Gabriel Sacks looks at China's improbably path to net zero and says it should be on investors' radar...
In 2021, during a virtual summit held amid the chaos of the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the world's most powerful figures declared his nation "a trailblazer in global ecological conservation". He went on to urge all of humanity to "respect nature, follow its laws and protect it". Who was this strident champion of sustainability? Was it Joe Biden, who returned the US to the Paris Agreement on climate change after his predecessor's shock withdrawal? Was it Boris Johnson, who would later pledge to invest £10bn in energy efficiency and heat pumps in the space of just three years? Was it Emanu...
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