The trillions in our pension pots could be key to tackling the climate crisis | Richard Curtis
Ahead of Cop26, the UK could take the lead in diverting investments away from carbon emitters
- Richard Curtis is a filmmaker and activist
Someone said something really striking to me the other day – that weather used to be the last thing on the news, but now it’s the first. And it’s not good news. Fire, floods, drought – climate change in terrible and obvious action. It made me think of something I’ve been increasingly obsessed by – unexpectedly – which is pensions. Pensions used to be the last thing on our minds, certainly not something to talk about at lunch, but to help tackle the climate crisis, they actually should now be the first.
With delegates from across the world gathering in Glasgow this November for Cop26 – the most important climate negotiations for a generation – pensions should be right at the heart of the conversation. They can be a huge and radical agent for change: a powerful weapon in our armoury for the battle against the climate crisis.
