The Cancun Communiqué on Climate Change demonstrated the progressive consensus of the international business community ahead of the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Cancun in December 2010.
The Cancun Communiqué on Climate Change built on the significant momentum created by the Copenhagen Communiqué, and made it clear that the case for a comprehensive international framework to tackle climate change still stands and is increasingly urgent, and urged governments to both redouble their efforts to achieve this framework and also to take necessary and appropriate mitigation actions in parallel with such efforts.
In signing the Cancun Communiqué it demonstrated that the progressive consensus within the international business community in support of an ambitious, robust and equitable deal on climate change survived Copenhagen, and that world leaders needed to redouble their efforts to agree such a deal and also take appropriate measures to tackle climate change today.
The Cancun Communiqué was an initiative of The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders' Group on Climate Change which is run by The University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership. To download the text of the Cancun Communiqué, click here.
