OnePointFive’s Guide to Must-Attend London Climate Action Week 2026 Events 🌍
London Climate Action Week is one of the most dynamic moments in 2026’s global climate calendar: bringing together city leaders, innovators, investors, and practitioners to accelerate action on both local and global levels. With hundreds of events happening across the city and online, it can be hard to know where to start.
That’s why we’ve curated a list of must-attend LCAW events recommended by our team. Whether you’re exploring the future of climate, scaling sustainability solutions, or connecting with others working at the intersection of policy and action, there’s something here for you.
🟢 Events marked as ‘OPF Team is attending’ are the ones we’ll be at (represented by OPF Co-Founder & COO, Matthias Muehlbauer), come say hi!
MONDAY
Climate Innovation Forum 2026
Conference | 📍 Guildhall, Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HH | 🕒 8:30am - 5:30pm
The Forum will convene a curated audience of 2,500 senior climate decision-makers and leaders from 100+ countries across government, business, policy and finance, to connect, collaborate, and accelerate climate action and implementation. Note: Attendance is subject to pass eligibility criteria and registration requirements.
The New Baseline for Business Resilience – International Standards for Transition Planning
Panel | 📍 Livery Hall, Guildhall (at the Climate Innovation Forum) | 🕒 10:45am - 12pm | 🟢 OPF Team is attending
This session will explore what the international standards system can do for climate action, and how collaboration across standards bodies, business, finance, policymakers and global initiatives can help address critical challenges affecting organizations and markets worldwide. The event will mark the launch of the public consultation for the world’s first ISO net zero standard (ISO 14060).
International Sustainability Standards Board: Preparing for UK Adoption
Panel | 📍 EY, 1 More London Place, London SE1 2AF | 🕒 2 - 4pm
The discussion will explore what high‑quality ISSB reporting looks like in practice, including first‑year judgements on scope, phasing and priorities, recurring challenges emerging across jurisdictions, and how investors are already using ISSB disclosures in decision‑making. An optional technical session will follow the panel for participants wishing to explore more complex aspects of the new reporting requirement, including financial quantification and connectivity.
The Tipping Point: Where Climate Science and Global Finance Collide
Panel | 📍 30 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8EP | 🕒 2:30 - 5pm
Join global flood risk intelligence provider Fathom and leading voices in sustainable finance and climate risk to discuss how we move from theoretical awareness to actionable risk management, followed by a Q&A and networking drinks.
Private Roundtable: The Integrity Imperative — Navigating Greenwashing Regulations
Roundtable | 📍 Central London (location provided on registration) | 🕒 4 - 6pm
This roundtable will unpack what the evolving greenwashing landscape means in practice and how communications leaders can advise with clarity and confidence. Speakers from UK regulators will feature real-world scenarios and recent enforcement examples to examine how regulators interpret environmental claims in practice. Note: This is a private roundtable. Location details will be shared upon registration confirmation.
Ivy + Oxbridge Sustainability Mixer
Reception | 📍 Drake & Morgan at King's Cross, 6 Pancras Sq, London N1C 4AG (lower level) | 🕒 6:30 - 9:30pm | 🟢 OPF Team is attending
This informal gathering is an opportunity for alumni of all schools who are passionate about climate and sustainability to connect and kick off LCAW together. The mixer is a collaboration between alumni associations of the universities, but is open to all alumni of any school; plus, any friends are warmly welcome as well.
TUESDAY
Reset Connect London Day 1
June 23 | 🕒 8:30am - 5pm, Night Reception 5:30 - 7pm | 📍 Excel London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL
🟢 OPF Team is attending and hosting a booth!
Join the award-winning sustainability and net zero event for business, investors and innovators! Reset Connect London takes place on 23-24 June 2026 at Excel London, as the UK’s award-winning sustainability ecosystem, climate tech and green investment event. Connect with 7,500 attendees, 400 speakers and 300 exhibitors to discover solutions, drive net zero strategies and grow your network across business, investment and policy communities. Note: Free passes are available until midnight on June 22.
Visit the OnePointFive booth at the London & Partners Pavilion from June 23–24, and meet the team behind our sustainability services, training programs, and climate projects.
