Mandate

To develop policy recommendations and tools to address major environmental and energy issues, including climate change, and make a substantive ICC contribution to key intergovernmental negotiations and in this area.

Projects for 2012

• Produce world business views on the green economy as an ICC contribution for the 2012 Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development and beyond, including the United Nations Environment Programme.
• Build on ICC tools and positions to propose practical approaches for harnessing innovation and technology to address environment and energy challenges, climate change in particular, in the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
• Outline framework conditions for investment in energy, especially in emerging markets, with a view to improving energy access, supply, diversity and security.
• Develop a world business perspective on the environmental and energy implications of global supply chains.