About The Innovation Zone

The Climate Action Innovation Zone is independent from the official COP31 Zones, positioned as a cross-sector hub of COP31 convening the corporate leaders, investors, policymakers and key global stakeholder leaders who must work together to turn pledges into proof. Anchored by the 17th edition of the Sustainable Innovation Forum and structured around the Global Climate Action Agenda’s six thematic axes, it opens the arc of high-level engagement at COP31, connecting private-sector delivery capacity with the public-sector conditions that unlock it. 

• Organised by Climate Action an independent zone alongside the UNFCCC Blue and Green Zones by choice, giving us full control over programme, badging, attendance and logistics to build a more agile, responsive experience for decision-makers across finance, technology and policy.

• Complementary, not duplicative: the official COP31 programme runs industry-specific thematic days across two weeks. The Innovation Zone two-day, cross-sector programme runs at the very start of week one from 10-11 November, giving delegates who can’t stay the full duration or who fall outside their sector’s thematic day, a single, high-level moment to convene across sectors and set the tone. 

• Qualified, targeted, not general: built around purpose for a qualified attendance of decision-makers from across all sectors, not delegate volume: proof of progress, capital deployed and measurable results, set against where expertise, technology, investment and operational capacity are still needed to scale. A mainstage plenary is complemented by track stages including the Action Stage and deep dive roundtables, plus partner-hosted private events, dinners, networking receptions, a breakthrough pavilion and media hub: every mode of engagement, from headline interviews to the practitioner-led discussions where partnerships take shape