Meeting events

Suzano, Rainforest Alliance, Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy and the World Resources Institute (WRI-Brasil) are hosting an exclusive, high-level networking reception during London Climate Week.

This invitation-only event will bring together a select group of senior leaders from the public and private sectors who are at the forefront of action for climate, nature, and people.

As part of London Climate Week, Rainforest Trust UK will be holding an evening event to celebrate World Rainforest Day and discuss “Inspiring Approaches for Protecting Rainforests for Species, People and Our Planet”. There will be a special musical performance by Venezuelan folk singer/songwriter Luzmira Zerpa.

Special guests: Barrister for the Earth, Monica Feria-Tinta, who will talk about using the law to defend the Rights of Nature and address key drivers of climate change. As well as Harvey Locke, a recognised global leader in the Nature Needs Half movement, and advocate for large landscape conservation and wilderness corridors.

While it’s not a rainforest, our event will be taking place outside, on the banks of Regent’s Canal, at the Camley Street Natural Park which is a haven for plants and wildlife. The woodland, grassland and wetland habitats provide a home for mallards, coots, kingfishers, herons, amphibians and insects, not to mention a rich variety of plant life and rare fungi.

​Both Indigenous Peoples and local communities are essential partners in the voluntary carbon market and in addressing the global climate crisis. Ensuring that carbon markets respect, protect, and promote the rights, interests, and self-determined priorities of these communities is vital. As it is only by putting communities’ interests at their heart that the carbon markets can achieve integrity and fulfil their potential long-term positive impacts for people and planet.

​In recognition of this, the Integrity Council has led a two-year global initiative to co-develop a meaningful framework for engagement through consultations, workshops, and dialogue with leaders from organisations representing Indigenous Peoples as well as local communities

​Announced at COP28, the self-led Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Engagement Forum is the central outcome of this process. The Forum, which convened for the first time in July 2024, is led by Indigenous Co-Chairs Onel Masardule and Diel Mochire Mwenge, with support from the Integrity Council Secretariat.

​This session will provide a preview of the Forum’s strategic direction ahead of its formal launch later this year and offers an opportunity for discussion with civil society, NGOs, Indigenous Peoples organisations, and policy stakeholders.

​Speakers

• ​Onel Masardule – Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Engagement Forum

• ​Stella Napanu, Africa Regional Representative, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Engagement Forum

• ​Rupert Quinlan – Associate Director for Indigenous Peoples and local communities

​This event is a unique opportunity to explore how the Forum seeks to shape a high-integrity voluntary carbon market ensuring the rights, priorities, and voices of the communities it seeks to serve are embedded in its future.

​It will take place in the Phoenix space at Work.Life St Cross Street.

Join The Road to Belem, a high-level event that brings together climate ventures from Latin America and Africa with global investors and system enablers. Designed to surface scalable solutions in Nature, Agriculture, Food, and Energy, the event will spotlight ventures and ecosystem actors at the forefront of climate innovation.

The agenda features pitch presentations from investment-ready startups, alongside strategic insights from accelerators, insurers, and institutional platforms working to unlock climate finance in emerging markets. Curated by the Climate Champions Team through the Regional Platforms for Climate Projects (RPCP) initiative, this session serves as a milestone on the path to COP30 — advancing capital mobilization for high-impact, locally driven solutions.

Lobelia, Pegasys and Mott MacDonald are co-hosting an event during LCAW, focused on how finance, technology, and data can help close the investment gap in climate resilience. We’re bringing together asset managers, impact investors, insurers, financial institutions, corporations, DFIs, and policymakers for a practical and forward-looking conversation.

As climate and nature-related risks intensify, there’s an urgent need for financial systems to adapt – not just to protect portfolios, but to drive a broader shift toward a resilient, sustainable future. Extreme weather, water stress, food insecurity, and biodiversity loss are already disrupting infrastructure, markets and supply chains globally. Integrating climate intelligence to inform decisions about where, in what, and with whom to invest, can help to align diverse interests, minimise risk exposure and optimise returns for investors, communities, and natural environments.

This 2-panel session will explore how systems thinking and climate intelligence can support smarter investment decisions. We’ll look at how finance can move from reactive risk management to proactive investment in adaptation, resilience, and nature-based solutions – areas offering long-term value but still largely underfunded.

