CPI at London Climate Action Week 2026
CPI will organize and participate in several events during London Climate Action Week 2026.
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Climate Innovation Forum
📅 Monday, 22 June; 8:00 – 18:00
Guildhall
The Climate Innovation Forum is the opening event of London Climate Action Week, bringing together 2,500 leaders from business, policy and finance to scale climate and nature solutions, and accelerate implementation.
Taking place on Monday 22 June at London’s historic Guildhall, the high-level Forum includes multiple stages, participatory roundtables, partner events and networking opportunities, providing a powerful platform for collaboration and action.
CPI is an instititional partner of the Climate Innovation Forum.
Building Domestic Finance Architecture for the Energy Transition: Country and Subnational Perspectives
📅 Monday, 22 June; 12:45 – 15:00
This closed-door roundtable brings together sovereign wealth funds, national development banks and institutional investors from Africa and the Global South. Together they will explore the domestic financing structures needed to scale investment in clean technology and green industrialization. Co-hosted by SEforALL, Climate Policy Initiative, the Africa Climate Foundation, and the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA).
Invite only.
Methane action to safeguard the climate agenda
📅 Monday, 22 June; 13:30 – 14:30
The Brewery: 52 Chiswell St, London EC1Y 4SD
Climate Policy Initiative will co-host a methane-focused session at Climate Bonds CONNECT 2026, CBI’s flagship annual event bringing together leaders from finance, policy, and industry to accelerate credible climate investment. The session will explore how methane action can be positioned as an urgent, credible, and investable climate solution in a moment of shifting geopolitical priorities and growing scrutiny over climate capital allocation.
Methane is among the most potent drivers of near-term climate change, and rapid abatement offers one of the clearest opportunities to deliver measurable climate impact this decade. To achieve this, scaling methane mitigation will require stronger investment frameworks, clearer market signals, and greater coordination across public and private actors.
Drawing on insights from the Mobilising Sustainable Finance for Methane Abatement program, the discussion will examine how sustainable finance instruments, policy innovation, and cross-sector collaboration can unlock capital for high-impact methane solutions across key sectors and geographies. The session will identify practical pathways for scaling finance and keeping methane action central to the global climate agenda.
Scaling Blended Climate Finance: What Works in Practice
📅 Monday, 22 June; 16:00 – 18:30
The Catalytic Climate Finance Facility (CC Facility), a program jointly managed by Climate Policy Initiative and Convergence, along with the Government of Canada, is hosting an event during London Climate Action Week focused on Scaling Climate Investments in Emerging Markets Using Blended Finance.
The event will explore opportunities and challenges in mobilizing private capital for climate action in emerging markets, including the role of catalytic capital instruments such as grants and technical assistance in scaling innovative blended climate finance solutions. Discussions will draw on practical insights from actual blended climate finance transactions and also highlight key lessons emerging from programs such as the CC Facility, which leverages these instruments to accelerate and scale such solutions. The event will bring together investors, government funders, DFIs and MDBs, philanthropies, climate finance practitioners, and ecosystem partners, and will provide an opportunity to network with key stakeholders across the blended and climate finance ecosystem over drinks.
Due to limited capacity, this is an invite-only event. If you are interested in attending, please register your interest here.
Forests & Finance: Driving Ambition in the COP30 Roadmap
📅 Monday, 22 June; 16:30 – 18:00
The COP30 Presidency has committed to delivering a Roadmap for Halting and Reversing
Deforestation and Forest Degradation by 2030. As the Roadmap is rapidly being shaped, key thematic pillars require strengthening, such as understanding drivers of deforestation and strengthening policy frameworks, scaling forest finance and related mechanisms, building international cooperation and capacity. There is a desire from the COP30 Presidency to ensure that the Roadmap is practical, actionable, and inclusive, rather than another set of aspirational commitments.
Bridging that gap requires the finance and environment communities to work together, rather
than in parallel. This session brings together senior representatives from finance ministries,
environment ministries, and relevant financial and environmental policy institutions to share
perspectives, learn from one another, and identify practical ways forward that can directly
inform the Roadmap’s development ahead of COP31.
The focus of this closed-door session is deliberately on the finance system, where the gap
between commitment and action is widest. This meeting is an opportunity to explore systemic reforms to financial systems with relevant decision-makers that can reduce pressures on forests while also improving the enabling environment for private finance to flow. This includes fiscal and financial policy solutions that can be concretely pursued this year and beyond, supporting the implementation of the Roadmap.
CPI Executive Director Juliano Assunção is making a keynote speech.
This is an invite-only event.
Co-creating the COP30 Presidency Roadmap: Halting and Reversing Deforestation and Forest Degradation by 2030
📅 Tuesday, 23 June; 16:00 – 18:00
Organized by the COP30 Presidency and hosted by Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), and the London School of Economics (LSE), this event will focus on the COP 30 Presidency’s Roadmap on Halting and Reversing Deforestation and Forest Degradation by 2030, an engagement-led initiative that seeks contributions from Parties, international organizations, experts, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and other stakeholders to identify practical solutions, challenges and opportunities for accelerating forest protection within the global climate agenda.
This session will provide an opportunity to learn more about the Roadmap’s objectives, structure, and ongoing consultation process, while fostering dialogue on practical pathways to accelerate action on forests, climate and sustainable development by 2030.
