Companies are talking about the climate crisis but it’s just hot air

A new survey has found that only a small minority of firms have gotten as far as putting plans in place to mitigate the risks from such a seismic problem, writes James Moore

Only 8 per cent of businesses are prepared (Getty)

Talk is cheap and when it comes to the climate crisis the business community has been doing an awful lot of talking.

It’s an argument I’ve been making for a long time, and the response I usually get from business types is that, no, you’re wrong. We’re super serious about it and we’re engaging with the issue at board level.

Read the Corporate & Social Responsibility (CSR) section in our annual report (pretty please, the poor person works really hard on it and gets loads of grief from our psychopath head of comms so it’d be nice if someone acknowledged their effort).