Victoria Gillespie of JTC ESG Services, Aviva Investors' Steve Waygood and GAM Investment's Stephanie Maier on what to expect at the summit in October.
Stephanie Maier, global head of sustainable and impact investment at GAM Investments Climate change is a systemic risk to our planet and therefore also to the wider financial ecosystem. COP26 is a crucial opportunity to focus the minds of both policymakers and the financial sector on how they can work together to deliver positive environmental, social and investment outcomes. We are seeing incredible momentum in the run up to the delayed COP26 negotiations, with legally binding net zero commitments from governments, asset owners and asset managers, but there is more work to be done....
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