If you’re interest in attending, please register via the button bellow. Places are limited.
Accelerating Climate Finance: What are investors prioritizing?
📅 Tuesday, 23 June; 16:00 – 19:00
As part of London Climate Action Week, the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (the Lab) and the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) will host an invite-only panel event bringing together leading voices from across the climate finance ecosystem.
This dynamic session will convene investors spanning the concessional and commercial spectrum to share what they are actively looking to fund: offering practical insight into where climate capital is flowing today. The discussion will shed light on how public and private actors are working together to scale finance for climate solutions. The conversation will take an emerging markets perspective, and we will draw on developments across these markets to bring key themes into focus.
CPI CEO Barbara Buchner will moderate the panel.
Scaling finance for food security
📅 Tuesday, 23 June; 18:00 – 21:00
Sustainable Ventures, County Hall, Waterloo, SE1 7PB
As geopolitical instability, climate shocks, and supply chain disruptions place increasing pressure on global food systems, there is a growing urgency to strengthen resilient domestic and regional food markets in EMDEs.
The session aims to contribute to a more actionable understanding of how to close the persistent gap between available capital and the financing needs of climate-vulnerable food systems. Participants will gain practical insights into the investment design challenges and financing approaches needed to unlock investment opportunities in climate-resilient domestic and regional food markets in EMDEs.
The event and networking reception will be hosted by the ClimateShot Investor Coalition (CLIC), IDH Invest, and FCDO.
2026 Annual Assembly of the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance
📅 Wednesday, 24 June; 9:00 – 17:00
As global climate ambition is reassessed and financial flows come under increasing scrutiny, this year’s Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance Annual Assembly will focus on a central question: how do we step up on climate finance and put cities at the core of the agenda?
Cities are where climate action is delivered, infrastructure gaps are most visible, and public and private investment can drive the greatest impact, yet they remain peripheral in many major financial and multilateral discussions. Advancing climate action means examining what is being done to move cities to the top of investment priorities.
The 2026 Assembly, hosted by EBRD, will explore how cities can access more financing across public and private channels, with a particular focus on unlocking greater private sector participation. It will also consider how cities can be more fully integrated into multilateral frameworks, decision‑making platforms, and the global financial architecture.
By bringing together policymakers, financial institutions, private investors, and city leaders, the Assembly aims to shift from broad commitments to practical pathways that position cities not just as implementers, but as strategic partners in shaping the future of climate finance. A registration link for the discussion and networking reception will follow.
Mobilizing Private Capital Through De-Risking in Practice
📅 Wednesday, 24 June; 15:00 – 17:00
As part of this year’s Annual Assembly of the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance there will be an open session to the public exploring the role of de-risking in mobilizing private capital for urban climate priorities.
Economics of Climate
📅 Wednesday, 24 June; 18:30 – 20:00
This event will showcase the recent work of the COP30 Action Agenda on transition away from fossil fuels, forests, carbon markets and climate coalitions.
Convened by José Scheinkman of Columbia University as part of COP30 under the leadership of COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago, this work has brought together leading economic perspectives on climate action. The event will also mark the formal launch of the Economics of Climate (ECO), a platform that will carry this work forward, convened jointly by researchers from LSE, Columbia University, PUC Rio, University of Chicago, Yale University and MIT, with support from the LSE Global School of Sustainability and the International Growth Centre.
CPI Executive Director Juliano Assunção is one of the speakers of the event.
London Climate Resilience Finance Summit
📅 Thursday, 25 June
Priscilla Negreiros, Associate Director at CPI, will moderate the Challenge Session on Financing Urban Climate Resilience Projects from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Bringing together city leaders, development finance institutions, MDBs, and private sector actors, the session will explore how to unlock financing for urban climate resilience in cities most affected by climate change. Discussions will focus on strengthening links between cities, national governments, and investors to scale resilient infrastructure investment and mobilize blended finance solutions.
Liz Kirk, Senior Manager at CPI, will moderate the Challenge Session on Financing Resilient Food and Land Use Systems from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The breakout discussion will bring together technical experts, policymakers, and investors to diagnose the barriers and pressure-test solutions for financing resilient food systems, with a focus on building innovative mechanisms and a joint financial architecture that aligns public and private financial flows.
World Climate Investment Summit
📅 Thursday, 25 June; London Stock Exchange
CPI CEO Barbara Buchner will moderate “Scaling Nature Markets: Mobilising Institutional Capital for Natural Capital” at 14:00 at the World Climate Investment Summit, a flagship London Climate Action Week forum focused on turning climate and nature finance commitments into real-economy investment.
Launch of the Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2026
📅 Thursday, 25 June; 15:30 – 17:00, followed by a networking reception
Hosted by SOAS University of London, Centre for Sustainable Finance
The climate finance community enters 2026 at a pivotal moment. With the New Collective Quantified Goal agreed and fiscal pressures rising, the urgent challenge is to mobilize and deploy finance at the scale the climate crisis demands. Understanding and redirecting global climate finance flows has never been more important.
This event will launch Climate Policy Initiative’s Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2026, which provides updated data and expanded insights across public and private flows, including adaptation finance and persistent gaps in vulnerable regions.
The session will bring together policymakers, investors, and climate finance leaders to discuss the report’s findings and identify near term opportunities to channel finance toward just, inclusive, and high impact transitions at a moment when decisive progress is essential.
