Endorsements
The Aldersgate Group is an incredibly important organisation and it is a fantastic campaigning organisation for Government to go further and faster on a range of issues.
Ed Miliband MP
Leader of the Labour Party
I am delighted to be a member of the Aldersgate Group and look forward to promoting policies that maximise economic, social and environmental benefit equally, as well as being a critical friend to its diverse membership.
Caroline Lucas MP
Green Party
We need a policy framework that supports environmental sustainability and investment in low carbon technology. The Aldersgate Group has both the people and the ideas to help deliver that.
Richard Evans, President
PepsiCo UK & Ireland
We value the work of the Aldersgate Group very highly – it forms an important part of our evidence base, and has helped to shape our thinking and recommendations
David Kennedy, Chief Executive, Committee on Climate Change
The Aldersgate Group has a distinguished record in promoting coordination between industry, environmental groups and government to deliver sustainable solutions for our economy.
Peter Ainsworth
Former Shadow Defra Minister
The Aldersgate Group is wonderfully effective in promoting the interdependence of economic sustainability and a healthy environment and builds on a broad spectrum of professional expertise to make a robust case for action.
Pamela Castle OBE, former Chair of the Environmental Law Foundation
The Aldersgate Group puts a powerful, evidence-based case for good regulation to drive green growth; and with a uniquely broad coalition behind it, there is real hope that a just transition, with decent jobs at its heart, is possible.
Frances O’Grady
General Secretary, TUC
The Aldersgate Group has been at the forefront of bringing together the worlds of policymaking and business and charting ways in which we can move towards a low carbon economy and society.
Lord Smith of Finsbury
Chairman of the Environment Agency
The absolute fiasco about the reporting guidelines is one that we simply should not have had and for me the work done by the Aldersgate Group eventually brought reason to bear inside DECC.
Jonathon Porritt
I think the work that the Aldersgate Group has done has been genuinely progressive and path breaking.
Greg Clark MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury
I really value the Aldersgate Group's efforts to bring business and government together.
Lord de Mauley, Defra Under Secretary
The Aldersgate Group and its members really helped inform, nourish, sustain and drive forward the progressive thinking in Opposition that ultimately has informed our Manifesto. It has played an important part in getting us to where we are now, underpinning our ambition to be the greenest government ever, and critically, helping inform the quite extensive set of policy tools that will make or break that very bold ambition.
Greg Barker MP, Minister of State for Climate Change
At precisely the time when policymakers, business, innovators and custodians of our planet need to codesign a greenprint to sustain our planet, the Aldersgate Group is there to point us all in the right direction. We should recognise and use the vision and expertise of its members.
Joan Walley MP, Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee
The Aldersgate Group is remarkably effective at reaching across political party lines and providing a persuasive voice for those interested in practical measures to help the UK move at speed and scale towards a low carbon economy.
Abyd Karmali, Managing Director
Global Head of Carbon Markets
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Aldersgate Group publications and events are important reference points for anyone keen to understand different perspectives in a debate, and interested in getting answers not just problems.
Jon Kimber, Managing Director
British Gas New Energy
The Aldersgate Group has done some essential work highlighting the role of finance in the transition to a low carbon economy and has been central in drawing this to the attention of key policymakers.
Emma Howard Boyd, Director
Jupiter Asset Management
The Aldersgate Group is a strong, progressive business voice doing excellent work to promote the economic importance of strong environmental standards.
Andy Atkins, Executive Director
Friends of the Earth
BT is delighted to be a founder member of the Aldersgate Group, which always produces well reasoned positions which are strengthened by a membership drawn from business, parliament and NGOs.
Gavin Patterson
Chief Executive, BT Retail
The Aldersgate Group is a key organisation which allows Veolia Environmental Services to engage with all major actors, public and private, on environmental issues.
Jean-Dominique Mallet
Chief Executive Officer, UK & Ireland
Veolia Environmental Services
From small beginnings the Aldersgate Group has rapidly grown into an influential alliance of leaders from business, politics and society and a powerful advocate of the importance of green growth for economic success.