With global warming set to climb the political agenda again this autumn as the one-year anniversary of the Paris climate conference approaches, the new head of investor research at CDP, a charity whose mission is to enlist the City in the fight against climate change, tells FN about his plans.

Climate change will be on the agenda of the G20 leaders' summit in Hangzhou, China from September 4 to September 5, and on August 30, the insurers Aviva, Aegon and MS Amlin issued a joint statement calling for the leaders to announce the abandonment of all subsidies for fossil fuel producers.