Conference events

​Brazil Climate Investment Week (BCIW) returns for 2026 with a dynamic new format and expanded programming. ​In addition to Converge Capital Conference (Converge Capital) and the Brazil NbS Investment Summit (Capital for Climate), iCS (Instituto Clima e Sociedade) joins the initiative with the event Ocean‑Climate Nexus: Investment and Action Opportunities.

Climate Week Zurich is Europe’s leading business-driven climate platform – bringing together business leaders, policymakers, researchers, creatives and innovators to co-create and scale smart climate action.

CWZ isn’t just a conference: It’s a week-long, city-wide takeover featuring hundreds of events curated for a ‘glocal’ audience. From 4–9 May 2026, Zurich will host 250+ events showcasing how we can accelerate climate impact in everyday life and business.

More than 200 partner organisations from every sector and scale have come together to move the needle on concrete and measurable solutions for climate mitigation, resilience and adaptation. We’re shaping tomorrow, together.

Building on the strong foundation laid in 2025 and past years, the 2026 Climate Weeks will continue to focus on accelerating the operationalization of decisions under the intergovernmental process into action on the ground and building momentum toward COP by facilitating targeted inputs to upcoming meetings.

In the format launched in 2025, the Climate Weeks bring together representatives of Parties and non-Party stakeholders in a global space that will combine several planned UNFCCC mandated meetings, as well as policy and high-impact dialogues, offering a unique opportunity to link the intergovernmental process and the discussions that will feed into COP with the real needs of implementation, while enabling the consolidation of activities to increase efficiency and impact.

The Climate Weeks are held twice a year in different regions, maintaining a global focus in scope and participation.  Climate weeks provide a structured yet flexible space for dialogue, capacity-building, and showcasing innovative solutions to support the intergovernmental process and urgent, inclusive, and coordinated climate action.

Building on the strong foundation laid in 2025 and past years, the 2026 Climate Weeks will continue to focus on accelerating the operationalization of decisions under the intergovernmental process into action on the ground and building momentum toward COP by facilitating targeted inputs to upcoming meetings.

In the format launched in 2025, the Climate Weeks bring together representatives of Parties and non-Party stakeholders in a global space that will combine several planned UNFCCC mandated meetings, as well as policy and high-impact dialogues, offering a unique opportunity to link the intergovernmental process and the discussions that will feed into COP with the real needs of implementation, while enabling the consolidation of activities to increase efficiency and impact.

The Climate Weeks are held twice a year in different regions, maintaining a global focus in scope and participation.  Climate weeks provide a structured yet flexible space for dialogue, capacity-building, and showcasing innovative solutions to support the intergovernmental process and urgent, inclusive, and coordinated climate action.

Africa’s forests – the backbone of climate resilience, biodiversity, and shared prosperity – are at a crossroads. Under the theme ‘From Commitment to Action: Africa’s Forest Legacy for All Forever,’ the Zámba Heritage Initiative Congress will convene government leaders, private sector actors, civil society, and development partners to accelerate action for sustainable forest management, restoration, and inclusive green growth across Africa.

The Zámba Heritage Initiative Congress will:

• Position African forests as a top priority in global climate negotiations and growth in sustainable forest management, carbon markets, and nature-based solutions.
• Launch the Zámba Heritage Action Plan, a 10-year roadmap with clear targets to place 30 million hectares under sustainable management, restore 5 million hectares of degraded land, and unlock USD 400 million in finance for sustainable forest management.
• Mobilize ambitious pledges from African governments, donors, and investors.
• Strengthen partnerships among African nations, donors, impact investors, and conservation organizations.
• Help to mainstream sustainability in African and global wood-based supply chains.

The Nature Positive Initiative gathers some of the world’s largest sustainable business and finance coalitions; standards, disclosure and targets frameworks; global conservation organizations; and science, subnational governance and Indigenous knowledge networks, to drive alignment around use of the term ‘nature positive’ and support broader, longer-term efforts to deliver nature-positive outcomes.

