Monday 22 June 2026 8:48 am

The world needs an answer on climate finance – it’s London

By: Susan Langley

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The UK is the largest market globally for project-level financing for clean energy, the biggest in Europe for private investment in green tech, and has topped the global green finance centre rankings for eight consecutive edition, says Dame Susan Langley

As the City of London Corporation marks the fifth instalment of the Net Zero Delivery Summit this week, I reflect on the world we were in back in 2022. Only four years ago businesses and communities were recovering from Covid, war had returned to the European continent with the invasion of Ukraine, and surging fuel and food prices were driving global inflation to historic levels. Since then, global instability has only deepened, with conflict in the Middle East and tariff wars disrupting global trade. 

We have to face a difficult truth that the relative stability among major powers that has defined the period since the Second World War – what the historian John Lewis Gaddis called the Long Peace – was actually........

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