What do governments need to do to deliver net zero?

Institute for Government

Speakers: Michel Colombier, Scientific Director at the Institute for Sustainable Development (Paris), member of the High Council on Climate and former Senior Adviser to the French Energy Minister Michael Liebreich, CEO of Liebreich Associates, founder of New Energy Finance and former member of the Clinton Initiative Energy and Climate Working Group Advisory Board Tim Lord, Senior Fellow, Net Zero at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and former Director for Clean Growth at BEIS Rachel Skinner, President of the Institution of Civil Engineers Chaired by Tom Sasse, Associate Director 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