This session explores how robust accounting frameworks, interoperable carbon data, and corporate reporting rules can unlock high-integrity liquidity across carbon markets, and the strategies that are needed for greater transparency across the global reporting and standard-setting ecosystem. In this session, discover how:

• Corporate carbon accounting frameworks are being aligned, incorporating scope 3.
• Global frameworks are being aligned with regional reporting mandates.

Climate finance is most needed in the Global South, where high capital costs and currency risks have historically hindered investment. The session will bring together development finance institutions, investors, and other key players to explore how innovative financial engineering can derisk investments, build bankable projects, and mitigate macro risks.

Seven of the nine planetary boundaries have now been transgressed, bringing the Earth system dangerously close to self-reinforcing biophysical tipping points. This session shifts the global climate narrative from incremental crisis management to systemic survival governance.

This interactive session explores how international public-private partnerships can shift global climate action from market competition to coordinated collaboration. In this session, discover how:

• Cross-border alliances are being fostered, harmonising international policies, technological sharing, and capital flows.
• Equitable supply chains are being structured to support economic development in emerging markets.

Across the globe, utilities, energy developers, and industrial leaders are actively solving the complex engineering, regulatory, and financial hurdles required to deploy clean energy at scale. In this session, learn where the bright spots and aspirational success stories are happening within the global energy transition.

Aligning electricity’s share of global final energy consumption from around 20% to 35% by 2035, driven by soaring demand from digital infrastructure, will require urgent grid modernisation and clean power deployment. This high-level panel focuses on the political economy, sovereign security, and capital deployment required to scale the physical grid. In this interactive panel session, learn:

• How countries are successfully managing the grid bottleneck, tackling the global renewables queue by mobilising $1 trillion in grid investments and mobilising private capital for grid transmission.
• How to position clean power infrastructure as a defence against geopolitical shocks and price volatility, and to de-risk vulnerable supply chains.
• Strategies to align cross-border policy, regulatory frameworks, and private capital deployment to safeguard national and international security, building a resilient, low-carbon foundation for the electrification imperative.

Scaling next-generation industrial assets requires aligning breakthrough production technologies with low-cost infrastructure capital. This session examines how industry is moving from pilot projects to commercial-scale production across steel, cement, chemicals, and low-carbon fuels. Discover:

• How capital markets and breakthrough technologies can be aligned to maintain competitiveness.
• Challenges and successes within the hard-to-abate sectors.
• How capital can be unlocked for heavy industry.

Scaling next-generation industrial assets requires aligning breakthrough production technologies with low-cost infrastructure capital. This session examines how industry is moving from pilot projects to commercial-scale production across steel, cement, chemicals, and low-carbon fuels. Discover:

• How capital markets and breakthrough technologies can be aligned to maintain competitiveness.
• Challenges and successes within the hard-to-abate sectors.
• How capital can be unlocked for heavy industry.

Highlighting market-ready, deployable climate technologies driving real emission reductions.

How can artificial intelligence accelerate our global transition to a resilient, net-zero future? In this strategic session, world-leading experts evaluate how machine learning moves from experimental promises to tangible planetary impact across global grid networks, sustainable finance, climate adaptation, and satellite-driven monitoring. Learn about the transformative power of AI-led technological innovation, and the risks and challenges associated with an AI future. Discover how:

• AI is being leveraged to pinpoint high-impact green investments.
• Satellite remote sensing is transforming planetary monitoring.
• Energy systems are being revolutionised through global predictive intelligence.

The global explosion of artificial intelligence, driven by large language models, machine learning workloads, and high-performance computing, has triggered an unprecedented surge in electricity demand from hyperscale data centre operators. In this session, explore how:

• Organisations are securing a 24/7 clean baseload through evaluation of next-gen technologies.
• Heating and cooling systems can be used sustainably.
• The pace of AI demand and deployment can be navigated.
• Water usage for AI can be minimised.

