Renaud is the Head of Climate Action at Sweep.net.
Cop26 is where world leaders, NGOs and companies meet to discuss solutions to climate change. There's one group notably absent: startups.
It can be positive or negative. Companies can lobby based on their status as one of the biggest companies in a certain country, or a company based across multiple countries. They can lobby and say they’ll help countries meet targets. You also have the fossil fuel industry there trying to reduce ambition. It’s not in corporate companies’ interests to bring startups along with them. They are afraid of the disruption, and the ambition.