Action Under Uncertainty: The Business Case for Carbon Reductions and Removals
Panel | 📍 Berkeley Square House, London W1J | 🕒 9 - 11am
This session provides practical guidance for buyers on how to construct a balanced carbon credit portfolio today, with a particular focus on how carbon dioxide removals influence social outcomes, biodiversity, and long‑term resilience. The discussion will equip executives with a defendable portfolio logic that aligns CFO, CSO, and CRO priorities while justifying CDR‑related decisions to leadership.
EDHEC Climate Research Conference 2026 – Climate Risk and Business Resilience: From Science to Strategic Action
Conference | 📍 One Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9JJ | 🕒 9am - 7pm
The EDHEC Climate Research Conference 2026 will bring together global experts from finance, academia, infrastructure, and policy to explore how cutting-edge climate science can directly inform strategic and investment decisions. The conference will present original research, data-driven case studies, and scientific tools addressing the financial materiality of climate risk — from hyperlocal physical impacts to transition dynamics and regulatory frameworks.
Shaping the Next Generation of Transition Plans: Climate, Nature and Social Agendas
Interactive session | 📍 One Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9JJ | 🕒 10am - 12pm
This interactive peer-learning session, co-hosted by BSR and the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA), will examine real-world trade-offs, prioritization challenges, and the internal governance needed to ensure integration transitions from planning to action. Gain practical insights, peer perspectives, and concrete ideas to advance integration within your own organization.
The Transition Valuation Project: One Year On – Where We Are and Where We Are Going
Panel | 📍 LSE Alumni Centre, WC2A 2AE | 🕒 2 - 4pm
Learn how the TVP Project put users of climate and other impact data at the centre and empower decision-makers with a new management flight simulator for transition valuation. Be part of the first cohorts and how your organisation can join this innovative executive programme.
Reset Connect London: The Capability Gap: Why Net Zero Ambitions Outpace Enterprise Skills
Panel | 📍 ExCeL London (Reset Connect London), Royal Victoria Dock, E16 1XL | 🕒 12:30 - 1pm | 🟢 Matthias Muehlbauer’s (OPF) Panel
As sustainability requirements accelerate and green talent demand continues to outpace supply, workforce capability is becoming a critical factor in delivering net zero goals. This session will explore why climate ambitions often outpace organizational skills, and what companies can do to build the knowledge, capacity, and readiness needed to support the transition. Hear from Matthias Muehlbauer, OnePointFive's Co-Founder & COO, on practical approaches to embedding sustainability capabilities across the workforce.
Note: Attendance is included with a Reset Connect London pass. Free passes are available until midnight on June 22, so be sure to register in advance to secure your spot!
From Fragility to Resilience: How Technology is Reshaping Governance
Panel + Lunch | 📍 Kitty Hawk, 8 St Martin's Pl, London WC2N 4JH | 🕒 1:30 - 3:30pm
The session opens with a focused panel bringing together one senior voice from diplomacy, academia, technology governance, and private investment, followed by a working lunch designed for the kind of conversation that does not happen in a conference hall. Note: Invitation-only lunch
The Future of ZERO Buildings: From Best Practice to Net-Zero
Panel | 📍 Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial St, London E1 6LS | 🕒 2 - 2:30pm
This session will explore pathways to delivering net-zero buildings, combining insights from policy, digitalisation, building services, materials, and health. It will highlight interdisciplinary approaches developed at Oxford, address key challenges in decarbonising the built environment, and identify scalable solutions to accelerate the transition to zero-carbon buildings.
Bigger than Silo Strategy: Practical Tools to Unlock Systems Approaches
Workshop | 📍 Uncommon Holborn, WC1V 6DF | 🕒 2 - 3:30pm
Working and thinking in silos is undermining our collective and individual impact. Join this workshop to learn more about the strategy needed to address interconnections and tackle the upstream determinants of outcomes across our climate, environment, social and health agendas in order to ensure that our change ecosystem is more powerful than the sum of its parts.
LCAW: Blue Earth and HSBC Innovation Banking Opening Reception
Reception | 📍 31 New Inn Yard, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3EY | 🕒 6:15 - 9pm
Kickstart London Climate Action Week with an evening of connection, conversation and climate leadership at the Blue Earth Forum. Bringing together founders, investors, business leaders and changemakers from across the innovation and climate ecosystem, this opening moment sets the tone for a week focused on action, innovation and collaboration.
