NatWest Group, the largest business and commercial bank in the UK, announced today a collaboration with technology giant Microsoft, aimed at helping UK businesses to better understand their carbon footprints and to create tailored action plans to reduce their carbon emissions leveraging digital technologies. The bank also announced that it intends to join Race to Zero, a global campaign to rally leadership and support from businesses, cities, regions, and investors committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 at the latest, and to build momentum around the shift to a decarbonized economy ahead of COP26. Alison Rose, Chief Executive Officer of NatWest Group, said: "Tackling climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time. As the leading bank in the UK for businesses, we have a significant responsibility, and the ability, to encourage, enable and to lead the way in the UK to transition to a net zero carbon economy.