London Mayor: UK Tops Green Finance Rankings for Eighth Straight Year

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The City of London Corporation commemorated the fifth Net Zero Delivery Summit amid ongoing global challenges such as the Ukraine war, Middle East conflict, and global inflation driven by rising fuel and food prices. The UK has maintained its top position in green finance rankings for the eighth consecutive year despite these disruptions.

As the City of London Corporation marks the fifth instalment of the Net Zero Delivery Summit this week, I reflect on the world we were in back in 2022. Only four years ago businesses and communities were recovering from Covid, war had returned to the European continent with the invasion of Ukraine, and surging fuel and food prices were driving global inflation to historic levels. Since then, global instability has only deepened, with conflict in the Middle East and tariff wars disrupting global trade.  We have to face a difficult truth that…