WEDNESDAY
Reset Connect London Day 2
June 24 | 🕒 8:30am - 5pm | 📍 Excel London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL
🟢 OPF Team is attending and hosting a booth!
Join the award-winning sustainability and net zero event for business, investors and innovators! Reset Connect London takes place on 23-24 June 2026 at Excel London, as the UK’s award-winning sustainability ecosystem, climate tech and green investment event. Connect with 7,500 attendees, 400 speakers and 300 exhibitors to discover solutions, drive net zero strategies and grow your network across business, investment and policy communities. Note: Free passes are available until midnight on June 22.
Visit the OnePointFive booth at the London & Partners Pavilion from June 23–24, and meet the team behind our sustainability services, training programs, and climate projects.
EY Ecosystem Exchange | AI for climate resilience in the real economy: from insight to intervention
Panel | 📍 Protein Studios, 31 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EY | 🕒 8 - 10am
This session centres on how escalating climate-driven physical risks are no longer abstract. A fast-paced, demo-led Ecosystem Exchange convened by EY with technology, start-ups, academia and investors to move from climate risk insight to real-world interventions.
Navigating Net Zero: A Practitioner Workshop for Asset Managers
Workshop + Breakfast | 📍 Brown's Hotel, 33 Albemarle St, London W1S 4BP | 🕒 8:30 - 11am
This invite-only breakfast workshop brings together a select group of senior asset managers to tackle one of the most pressing questions in sustainable finance: what is actually preventing financial institutions from committing to net zero targets and what does pragmatic progress look like? Note: Invitation-only.
WRI Hub: Climate Leadership in Action
Multiple events | 📍 ODI Global, 4 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA | 🕒 8:30am - 8pm |
World Resources Institute (WRI) will have its largest presence ever at London Climate Action Week, contributing to more than 45 events across energy, nature, finance, and governance. This is a full day of events bringing together policymakers, researchers and practitioners on the defining issues of climate, energy and development. Note: some sessions are public and some are invitation-based roundtables.
Net Zero Standards and Corporate Decision-Making: What Companies Need to Know Now
Panel | 📍 Standard Chartered, 1 Basinghall Ave, London EC2V 5DD | 🕒 9 - 11am
This session examines how evolving net‑zero frameworks and guidance (SBTi, ISO, and the GHG Protocol) are shaping corporate climate strategies and demand for high‑integrity nature‑based credits. Learn about what recent updates mean in practice, how companies should interpret the role of carbon credits, and where businesses can engage in ongoing standard‑setting,
Build Your Climate Action Plan in 60 Minutes
Workshop | 📍 Online event | 🕒 10 - 11am
Build your climate action plan in the time it takes to have lunch, plus get ready-to-implement actions to protect your business from energy price hikes. Designed specifically for small and medium businesses (SMEs), this hands-on 60 minute session condenses weeks of work into one practical workshop.
Why the Clean Transition Stalls Between the Boardroom and the Organisation — and What Leaders Can Actually Do About It
Facilitated dialogue | 📍 Online event | 🕒 11am - 12pm
This session is a 60-minute facilitated dialogue for leaders who recognise this clean transition gap in their own organisations, whether the mandate driving it is climate, transformation, or any other strategic commitment that is not yet fully operational. A practitioner-led conversation that names the mechanisms clearly and works through what leaders can specifically do to close the gap.
Freshwater x AI: Innovation, Resilience and Equity
Panel | 📍 EY, 1 More London Place, London SE1 2AF | 🕒 1:30 - 3:30pm
This session brings together sustainability leaders, investors, public‑sector and utility executives, NGOs and technology entrepreneurs to explore how data and AI can accelerate innovation in freshwater — a critical frontier for climate resilience. Led by EY Ripples and its ecosystem partners, the session includes a fireside conversation, facilitated roundtables, and an innovation showcase.
Scope 3 AI Action Afternoon
Workshop + Networking event | 📍 etc.venues County Hall, Belvedere Road, London SE1 7PB | 🕒 2 - 5pm | 🟢 OPF Team is attending
An evening of lively panel discussions, practical insights, and open Q&A exploring some of the most debated topics in Scope 3 decarbonisation. Expect two high-energy sessions, plenty of audience participation, and drinks afterwards for informal networking.
AI Data Centres: Power Burden or Future Grid Flexibility Backbone?
