Governments are being urged to set ambitious climate plans by a group including Ikea and Unilever as concerns rise that politicians are weakening measures to tackle global warming amid a growing “greenlash”.
A coalition of businesses, mayors, governors and investors calling themselves Mission 2025 has formed in support of robust climate action and is backed by former UN diplomat Christiana Figueres.
Figueres, who oversaw the UN’s climate change arm at the time of the landmark 2015 Paris agreement to tackle rising global temperatures, told the Financial Times that Mission 2025 aimed to rebut the view that moving faster on tackling the climate crisis was “too difficult, too unpopular or too expensive”.