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Climate Action

Green Skills Are Not Optional: Insights and Provocations from the Santander Roundtable

As the UK races toward net zero, a quiet crisis is unfolding: we don’t yet have the workforce to get us there. That was the urgent message from Santander UK’s recent roundtable at the Climate Innovation Forum on green skills, where leaders from business, education, and government gathered to confront the challenge and imagine what comes next.

14 July 2025

How Clean Energy Finance Supports Sustainable Growth

Sustainable finance is critical in working towards global net-zero goals. As one of the largest banks in the world, with a presence spanning both developed and developing markets, Santander recognises the need to support the UK Government’s Clean Power 2030 initiative. The Bank is working with clients to power renewable energy and clean technology in the UK and globally.

08 July 2025

Day 1 round up from the Sustainable Innovation Forum 2021

Following a week of significant progress at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, the Sustainable Innovation Forum in the Climate Action Innovation Zone opened Monday with three days of discussion focused on how high-level commitments made by world leaders can be delivered effectively on the ground.

09 November 2021

Climate Action announces “Forest of Hope” to mark COP26

A new woodland stretching across the border between Aberdeenshire and Moray will be a legacy of the Glasgow climate summit. It is a collaboration led by Highlands Rewilding, a new nature-recovery company intent on mass ownership of expanding wildland in Scotland, and The Cabrach Trust, a rural regeneration charity.

01 November 2021