It’s exactly three years since the United Nations came to Glasgow to hold its COP26 conference on climate change. It was exhilarating to see so many countries come together in Scotland’s largest city to deliver tangible progress and momentum towards tackling the climate crisis.

Progress since however has not always been smooth. The economic and social hangover from Covid and the subsequent conflict in Ukraine and resulting cost-of-living crunch – amongst other global factors – have often taken up the focus and energies of policymakers.

However, from the outset retailers were clear about the route forward and the need to build the net-zero retail industry of tomorrow, regardless of the myriad immediate pressures facing the sector. Solid progress has been made towards fulfilling the industry’s ambition, set out the year before COP26 in the Retail Consortium’s Climate Action Roadmap, to make the sector and its supply chains carbon neutral by 2040.

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