The Global Nature Positive Summit, organized by the Nature Positive Initiative and host country organizations, will focus on driving forward the efforts in implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), which was agreed by 196 countries in 2022 with a commitment to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030.

As governments will be meeting in November 2026 in Yerevan, Armenia, at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP17 to review progress on their landmark agreement, the Global Nature Positive Summit aims at showcasing nature-positive strategies and outcomes with a particular focus on the contributions of the private sector and local governments to the GBF and its Nature Positive mission.

Carbon Markets Africa Summit (CMAS) is the leading continental platform dedicated to catalysing high-integrity carbon markets across Africa. By connecting supply and demand, the summit brings together project developers, policymakers, investors, and standards bodies to build a credible, investable carbon pipeline grounded in African readiness.

• Africa’s marketplace for carbon credit supply and demand

• Focused on high-integrity, MRV-ready solutions

• Grounded in African policy, finance, and climate priorities

• Shaped by expert guidance from AfDB, VCMI, Verra, and more

• Timed to influence global climate finance and Article 6 agendas

Trellis Impact convenes 4,000+ leaders from across industries, technologies, and the capital stack — from Fortune 500 decision-makers to climate-tech innovators and investors. Connect with the people who turn emerging ideas into scaled solutions and who see sustainability as a driver of business value and competitive advantage.

FAIS helps investors understand how they should react to future challenges. The drive towards net zero is putting an even greater emphasis on investments into carbon accretive assets. FAIS operates at the nexus of finance, government, and ecology.

Our industry leading conferences gather major investors and actors involved in forestry and agriculture. To discuss climate-positive investments, helping to unearth the latest developments for nature-based solutions from leading experts globally. Through peer-to-peer interaction, panel discussions and one-on-one meetings, the audience will leave this event armed with climate smart investable opportunities, factoring in risks, returns and impact.

You can expect to engage in discussions such as:

• Defining issues that impact on an investor
• Understanding risk
• Estimating future returns
• Regenerative agriculture and agroforestry

The Argus Europe Carbon Conference, a leading forum for carbon market stakeholders, will take place in Nice, France on 11–13 May 2026.

As the EU accelerates toward its 2030 climate targets, reforms across the EU ETS, CBAM, and the developing EU Carbon Removal Framework (CRCF) are reshaping compliance obligations and redefining the cost of decarbonisation for industries operating both within Europe and across global supply chains.

Developments in the voluntary carbon market and the progression of Article 6.4 toward operationalisation remain central as hard-to-abate sector companies are on their pathways towards decarbonisation, with aviation facing new cost signals under CORSIA, and industries such as steel, cement, chemicals, and shipping adapting to tightening compliance obligations and rising carbon cost exposure.

Hosted in one of the key hubs for international climate dialogue and European policy engagement in Nice, France, join the event alongside more than 200 senior-level participants for two days of high-level networking and practical insight across the carbon value chain.

Climate change is reshaping the world in irreversible ways. From extreme weather to biodiversity collapse and water scarcity, the systems that sustain life are under growing strain. Global food supplies are destabilising. Key carbon sinks — forests, wetlands, and permafrost — are, in some instances, turning into carbon sources. The Arctic Ocean is on track for its first ice-free day before 2030.

To meet the Paris Agreement, emissions must fall 43% by 2030. Yet this transformation must take place in economies still largely reliant on fossil fuels, at a time when global electricity demand is projected to double by 2050. There is momentum: in 2024, clean electricity exceeded 40% of global generation, driven by solar, now the world’s cheapest energy source, and clean energy investment also passed $2tn for the first time.

But climate action today means more than cutting emissions. In an era of fragile institutions and geopolitical upheaval, business has a role to play in upholding the principles — accountability, transparency, rule of law — that underpin both climate and economic resilience. This year, the FT’s Climate & Impact Summit brings together the FT’s Moral Money and Climate Capital to host practical discussions on the scale of the crises we face — and the opportunity we still have to shape a fairer and more sustainable society.