Meeting events

The carbon market has matured. The question is no longer whether to engage – it’s how to do it in a way that creates commercial value and satisfies your board.

​This event, led by Nature Broking and Rebalance Earth is designed specifically for corporates and financial institutions ready to lead.

​VCM 3.0 is here. Carbon credits are evolving into a genuine asset class – one that can sit on your balance sheet, is underwritten by specialist insurers, and delivers measurable financial value alongside environmental impact.

​This event will show you exactly how.

​We’ll be joined by standard setters, government voices, and CSO’s from public and private businesses who are leading this movement. We will be exploring:

• ​Clyde & Co’s landmark carbon removal portfolio capitalised on the balance sheet
• ​How reframing carbon credits as assets rather than costs, can create real commercial value
• ​Building the business case that gets your board and risk committee across the line
• ​Carbon removal and FTSE 100 business
• ​What the next phase of the voluntary carbon market means for large-scale procurement

​This is not a conversation about sustainability as a cost centre. It’s about hedging against future price rises, de-risking investments and creating value for your organisation whilst maximising impact

​Agenda:

​15:30 – 15:45 – Introduction – Nature Broking and Rebalance Earth

​15:45 – 16:05 – Keynote – Patrick Linighan – talking about Clyde & Co’s net-zero strategy

​16:05 – 17:00 – Panel – Board Buy In – how to unlock your board with real business cases + Q and A

​17:00 – 17:15 – Break

​17:15 – 18:00 – Fireside Chat – A view from the market. Guest speaker to be announced.

​18:00 to 19:00 –  Drinks and networking

As part of TRAFFIC’s 50th anniversary celebrations and London Climate Action Week, TRAFFIC is delighted to be hosting the launch of Thomas Crowther’s landmark book ‘Nature’s Echo’, being published by Penguin.

“When Earth’s ecosystems fall out of harmony, the damage can spiral out of control. But what if we could help nature to regain its balance?”

Thomas Crowther is professor of global ecology, president of the Branch Institute, founding chair of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and founder of Restor, the world’s largest platform for nature sites.

The book launch will take place at The Francis Crick Institute near Kings Cross Station in London, with a talk by the author at 1730 followed by a reception at 1830.

This is a small, partner-led workshop during the Bonn Climate Intersessional, focused on building a coordinated civil society movement to support delivery of the COP30 deforestation roadmaps.

This session is designed as a closed, working discussion bringing together a diverse group of civil society organisations, Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Community leaders, and technical partners.

The objective is to move beyond consultation and begin shaping the roadmap as a living political process — one that drives ambition, strengthens accountability, and supports delivery on the ground.

In particular, the discussion will focus on:

• Developing a shared narrative around the role of deforestation roadmaps as delivery tools
• Identifying a small set of priority “asks” for governments, corporates and financial institutions
• Exploring how we can translate global momentum into country-level action
• Building alignment across organisations to support a more coordinated, visible movement over the coming months

Why this moment matters

With key milestones ahead — including London Climate Action Week, UNGA, and COP30 — there is a strong opportunity to align civil society voices and expectations and help shape how this agenda translates into real-world impact between now and 2030.

This session is intended as a practical starting point for that effort, and a space for open, constructive exchange across organisations.

​Join leaders from Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Amazon at Solutions House during London Climate Action Week for an interactive showcase highlighting the voices of communities protecting and restoring tropical forests as part of large-scale forest protection programs delivering real impact for people, nature, and climate.

​Too often, forest communities are absent from global discussions on how to halt and reverse tropical deforestation, unable to share the solutions and progress happening on the ground. This session puts those voices at the center.

​Hear directly from community leaders and government representatives working on the frontlines of forest protection and restoration in key commodity-producing regions. Through live discussion and newly released short films, speakers will share how large-scale government led programs are supporting livelihoods, protecting biodiversity, and helping shift economic incentives at scale. Corporate sustainability leaders will discuss why tropical forests are critical for climate resilience, supply chain stability, and credible climate and nature action — and how public-private partnerships can accelerate progress.

​This is not another panel about why forests matter. It is a practical conversation about what is already working on the ground — and how companies can take meaningful action today.

​Sponsored by Amazon, in collaboration with Emergent and the Walmart Foundation.

The UK is a nation of nature lovers but somewhere along the way we’ve got lost. We are now 60% less connected with nature than we have been in 200 years.

​Nature is our biggest ally and a rich source of inspiration for storytelling.  By telling stories that reconnect us with nature the screen industries have an opportunity to inspire climate action and real-world change because when nature is woven into mainstream storytelling – familiar, credible and unforced – it stands a real chance of becoming a collective cultural concern.

​From writer’s rooms to living rooms, what we see on screen can have a direct impact on the world we live in. This conversation, presented by BAFTA Albert, will explore the rich potential of putting nature in the picture: from creative decisions and commissioning choices, to engaging on screen-talent and driving climate action once the credits have rolled.

9:30 – 10:00 Networking with coffee & breakfast.
10:00-11:00: Panel discussion

​The British Fashion Council is partnering with Futerra during London Climate Action Week for an exclusive invitation to preview an exhibition of selected designers from the Institute of Positive Fashion’s Low Carbon Transition Programme, followed by a panel discussion on why climate change is no longer a future risk for fashion.

​From cotton fields facing catastrophic temperature rises to water-stressed wool regions, the physical impacts of climate change are actively disrupting the raw materials and supply chains brands depend on today – it is already reshaping what brands can make, at what cost, and for how long.

