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This session showcases how effective policy and targeted advocacy can strengthen high-integrity nature markets, using real-world examples to inspire action. Participants will engage directly with policymakers and peers and leave with practical guidance on how to navigate policy in the current landscape.

Who should join?

Policymakers, corporate sustainability leaders, carbon credit buyers, financial institutions, NGOs, and market actors interested in how policy shapes confidence, participation, and investment in high-integrity carbon markets for nature.

The Business Breakthrough Barometer 2026 provides real-time insights across geographies and sectors of how business strategies, investments, and risk perceptions are shifting in response to the climate transition. Delivered in collaboration with the Breakthrough Agenda and Climate High-level Champions, participants will gain actionable insights to guide engaement throughout London Climate Action Week and the COP cycle, including the conditions needed to unlock investment, strengthen policy alignment, and accelerate delivery at scale.

Senior business and government leaders will share perspectives on how to turn commitments into implementation—highlighting practical solutions, emerging opportunities, and the priority bottlenecks that must be addressed this year. The lunchtime session will enable networking across C-suite leaders, policymakers, and investors focused on accelerating investment and implementation this year.

12:30 – 13:00 | Networking Lunch

13:00 – 13:20 | Key Insights from the Business Breakthrough Barometer 2026

13:20 – 13:50 | Business Leaders Panel Discussion

13:50 – 14:00 | Closing Remarks

14:00 – 14:30 | Networking Reception

As climate, nature, and human rights risks become increasingly interconnected, companies need transition plans that move beyond silos and support better strategic decisions. Integrated transition planning offers a practical way to align sustainability priorities with business strategy, governance, capital allocation, and implementation.

CDP is delighted to announce the inaugural session for its newly convened Earth-Positive Economics Advisory Board on Thursday, June 25 (10:00 to 12:00 BST) in London, taking place during the 2026 London Climate Action Week.

​Nature is often framed as a cost centre and a critical risk. For leading companies, this perception is shifting.

​In a changing world, forward-thinking businesses are translating nature-positive action into tangible commercial value, from increased operating margins and more resilient supply chains to differentiated products and innovative new business models.

​Join sustainability leaders, finance professionals, and investors for an exclusive London Climate Action Week event focused on moving beyond compliance and impact to explore nature as a source of commercial opportunity.

​Drawing on emergent global frameworks, including TNFD and WEF, and practical case studies from major corporates, the panel will explore:

• ​What nature opportunities look like in practice

• ​How businesses can identify, enable, and scale them for competitive advantage

• ​The critical role of business and finance in the nature positive transition

​Speakers include: Andrew Mitchell, Founder & CEO at Equilibrium Futures, and Laura Fisher, Programme Lead, Nature Positive Industries, World Economic Forum

​This Land Dialogues session brings together leaders from the Amazon, the Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia to explore what helps rainforests stay standing in practice. Many of the world’s most intact forests are found in Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local community territories, yet forests still face growing pressure from logging, extraction, and competing land-use decisions. The session will examine how decisions over forests are made, who influences them, and why some governance systems are able to hold over time while others break down.

​Through real examples from across rainforest regions, speakers will discuss how governments, laws, and territorial governance systems interact on the ground, and what this means for keeping forests standing. The session will use a fishbowl format with an open chair, allowing audience members to join the discussion directly alongside speakers. Together, the conversation aims to move beyond high-level commitments and focus on what is actually working in practice, and why.

Agenda
Doors open from 9:00am
9:30–10:00am — Registration and coffee
10:00–11:30am — Land Dialogues session
11:30am–12:00pm — Light reception

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Curated to be both practical and informative, the morning programme will feature 10 workshops comprising five individual sessions, each repeated twice, exclusively for IIGCC members on the following topics:

• Financing nature – Policy strategies to support investment in nature markets
• Breaking down barriers to sector decarbonisation
• Physical risk data: an ocean of information, a desert of knowledge
• The investment case for a just transition in EMDEs
• Agentic AI deep dive: Enabling applications for investor climate goals (sponsored by S&P Global)

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.