SEB’s The Green Bond Report: COP26 – a Qualified Success
The UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow is now over, and the jury is still out on whether it was a success or a failure or something in between. In the latest edition of SEB’s The Green Bond report, we look closer at the outcome of COP26 and more specifically, at an issue that the summit failed to address – the insufficient investments in renewable energy. “COP26 was in our view at best a qualified success,” says Thomas Thygesen, Head of Research, Climate & Sustainable Finance, at SEB. “A number of pledges were agreed upon, including on coal, methane and deforestation. The