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Peter A Walker

COP26 president urges financial industry to go 'faster and further' in tackling climate crisis

Both the president of the COP26 conference and Scotland's minister in charge of net zero have urged renewed internal action and external investment from financial services firms to tackle the climate crisis.

Addressing the Ethical Finance Global 2022 event, held at Royal Bank of Scotland's Gogarburn campus, Alok Sharma MPs spoke about what's changed in the months since the global summit in Glasgow.

He described that month last November as "tough but incredibly rewarding" and hailed the financial services industry for recognising the scale of the climate challenge - and stepping up to meet it with commitments to the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ).

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