After the groundswell of hope after the Paris Agreement this time last year, 2016 hasn’t been a great year for sustainability in general and climate change in particular, cumulating in the election of a (probable) climate change sceptic to the White House.

But I am cheered by the 400 businesses who wrote to the President Elect and told him to keep on the low carbon trajectory. Don’t forget the much repeated lament of anti-capitalist activists as to how much power the corporate world wields. Much as I’m a staunch democrat, if business has that power and uses it for good, I’m not going to complain. That’s true Corporate Social Responsibility.

So I call on every corporation to create a vision of a sustainable future for their business eco-system and develop a strategy to deliver on it. Don’t wait for politicians to lead; if you forge a sustainable path, they will follow (and, some at least will try to claim credit – just let them). Build the future you want to see.