The Climate Community is Heading to London
- World Climate Foundation
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NEXT STOP ON THE 2026 ROADMAP
The Climate Community is Heading to London
London-climate-action-week-from-ambition-to-deliveryimate change has no shortage of ambition or target-setting. Instead, it has an implementation problem. Both solutions and capital are available, and in many cases, good policy frameworks are in place that can be replicated. But the challenge now is to connect all these drivers at the speed and scale required.
This is why next week matters - when London becomes the most important place in the world for climate and nature action. London Climate Action Week (LCAW) - now in its eighth year and the largest independent climate gathering in Europe - brings together finance leaders, policymakers, investors and business executives across nine days and hundreds of events. This year’s theme is “Cooperation in a fractured world.”
That framing matters because we are now in a world shaped by geopolitical competition, supply-chain realignment, trade tensions and pressure on public finances. The question is no longer whether climate and nature action is necessary. The question is whether delivery can happen fast enough in a more fragmented world.
For World Climate Foundation (WCF), London is not simply another moment in the climate calendar. It is where the implementation agenda must become more practical: moving from commitments to capital flows, from policy signals to investable opportunities, and from dialogue to delivery.
Throughout the week, WCF's networks will meet to drive action on two important levers that matter most for implementation: cross-sector collaboration and capital mobilisation at scale.
CAPITAL MOBILISATION
World Climate Investment Summit | London Stock Exchange | Thursday, 25 June
How can we move capital at the scale the transition requires? The World Climate Investment Summit (WCIS), which we are co-hosting with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), aims to answer exactly this question.
We will focus on climate investment during the morning programme, convened under the WCF Climate Investment Coalition. The afternoon transitions to nature investment, under the Nature Investment Coalition. Together, they position WCIS as a key meeting point for decision-makers on climate and nature finance during LCAW.
Morning: Climate Investment Coalition | Afternoon: Nature Investment Coalition |
Our morning session situates climate finance within the global framework and includes panels on capital allocation, energy and critical minerals financing, AI, carbon markets, transition plans and sovereign bonds. This is a meeting place for asset owners, investors, corporations and governments to discuss the deployment gap and how to bridge it. | The afternoon turns to nature - financing resilient food and agriculture systems, scaling nature markets and biodiversity credits, and bringing nature-related risk into mainstream investment decisions, ahead of COP17 in Yerevan. |
COALITION ACTIVATION
Building the Coalitions for Delivery
During LCAW, we are running a series of focused roundtables on sector collaboration on climate and nature. Each session is designed to move beyond discussion and identify practical next steps for delivery. They are structured working sessions with clear intended outcomes that feed directly into our coalition agendas for the second half of the year.
Tuesday, 23 June | Can Europe break free from fossil energy dependency? Future of Energy Coalition - with Danish Industry & State of Green |
Tuesday, 23 June | Who will finance the green transition in emerging markets? Climate Investment Coalition - with Impact Fund Denmark & State of Green |
Tuesday, 23 June | Practical Pathways for Food System Transformation Future of Food Coalition - with Food Nation & FAO |
Wednesday, 24 June | Mobilising Action for Nature Nature Investment Coalition - With Natural History Museum & Arapyaú Institute |
Thursday, 25 June | Critical Minerals and the Energy Transition: Growth Markets in a Fragmented World Future of Mining Coalition - convened at WCIS - London Stock Exchange |
Thursday, 25 June | From Deals to Systems: Building the Architecture for Climate Capital at Scale Climate Investment Coalition with Ceres - invitation-only deep-dive at WCIS · London Stock Exchange |
These will guide our workstreams on energy, food, mining, cities, climate investment and nature finance on the road to Biodiversity COP17 in Yerevan and Climate Change COP31 in Antalya.
LOOKING AHEAD
The Road Through Yerevan and Antalya
We are under no illusions about how much work remains on the road ahead - through São Paulo and New York, to COP17 in Yerevan and COP31 in Antalya, and on into the Global Stocktake and the Decade of Implementation that follows. But LCAW is where that work gathers pace.
By October, COP17 in Yerevan will put biodiversity finance under the same scrutiny that climate finance faces every November. The target: $200 billion a year for nature by 2030. The frameworks and commitments needed to close the gap between that target and current flows are being shaped in rooms like those we are convening this week.
The following month, COP31 in Antalya provides the first real test of whether the Belém deal - the tripled adaptation finance commitment, the just transition mechanism, the fossil fuel transition roadmaps - translates into measurable delivery, through the Global Climate Action Agenda. The private sector will be under immense pressure to show up with real solutions and scaled-up delivery.
This is precisely why WCF's coalitions are important. Our sector-specific, multi-year coalitions provide a practical route for moving from international targets to demonstrating tangible progress in the real world.
Our Climate Investment Coalition has already mobilised over $130-billion in funding for clean energy, and our Nature Investment Coalition has built frameworks for biodiversity and ecosystem investments and offered investor-project dealmaking workshops at COP30. Similarly, our Future of Mining, Future of Food, and Future of Energy coalitions will be supporting responsible mining, regenerative agriculture, and decarbonisation.
The conversations WCF convenes next week - at the Summit, in the coalition rooms, with investors and corporates who will make or break these numbers - contribute directly to those outcomes.
We will be sharing reflections from the week as it unfolds. We look forward to being in the room with many of you.
