For business, tackling climate change is both a necessity and a huge opportunity. This creates a huge new opportunity for British business nationally and internationally. We have to step up to the challenge. (2006)

—James Smith, Chairman of Shell UK

[Global warming] is an issue that we must address today if we are going to avert cataclysmic changes that could affect us all by 2050. ... It is time to move from denial to action. (2005)

—Paul Anderson, Chairman and CEO, Duke Energy Corp.

As leaders of major global companies representing a broad range of industries, we share the belief that climate change poses one of the most significant challenges of the 21st century. ... We agree that the science is sufficiently compelling to warrant action by both the private and public sector, and we acknowledge that, because of the cumulative nature and long residence time of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, action must be initiated now. (2005)

—Statement of G8 Climate Change Roundtable, World Economic Forum 2005
ABB, Fred Kindle, CEO
Alcan, Travis Engen, President and CEO
BP, John Browne, Group Chief Executive
British Airways, Martin Broughton, Chairman
BT, Ben Verwaayen, CEO
Cinergy, James E. Rogers, Chairman, President & CEO
Cisco, Robert Lloyd, President, Operations, Europe, Middle East, Africa
Deloitte, John Connolly, CEO, UK and Global Managing Director, Deloitte, Touche Tohmatsu
Deutsche Bank, Tessen von Heydebreck, Member of the Board of Managing Directors
E.ON, Burckhard Bergmann, Chairman of the Executive Board and Member of the Board
EADS, François Auque, Head of Space Division
EdF, Pierre Gadonneix, Chairman and CEO
Eskom, Reuel J. Khoza, Non-Executive Chairman
Ford, William Clay Ford, Chairman and CEO
HP, Mark Hurd, President and CEO
HSBC, Sir John Bond, Group Chairman
RAO UESR, Anatoly B. Chubais, CEO
Rio Tinto, Paul Skinner, Chairman
Siemens, Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO
Swiss Re, Jacques Aigrain, Deputy CEO
Toyota, Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Vice Chairman
Vattenfall, Lars G. Josefsson, President and CEO
Volkswagen, Bernd Pischetsrieder, Chairman of the Board of Management

We can't ignore mounting scientific evidence on important issues such as climate change. The science may be provisional. All science is provisional. But if you see a risk you have to take precautionary action just as you would in any other aspect of business.

—Sir John Browne, CEO of British Petroleum

As corporate leaders representing a broad cross-section of the Canadian economy, we believe that all governments, corporations, consumers and citizens have responsibilities under the Kyoto Protocol.

We accept the IPCC consensus that climate change raises the risk of severe consequences for human health and security and the environment. We note that Canada is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

The world must act urgently to stabilize the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and minimize the global impacts of climate change.

We need a strategy now for the next 50 years, with short and medium-term targets to guide us. Governments must set clear markers along the way to unleash competitive market forces and allow the discovery of a long-term value for carbon emission reductions. Only then will we secure the deep reductions needed to prevent human interference with the climate system. (2005)

—Letter to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, signed by the following CEOs: Travis Engen, Alcan; Bob Elton, BC Hydro; Laurent Beaudoin, Bombardier; Russel Horner, Catalyst Paper; Alban D'Amours, Desjardins Group; Doug Muzyka, E.I. Dupont Canada; Derek Pannell, Falconbridge; John R. Wells, Interface Americas; Brian Foody, Iogen; Jack Cogen, Natsource Asset Management; Andre Desmarais, Power Corp.; Clive Mather, Shell Canada; Frank Dottori, Tembec; George Cooke, Dominion of Canada General Insurance; Greg Hanson, Wawanesa Mutual Insurance. It is also signed by: John Murray, president, CH2M HILL; Annette Verschuren, president, Home Depot Canada; and David Wilmot, chair, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction