The event, which took place shortly before the United Kingdom plays host to the 26th United Nations Conference on Global Climate Change (COP26), was held with the slogan "Building a green future together." It focused on economic opportunities for the world's leading investors and companies, at a time when the world is starting to recover from the Covid 19 crisis with transition to a more sustainable global economy gaining momentum.
It must also be pointed out that the Global Investment Summit is a singular and particularly selective event, that brings the investment and business world, as well as political figures and some of today's most influential thinkers together to analyse and share ideas relating to global issues that the economy faces, as well as identifying different ways of managing and reacting to these challenges. This summit also served to stress the United Kingdom's role as a competitive market and one of the most attractive destinations for investment and economic activity for numerous business sectors.
Under this context, CAF has demonstrated its commitment towards becoming one of the leading players in the sustainable mobility sector, with a strategy that is based on developing new zero-emission technologies and using battery and hydrogen-based drive systems.
Emphasis was also drawn to the fact that the United Kingdom constitutes a key market for CAF now, where it has implemented a great deal of projects over the last few years for different operators and has invested a great deal by setting up a production plant in Newport which is equipped with cutting edge manufacturing methods. The CAF Group is in complete synergy with the UK government's decarbonisation and sustainable transport goals and is confident that it will be able to contribute towards obtaining these goals.