​This panel brings together senior leaders across finance, sustainability, brand and investment to ask the urgent question: what must C-suite in all sized fashion businesses do right now to recognise and respond to material scarcity, before it becomes an existential threat to the business.

​Drawing on real-world experience across global businesses, this is a frank, solutions-focused conversation about the decisions that need to be made now.

In partnership with MSCI, this roundtable will bring together experts from insurance, pension funds, and investment management firms for a discussion focused on how to better integrate climate science into investment practices, prompted by the launch of Carbon Tracker’s latest report, Recalibrating Climate Risk.

Credit Where Credit’s Due” is a session for organisations that are serious about climate leadership and want to understand what serious looks like in practice.

​Today’s voluntary carbon market is maturing rapidly: legacy, lower-quality credits are losing relevance, while a tightening tier of high-integrity, nature-based credits is targeted by companies whose finance, procurement, and sustainability teams have done the maths on climate risk.

​This session brings together net zero leaders to examine what serious climate strategy looks like in practice: how leading organisations are integrating carbon credits alongside operational decarbonisation, supply chain action, and regulatory preparation to create measurable business value; how they are structuring long-term procurement to protect against rising prices and tightening supply; and how they are making the internal business case to the people who control the budget.

​It is not a discussion about whether to act; it is about what acting well actually looks like, and why the gap between that and waiting is widening faster than most organisations have modelled.

​Navigating the risk profile of REDD+ credits in a changing regulatory landscape is currently one of the most complex challenges for carbon credit buyers and investors. While the REDD+ framework has seen an enormous shift toward high-integrity standards over the last 24 months, many existing and potential buyers, of REDD+ credits are still navigating how these technical updates actually mitigate long-term portfolio risk.

​​On Wednesday 24 June at 9:30am, Level invites you to a private, technical briefing designed to cut through the noise – “REDD+ credits and carbon portfolio risks – your questions answered”.

​​This is not a pitch; it is a dedicated forum for buyers, intermediaries, and investors to address the practicalities of REDD+ credit integration and portfolio de-risking.

Level Founders, Marc and Jo will facilitate the session and guide the conversation, bringing a combined 50 years of nature conservation and NbS carbon project experience to the conversation. Using some fun and informal processes, Marc and Jo will aim to ensure every voice is heard that the event provides you with:

• ​​Direct access: Engage with industry experts (the science “nerds”!) on the “pain points” of credit integrity and market alignment.

• ​​Anonymised Q&A: Submit questions live or in advance to address sensitive risk concerns without attribution.

• ​​Market intelligence: Gain insights into how new industry standards are being operationalised to restore market confidence.

​​To ensure a candid and high-value exchange, the session will be conducted under Chatham House Rules

This is an invite-only interactive breakfast for leaders in finance and business exploring how climate and nature-related risks translate into measurable financial exposure.

Climate risk has already started to shape how financial institutions think about portfolio resilience. Nature risk is the next, more complex wave, and the scientific and regulatory signals are already here. Recent ECB research found that three-quarters of European companies are critically dependent on ecosystem services, and those same companies account for three-quarters of all corporate bank lending in the region. Central banks are therefore treating nature loss as a critical financial stability issue.

This session, hosted by GIST Impact, sets out what quantifying nature risk means in practice: how it’s modelled, where it occurs within a business or a portfolio, and how to start to take action on this sort of data. Speakers will draw on recent case studies and the latest methodological advances, with structured discussions giving participants the chance to work through the implications for their own organisations.

The discussion will address:

• ​How disruption to natural systems flows through to earnings and portfolio exposure

• ​What the leading methodological advances are and where nature value at risk sits in the broader risk framework

• ​How financial institutions and corporations are applying this today

• ​Where transition risk fits in as externalities begin to internalise through regulation and pricing

Speakers include:

• ​Pavan Sukhdev, Founder, GIST Impact and Visiting Professor in Practice, Grantham Institute (LSE)

• ​Andrew Probert, Managing Partner, ERM

• ​Ginni Goldin, Climate and Investment Risk Analyst, Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM)

• ​Valeria Dinershteyn, Director of Sustainable Investing and Client Engagement, EMEA and APAC, Northern Trust

​Facilitated by Dr. Thomas Moran, Head of Nature & Biodiversity Products, GIST Impact.

MSCI, Centrigrade, Chloris Geospatial, International Carbon Registry and Kita invite you to join us during London Climate Week for a focused discussion on how the carbon market’s “integrity stack” is evolving – and what it means for the future of high-quality carbon credits. The session will be followed by a drinks reception, offering a chance to continue the conversation with peers across the market.

Discussion themes will include:

Anatomy of the stack 
In carbon markets, what does each layer – measurement and MRV, issuance and registries, ratings, and insurance – actually contribute? How has each evolved, and why is the stack now beginning to function as a cohesive system?

Separation of roles 
Where are the boundaries between these layers, and where is tighter coordination needed to ensure integrity and efficiency?

Measurement as the foundation 
How are advances in measurement, combined with ratings and risk transfer, enabling continuous improvements in credit quality—moving beyond binary “good/bad” assessments?

Bringing buyers to the table 
What is holding corporates back from participating at scale, and what would it take to unlock credible, defensible procurement for a broader set of buyers?

The next frontier 
What does the next wave of innovation in carbon markets look like – and what needs to be built now to get there?