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Here's where to find us curating programmes, speaking at sessions, or at workshops near you.

London Climate Action Week 2026

Monday, 22 June 2026

 

2:30PM BST - Interactive: Who shapes the future of food?
2:30 to 4:30 PM BST
City of London Club, 19 Old Broad St, London EC2N 1DS
Register here

Food systems are coming under increasing pressure from climate change, biodiversity loss, economic instability and widening inequality. At the same time, questions of food security and food sovereignty are becoming ever more urgent, not only whether people have access to food, but who holds power within the systems that shape how it is produced, distributed, valued and governed.
 
Yet across farms, cities, landscapes and communities, signals of a different future are already emerging. From regenerative farming models and local food networks to community gardens, indigenous knowledge systems and women-led agricultural initiatives, people are reimagining more resilient, equitable and locally rooted approaches to food. The question is no longer whether alternatives exist , it is why they remain at the margins, and what it would take to change that.
 
In recognition of the International Year of Women Farmers 2026, this session will pay particular attention to the women who sustain food systems, protect biodiversity and build resilience at the frontline of climate change, despite frequently holding the least economic and political power within the systems on which the world depends.
 
Hosted by Project Dandelion, Commonland, Kite Insights and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, with welcome remarks from Mary Robinson, the session brings together global leadership, frontline practitioners, scientists, community voices and system innovators. Rather than a traditional panel, it is designed as a participatory gathering, drawing on Donella Meadows' idea of dancing with systems, that complex systems shift not through top-down prescription but through relationship, proximity and the recognition that those closest to the problem often hold the clearest understanding of the path forward.
 

Tuesday, 23 June 2026

8:30AM BST - Breakfast: The Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative: Meeting the Habitability Imperative

Hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative.

8:30 to 10:30AM BST 
The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London


From the disappearing coastlines of the Pacific to the flood plains of Europe and the drought-stricken communities of the Global South, fossil fuel-driven climate change is rapidly becoming a crisis of human habitability — threatening where people live, how they work, and what they leave to future generations.

This event will bring together Pacific and European ministers, international experts, and civil society to connect the dots between phasing out fossil fuel production and safeguarding our shared humanity, celebrate the momentum from the recent Santa Marta convening and inform what must happen next ahead of the second diplomatic conference hosted by the governments of Tuvalu and Ireland in 2027.

This is an essential conversation for leaders, practitioners and funders seeking to shape the next chapter of climate action in a fundamentally changed context, and to strengthen links between constituencies of the climate movement that have for too long been disconnected from each other.

Express interest to attend. 
9:30AM BST - Debate: Is efficiency a distraction from real climate action?

Debate and discussion hosted by LinkedIn, curated by DEBATABLE. by Kite Insights

9:30 to 11:30 AM BST

LinkedIn Experience Centre, The Ray, 123 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3DA 

As AI transforms our economy, can radical efficiency be the engine that turns increasing energy demand into a catalyst for global decarbonisation? Or is the pursuit of efficiency a distraction from the work that will transform our economies and systems? 

Express interest to attend
11:00AM BST - Periods, Pregnancy & a Planet on Fire: Solutions for Women’s Health in Extreme Heat
11:00AM to 1:00PM BST 
Venue: TBC
 
Join us for a candid conversation with midwives, policy makers, and innovators from around the world on how extreme heat is affecting pregnancy, menstrual health, and the wellbeing of women and girls. As this is a fishbowl format, the conversation belongs to the room.
 
Express interest to attend here. 
 
5:00 PM BST - Debate: We are investing in the wrong sustainable innovations

Hosted by EY
Curated by DEBATABLE. by Kite Insights

5:00 to 6:30 PM BST

Banking Hall, 14 Cornhill, London EC3V 3ND

The scale of the sustainability challenge has produced an expanding universe of innovation, yet the gap between investment and impact stubbornly persists. Some argue transformative innovations like green hydrogen, long-duration storage and regenerative agriculture are being forced to scale inside a system designed for the world we have, not the one we're heading towards. AI may accelerate that transformation, or simply entrench the solutions already winning. The pressure to compete within existing rules quietly crowds out the innovations that could rewrite them. The innovations that win tend to reflect the systems that chose them.

The counter-argument is that every transformative innovation in history proved its value within existing structures before displacing them. Build the foundations, prove the returns, and more ambitious bets become possible. Furthermore, financial capital is only part of what is at stake. Political careers, institutional identities and the livelihoods of communities on the frontlines of climate change have all been committed to particular pathways. Sunk cost bias shapes not just what we invest in, but what kind of future we are actually preparing for.

Are we innovating in a way that truly prepares us for the unstable future ahead? Or are we bound to a present that our prior commitments have made too costly to question?

Who should attend: Senior sustainability, policy and innovation leaders

Express interest to attend here. 

