Side Events

Kite Insights will be hosting a morning of discussions to explore how we can unlock sustainable value in organisations by activating an organisation’s most valuable resource: its people. The dynamic session will look at how we can use organisation-wide upskilling and capacity building to implement effective cross-functional sustainability strategies, and explore how a holistic and embedded approach to green skills and talent development can drive both value and impact.  Join Kite Insights for a series of interactive conversations to support practitioners across organisations, from commercial growth and marketing leaders, to those in sustainability departments and in innovation teams,  to learning and development and human resources professionals, to embed sustainability in the company’s culture.

Forging partnerships to accelerate city climate action implementation

The Innovate4Cities Marketplace is a shared space to connect and match cities and local governments with solution providers, funders and financers, and other supporters, to scale, develop, and implement city climate action across the United Kingdom and Europe.

Run by the Global Covenant of Mayors and KPMG’s Net Zero Urban Program alongside the Climate Innovation Forum, the 2.5 hour session will highlight the actors and resources, as well as replicable and scalable collaborative projects, that can support local governments and partners in pursuit of net zero implementation. This will include a dedicated marketplace – for cities and solution providers to on the one hand pitch for partners in research and implementation to address their most pressing barriers to realizing their climate action plan priorities and on the other hand to help shape replicable, scaleable and investable solutions to drive more public-private sector involvement.

Further Information:

• About Innovate4Cities Marketplaces
• Invitation to businesses
• Invitation to investors
• Invitation to cities and local governments
• Invitation to academia

This in-person gathering of members of Race to Zero’s Net Zero Policy & Regulation community will discuss how to continue mobilising net zero aligned standards, policy, laws and regulations. The 90-minute workshop will share core projects across the Partner organisations and will include breakout sessions looking at the blockers and opportunities for net zero aligned policy and regulation in areas such as transition planning, procurement and more.

Convened by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), and facilitated by Climate Action, the participatory roundtable will bring together a selection of senior representatives from government and non-state actors across the UK – including cities, industry and finance, to discuss priorities for COP28 and how to align objectives to maximise the UK’s impact in delivering a transformational COP of action.

Following a short introduction from the FCDO and DESNZ about the UAE’s ambitions for COP and an outline of early HMG objectives, the facilitated discussion hosted by Climate Action will welcome contributions from around the table. The aim of the event is to catalyse alignment, planning and progress to amplify UK presence at COP.