On-Demand Global Views
Qualified In-Person Delegates
Influential Speakers
Full day of in-person networking
Innovation. Collaboration. Action.
Returning for the fourth year, the Climate Innovation Forum is a flagship event of London Climate Action Week, bringing together senior public and private sector decision makers to accelerate the delivery of net zero commitments. The event – with an in-person audience of 700 and 3,000 on-demand global views – will be a critical touchpoint between COP26 and COP27.
The Forum will look at core pathways to net zero and the delivery of the Glasgow Breakthroughs, shining a spotlight on the urgency of innovation.
Bringing together policy-makers, investors, climate-tech solution providers, business leaders and multilateral organisations, the action-orientated event will showcase what’s actually working to close the gap between ambition and action – exploring the creation and adoption of innovative technologies, processes and business models to reach net zero at the scale and pace needed.
Join us at the Climate Innovation Forum to be inspired, to drumbeat, to connect and to do business. Be part of the action!
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Event Aims & Overview:
The Forum will be a critical touchpoint between COP26 and COP27, reflecting on the promises made at COP26 and the importance of the Glasgow Breakthroughs across power, road transport, hydrogen, steel, and agriculture sectors. The Forum will be an action orientated event to showcase innovation and finance solutions that are closing the gap between ambition and action, within cities and across supply chains.
- Connect climate tech and low carbon solution providers with public and private sector organisations striving to achieve net zero targets
- Drumbeat successes: to highlight what’s actually working to close the gap between ambition and action
- Identify key investment and business opportunities around the Glasgow Breakthrough Agenda.
- Maintain momentum between COP26 and COP27
- Showcase innovation from the UK’s leading climate start-ups and scale-ups
- Promote effective policy at local, regional and national level to advance, accelerate and scale low carbon projects and innovations.
Key Themes
Innovation for the Glasgow Breakthrough Agenda
Financing Net Zero
Catalysing Innovation
Decarbonising Supply Chains
Digitisation for Net Zero
Net Zero Cities
Innovation for 1.5 Degrees
Speakers
Ben Goodwin
Head of Policy
IEMA
Nick Mabey
Co-founding Director and Chief Executive
E3G | Founder of London Climate Action Week | Chair of LCAW Steering Group
Nick directly works on issues of climate diplomacy and foreign policy, macroeconomics and the security implications of climate change and resource scarcity.
Nick is a regular commentator and public speaker on climate change in the global media and is active on Twitter at @mabeytweet.
Nick undertakes a range of other roles including advising the UK COP President as a Friend of COP 26, a London Sustainable Development Commissioner, a trustee of Ashden, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Energy Transition.
Nick founded London Climate Action Week in 2019 and chairs the LCAW Steering Group.
Before co-founding E3G, Nick was a senior advisor in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit leading cross-government work including on climate change, fisheries, countries at risk of instability and organised crime. Nick also worked in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Environment Policy Department helping establish its climate diplomacy network.
Nick was seconded to the FCO from WWF-UK where he worked as Head of Economics and Development. This followed research at London Business School on the macroeconomics of climate change and lead authorship of “Argument in the Greenhouse: The International Economics of Controlling Global Warming” (1997).
Nick has a degree in mechanical engineering from Bristol University and a Masters in Technology and Policy from MIT. He began his career working in the UK electricity industry for GEC and PowerGen.
Outside work Nick is an avid reader of history and practices Chen Style Tai Ji Quan.
Patrick Arber
Head of International Government Engagement
Aviva and Member of GFANZ Steering Group
Melissa McDonald
Global Head of ESG and Climate Indexes
MSCI
Damitha Adikaari
Director of Science and Innovation for Climate and Energy
BEIS
Damitha Adikaari is the Director for Climate Science and Energy Innovation at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He has responsibility for the energy engineering, energy innovation policy, innovation portfolio, greenhouse gas emissions inventory and climate science programme. He is an electrical engineer with a PhD in solid state electronics with experience in power generation, solar cell research and development, energy policy and programme delivery.
Verena Ehrler
Chair of the Community of Interest Urban Freight
Transport Decarbonisation Alliance
Zebrina Hanly
Head of Environment and Climate Change
Royal Mail Group
Zebrina is head of environment and climate change with royal mail and Non-Executive Director of Peabody Housing Association. Zebrina is responsible for the delivery of Royal Mail’s Net-Zero 2040 ambition and environmental strategy ‘Steps to Zero’ which focuses on transitioning the UK’s largest fleet, decarbonising a large UK-wide estate and driving ambition throughout the supply chain. Zebrina has been working in ESG for 15 years primarily in construction and transport sectors prior to joining Royal Mail in 2021.
Sue Daley
Director Tech and Innovation
techUK
Attended by the world's leading organisations
"The sooner we begin to get our corporations to come together… the faster we're going to stand the chance of meeting this challenge."
"Net zero isn't about withdrawing from the economy, but it's actually more about engaging with the economy. We're not going to shrink ourselves to net zero, we need to invest and grow ourselves to net zero."
"I do believe there has been a fundamental change in the last 12 to 18 months, and now we've got to turn that passion, that hope, into tangible action."