Climate Change Committee report highlights UK climate goal challenge

Responding to today’s “Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk” report from the Climate Change Committee (CCC), IFoA President-elect Louise Pryor, said:

“This report highlights the work the UK needs to do to meet its climate goals across government, regulation, business and through its citizens. The IFoA is committed, through the work of its members and policy engagement with government in the public interest, to play its full part in meeting the challenges faced by the existential threat of climate change.

“As a professional body we believe that we have a duty to ensure our profession, individually and collectively, is aware of the challenge and increasingly equipped and skilled to contribute to solutions that will benefit society. This report is a welcome reminder of this imperative.

“Last year the IFoA put in place a climate strategy to guide our work in the coming years. This will co-ordinate and drive actuaries’ professional approach to the risks - financial and non-financial - that our clients and the world face. We are a founder signatory of the Green Finance Education Charter. For some years we have been supporting our members with resources to develop their climate skills, and this work will continue to accelerate. We are deeply committed to collaboration with other organisations, as only through working together can we hope to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.”

~ENDS~

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