 The first question I wanted to ask you is, why is your own organization pursuing a net zero goal? What are the benefits to EDF? Why is it important to you as a company? Well, I think two things come together in this. One is the question of conviction. Certainly in EDF and amongst the business leaders I've met over the last couple of years, we know that we have to take action on climate. There is that conviction, not just amongst society at large and amongst employees in our organizations, but right across the whole organization at most senior levels, we need to take action. And then that comes together with the fact that for EDF our business is in producing low carbon electricity and that's through wind power and notably through nuclear power. And in order to get to net zero, we need a massive amount, probably twice as much electricity generating capacity than we have today, because we not only need to decarbonize today's activities but also tomorrow's activities. So driving with electric vehicles and heating buildings perhaps with a heat pump. And in order to have twice as much electricity generating capacity and to have it zero carbon, low carbon, we need to multiply the low carbon element by four times. So it is a huge, huge investment that needs to go in and EDF's got a big business interest in doing that. So conviction and business interest come together to make it a real driver for you. From the point of view of an EDF consumer, how might they experience the journey's commitment to net zero? Well, I think our challenge of suppliers is one thing is we need to make electricity, low carbon electricity available. The other thing is we need to make it easy for consumers to adapt to low carbon lifestyle. So we need to make it easy for consumers to have electric vehicle charging at home in ways that is economic and simple and practical. We need to make sure that heat pumps are not bewildering and complicated but straightforward and understandable and affordable. So I think part of our challenge is developing those products. Equally part of the challenge is making sure that they are products that consumers want to use and therefore people's incentive to do what feels right is also right for society and right for climate as well. So I think that's at least as big a challenge for us as we proceed down net zero because it's already well having the greatest solutions and they're no good unless consumers want to use them. So that's what we need to do. So what do you see as the most significant hurdle when it comes to companies achieving net zero and how have you been able to grapple with that hurdle? Well, I think both policymakers and delivery organizations really have major, major roles to play here and we are going to be more successful quicker when policymakers and delivery companies are collaborating. They understand each other, they're confident in each other. Let me give you an example. So we need more and more businesses to be signed up to getting to net zero to the race to net zero if you like. I think there's been a huge increase in the companies have signed up to that particular campaign race to net zero. We need more, perhaps particularly the smaller companies, the medium sized companies who haven't signed up yet. We need all of the businesses in the UK to be mobilized and government's got its role. We need the net zero policy which is setting the path and which is getting in place the incentives so that when companies take investment decisions that are right for the climate and right for society, they can be right for their businesses in an economic sense too because that's how we'll get the fastest and most effective premise. What do you know now, EDF Energy as a company has worked on net zero for a number of years, has worked on the low carbon agenda for a number of years, that you'd wish you'd known five years ago, 10 years ago, and actually I suppose there's two reflections of the EDF reflection and then there's your individual reflection on that as somebody who's worked on this gender for a number of years as well. I think the simple conclusion is we need to get on with it. There really is no doubt. We need to be doing things in 2021, let alone 2022. This is not about things we might do in the next decade in order to get there by 2050. Clearly that's most true when you're talking about big projects with big lead times and big construction periods. But it's not just that, we have to get on with it. And I think that we found in business and we'll find two things. Some aspects of making the transition will turn out to be easier than we expected, well great and that'll be encouraging. The other thing I think is we're going to find that more than companies expect doing the right thing for society, the right thing for climate will be the right thing for the economic performance of their business. How could it be otherwise in the long term, the market has to reflect the realities of what's happening in our world and therefore in the long term for sure companies are going to be successful who are doing the right things for the climate, the right things for society and I think businesses are going to find that's perhaps more true than they realize even today. So reducing carbon in many cases will reduce cost for instance. So is there any advice or learning that you would share for companies that are just making that commitment and just setting off on that journey? I think it's set off, get started and it's not a question of making a plan for 10 years time, it's acting today and even if some of those plans need to be tweaked a bit in a year's time it is so urgent and we learn from doing I think, not from thinking in many cases and therefore we need to get on and do it and it's really not a future challenge, it's really today's challenge so my simple message is get started. Energy is very much in the news at the moment. What are your reflections as an energy company in terms of how we should shape our energy mix to make sure that people are able to be protected from some of the kind of like some of the dramatic changes that have happened quite recently? Well it's very important that the energy mix has a range of sources in it, it'd be hugely expensive to power the grid off one single energy source, unaffordable so it has to be a mix, very largely renewable but we think having nuclear in the mix will make it lower cost overall. Also we need to, it's clear in the current energy crisis we need self-sufficiency and we need sovereignty, it has the whole country anxious that we are dependent, more dependent than we wish to be on sources that we can't control. So some of those arguments that we've been making for a while are suddenly written in the headlines in our newspapers. So obviously one of the big landmark moments that is coming up is COP26, a huge moment, huge global milestone. What outcomes are you hoping for to rise from that moment? Well overwhelmingly the big objective that I think we'd all have for COP26 is that we can get global alignment because important as what one country does including the UK is really important but we can be overshadowed by what happens in the biggest economies in the world and so we need to have global alignment in order for us to achieve these global ambitions. So I think that's certainly true for myself, surely that's true for others observers that this is about getting the best possible alignment across the globe, the big countries, the small countries, the developing economies, the developed economies into a clan which can get us to net zero because one country of acting on its own however efficiently won't get that. How do you think it's important for business to work together to engage in broader systemic change and engaging with the policy audience and what are good ways of doing that? I do think it's important for businesses to engage with policymakers and with each other especially in this area. Sometimes the debate gets fractious whether it's represented in the media that way or whether it really is that way as a contest between competing ideas but when it comes to delivery, the delivery is quicker and more efficient when policymakers are confident and delivery is organization's ability to deliver and when delivery organizations are confident that policy is going to be stable and good and efficient. So I co-chair the corporate leaders group and that involves quite a range of businesses from many many different sectors and our objective in that is to engage with each other and with government in a positive way in the sense of what can we jointly do together to make this more successful and quicker, more efficient and so rather than on haranguing others to do more it's more a question of collaborating and inspiring women.