How can governments get the public on board with net zero?

Institute for Government

Speakers: Darren Jones MP, Chair of the House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee Chris Stark, Chief Executive of the Climate Change Committee Rebecca Willis, Professor in Practice at Lancaster University and expert lead for Climate Assembly UK Diarmuid Torney, Associate Professor at Dublin City University and expert adviser for the Irish Citizen's Assembly on Climate Change Chaired by Emma Norris, Director of Research at the Institute for Government. This event was part of the Institute for Government's international one-day virtual conference looking at the route to net zero ahead of COP26, the United Nations climate change summit that the UK will host in Glasgow in November. With many countries having adopted targets, the conference explored the challenges they will face in delivering them identified in the Institute's recent report on net zero, which you can find on our website: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/net-zero Find out more about our IfG Delivering Net Zero conference: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/events/delivering-net-zero