Editor’s choice
Editor’s choice
London Climate Action Week harnesses the power of London for global and local climate action.
LCAW is one of the world’s largest independent climate events. Now in its eighth edition, it brings together more than 75 000 people across more than 750 events over nine days each June – from community gatherings in every borough to ministerial roundtables in the City of London, from school events to major international conferences. Climate action happening, visibly, across an entire global city.
Perspective / The heatwave that coincided with London Climate Action Week underscores the UK's urgent need to adapt to limit the threats to schools, the economy and society.
This event will reflect on the progress the cement and concrete industry has made on its journey to low-carbon concrete and the way ahead. Join us to explore the frameworks and enablers required to unlock the full potential of the cement and concrete sector’s transformation, from driving demand and innovation to supporting implementation across diverse regional contexts.
Date: Monday 22 June
Time: 09:00-13:00 (networking coffee and pastries from 08:00)
Location: Sustainable Ventures, County Hall, 5th Floor, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 7PB
Hosted by: Global Cement and Concrete Association with LeadIT, Cement Breakthrough, MPP/ITA and Concrete Transition Capital.
The Breakthrough Agenda was launched at COP26 and is a global collaborative framework designed to accelerate the development and deployment of clean technologies in industry. It covers industries responsible for over 60% of global emissions, including power, transport, steel, hydrogen, buildings, cement, and agriculture.
Date: Tuesday 23 June
Time: 10:30-12:00
Location: Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London, SW1Y 5BJ
Invitation only
E3G, UNIDO and DESNZ are convening ministers, industry leaders, and international institutions to focus on how the transition to greener industry can strengthen competitiveness, resilience, and long-term growth. Industrial policy is back at the centre of geopolitical decision-making.
Date: Wednesday 24 June
Time: 09:00-10:30
Location: Sustainable Ventures, Floor 5, County Hall, Belvedere Road, SE1 7PB
Hosted by: E3G, UNIDO and DESNZ
All public sessions will be livestreamed.
The forum will spotlight frontier clean energy innovations, new delivery models, and system level solutions that are accelerating energy transitions while delivering prosperity, resilience, and climate impact. It will also provide a unique opportunity for participants to help shape priorities for the next phase of the UK Government’s clean energy innovation portfolio.
Time: All day from 08:30
Location: The Minster Building, 21 Mincing Lane, London, EC3R 7AG
Hosted by: Ayrton Fund
This event will reflect on the progress the cement and concrete industry has made on its journey to low-carbon concrete and the way ahead. Join us to explore the frameworks and enablers required to unlock the full potential of the cement and concrete sector’s transformation, from driving demand and innovation to supporting implementation across diverse regional contexts.
Time: 09:00-13:00 (networking coffee and pastries from 08:00)
Location: Sustainable Ventures, County Hall, 5th Floor, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 7PB
Hosted by: Global Cement and Concrete Association
Emerging economies, including India, are exploring new energy and resource partnerships via tactical plurilateral groups, multipoint trade agreements, single-agenda deals, and even barter. Amidst technological conquests, supply chain blockades, and economic sanctions, instead of swaying with groupthink multilateralism, these countries are prioritising their own energy and resource security, and thereby, their economic and national security. This roundtable will explore the motivations, strategies, and actions of emerging economies to secure sustainable prosperity of their people.
Time: 09:30-11:30
Location: Windsor Room of St James’ Court (A Taj Hotel), 54 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6AF
Hosted by: Council on Energy, Environment and Water
This event will gather private sector and civil society actors in the renewable energy sector to discuss models of community ownership in wind and solar operations. Its purpose is to support a focused, action-oriented discussion on how to advance responsible utility-scale renewable energy development that respects human rights and delivers fair benefits.
Time: 14:00-16:15
Location: Mainframe, 24 Eversholt Street, London, NW1 1AD
Hosted by: Business and Human Rights Centre, Forum for the Future and the JustRE Alliance
Women Leading on Climate (WLOC) is a global coalition of women leaders spanning government, business, and civil society. Together, the coalition drives ambitious climate action by elevating the collective voices of women leading the fight for a sustainable and just future. Women Leading on Climate is an initiative founded by Climate & Nature Solutions and We Mean Business Coalition.
Time: 17:00-18:00
Location: Farringdon
Hosted by: Women Leading on Climate
The Breakthrough Agenda was launched at COP26 and is a global collaborative framework designed to accelerate the development and deployment of clean technologies in industry. It covers industries responsible for over 60% of global emissions, including power, transport, steel, hydrogen, buildings, cement, and agriculture.
