional engagement centres on the following bodies:

  • UN General Assembly
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  • B20/G20
  • World Trade Organization
  • OECD

UK Policy Forums

Two for a provide the platform in which we organise programme activity with a strong read across to our finance, trade and commercial law fora.

  • ICC Digital Economy Committee
  • ICC Intellectual Property Committee