As the UK looks forward to hosting the world’s largest climate change conference, COP26, later this year in Glasgow, Yorkshire will be hosting a climate summit of its own.

Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission is pleased to announce that it is partnering with the Yorkshire Post for the one-day event on 9 November. The hybrid event will take place at aql’s Leeds headquarters from 09.30-17.00.

Companies affected by floods are working with a ground-breaking project aimed at protecting their future business interests.

The study, led by the University of Leeds, was set up to highlight the true monetary cost of flooding to the business sector and local communities. It aims to establish a framework in which insurers work more closely with businesses that have struggled in the past to secure flood insurance.

"The Olympic Games may or may not happen this year. In 2012, Yorkshire won seven gold medals, two silver and three bronzes - if was an independent country it would have come twelfth in the medal table. This year, the UK hosts the COP26 climate negotiations – and there’s an opportunity for Yorkshire and the Humber to be an international leader once again."

Remarks by Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency, at the launch of the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission.