Don’t wait for the politicians at COP to define the future of our planet

As the COP26 climate change conference draws to a close in Glasgow, Louise Nash and Katie Glasgow-Palmer have a call to action for business leaders to be far more ambitious than their political counterparts.

To say that COP26 makes us feel uncomfortable is an understatement. I suspect you might be getting pretty uncomfortable too.

New Zealanders are known to be a practically-minded group of people, and amorphous goals like net zero by 2050 can be pretty intangible. With such long timeframes, these government pledges can often appear out of reach and easily pushed out of mind to be dealt with some other day by someone else.

The announcement that, despite increased commitments in Glasgow, “the world is heading to at least 2.4 ̊C of warming, if not more” should unequivocally encourage us all to make the shifts to create a different reality for life on planet earth.

But will we?

We can and we must - here in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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