WE WILL REMAIN
A Business Initiative on Climate (IEC) support the movement We Are Still In led by We Mean Business. We will maintain our commitment and our full support for actions to comply with the Paris Agreement.
The IEC played a key and essential role in 2015, coordinating and mobilizing Brazilian companies to support the processes of drafting both the Paris Agreement and Brazil’s nationally determined contribution (NDC). We also supported actions that we believe are essential for promoting a low-carbon economy. We mobilized senior leaders, both from companies and the federal government, to strengthen the collective efforts needed to ensure that the increase in the average global temperature on the Earth’s surface does not exceed recommended limits.
We believe that, with the United States withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, it becomes even more urgent to strengthen and coordinate all the actions of civil society, companies and governments that are so vehemently opposed to this decision and convinced of remaining committed to building a low-carbon economy. We understand that this effort is essential to guarantee a safe future for future generations.
As a Brazilian business sector, we will seek to strengthen this mobilization, which we will take to the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change during COP23 in Bonn.
CEBDS – CDP – GVces – Envolverde – Ethos Institute – UN Global Compact