Agenda (panelists to be announced shortly):
– Panel 1: Financing Resilience across Portfolios, Infrastructure and Value Chains (45min)
– Networking Session (25min)
– Panel 2: Nature-Positive finance: De-risking investment in agriculture, nature-based solutions, and ecosystem resilience (45min)
– Networking Session (55min)

For further details or to register your interest, please contact on lcaw@lobelia.earth

As we look ahead to COP30 in the Amazon, this interactive session will feature a keynote speech from U.K. Government, Minister for Climate, Kerry McCarthy, followed by a panel bringing together business leaders, forest initiatives, and AI experts to explore how investing in forests supports corporate climate, nature and people goals while securing a resilient supply chain.

Join to learn:

• Why investing in nature makes business sense
• How AI and tech can scale impact and integrity
• Practical ways to lead on climate and nature by supporting forests

This is a must-attend event for corporate sustainability leaders looking to drive meaningful action ahead of COP30.

Confirmed speakers so far include:

Keynote speech: U.K. Government, Minister for Climate, Kerry McCarthy

Panellists:

• Tim Christophersen, Vice-President of Climate Action, Salesforce
• Matthias Berninger, Executive Vice President, Head of Public Affairs, Sustainability and Safety, Bayer
• Edwina McKechnie, Executive Vice President, Corporate Engagement, Emergent
• Julia Strong, Executive Director, Symbiosis
• Jack Hurd, Executive Director, Tropical Forest Alliance

More speakers to be announced. Attendance for this event is by invitation only.

Panel 1: Communities & Carbon: Integrity from the ground up

Panel 2: Capital & Carbon: Scaling sustainable investment

The NbS Data CoLabs event brings together key data platforms and professionals working on nature-based solutions to showcase pioneering platforms, build community among data specialists, and develop collective calls to action for COP30.

The event features collaborative discussions on increasing platform interoperability, AI and data protocols, and the importance of geospatial data for climate action.

The format includes power talks, table demonstrations, and networking opportunities, targeting audiences including policymakers, investors, corporations, NGOs, and philanthropists to ultimately support better decision-making and accelerate implementation of nature-based solutions.

This registration page is for those who are interest in the NbS Data CoLab Workshop held at UNFCCC SB62 Bonn Intersessional.

If you would like to attend the NbS Data CoLab Workshop at London Climate Action Week, please register for the event here

Additionally, if you would like to attend the Nature4Climate Reception which follows this workshop please visit this event page to register: Nature4Climate Bonn SB62 Welcome Reception

A flagship event of London Climate Action Week, the De-Risking Summit 2025 will explore how we can collectively address the climate driven insurability challenge and catalyse insurance for climate action.

The insurance industry stands at a pivotal moment as climate change accelerates more extreme weather events globally. The urgency to adapt and protect, as well as de-risk a just, resilient transition, intensifies.

The Summit, in its second year, will bring together key stakeholders for discussion, thought leadership, networking and high-level announcements.

Join us as we master the challenge and opportunity of insurability.

A conversation with the authors of the new book, ‘Becoming Nature Positive’, that delves into what nature positive means and sets out the journey to secure a safe and just future for people and nature. Come and meet the authors and join the conversation on how we can become a nature-positive society and economy. The presentation of the book will be followed by a conversation between representatives from Financial Institutions who will focus on the opportunity for the Finance sector to help build a nature-positive economy.
Prefaced by André Hoffmann and published by Routledge, the book’s authors include:

• Marco Lambertini of Nature Positive Initiative,
• Joe Bull of University of Oxford,
• Harvey Locke of Yellowstone to Yukon,
• Eva Zabey of Business for Nature,
• Dorothy Maseke of African Natural Capital Alliance,
• Carlos Manuel Rodriguez of Global Environment Facility,

plus more than 20 perspectives from diverse thought leaders from across the global nature positive movement.

Speakers will include:

Book authors:

• Marco Lambertini, Convener, Nature Positive Initiative;
• Joseph W. Bull, Associate Professor, Climate Change Biology, University of Oxford;
• Harvey Locke, Canadian conservationist, writer and Co-Founder, Yellowstone to Yukon;
• Dorothy Maseke, Africa Lead, Nature Finance and TNFD, and Head of the African Natural Capital Alliance Secretariat;