COP will be judged over decades rather than individual summits

Progress too slow

The UN’s Conference of Parties (COP) process is a generation old.

My first direct experience of these annual summits was when I attended COP5 in Bonn in 1999 and, after each I'm usually asked to comment on what that year's COP means for investors. To me, this question is too narrow. History will judge the COP process over decades, not individual years. That said, no one is under any illusion. History isn't judging the COP process well so far. ESMA to introduce rules on ESG fund names to tackle greenwashing Granted, there are turning points and each conference seeks to raise important issues to build on work done so far. The need to consider "loss...