Panel | 📍 Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial St, London E1 6LS | 🕒 3 - 4:30pm
The panel will explore opportunities for data centre power flexibility to support faster grid connections, lower system costs, and clean energy integration, bringing together perspectives from power systems engineering, data centre development, AI infrastructure, sustainability, and grid operation.
The Future of Conservation Leadership: Investing in the People Delivering Local Climate and Biodiversity Action
Panel | 📍 Mid City Place, 71 High Holborn, London WC1V 6BA | 🕒 5 - 6:30pm
This session will explore how the climate and conservation community can strengthen and evolve leadership development efforts for the coming decade. It will bring together perspectives from emerging leaders, partners and donors to discuss what conservation leaders will need to equip them in a rapidly changing world and how leadership programmes can better support them.
Climate Communication for Real Life: A Workshop with Jamie & Lilly
Workshop | 📍 Online event | 🕒 6 - 8pm
This is a 2-hour participatory online session designed to help you process what you’ve learned about the climate in spaces like London Climate Action Week and actually bring it home with you. Not as a rant or lecture, but as a genuine conversation that meets people in your life where they’re at.
THURSDAY
The Net Zero Narrative Gap
Panel | 📍 6 Old Queen St, London SW1H 9HP | 🕒 9 - 10:30am
Despite 60% of Brits supporting the UK’s commitment to reach net zero by 2050, there has been vocal opposition to net zero solutions. Join Blakeney for this deep dive into the current perception of net zero, how we got here, and how we can demonstrate the value of net zero, filling the narrative gap.
The Sustainability Traction Gap: From Compliance to Competitive Advantage
Interactive session | 📍 Central London (location provided on registration) | 🕒 9 - 10:30am
An interactive session that moves beyond the sustainability compliance narrative to explore the growing gap between sustainability ambition and organisational reality; while creating space for honest peer-to-peer reflection around the strategic, cultural, and organisational dynamics shaping sustainability progress today.
Where human rights meet climate strategy, to create a Just Transition
Workshop | 📍 The Conduit, 6 Langley St, London WC2H 9JA | 🕒 9am - 12pm
Building resilient supply chains depends on climate strategies that work for people across global value chains, from suppliers and workers to farmers and communities. The focus of this workshop is to create cross-collaboration within companies between human rights and environment teams and across clients and sectors.
Procurement - The Hidden Lever for Climate Action - With Oxford Net Zero and Futerra Solutions Union
Interactive session | 📍 Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA | 🕒 1:45 - 3pm | 🟢 OPF Team is attending
This interactive session will bring together procurement, sustainability, and industry leaders to explore how client demand and purchasing decisions can help accelerate progress on “serviced emissions”, or “emissions of influence”. Alongside the facilitated discussion, there will be opportunities to connect with peers across procurement, sustainability, and professional services who are navigating similar challenges and exploring collaborative approaches to climate-aligned procurement.
Turn Earth observation into supply chain intelligence: manage risk, uncover opportunities, and respond faster
Workshop | 📍 EY, 1 More London Place, London SE1 2AF | 🕒 4 - 5pm
Join EY, Microsoft, and Space Intelligence to explore how organizations can turn Earth observation data into meaningful supply chain intelligence. This session will showcase a joint solution that combines supplier and site geolocations with satellite imagery and AI-driven analytics to create a more transparent, responsive, and insight-driven view of global supply chains.
Reimagining the next frontier of sustainability: A discussion with the EY Agentic Sustainability Reporting Assistant
Workshop | 📍 EY, 1 More London Place, London SE1 2AF | 🕒 4 - 5:30pm
Join EY for a forward‑looking workshop and showcase that presents a future‑state vision of AI‑enabled sustainability reporting. This session introduces the EY Agentic Sustainability Reporting Assistant to share how AI may help automate sustainability reporting processes, unlock insights and contribute to value creation.
Better places to work, learn and play: The unexpected benefits of climate action in schools
Panel | 📍 Ashden, The Peak, 5 Wilton Road, London SW1V 1AP | 🕒 4 - 7pm
Attendees will be the first to hear how climate action in schools unlocks far-reaching benefits – both within the school community and beyond. Our findings also explore how headteachers with competing priorities can be engaged in climate action and its benefits – highlighting opportunities to effectively communicate with schools on climate topics.
