This event will take place after a busy autumn of net zero strategies, a budget and COP26. It will ask how the government should adapt the tax system to reach net zero and whether the budget was a missed opportunity, look at the steps being taken in other countries, and set out how to overcome the barriers – political and otherwise – to reform.

PUBLIC EVENT It is hard to under-estimate the importance of COP26 for reaching global agreement on decarbonisation pathways and financing packages that match the urgency and scale of the climate crisis. In the wake of COP26, our final Ask the Engineers panel will review what has been achieved at the [...]

In this public, livestreamed debate, Science|Business will bring together leading figures from the worlds of policy, science and industry to reflect on the outcomes from Glasgow, and to discuss their implications for European science and technology in the months ahead.