News

Roundtable Chair Jeffrey Sachs writes a monthly column on sustainable development issues, including climate change, in Scientific American magazine. Professor Sachs also contributes occasional columns to Time magazine.

Munich Re goes climate neutral, June 26, 2007

Michael Northrop (Rockefeller Brothers Foundation) and David Sassoon, Cap and trade and more, Environmental Finance, June 2007

The Global Roundtable on Climate Change
SIPANews, May 2007

Global Roundtable on Climate Change Side Event
Earth Negotiations Bulletin, May 18, 2007

Earth Day, every day (editorial by Senator Olympia Snowe)
Seacoast online, May 03, 2007

Curbing Emissions Won't Be Enough
Newsweek,
April 16, 2007

Thomas Scharff of Stora Enso North America Corp. Named to State of Wisconsin Global Warming Task Force
April 12, 2007

A Climate for Change
Time,
March 8, 2007

Volvo Participate in Global Initiative on Climate Change
Transport News Network, February 27, 2005

Scientific Debate on the Wane, Fight Brews Over How to Address Climate Change
Caspar (WY) Star Tribune, February 27, 2007

Global Roundtable Calls for Mid-Century Targets
Environmental Finance.com, February 22, 2007

Business Leaders Urge Climate Action
Environmental New Service
, February 22, 2007

85 Companies and Organisations From Around the World Issue aJoint Statement on Measures to Deal with Global Warming.
Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, February 22, 2007

Jeffrey Sachs on Climate Change
Charlie Rose Show,
PBS, February 21, 2007 (Segment begins at 42 minutes into program)

Moving Beyond Kyoto
Scientific American, February, 2007

Insurers Among Climate Change Signatories
Business Insurance,
February 21, 2007

Industry Group Announces Climate Change Plan
CBCNews.com, February 21, 2007

World Ecumenical Body Supports ‘Groundbreaking’ Climate Statement
Christian Today, February 21, 2007

Cleantech Fund Endorses New Global Roundtable on Climate Change
CSRwire.com, February 21, 2007

FPL Group Part of Groundbreaking Global Agreement to Fight Climate Change
CSRwire.com, February 21, 2007

Global Companies Call for Post-Kyoto Carbon Caps
Greenwire, February 21, 2007

IGES Chair Briefs Press on GROCC Joint Statement
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies organized a press briefing on the GROCC Statement for Japanese media. Held at the Ministry of the Environment Press Club in Tokyo, the event was well attended including the major national newspapers Nikkei, Asahi, Mainichi, Yomiuri and Nikkan Kogyo, and several national press agencies including Jiji Press and Kyodo Press.

Corporate titans launch new climate change campaign
Japan Today,
February 21, 2007

Australian Shadow Government Welcomes GROCC Joint Statement
Melbourne Herald-Sun, February 21, 2007

Corporate Push for Action Against Warming
MSNBC.com,
February 21, 2007

Big Businesses Call for Government Action on Climate Change
New Scientist,
February 21, 2007

Business Leaders Forge Climate Change Pact
New York Sun, February 21, 2007

Ricoh Expresses Support for Joint Statement by the Global Roundtable on Climate Change
Ricoh.com, February 21, 2007

Chiefs Take Emissions Lead
The Standard (Hong Kong), February 21, 2007

Suntech Joins Global Roundtable on Climate Change
Suntech-power.com, February 21, 2007

Global Group of Top Firms Sets Out to Fight Warming
Times of India, February 21, 2007

Group Seeks Greenhouse Gas Cuts
Wall Street Journal, February 21, 2007

New Effort Launched in NYC to Fight Climate Change
WCBS-TV.com, February 21, 2007

Companies Lay Out Global Framework to Fight Climate Change
World Business Council for Sustainable Development, February 21, 2007

Business Leaders Agree Action on Climate Change
ArabianBusiness.com (UAE)
, February 20, 2007

