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Big investors demand action at COP26: ‘We can use our influence and powers’

The City’s biggest firms including BNY Mellon, Schroders, Hermes and Aviva called for a clampdown on the world’s biggest polluters

Slipping away: Many see the COP26 summit in Glasgow as a last chance to check global warming
Slipping away: Many see the COP26 summit in Glasgow as a last chance to check global warming Photo: Reuters

Some of the City of London’s most influential investors are seizing on the COP26 event in Glasgow this week to call for less talk and more action on climate change.

They’re urging a clampdown on the world’s biggest polluters and a push for wider adoption of net-zero targets.

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