PGIM Fixed Income's Unanyants-Jackson: 'Overall, COP26 has been quite disappointing'

Views on the climate summit

Eugenia Unanyants-Jackson, head of ESG research at PGIM Fixed Income, talks to Pedro Gonçalves in Glasgow about the pledges coming out of COP26, the need for quality data and SFDR.

Has COP26 been a success so far or did you expected more from the climate summit? There has definitely been some progress in terms of pledges and targets but overall, it is quite disappointing. And particularly disappointing because all of this pledges are too back-ended. They are all for 2050, 2060 and 2070, and what would make a big difference is understanding more of the near-term goals. For us, we want to see what is going to happen in the next decade. To get to net zero the most important actions need to happen between now and 2030. So you would say the pledges are not enough? Q...