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As we all found out in 2020, it’s hard to predict how a year will turn out with any confidence. Things can change drastically. Unforeseen events can turn our world upside down and cause major upheaval to our way of life – as they did last year when Covid-19 struck. Set against the uncertainties and disruption created by a global pandemic, there is one thing that we should be certain about, something more existential that is looming even larger in the background – climate change. Whatever the doubters may say, it is real and the effects, if nothing or too little is done to address them, will be devastating. “Lockdown brought to mind how fragile the world is and how we can’t take it for granted,” says Michael O’Hara, managing director at UK & Ireland distributor DataSolutions. “It brought the sustainability question up in my mind. If we didn’t have the pandemic, it would be the burning issue we’d all be talking about.” O’Hara is in no doubt that “in the fullness of time, we will appreciate that it’s a much more existential issue ...