The Energy and Climate Focus Area provides WBCSD members with a platform to engage with their peers and stakeholders in energy and climate,  to address critical industry issues and to share ways to solutions.

The project delivers business input to the design and implementation of the post-Kyoto climate architecture through an active involvement into international processes. 

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WBCSD messages related to the COP 18/CMP 8 negotiations in Doha

• Governments need to set significant ambition to drive change to reach the “2°C goal” in the framework of the Durban Platform and a post-2020 agreement. National targets and policies supported by the international architecture will feed that ambition through:

• The internalization of the carbon externality costs of mitigation and adaptation, across the whole economy as part of comprehensive “Natural Capital” accounting which needs to be developed and implemented
• The mobilization of finance at scale for investment in global energy-system transformation, enabled by a clear and appropriate price (direct and indirect) on carbon emissions a set in the WBCSD supported Carbon Price Communiqué
• The elaboration of sound adaptation policies which will provide regionally specific information, develop partnerships and capacity building and implement resilience plans

• Doha should set a signal for this ambition and practical progress on institutions (GCF, Technology Mechanism, NAMAs) which will help countries and businesses to act NOW with ambitious national policies and multilateral actions, and so contributing to overcome the current economic downturn through new jobs and growth.

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