Three key takeaways for business from the CBI’s Achieving net-zero conference, including how businesses are responding to the challenges of climate change and the pandemic.
At the CBI’s Achieving net-zero conference, Sarah Breeden (Bank of England), Ian Simm (Impax Asset Management) and Sir Adrian Montague (The CityUK Leadership Council) spoke about how the financial sector can support corporate action on climate change. The session also focused on how businesses are responding to the twin challenges of climate change and the pandemic; as well as how corporate action can help to deliver a step-change in low-carbon investment and building resilience to future threats.
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Breaking down ‘build back better’
The government has outlined its aim to ‘build back better’ following the pandemic. The panellists agreed this is an ambitious and important objective, and that government needs to work with the business community on turning this objective in to more concrete plans. This could mean ensuring that net-zero is at the centre of thinking about how the UK adapts to
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