Sainsbury’s to sponsor COP26 climate summit in Glasgow

Sainsbury’s joins SSE, Sky, Scottish Power, NatWest Group and National Grid as Principal Partners for UN climate change summit

From: Cabinet Office and The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP

• Sainsbury’s joins SSE, Sky, Scottish Power, NatWest Group and National Grid as Principal Partners for UN climate change summit COP26 in Glasgow
• Sainsbury’s has committed £1bn over 20 years to become net zero by 2040 and recently set science-based targets to reduce emissions across their value chain by 30% by 2030.
• UK businesses continue to show commitment in pushing forward climate action

Sainsbury’s has been announced as a new

Speech Watching the wolf: Why the climate emergency threatens us all

 Opening remarks by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency at the Association of British Insurers’ Annual Conference, 23 February 2021

From: Environment Agency and Sir James Bevan

Delivered on:

23 February 2021 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered)

What they teach you at Harvard Business School is that the main thing is to make sure the main thing really is the main thing. There is only one main thing: the climate emergency.

It is the main thing because it affects everything

Climate emergency impacts hitting “worst case scenario” levels

As the Government's roadmap out of lockdown is announced the Environment Agency chief calls for same effort in tackling the “unseen pandemic”

From:

Environment Agency

Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency

The UK is seeing the impacts of the climate emergency hitting “worst case scenario” levels with more extreme weather and flooding, Environment Agency chief executive Sir James Bevan has warned today (Tuesday 23 February) as he urged action to reduce emissions and adapt to the effects of climate change ahead of COP26.

Sir James has set out the increasing challenge