The Irish Corporate Leaders Group currently involves 12 member companies namely the Bord na Móna, BT, Diageo, Bewley’s, Arup Consulting Engineers, KPMG, NTR, PwC, Intel, Zurich, Siemens, and Vodafone.

This initiative was establish in order to help address the current issues regarding climate change. In September 2009, this group of environment-concerned companies launched their first communiqué during a meeting with Taoiseach Brian Cowen.

The group’s main mission is to work together in order to initiate the step-change in policy as well as to start steps necessary to reduce the scale of possible damage that comes with global change. Aside from that, this group of Irish corporate leaders also intends to secure their grip on business opportunities that come as a result of shifting to a low climate risk economy.

The group aims to make use of its position in the corporate world in order to influence as well as to work with both the government as well as the consumers in coming up with a plan that would make a sustainable, low-carbon society possible.

After hearing the group’s communiqué, the director of Friends of the Earth, Oisín Coghlan, said, “For too long the voices of business that were heard on climate change policy were those saying ‘not this, not us or not now’. What’s so good about the Irish Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change is that here is a group of business leaders saying ‘yes this, yes us and yes now.”

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