Explainers

Read Deloitte's Financing the UK energy transition blog from March 2025, which uses an investor survey to decipher what is required for companies to hit their decarbonisation targets and reach the next step in their energy transition journey.

This article summarises Adair Turner, chair of the Energy Transitions Commission's, annual net-zero progress assessment talk in a Q&A style.

Read this summary from the latest Banking and Capital Markets update webinar, hosted by Chapter Zero and the Deloitte Academy, where we explored the latest developments in the landscape for transition plans and transition finance, how the banking sector is assessing the risks they are exposed to, and how they are leveraging their risk management processes to identify financing opportunities.

This article from Carbon Brief, written 30 July 2024, covers new net zero transition research which calculates that meeting sectoral climate targets out to 2037 could result in at least £164bn worth of benefits in six UK urban centres, from Belfast to Manchester.

This GARP podcast episode with Emma Howard Boyd CBE, Chair of the London Climate Resilience Review, tackles Urban Resilience and how our cities must adapt to climate change.

Read the summary from the Chapter Zero and Deloitte Academy webinar, which draws on insights from the Deloitte Academy's recent survey of UK energy and infrastructure companies. We delve into strategies to expedite the UK's energy transition and consider the key elements of this transformation, including the interplay between infrastructure companies, energy-intensive consumers, investors, policymakers, customers, and the supply chain.

If you follow sustainability and climate topics, you’ve probably heard the term net zero thrown around. Still puzzled? McKinsey & Company looks at net zero.

This summary highlights the main points in the April 2022 IPCC Working Group III report, and what it means for non-executive directors.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s February 2022 report concludes that the impacts of climate change are severe, but that humanity can still avoid many of them if it seizes “a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity”. This summary highlights the main points in the report, and what it means for non-executive directors.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s August 2021 report shows that human activity is unequivocally driving changes to the climate at an unprecedented scale. The science indicates there is still time to limit temperature rises, but only if we act now, and with ambition.