In one of her final speeches before leaving the leadership of the Environment Agency, Emma Howard Boyd is expected to warn about the need for more transparency regarding organisations' environmental policies.
Speaking at the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment Annual Forum at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Howard Boyd will warn that businesses are embedding liability by giving the false impression that infrastructure and buildings they own or are developing are resilient to climate change.
As a result, nearly £650bn of public and private infrastructure investment planned by 2030 is reportedly at considerable risk unless urgent action is taken.
The danger, she plans to say, is that people “won’t realise this deception until it is too late”.
Her warning comes after the Climate Change Committee’s latest report, released last week, which warned that government plans for tackling global warming will not deliver on legal targets to cut...