July 1, 2021 – UK Business Climate Leaders’ Summit
CLG UK
Ahead of COP26, President Alok Sharma has called on all businesses to sign up to the Race to Zero. The UK Business Group Alliance for Net Zero (BGA), led by the Corporate Leaders Group UK (CLG UK), is seeking to support this by accelerating sign up and climate action by UK businesses to Race to Zero. This webinar will provide a point on the road to COP26 that showcases UK businesses already taking ambitious climate action through committing to Race to Zero and explores the actions UK businesses can take to contribute to the UK meeting its ambitious net zero targets.
With keynote speeches from:
- The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP, COP26 President (TBC)
- Dr Enass Abo-Hamed, CEO, H2GO Power, and One Young World Ambassador
- Dr Emily Shuckburgh OBE, Director, Cambridge Zero
- Emma Howard Boyd CBE, Chair, Environment Agency (EA) and UK Commissioner to the Global Commission on Adaptation
- Alberto Carrillo Pineda, Co-Founder and Steering Committee Member of the Science Based Targets, CDP
- Andrew Griffith MP, The UK’s Net Zero Business Champion
- Gonzalo Muñoz, High-Level Climate Action Champion, UN Climate Change Conference COP25
- Ken Murphy, CEO, Tesco
Speakers including:
- Clare Shine (Chair), Director and CEO, CISL
- Eliot Whittington, Director, UK Corporate Leaders Group
- Emma Pinchbeck, Chief Executive, Energy UK
- Helen Clarkson, CEO, The Climate Group
- Julie Hirigoyen, CEO, UKGBC
- Amanda Mackenzie OBE, Chief Executive, Business in the Community
- Gabrielle Giner, Head of Environmental Sustainability, BT Group
- Wouter van Tol, Head of Government, Community Affairs and Sustainability, DS Smith
- Marija Rompani, Partner & Director of Sustainability & Ethics, John Lewis Partnership
- Ben Wielgus, Head of Sustainability, Informa plc
- Andreas Ahrens, Head of Climate, Inter IKEA Group
- Andy Gomarsall MBE, Executive Chairman, N2S
- Christopher Nieper OBE, Managing Director, David Nieper
More speakers to be announced.