UK - Financial groups in the front of fight against climate change

Climate change may be the only policy area capable of snatching Britons’ attention from Brexit. This month the UK Committee on Climate Change recommended a net-zero emissions target by 2050 and parliament declared a climate emergency; in April, the protest group Extinction Rebellion caused widespread disruption in London and 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg met British politicians.

These signals are like the tip of an iceberg: they are the obvious signs of the shift that began among financial policymakers several years ago, driven by the Paris Climate Agreement of 2016.