Active Update – COP21: What Does Tomorrow Look Like?
David Sheasby, Head of Governance and Sustainability at Martin Currie, gives his views on climate change in Paris
Feb 8, 2016 2:45 PM ET
Originally featured on Martin Currie's Active Library
The COP21 climate change talks in Paris last December have been heralded as a major success. United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, summed up the two weeks of negotiations by saying 'the work starts tomorrow' – but what does tomorrow look like? As the dust settles on the ‘Paris Agreement', how does the plan to reduce the world’s dependence on carbon fuels and to limit global warming to 'well below' 2 degrees Celsius affect the way we invest our clients' money? David Sheasby, Head of Governance and Sustainability at Martin Currie gives his views.