Round-up of CISL media coverage - COP29
Spokespeople from CISL appeared in broadcast media interviews, wrote opinion pieces and were mentioned in news articles published in a range of publications, as world leaders gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan, for COP29.
CISL’s interim CEO, Lindsay Hooper, wrote an op-ed published by Reuters: Comment: How governments at COP29 can unleash the power of the private sector to achieve net zero
The co-chairs of the UK Corporate Leaders Group, Sophie Miremadi and Alex O’dell, authored a piece which appeared in edie: CISL at COP29: Climate action will continue because it makes business sense
Lindsay represented CISL in this New Statesman piece: How to make Cop29 a success
Eliot Whittington, CISL’s Chief Systems Change Officer, took part in a series of broadcast interviews for the BBC:
- BBC1’s BBC Breakfast on BBC 1 on 10 November
- BBC News 24, 10 November
- BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast show on 11 November
- BBC Radio 5 Live Stephen Nolan show on 17 November
Dr Nina Seega, the Director of CISL’s Centre for Sustainable Finance, was quoted in a piece published by France 24/AFP: COP29: tensions sur la finance climatique, le Bangladais Yunus déplore une bataille "humiliante"
She also appeared on Sky News and Times Radio.
Beverly Cornaby, Director of the UK Corporate Leaders Group (convened by CISL), was another spokesperson to be interviewed live on Sky News.
CISL was mentioned in this BusinessGreen article: 'Walking the walk': Business leaders welcome UK's new climate target
Tsvetelina Kuzmanova, one of CISL Europe’s finance experts, was quoted in the Politico newsletter on 12 November.
Research conducted by the Aviation Impact Accelerator (AIA) was featured in this article which appeared on the BBC News website’s homepage: Cheap fix floated for contrail plane vapour's climate impact
One of the UK Corporate Leaders Group’s COP29 events was mentioned in Politico’sPlaybook newsletter.
Representatives of members of the Corporate Leaders Group, Velux and Ingka Group, were quoted in this Times article: Our interest in climate change hasn’t cooled, business chiefs insist.