Time: 10:30-12:00
Location: Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London, SW1Y 5BJ
Invitation only
E3G, UNIDO and DESNZ are convening ministers, industry leaders, and international institutions to focus on how the transition to greener industry can strengthen competitiveness, resilience, and long-term growth. Industrial policy is back at the centre of geopolitical decision-making.
Time: 09:00-10:30
Location: Sustainable Ventures, Floor 5, County Hall, Belvedere Road, SE1 7PB
Hosted by: E3G, UNIDO and DESNZ
All public sessions will be livestreamed.
An invite-only event
Time: 14:00-15:30
Location: Hemp Room, Wallacespace in Clerkenwell, 18 Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R 0DP
Hosted by: SEI, Adaptation Research Alliance, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Gates Foundation.
Join us for a global discussion on how electric mobility can support climate action while also addressing social and regional inequalities. With speakers from SLOCAT Partnership, Clean Air Asia and UNEP.
Time: 11:00-12:00 BST (12.00-13.00 CEST)
Location: Online
Hosted by: SEI
Clarmondial are convening a group of experienced practitioners, funders, and corporates to move beyond frameworks and examine what it takes to finance nature at scale – where the barriers are, what’s working, and how financing approaches and business operations can meaningfully integrate nature. The event will invite participants into dialogue and share experiences from the Clarmondial and SEI’s collaboration to develop a science-based tool designed to assess nature-related risks and opportunities across agricultural sourcing landscapes.
Time: 15:00-17:00
Location: The Living Room, Rosewood, 252 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7EN
Hosted by: Clarmondial
Mothers Rise Up presents “What Comes After the Flood”, directed by Charli Willow. Our film follows the story of Tenbury Wells, a picturesque medieval town in central England, and once a sought-after place to live. Now, after a series of devastating floods, it has been ominously labelled the ‘UK’s first uninhabitable town’. Not because life there is impossible, but because homes, businesses and even the town hall are now uninsurable.
As LCAW unfolds, join us for an intimate screening of the film followed by a Q&A with contributors and affected residents and business owners.
Time: 18:00-20:00
Location: The Garden Cinema, 39-41 Parker Street, Soho, London WC2B 5PQ
Hosted by: Mothers Rise Up
A high-level, in-person summit where heads of state, senior government ministers, finance and business leaders, and civil society representatives discuss how we supercharge effective finance for climate resilience. The summit is a flagship event of LCAW.
Time: 08:00-19:30
Location: The Brewery, 52 Chiswell Street, EC1Y 4SD
Hosted by: International Institute for Environment and Development
This event aims to bring together governments, non-governmental organizations, industry, and other stakeholders for a conversation about the past, present and future of offshore wind’s co-benefits.
Time: 10:00-11:30
Location: TBC
Hosted by: Beyond Fossil Fuels
This invite-only, high-trust roundtable convenes mining sector leaders to discuss critical knowledge and governance gaps that must be addressed to enable the responsible development of critical raw materials that supports global, regional, national and local security, reduces the risk of conflict, and ensures that the global energy transition will not replicate mistakes from the era of fossil fuels.
Time: 12:00-14:00
Location: Canning House, 50 Broadway, London, SW1H 0BL
Hosted by: SEI
An interactive workshop exploring how AI and digital technologies are shaping climate adaptation decisions, and how these tools interact with local knowledge, lived experience and institutional practice. Participants will reflect on the opportunities, limitations and governance challenges of using digital tools in real-world adaptation contexts.
Time: 16:00-18:00
Location: The Victoria Library, 160 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1 9TR
Hosted by: SEI and Transitions Research
At this invite-only meeting, we will explore how strategic governance can bridge the disconnect between national adaptation goals and local implementation, ensuring that national policy doesn’t just assess risk, but actively enables national leadership and local delivery. We will also offer exclusive insight into a new, national resilience approach, community case studies, and transferable lessons from the recent, global evidence symposium (funded by FCDO) on the outcomes of locally led adaptation.
Time: 08:30-10:00
Location: Embassy of Sweden, 11 Montagu Place, London, W1H 2AL
Hosted by: SEI and the Embassy of Sweden
The day will focus on identifying high-impact opportunities for catalytic philanthropic action across climate and health data systems, with particular attention to emerging technologies, country-level implementation and use, and the broader enabling ecosystem required to support long-term impact.
Time: 09:00-16:30
Location: Wellcome, Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE
Hosted by: Wellcome Trust and Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
Perspective / The heatwave that coincided with London Climate Action Week underscores the UK's urgent need to adapt to limit the threats to schools, the economy and society.
Perspective / In this perspective for Climate Home News, Kate Williamson and Magnus Benzie outline how the UK can build public support for climate adaptation policy agendas.
Event on 01 July in Leeds / Join us in Leeds for a day of research and collaboration focused on the impact of indoor environments on child and adolescent health.
