Conference events

Held at the height of the 2023 AGM season, asset owners at the inaugural ESG Investor Stewardship Summit debated whether a gap had opened up with their asset managers on issues critical to the future of engagement and stewardship.

By the end of the voting season that gap looked more like a chasm, as asset owners investigated the reasons why such disparities had developed, centring on engagement with oil and gas giants, but with much wider implications across portfolios.

With regulators conducting on a wholesale review of the framework for stewardship in the UK, the Stewardship Summit 2024 will bring together leading practitioners and stakeholders, with the aim of establishing common ground through a series of informed panels and inspiring keynotes.

As COP28 accelerates the transition to a climate- and nature-positive economy, and UK institutional investors are increasingly expected to consider social factors, it’s more important than ever that asset owners and managers work together.

Environmental Finance announces their annual Natural Capital Investment EMEA conference taking place on 12 March in London.

Nature and biodiversity are finally being given their rightful place as an integral part of sustainable finance – and hopefully of finance more broadly.

Join to discuss the key issues involved with natural capital investment approaches, regulation and policy, data gaps and more.

By letter dated 14 March 2023, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia confirmed its willingness to host the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nation Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) . The Conference will be held in Riyadh from 2 to 13 December 2024.

In line with the provisions of decision 34/COP15 the UNCCD secretariat will now enter into consultation with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the organization of COP 16.

Information on further arrangements for the session will be communicated to all Parties and observers in due time.

The 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 29) to the UNFCCC will convene from 11 to 24 November 2024. It will take place in Azerbaijan. More information to be released soon.

The 8th edition of the World Cities Summit sought to address this with its theme of “Liveable and Sustainable Cities: Emerging Stronger”. The Summit is a convening point for global mayors, business leaders and knowledge experts to exchange and co-create city solutions for liveable and sustainable cities, and engages cities, businesses and experts at the highest levels to discuss how cities can emerge stronger through prolonged and unpredictable disruptions.

Climate Week NYC is the largest annual climate event of its kind, bringing together over 500 events and activities across the City of New York – in person, hybrid and online. Each year, business leaders, political change makers, local decision takers and civil society representatives of all ages and backgrounds, from all over the world, gather to drive the transition, speed up progress, and champion change that is already happening.

Climate Week NYC is hosted by Climate Group, an international non-profit whose purpose is to drive climate action, fast. Climate Group hosts the official program during the week that brings together the most senior international figures from business, government, civil society and the climate sector.

The G20 Summit represents the conclusion of the work carried out by the country holding the group’s rotating presidency. It is the moment when heads of state and government approve the agreements negotiated throughout the year and point out ways of dealing with global challenges.

In Brasil, the G20 Leaders’ Summit is scheduled for November 18 and 19, 2024, in Rio de Janeiro, with the presence of the leaders of the 19 member countries, plus the African Union and the European Union.

 The 2025 G7 Leaders’ Summit will be held in Kananaskis, Alberta, from June 15 to 17, 2025. From international peace and security to global economic stability and growth, to the digital transition, today’s global challenges and opportunities require us to work together to find shared solutions.

The IUFRO World Congress is one of the largest global forest events, held every five years since 1893. The congress gives a unique opportunity to gather worldwide leading scientists and top leaders to contribute and co-create for a sustainable future within forestry, climate and society – aligned with the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The IUFRO World Congress 2024 is a collaborative global network platform with great opportunity for knowledge sharing and getting access to the latest science and research. The outcome of the event will also set the future research agenda and roadmap for next generations, this time focusing on the congress theme Forests & Society Towards 2050.

The congress week gives the delegates great opportunity to discuss the important role of our forests. We offer arenas for innovations, forward-looking dialogues, and the foundations for collaborations.

London Climate Action Week harnesses the unique power of London for global and local climate action.

It mobilises London’s unparalleled ecosystem of climate and non-climate organisations to accelerate global climate action and supports action in London to ensure it acts as a global climate leader.

Now in its 7th year, it is the largest city-wide climate festival in Europe, attracting over 45,000 people annually.

LCAW provides a brand and platform under which hundreds of stakeholders host their events, creating a large and vibrant programme of climate-focused activities.

The event registration process for the upcoming edition will open in early 2025.

Over three days and nine sessions, the hosts will bring together interdisciplinary researchers with practitioners and decision-makers from the public and private sectors, as well as Indigenous voices from around the world, to discuss and co-create an action plan for nature-based solutions to support positive social-environmental change. They will examine the evidence for the benefits of nature-based solutions beyond climate change mitigation, in particular for human and ecological health, climate change adaptation, humanitarian crises and food security, and tackle the role of adaptive management in resilience. Theywill also explore how to deal with uncertainty on the socio-ecological outcomes of nature-based solutions, and ensure that governance, markets and finance can act together in support of them, discussing, even, how we might transform the economy so that it enhances rather than weakens the web of life. Finally, they will explore how we can rekindle a soulful human connection with nature.