We Mean Business is a global nonprofit coalition working with the world’s most influential businesses to take action on climate change. Together we catalyze business leadership to drive policy ambition and accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy.
The Aldersgate Group is a politically impartial, multi-stakeholder alliance championing a competitive and environmentally sustainable economy. Through targeted political engagement, evidence gathering and policy development, the Group advocates the business case for decarbonising the UK economy, improving resource efficiency and investing in the natural environment. The Group’s membership is composed of some of the largest businesses in the UK with a collective global turnover in excess of £550bn, leading NGOs, professional institutes, public sector bodies and politicians from across the political spectrum.
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is a globally influential Institute developing leadership and solutions for a sustainable economy. We believe the economy can be ‘rewired’, through focused collaboration between business, government and finance institutions, to deliver positive outcomes for people and environment. CISL convenes CLG Europe and The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group, two of the EU’s leading cross-sectoral business voices working in support of a climate neutral economy.
For more than 30 years we have built individual and organisational leadership capacity and capabilities, and created industry-leading collaborations, to catalyse change and accelerate the path to a sustainable economy. In that time, we have built a global leadership network of nearly 9,000 senior leaders and practitioners from business, government and society, across every sector and continent.
The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) is the membership organisation for those in the finance industry committed to growing sustainable and responsible finance in the UK. Our vision is a fair, inclusive and sustainable financial system that works for the benefit of society and the environment. UKSIF was created in 1991 and has over 240 members and affiliates including financial advisers, institutional and retail fund managers, pension funds, banks, research providers, consultants and NGOs.
RenewableUK is the leading association for the UK’s energy transition, powered by clean energy. We support over 400 members to ensure increasing amounts of renewable electricity are deployed across the UK, and that they have access to markets all over the world. Our members are business leaders, technology innovators and experts across industry who are building an energy system that will be better for the industry, billpayers and the environment. RenewableUK brings the industry together to deliver that future faster.
Green Alliance is an independent think tank and charity focused on ambitious leadership for the environment. It works with the most influential leaders in business, NGOs and politics to accelerate political action and create transformative policy for a green and prosperous UK.
CDP is a global non-profit that drives companies and governments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests. Voted number one climate research provider by investors and working with institutional investors with assets of US$96 trillion, we leverage investor and buyer power to motivate companies to disclose and manage their environmental impacts. Over 8,400 companies with over 50% of global market capitalization disclosed environmental data through CDP in 2019. This is in addition to the over 920 cities, states and regions who disclosed, making CDP’s platform one of the richest sources of information globally on how companies and governments are driving environmental change. CDP is a founding member of the We Mean Business Coalition.
Carbon Forward is an organisation focused on designing events that have the goal of improving companies' understanding of environmental markets with an emphasis on emissions trading, globally. Since its inaugural conference in 2016, it has become the organiser of Europe's largest carbon markets conference.
The Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA) was established in 2006 to represent the interests of its members in promoting the business of capture and geological storage of carbon dioxide (known as Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage, or CCUS) as a means of abating atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide. From its base in London the CCSA brings together specialist companies in manufacturing & processing, power generation, engineering & contracting, oil, gas & minerals as well as a wide range of support services to the energy sector such as law, banking, consultancy and project management.
The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) was established in 2003. It is a public-private partnership working to accelerate a sustainable shift to lower carbon vehicles and fuels and create opportunities for UK business. Around 200 organisations are engaged from diverse backgrounds including automotive and fuel supply chains, vehicle users, academics, environment groups and others. The Partnership is a not-for-profit company.
Fully Charged is the world’s number 1 clean energy & electric vehicle channel hosted by writer, broadcaster and actor Robert Llewellyn, Maddie Moate, Helen Czerski and Chelsea Sexton.
We inspire ways of living that are good for the environment. We design campaigns that make environmental action desirable. We disrupt the status quo to raise awareness, nudge behaviours and shape systems. We do this with knowledge and playfulness, and we won’t make you feel bad.Our previous campaigns include #SquareMileChallenge, the UK’s first large scale solution to coffee cup recycling, #GiftABundle to get pre-loved baby clothes back into circulation, #PumpkinRescue to encourage more people to eat the carvings from Halloween Pumpkins and #CommunityFridge, a network of 90 communal fridges across the UK each redistributing 32 tonnes of food a month, that would otherwise go to waste.
tve has been pioneering environmental film since 1984. www.tve.orgOur mission is to use the power of storytelling to drive real-world action for a more sustainable future.We work with a global community of filmmakers, environmental institutions, businesses and campaigners to promote effective storytelling about environmental issues through film. As part of this work, we run the annual Global Sustainability Film Awards. www.gsfa.tve.org. We also deliver evidence-led media projects to inspire action to protect our planet and to promote under-represented voices in the environmental movement.tve is a UK-based non-profit organisation set up by the United Nations Environment Programme, WWF-UK, and UK broadcaster Central Television (now part of ITV).
WHO WE AREWWF is the world’s leading independent conservation organisation. Our mission is to create a world where people and wildlife can thrive together.
To achieve our mission, we're finding ways to help transform the future for the world’s wildlife, rivers, forests and seas; pushing for a reduction in carbon emissions that will avoid catastrophic climate change; and pressing for measures to help people live sustainably, within the means of our one planet.
Investment Week is an investments magazine that covers news, fund performance and sector analysis for investment professionals. The magazine was started by Incisive Media and the first issue appeared on 30 January 1995.