This session examines how heavy-duty logistics, maritime, and rail sectors can overcome technological and commercial barriers to achieve deep decarbonisation. It addresses how strategic partnerships, infrastructure investments, and low-carbon fuels can accelerate the transition across global freight networks.

Achieving deep decarbonisation in transport requires rapidly bridging the gap between vehicle production and real-world deployment. This panel convenes auto leaders, energy providers, and policymakers to discuss the critical investment and infrastructure strategies needed to scale zero-emission mobility globally.

As the multilateral climate framework approaches the 2030 landmark, the central challenge of international diplomacy is shifting from target-setting to institutional accountability. While the Paris Agreement successfully established dynamic ratchet mechanisms through NDCs, the absence of binding enforcement mechanisms has led to a widening gap between pledged ambitions and real-world decarbonisation trajectories. This closing sets the strategic vision for the post-2030 diplomatic landscape and ensures the final years of the decade are dictated by systemic shifts and implementation.

True decarbonisation requires radical, system-wide integration across industries rather than isolated sector fixes. Aligning energy, finance, policy, and public-private partnerships is the only way to drive rapid, economy-wide transformation. In this session, discover how:

• Public-private partnerships are being leveraged, scaling action and implementation across sectors and geographies.
• Sub-national and national actors are building cohesive decarbonisation strategies.
• Solutions are being scaled, transforming localised progress into global impact.

On the Road to COP32, this opening keynote sets out an African agenda in which climate action and development go hand in hand, moving beyond financing targets to deliver resilient, low-carbon growth.

• How can Africa shape a more effective model of growth that puts sustainable, resilient development at the centre?
• How can Africa turn its natural potential into prosperity and resilience?
• How can we ensure Africa is positioned as a source of solutions, innovation and opportunity?

Africa’s energy challenge is also its greatest opportunity. Can abundant renewable resources, better grids and new technologies deliver the affordable, reliable power needed both to connect millions of homes and businesses and to drive industry and economic growth across the continent?

• How can Africa close the energy-access gap while meeting fast-growing demand from industry and cities?
• Can clean, reliable power become a competitive advantage for African economies?
• What investment, infrastructure and policy changes are needed to accelerate the transformation?

A senior industry or investment leader shares where they see the strongest opportunities for green growth in Africa, and how we can make capital move faster. Too often, perceived risk outweighs the real opportunity. Telling the positive story of what is already being delivered, and building a stronger pipeline of investable projects, is vital to closing that gap.

• Where are the most compelling investment opportunities emerging?
• What are examples of success stories that prove the case?
• How can we build a stronger, bankable project pipeline to unlock a step-change in investment at scale?

Africa’s minerals are essential to the global energy transition. But extraction is only the beginning: the bigger opportunity is to build processing, manufacturing, skills and regional value chains around them.

• How can African countries capture more value beyond the extraction of critical minerals?
• What would it take to build competitive processing and manufacturing capacity on the continent?
• How can investors and international partners support value creation without repeating old commodity models?

Climate resilience is no longer an environmental side issue, it is an economic imperative. This conversation explores how Africa can climate-proof its cities, infrastructure, food systems and economies while unlocking new investment opportunities.

• How can resilience be built into Africa’s growth and infrastructure plans from the outset?
• Where are the biggest opportunities to strengthen food, water, cities and essential infrastructure?
• How can public and private finance make resilience investable and scalable?

Africa’s food systems sit at the intersection of climate, jobs, nature and economic development. What will it take to scale the businesses and technologies that can make agriculture more productive and climate-resilient?

• Which climate-smart agriculture and food-system solutions are ready to scale?
• Where are the biggest investment and business opportunities across the food value chain?
• How can innovation deliver greater resilience and value for farmers and communities?

Across energy, industry, minerals, food and resilience, the opportunity is clear. The closing dialogue tackles the question that determines whether it becomes reality: where will the capital come from, and what needs to change to unlock it at scale?

• What can governments, MDBs and DFIs do differently to create investable markets?
• What do institutional and commercial investors need to scale capital into Africa?
• What partnerships, reforms and actions could unlock the next wave of climate investment?