Combat Climate Change (3C) is business leaders’ initiative endorsed and actively promoted by the top executives of 66 of the world’s largest corporations.

The main objective of 3C is to support the UNFCCC-led negotiation process to establish a new global agreement on climate change, and to mobilize companies and business leaders across the world to contribute knowledge, resources and leadership to this common goal.

The 3C Initiative was launched on January 11, 2007 by a statement appealing to the global community and all its representatives to join forces with business leaders around a common vision of a low-emitting, sustainable society ,and to cooperate to create a roadmap that leads to its realization.. Participants in the 3C initiative believe that this is truly ‘mission possible’ and that success will depend on market-based solutions.

Since the start, the 3C initiative has developed and communicated several sets of policy recommendations with respect to a new global climate change agreement including:

The priorities of the 3C initiative include an active and constructive dialogue with global policy makers across the world in support of the UN-process. The group has therefore had numerous formal and informal interactions with government representatives of the major economies and the chairs of the 2008 and 2009 COP meetings.

3C has also accepted the responsibility to mobilise the global business community, and in particular business in the developing economies, to take an active role in combating climate change and to show strong support for political leadership on the issue. Example of activities with this purpose is a series of roundtable discussion on climate change with top business executives from leading companies in the most important developing economies such as India, China and South-Africa. .

In order to contribute to a clear and consistent input from the global business community on how to combat climate change, The 3C initiative collaborates with a number of other business initiatives including The Copenhagen Climate Council, World Business Council On Sustainable Development (WBCSD), The Climate group, UN Global Compact, The Club of Madrid and the World Economic Forum – Climate Initiative.

The coordination of the 3C initiative is handled by a small secretariat hosted by the Swedish energy company Vattenfall.