COP26 to go ‘right down to the wire’ says expert

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The former F1 champion headed down to Glasgow last week for the climate summit, where he met with UK energy supplier Octopus Energy. He told Express.co.uk: “I was with the founder of Octopus Energy yesterday at and he’s really disrupting the whole energy space, so I think that’s a good example of why you should look at your energy supplier to reduce your carbon footprint. “If you look at your energy supplier to see if you’re using renewable energy, it’s a quick and easy switch to make. So, have a look at which supplier you’re using.

“Is there an alternative? Maybe green energy which might not even be more expensive.”

The Renewable Energy Association has crowned Octopus Energy as the company that’s done the most to advance UK renewables’ for the last two years running.

The energy company is investing in solar energy on a large scale, and they are the UK’s only energy supplier to offer a smart way for people to get paid for the surplus solar energy they generate at home.

And in 2021, they acquired their sister company Octopus Renewables, in a move that made them one of Europe’s largest investors and operators of renewable energy.

And Mr Rosberg was certainly impressed by this.

But Octopus Energy are not alone in their endeavours and there are numerous similar companies shaking up the energy space – so the 36-year-old stresses research is key.

But he was not so impressed by the world leaders who were present at COP26.

He told Express.co.uk: “There was a certain amount of disappointment. You just go there with so much hope that the countries going can make some big statements.

“They have made some big bold step like no more deforestation by 2030 even with the Brazilian President on board.

“And they announced that coal will be phased out on a big scale. But while these are big steps I would have loved to see more.

“I wanted to see an agreement that all the countries would commit to $100billion of climate funds for developing countries, but we didn’t get there yet, and the insiders have said it will take another two to four years to reach an agreement on that.”

In 2009, at the fifteenth conference of the parties (COP15 ) of the UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, climate finance funding of $100billion (£75billion) a year by 2020 was agreed.

But that target has been missed every year since then, and no renewed commitment has so far been made at this year’s COP, disappointing Mr Rosberg.

Mr Rosberg has been making waves in the green space, having made various investments in green companies as well as setting up his own climate project, the Greentech Festival.

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Greentech Festival is a platform that brings together start-ups, corporations, environmental activists, politicians and more actors involved in the green space to showcase exciting new green technologies.

While the F1 champion and the other co-founders started the project in Berlin, it has now gone international and they chose London as the first place to take it to.

Macro Voigt, who co-founded the project with Mr Rosberg, told Express.co.uk: “We know that Great Britain is one of the leading countries for renewable energies.

“You have so many initiatives here in the UK and it made complete sense to host our first international Greentech festival here in the UK.”

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