Meeting events

This event continues to push the boundaries of the field, gathering key players from the financial sector, government authorities, and corporations to discuss the most pressing issues of our time.

Agenda topics:

• Sustainable investment pipeline
• Nature Investing
• Energy security and fast track to clean energy
• The financial opportunities in methane
• Resilience finance in emerging markets
• Importance use of credible proceeds

UNEP FI is bringing the 19th edition of the Global Roundtable on Sustainable Finance (GRT) to London on 23 and 24 June 2026, to host one of the UN’s largest sustainable finance-focused events alongside London Climate Action Week. This year’s theme, ‘From Risk to Resilience: Financing the Future,’ reflects the growing need across the financial industry to respond to global challenges with vision and leadership for a resilient future.

• 23 June: High-Level Plenaries – in-person and livestreamed online.
• 24 June: Engagement forums – for UNEP FI members and partners only.

Please note: This workshop is reserved for members of BSR’s Climate and Nature Working Group and Human Rights Working Group collaborations.

Engage in a joint workshop hosted by BSR’s Climate and Nature Working Group and Human Rights Working Group to explore the intersecting business impacts on people and the environment. Drawing on the joint project, ‘An Integrated Approach for Climate, Nature, and Human Rights in Corporate Strategy,’ BSR’s Human Rights and Climate and Nature experts will provide practical guidance to implement responsible business models through a series of case studies and interactive exercises that explore key aspects of people-centered climate and nature action.

In celebration of World Water Day, people across the world will run, walk or move for water as part of the annual #WorldWaterRun.

Water shapes every part of our lives, but many of the water systems we rely on are in crisis.

By taking part in the #WorldWaterRun, you join a global community showing that water matters to everyone, everywhere, and that protecting it is a responsibility we all share.

The World Bank Group (WBG) plays a key role in the global effort to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity. One of the ways the organization works towards achieving these goals is by calling on citizens from around the globe to collaborate on a range of issues related to poverty reduction, international economic development and finance, building human capital, and strengthening resilience. The primary opportunity to bolster awareness and participation on these topics and advance the agenda on key issues is through the Spring and Annual Meetings. The meetings also aim to open up the meetings to the public through live-streamed events and online conversations on World Bank Live, Twitter and other platforms.

The G7 (Group of 7) is a group for economic partnerships and that every year brings together the Heads of State and Government of seven of the most industrialized countries in the world (France, the United States, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany). These countries represented 10% of the world population and 46% of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2017. In the G7, the European Union is represented by the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission. The G7 has no legal existence, permanent secretariat or official members. The presidency, held by one of the seven countries in turn every year, provides the resources required for the group’s work.

The event will feature an intimate dialog with National Geographic Explorer at Large, Nalini Nadkarni. Nalini will discuss her work as a pioneer of scientific tree canopy research and her efforts to inspire awareness for trees in diverse societal sectors, including corporations, faith-based groups, artists, and people who are incarcerated.

Join to explore how forests, like people, react and recover from disturbance and envision the new future we need to chart to ensure healthy forests into the future, while also redefine our relationship with forests.

Event Highlights

• Fireside chat with Nalini Nadkarni, National Geographic Explorer at Large to discuss the Our Trees Initiative – a campaign and living archive that elevates stories of the ecological, cultural, aesthetic, and spiritual connections to trees, and Sacha Spector, Program Director for the Environment at Doris Duke Foundation, to discuss a new emerging consensus in the forest community
• Insights from the 9^th American Forest Congress to inspire action, create space for new partnerships and build towards a transformative forest paradigm
• Personal “Tree Stories” from diverse voices spanning science, culture, and community to explore how collective narratives can help us move to a new paradigm, fostering resilience and recovery for the U.S. and global forests.

Over a million tons of CO2 stored/avoided with the Inga Tree Model in 14 years Inga Foundation’s Communications Strategist Marian van Noppen will debut our 9-minute film on Inga Alley-Cropping during Climate Week NYC 2025, with founder/director tropical ecologist Mike Hands available for Q&A via Zoom on Sunday afternoon, 3 to 4 pm on September 21. The session, From Abandoned to Abundant is hosted at Treehouse Doris Duke Center. Respond to this invitation to RSVP (ingatrees@gmail.com) if you would like to attend as pre-registration is required

​For the first time, carbon projects are not only reducing emissions but also delivering verified, measurable benefits for women. This groundbreaking session highlights pioneering initiatives in India—solar water pumps of a women’s social enterprise and livelihood activities linked to a mangrove restoration project—that apply the W+ Standard to quantify women’s empowerment across time savings, knowledge, and income generation, alongside carbon reductions.

​Featuring Jeannette Gurung, Founder of WOCAN and the W+ Standard, alongside Sandeep Roy Choudhury the Co Founder & Director of Value Network Ventures and Elizabeth Munee Kiamba (Financial Sector Specialist at CGAP)

​Speakers will demonstrate how these projects generate new revenue streams through gender outcome credits while strengthening climate resilience and community well-being.

​Participants will learn how investors, corporates, and carbon buyers can engage with this next generation of high-impact carbon projects that put women at the center of climate action.

​As scrutiny increases around carbon credit quality, additionality remains a central and evolving integrity principle within the voluntary carbon market in evaluating nature-based solutions. This session will explore how shifts in the interpretation and application of additionality can unlock greater recognition and investment in REDD+ and High Forest, Low Deforestation (HFLD) contexts.

​Speakers will examine how project developers, investors, and standard setters are strengthening and adapting their approaches to additionality, particularly in the context of REDD+ and jurisdictional programs, and highlight new frameworks and tools that help demonstrate impact in areas with strong existing protections. The session will also share insights from emerging nature stewardship initiatives like HIFOR, that can enhance market access for HFLD regions and support high-integrity investment in forests and nature.