Speakers include: 

  • Leah Seligmann, Chief Change Catalyst & CEO, B Team 
  • Marilyn Waite, Managing Director, Capital for Sustainability
  • Jim Andrew, CSO, PepsiCo
  • Andrew Mitchell, Founder and CEO, Equilibrium Futures
  • Hannah Jones, Ex CEO, Earthshot Prize
  • Marcelo Behar, COP30 Special Envoy for Bioeconomy
  • Indy Johar, CEO, Dark Matter Laboratories
  • Virginie Helias, Chief Sustainability Officer, P&G  
  • Joshua Amponsem, Co-Director, Youth Climate Justice Fund
Host: Colm Devine, Global Vice Chair – Sustainability, EY 

Moderators: 
  • Sophie Lambin, Founder and CEO, Kite Insights
  • Fiona McRaith, Director, The Climate Pledge, Global Optimism
 
7:00PM BST - Dinner: Are we innovating for the world that's coming?

Hosted by EY
Banking Hall, 14 Cornhill, London EC3V 3ND

An exclusive gathering of executives from business, government and policy, focused on how sustainable innovation may shape the next era of economic transformation, from industrial systems and infrastructure to markets, governance and models of value creation.

Who should attend: C-suite leaders, senior executives, and board members from policy, government and business

Express interest to attend here.

Wednesday, 24 June 2026

1:30PM BST - Beyond Hot Air: The Tools Driving Better Heat Solutions
Join HERA for an interactive, fun showcase of practical tools designed to accelerate heat action by answering questions like: Which solutions work? Where should we invest? How do we make the case? Who can help us navigate the science? Leave with more than inspiration: leave with tools you can use.
 
1:30 to 3:30PM BST
City of London Club, 9 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1DS
 
Express interest to attend here.
3:00PM BST - Sustainable Construction Talk: Unlocking the true value of sustainable construction
Hosted by Saint-Gobain's Sustainable Construction Observatory
 
3:00 - 7:00 p.m., including cocktails, in Canary Wharf 

Sustainable Construction Talk: Unlocking the true value of sustainable construction: Driving positive impact at scale through the transformation of the built environment.
 
This event will focus on how to fully realise the social and economic value of sustainable construction. Doing so promises to set off a virtuous cycle of investment and impact.   
The discussion will bring together industry leaders including developers, architects, urban planners, construction and 
materials actors, and corporate occupiers shaping market expectations, alongside public and private financial institutions such as investors and insurers, local and global policymakers, and NGOs. 
 
Participants welcome at 3:00 p.m.
Talk from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., followed by a cocktail and networking.
 
Participation is primarily by invitation, but a limited number of seats are available upon application here.
 
 

Past events

Skoll World Forum 2026

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Tuesday, 21 April 2026

Session: 'Before We Begin' 

3:00 to 4:30 PM BST
Hosts: Kite Insights, Project Dandelion, Echoing Green, Moonshot Platform, Dasra 
Skoll Week is full of ideas. What’s rarer and necessary is a moment that helps leaders arrive with intention, connect to one another, and ground themselves before the pace accelerates. This opening session is designed especially for first-time delegates (but open to all registered Forum delegates), using short narrative prompts, light movement, and peer exchange to set the tone for the week ahead.

**This session is open to all Skoll badge-holders. 

 

Wednesday, 22 April 2026

Session: Civic Renewal: Innovative Approaches to Democratic and Climate Action

3:00 to 4:30 PM BST

This session will explore innovations in civil renewal through the work of bridging leaders whose advocacy for freedom and democracy spans the local and global. With both climate progress and democratic resilience increasingly shaped by misinformation and fragmented trust, what will it take to rebuild the civic foundations that make collective action possible? 


Speakers:

  • Marya Besharov, Academic Director, Skoll Centre (Moderator)
  • Sophie Lambin, Founder and CEO, Kite Insights (Moderator)
  • Juliana Uribe Villegas, Founder and CEO, Movilizatorio
  • Kat Hamilton, Executive Director, Force of Nature
  • Rich Wilson, CEO, ISWE, Co-Founder, Global Citizen's Assembly
  • Kainoa Azama, Associate Director, Olohana Foundation
  • Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, Director of Investigations & Strategic Impact, Byline Times; Founding Director, Foundation for Civilisation Renewal


Registration link: https://luma.com/k2b55dx8 

 

Thursday, 23 April 2026

Session: ‘Degrees of Change: Heat, Pregnancy, and the Systems We Need'

1:00 to 2:30pm BST
Extreme heat is one of the most immediate and under-addressed threats to human health. Emerging research shows that exposure to high temperatures during pregnancy increases the risk of preterm birth, low birth weight, stillbirth, and maternal complications, yet maternal health remains largely absent from climate adaptation planning, infrastructure design, and finance strategies.
Hosted by Project Dandelion in partnership with Wellcome Trust and Kite Insights, Degrees of Change brings together science, frontline experience, infrastructure thinking, and policy leadership to examine what it would take to embed heat resilience into the systems that shape daily life.

Speakers:

  • Debbie Rogers, CEO, Reach Digital Health

  • Reema Nanavaty, Director, Self-Employed Women’s Association

  • Akudo Oguaghamba, Executive Director, The Women's Health and Equal Rights Initiative

  • Sophie Lambin, CEO and Co-founder, Kite Insights