Anglian signs signs up to Prince of Wales' sustainability plan and joins Race to Zero

Anglian Water last week became one of the first businesses in the UK to sign up in support of The Prince of Wales’s sustainable recovery plan, the Terra Carta.

Deriving its name from the Magna Carta, the Terra Carta is “A charter that puts sustainability at the heart of private business” by giving fundamental rights and value to nature. It “offers the basis of a recovery plan to 2030 that puts nature, people and planet at the heart of global value creation”.

The Terra Carta is part of The Prince of Wales’s Sustainable Markets Initiative, and its launch marks a year since that initiative was announced at Davos.

Anglian Water chief executive Peter Simpson, said: “This bold initiative, combining the transformative forces of business and investment at an international level, will drive tangible action for good. It’s a blueprint for immediate action leading to real progress…The Terra Carta’s combined challenges to businesses and investors display a level of ambition not shown by any single national government. It is a level to which we must all aspire if we are to deliver the thriving environment and equitable society that we all want to see.”

Also last week, Anglian joined Severn Trent in being the first water companies to join the Race to Zero campaign, under the umbrella of Water UK. In recognition of its work delivering the sector’s Net Zero 2030 Routemap, Water UK has become just one of 20 official partners to the UNFCCC’s Race to Zero campaign, which aims to rally leadership across businesses, cities, regions and investors for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery.

High level climate champion for COP26, Nigel Topping, commended Water UK’s achievement in delivering “the world's first sector-wide commitment of its kind”.