WPP at COP26

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WPP at COP26

This year’s annual United Nations Climate Change Conference brings together governments, NGOs, thinktanks and business in Glasgow to discuss the world’s greatest challenge and agree actions to accelerate our climate transition.

Saving our planet is now a communications challenge. We know what to do, we just need the will.

Sir David Attenborough

Marketing and communications have the power to shift opinion and change behaviour at the scale needed for a more sustainable future.

As an industry we have a role to play with our clients, partners and suppliers in promoting low-impact, sustainable and regenerative living. WPP has set its own industry-leading net zero target, and is working with our clients to help provide more sustainable ways of living through new business models or product innovation.

Find out more about WPP at COP26 and watch our live panel with summit host, the UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change).

Responsible consumption and production as a transition accelerator

WPP’s COP26 UNFCCC panel discusses how business innovation can help consumers lead more sustainable lives – with Google’s CFO Ruth Porat, Reckitt’s CEO Laxman Narasimhan, the UNFCCC’s Deputy Executive Secretary Ovais Sarmad, and WPP’s CEO Mark Read, moderated by Bloomberg Television’s Maria Tadeo.

Climate crisis: the greatest creative challenge

Mark Read speaks at the Advertising Association’s Ad Net Zero Global Summit on why creativity can play a critical role in tackling the climate crisis, how our industry is innovating to accelerate the transition and where we must do more.

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How WPP is helping efforts to get to net zero

Our CEO Mark Read talks to Bloomberg TV from COP26 in Glasgow about the role WPP and its clients are playing in the fight against climate change.

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