The Forum will include a series of participatory roundtables and side events co-curated with our partners to deep dive into particular challenges and opportunities shaping the transition to a net-zero, nature-positive economy.
Hosted in Guildhall’s unique and prestigious event spaces throughout the day, these closed-door sessions are designed to facilitate meaningful exchange, peer learning, and cross-sector collaboration to scale solutions and accelerate implementation.
To find out more about hosting a roundtable or partner event at the Forum, please get in touch.
Senior stakeholders from across the built environment and related sectors will come together to discuss what climate resilience means in practice for business across the value chain, and how collaboration can help shape effective policy and regulation to minimise risk and maximise long term outcomes.
Climate risk in the UK is no longer a distant threat. It’s already reshaping homes, businesses, and local economies. Flooding, in particular, is emerging as a systemic challenge, with implications for property values, SME resilience, insurance access, and regional stability.
In this roundtable, Santander will share insights from its collaboration with the University of Exeter, exploring how nature-based solutions (NbS) can help manage flood risk. We’ll examine where these approaches can deliver measurable impact, their limitations, and what it takes to scale them from local pilots into credible, investable infrastructure.
But resilience goes beyond physical assets. Disruption also tests people, businesses, and communities. It makes societal resilience a critical part of the conversation.
Join us for an open discussion to explore how to build coordinated, scalable solutions that strengthen both environmental and economic resilience in the UK.
Fresh off the press and launching on the morning of the Climate Innovation Forum, join members of the AI Solutions Taskforce as they unveil the findings of their new report for the first time, spotlighting leading AI solutions supporting the energy transition. In recent years, we’ve seen both the expanding opportunities and emerging challenges driven by the rapid rise of AI – and its increasingly significant influence on climate and energy outcomes.
Convened by former UNFCCC Executive Secretary Ambassador Patricia Espinosa and former UK Energy Minister Chris Skidmore, the Taskforce brought together leading experts from business, industry, and finance. Over recent months, members have examined AI’s role in driving climate action – from unlocking its potential as a powerful enabler of the energy transition to addressing its own expanding energy demand and associated emissions. Join us to be among the first to hear their conclusions.
Hosted by the 100+ Accelerator, this event happening on the sidelines of London Climate Action Week brings together game-changing startups, sharp-eyed judges and sustainability leaders for a live showdown at London’s historic Guildhall.
The 100+ Accelerator is a global program co-sponsored by AB InBev, The Coca-Cola Company, Colgate-Palmolive, Danone, Mondelēz International and Unilever that partners with startups to rapidly pilot and scale breakthrough sustainability solutions and maximize collective impact.
Four startups from the program will pitch solutions across the theme of building a circular economy — from transforming industrial waste into valuable raw materials, designing industry-scale biomaterials, using AI-powered waste intelligence to improve recycling systems, to creating pigment from discarded algae cells.
After the pitches will be a rapid-fire dialogue on key innovation trends, followed by a networking reception where founders, funders, and changemakers connect.
As climate risks intensify, rail networks face growing disruption from extreme weather, fragile supply chains, and underused data. This moderated roundtable brings industry leaders together to explore how digitalization and AI can strengthen climate resilience and accelerate mitigation across rail systems.
Participants will discuss how combining data from across rail infrastructure, operations, and weather systems can unlock better insights, predictions, and decisions. This will be an open discussion, Chatham House Rules do not apply.
Capital is available for well structured projects in general across a broad range of sectors, but it is not reaching reforestation projects at the pace, scale or on terms required to scale the market, which is necessary to make a meaningful impact on climate change. Ultimately project economics must incentivize developers or a market won’t scale and the goal of the market won’t fulfill its goal.
The driver of this discussion is matching risk with capital. What risks do private capital find acceptable and what risks are too much? Are there unique components within reforestation projects which lend themselves to non-private capital, such as community benefits programs? Are there risks that private capital won’t accept that can be mitigated by non-private organizations?
Attendees are encouraged to bring their own experience and ideas to support, challenge and/or suggest alternatives. There is no right or wrong here, generally, but round table participants experience and expertise will be acknowledged and guide the direction of the discussion to ensure it does not become too theoretical.
As climate action shifts from mobilization to implementation, organizations are under growing pressure to move beyond measurement and disclosure toward credible, comprehensive transition plans. Businesses are navigating increasing economic, environmental and geopolitical uncertainty, while investors, regulators and stakeholders are calling for clearer, more consistent approaches to resilience, risk management and long-term transition planning.
In response, the global architecture of international standards for transition planning and business resilience is rapidly taking shape. Following nearly two years of negotiations across more than 170 countries, the world’s first international standard on net zero (ISO 14060) is launching for public consultation. Alongside this, international efforts are advancing to align greenhouse gas accounting and transition planning frameworks, helping organizations navigate the transition with greater clarity, consistency and confidence.
The ISO net zero standard (ISO 14060) will provide clarity on organizational transition plans, helping businesses prioritize energy security and remain profitable in a changing global economy, manage and mitigate supply chain risks, bolster resilience to market shocks, and meet investor expectations and regulatory requirements. As London Climate Action Week opens, the Draft International Standard will go live to the public for review and comments. The session will also highlight the newly published ISO transition planning standard for financial institutions (ISO 32212) and its role in mobilizing capital and unlocking investment in the transition.
Hear from global convenors who have led international efforts to build consensus on net zero transition planning, alongside senior leaders from ISO and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, as they discuss growing efforts to improve practicality and alignment across the climate standards landscape. Responding to calls from businesses, policymakers and investors for more consistent and interoperable frameworks, the session will explore how international standards are helping reduce fragmentation and support clearer approaches to transition planning.
A global approach to credible and comprehensive transition planning is taking shape, with business resilience at its core. Join us at 10:45am in Livery Hall to explore how your organization can engage with and help shape this evolving global framework.
As the built environment moves from net zero ambition to delivery, organisations are facing a shared challenge: how to decarbonise existing real estate portfolios in a way that is credible, verifiable and scalable. Retrofit now sits at the centre of climate action – and confidence in standards and evidence has become critical.
This roundtable brings together senior decision‑makers across real estate, standards, verification and sustainable finance who are grappling with the practical realities of delivery. At its core is the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard (NZCBS), developed to address fragmentation in the market by providing a clear, consistent framework for credible net zero performance across building types and lifecycle stages.
The discussion will focus on how NZCBS is interpreted and operationalised at portfolio level, the role of independent verification in turning standards into trusted evidence, and how this credibility – including through the lender perspective of the Loan Market Association (LMA) – helps bridge the climate finance gap for retrofit, moving ambition into real‑world action.
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