Welcome to Leasing Life’s quarterly e-magazine for asset finance and leasing professionals in the UK and beyond.
A report we recently came across at Leasing Life suggested that in 2022, Swiss glaciers recorded their worst melt rate since records began more than a century ago. Switzerland's glacial volume last year was down 6%, which is nearly double the previous record of 2003, according to Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS).
The effects of climate change are all around us - and have been for some time - prompting climate scientists to warn us about what this means for human life on the planet. Our inaugural Sustainable Finance Summit 2023 in Paris this month hopes to bring together like-minded people who want to share what role they see for financial innovation and leadership when it comes to the circular economy and sustainability.
Also in this edition, we bring you two country reports, the Netherlands and Spain, and our featured interview is jointly with Matt Roper and Neil Davies, the incoming and outgoing CEOs of Close Brothers Commercial.
Alejandro Gonzalez, editor