Santander Insights is a series of virtual dialogues that we launched in 2020 as a means to maintain public debate on crucial issues through the COVID confinement and subsequent restrictions.

The run-up to COP26 is bringing into ever sharper relief the trade-offs, challenges and pitfalls of the greening of the economy, including for financial services. Competing taxonomies and conflicting priorities, criteria and timelines are some of the hurdles facing governments, multilateral organizations, businesses other stakeholders who will gather in Glasgow in November. In the balance is whether governments can address the climate challenge in a collaborative, cooperative way or give way to fragmentation and competition.