More than nine out of ten Chartered Accountants and finance professionals believe accountants have an important role to play in climate change, and there is broad optimism within the profession about the measures agreed during the recent COP26 summit. However, confidence in political and business leaders to deliver on the necessary change is considerably lower, and it seems unlikely many organisations will achieve their net zero goals by 2030.

In this series of extracts from Chartered Accountants Worldwide's webinar "Making Cop26 Count", David Nussbaum examines the legacy of the Climate summit and how we should engage with its tenets in the future.

This episode features Mavis Mainu and Wen-Yu Weng. 

Mavis joined Climate Analytics in September 2020 as Executive Assistant to the CEO, Bill Hare. In her role she provides organisational, conceptual and planning support to the CEO’s office.

Wen-Yu Weng (she/her) is a consultant and strategist in low carbon energy and infrastructure. She works across a wide range of commercial, economic, financial, technical and regulatory issues in energy, sustainability and climate change. Through her work, she engages with stakeholders across the entire ecosystem of energy and infrastructure: innovators, suppliers, developers, investors, consumers, international organizations, non-profits/civil society, and governments. Her project experience spans across renewable, low-carbon generation technologies, storage, green hydrogen, low carbon mobility and infrastructure, and systems/networks of the future.