Reading West MP, Alok Sharma, wins Business Green Leaders Award

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Stephen Emerson

The Member of Parliament for Reading West, Alok Sharma has won a prestigious award thanks to his work as head of the COP26.

The Business Green Leaders Award was made in recognition of his passionate championing of new green, sustainable tech at the Climate Change summit in Glasgow. It was, most observers agree his leadership that secured the historic deal in Glasgow to limit global warming through agreed targets and commitments to 1.5degrees above pre-industrialisation levels.

In a statement the Business Green Leaders stated: “Thanks to a genuinely remarkable feat of diplomacy, Mr Sharma helped signal to the world that the commitment to global climate action is stronger than it has ever been and delivered an agreement that many independent observers agree was as good as it could possibly have been."

Mr. Sharma was unable to attend the awards ceremony in London as he was at a the Commonwealth Heads of government meeting in Rwanda.

In a video address he thanked the Business Green team for the award. The Reading West MP also bemoaned that the agreed 1.5 degree limit to global warming seemed in doubt due to wavering commitment by a number of countries.

Stephen Emerson

Stephen Emerson is the Managing Editor of The Business Magazine and is responsible for the publication's print publications and online properties including the newly launched Biz News websites in Hampshire and Dorset. Stephen has been a journalist for 20 years and has worked at local, regional and national publications and led a team which made The Scotsman website one of the fastest growing news sites in the UK with over eight million monthly users. He has a keen interest in technology, property and corporate finance and telling the stories of the people behind the successful firms in these sectors.