Business Calls for Carbon Targets
BBCNews.com,
February 20, 2007

Companies Lay Out Global Framework to Fight Climate Change
The Earth Institute at Columbia University,
February 20, 2007 (pdf)

AEP Endorses 'Path to Sustainability' Statement of the Global Roundtable on Climate Change
EARTHtimes.org, February 20, 2007

DuPont Joins Global Coalition Calling for Coordinated Action to Address Climate Change
Electronic Semiconductor International, February 20, 2007

Industry Leaders Fight Greenhouse Gases
Forbes, February 20, 2007
Newsday, February 20, 2007

Global Roundtable on Climate Change Calls for Post-Kyoto Framework Based on Science-Based Targets
Green Car Congress,
February 20, 2007

International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) Supports Launch of the Global Framework to Fight Climate Change
ICMM.com, February 20, 2007

Industry Leaders Endorse Fight Against Gas-Caused Climate Change
International Herald Tribune,
February 20, 2007

90 International Companies Call for Action on Climate Change
LiveScience, February 20, 2007

Energetech wave energy named top ten technology of 2007 by International Academy of Science
February 20, 2007

Interface Joins Global Roundtable on Climate Change
February 20, 2007

Sea Breeze Power Company Joins 85 Companies in Endorsement of Global Roundtable on Climate Change
February 20, 2007

Scientist Group Warns of Warming 'Threat'
Washington Post,
February 19, 2007

US Senator Olympia Snowe Addresses International Climate Change Summit
February 15, 2007 (pdf)

New Year's Address by Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland, discusses GROCC and other climate and energy initiaitives
January 1, 2007

HM Treasury, the United Kingdom, The Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change
October 2006

Ceres, Global Framework for Climate Risk Disclosure
October 2006

Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Getting Ahead of the Curve: Corporate Strategies that Address Climate Change
October, 2006

Evan Mills and Eugene Lecomte, From Risk to Opportunity: How Insurance Companies Can Proactively and Profitable Manage Climate Change.
Ceres, August 22, 2006

Citigroup Invesment Research and World Resources Institute, Investing in Solutions to Climate Change
Citigroup Research, June 12, 2006

International Council on Mining and Metals, Climate Change Position Statement
May 2006

Munich Re, Hurricanes-More frequent, more intense, more expensive: Insurance in a time of changing risk
May 2006

Annual Review: Natural catastrophes 2005
Munich Re, May 2006

Ruth Greenspan Bell, What to Do About Climate Change
Foreign Affairs, May/June 2006

Corporate Governance and Climate Change
Ceres, March 2006

Ruth Greenspan Bell, Market Failure
The Environmental Forum, March/April 2006

Ruth Greenspan Bell, The Kyoto Placebo
Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 2006

Ford Climate Change Report (press release)

World Council of Churches, Statement to the High Level Segment of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP11/MOP1)
December 9, 2005

Evan Mills et al, Availability and Affordability of Insurance Under Climate Change: A Growing Challenge
Ceres, December 2005

Paul Epstein and Evan Mills, Climate Change is Hazardous to Your Health
Forbes.com, November 16, 2005

Pew Center on Global Climate Change, International Climate Efforts Beyond 2012-Report of The Climate Dialogues at Pocantico
November 2005

K.S.  Lackner and J.D. Sachs, A robust strategy for sustainable energy use, In W.L. Brainard and G.L. Perry, ed. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity September 22, 2005  

Consensus Statements on Climate Change

Urgent Request to the Global Community and Its Representatives 3C: Combat Climate Change- A Business Leaders Initiative, January 2007

A Call for Action: Consensus Principles and Recommendations from the US Climate Action Partnership, A Business and NGO Partnership
USCAP, January 2007

Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action
Evangelical Climate Initiative, January, 2006

Joint science academies' statement: Global response to climate change
June 2005

Oreskes, Naomi, The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
Science, December 2004

Statement by Robert W. Correll, Chair of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment before the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, United States Senate
November 16, 2004

Scientific Consensus Statement on the Likely Impacts of Climate Change on the Pacific Northwest
June 15, 2004