January 03, 2021 Critchlow, Julian R

Like "legacy hand" and "you are on mute", saying 2020 was a "challenging" year is to resort to cliches! On a personal front, very sadly we lost my father in May to covid and Sarah's mother in December to ill health. But on a more optimistic note, we thoroughly enjoyed having all 4 children home for the year (with boyfriends and girlfriends often!) - and replaced swimming with an enormous number of walks with Eszter (pictured) during the multiple lockdowns. My planned Catalina and Manhattan swims were postponed to 2021 (fingers crossed)! On the work front, it has been crazily busy as delivering net zero became a central focus as the UK looked to build back better in the post covid world. The year ended with the Prime Minister announcing an ambitious 10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution and an 68% reduction in UK carbon emissions by 2030, all ahead of the UN Conference of Parties that the UK will host in November 2021. A huge achievement for my teams which supported all these programmes.