Roundtables & Partner Events

As part of London Climate Action Week – Climate Innovation Forum, Carbon Measures is convening an invitation-only breakfast roundtable bringing together a select group of senior leaders, policymakers, and industry experts for an open and candid discussion on the critical policy and market issues shaping the future of climate action.

At a time when data credibility, transparency, and practical implementation are increasingly central to accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy, robust carbon accounting and product-level carbon intensity standards are emerging as essential foundations for effective policy and market decision-making.

To answer the central question of how to build the Brazilian market around three key pillars:
integrity, insurability, and investability.

The proposal is to gather experts and key figures in the carbon market for a practical and
forward-looking discussion on the main challenges and pathways related to credibility, risk
management, ratings, transparency, traceability, and the evolution of trust mechanisms in the
global carbon market. The focus of the meeting is less institutional and more geared towards the
exchange of technical and strategic insights regarding the future of the climate transition and the
sector’s integrity infrastructure.

Innovative solutions are critical to adapt to the accelerating impacts of climate change, as traditional approaches alone cannot meet the scale and complexity of the challenge. A diverse set of organisations are already financing and supporting adaptation innovation across regions and sectors. However, there is potential for strengthening cooperative action amongst stakeholders to accelerate, encourage, and enable an effective ecosystem of innovative adaptation solutions.

The Adaptation Fund is convening a roundtable that will bring together funders and partners supporting adaptation innovation to discuss how the funding landscape is evolving, where overlap and fragmentation persist, and how stronger coordination could help build a more coherent and effective ecosystem.

Achieving agricultural transition at scale requires new ways of mobilising capital. This invitation-only roundtable will bring together leaders from Unilever, Itaú and IDB Invest to discuss how blended finance structures can unlock private investment, align commercial and sustainability objectives, and accelerate impact across agricultural supply chains.

The session will be held under Chatham House Rule and designed as an interactive discussion among a select group of senior representatives from financial institutions, corporates, development finance institutions and impact investors.

Development Finance and Climate Resilience

Join us for a critical dialogue as we explore the complex relationship between debt, development, and climate resilience. As we continue to feel the pressure from mounting fiscal and development challenges exacerbated by climate shocks – including the impacts of the Super El Niño – it is imperative that we rethink our approach to economic growth.

As climate finance increasingly shifts toward implementation and measurable impact, cities are emerging as critical drivers of climate action. Yet many subnational governments continue to face significant barriers in accessing the capital, partnerships, and technical expertise required to deliver transformative climate projects at scale.

This executive roundtable will convene a select group of investors, development finance institutions, climate funds, corporates, policymakers, and technical partners to explore how innovative financing models and strategic partnerships can accelerate climate implementation in Africa’s cities.

The discussion will spotlight Lagos State’s pioneering State-Determined Contributions (SDCs) Framework—a practical model that translates climate ambition into investment-ready opportunities across clean energy, sustainable mobility, circular economy, climate resilience, carbon markets, and nature-based solutions.

Why Attend?

Participants will gain exclusive insights into Lagos State’s climate investment pipeline and engage directly with senior government representatives responsible for shaping one of Africa’s most ambitious subnational climate agendas.

The session will also provide opportunities to:

• Explore investment-ready climate projects and financing opportunities
• Connect with decision-makers, investors, and implementation partners
• Discuss innovative approaches to climate finance mobilization
• Examine the role of cities in delivering global climate commitments
• Identify partnership opportunities across energy, mobility, resilience, and carbon markets

Featured Climate Opportunities

• 80 Million Clean Cookstoves Initiative
• Low-Carbon Mobility & E-Mobility Programme
• Lagos Carbon Platform
• Circular Economy & Waste-to-Value Projects
• Nature-Based Solutions & Coastal Resilience
• Adaptation & Early Warning Infrastructure

As net-zero commitments accelerate and enter a new phase of scrutiny, companies are under growing pressure to show not only that emissions are being measured, but that credible actions are being taken and reductions can be traced, validated, and connected to real business decisions.

This executive roundtable will explore how trusted product-level carbon data can help organizations drive more informed investment, innovation and decarbonization decisions, while enabling greater transparency and collaboration across industries. Dow’s Haley Lowry, Global Sustainability Director, and Peter Sandkuehler, Senior Director Sustainability EMEA, will share practical insights on how evolving approaches to traceability and validation, including Dow’s Carbon Footprint Ledger methodology, can support credible emissions reductions and help create long-term business value.

Decarbonising the value chain is no longer a peripheral sustainability goal – it is fast becoming a defining test of good business.

There are barriers to overcome: value chains are shared systems, but the levers for change are fragmented. However, if we can find ways to align priorities, the opportunity is huge – we can drive resilience, restore nature and unlock long-term value.

So, what does “good” really look like in practice?

As part of London Climate Action Week, this RSK Climate roundtable will bring together a diverse group of leaders and decision-makers – from government and nature stakeholders to investors, retailers and infrastructure organisations – to ask:

• What does it look like to balance fairness and profitability – or are difficult trade-offs inevitable?
• Where does policy support real-world ambitions – and where do they come into conflict?
• How can capital accelerate change – or is it limiting progress?
• What does collaboration look like when priorities, pressures and responsibilities differ across the chain?

With representation from RSK Group companies ADAS, Copper Consultancy, Edge Impact, Nature Positive and The Water Research Centre, RSK Climate will drive a discussion to explore how big-picture ambition connects to practical realities.

This session is a space for candid discussion and will take place under Chatham House rules. Participants will be encouraged to step beyond their own organisational lens to test assumptions and engage with perspectives they may not normally encounter.

Ultimately, this is about more than reducing emissions. It’s about rethinking how value chains function, and what responsible, resilient and profitable business looks like in a low-carbon future.

• Explore how forest protection and rights can be treated as core conditions for a resilient energy transition
• Identify practical steps to strengthen disclosure, due diligence, and accountability across mineral supply chains
• Share approaches for aligning standards, investment, and corporate practice

• How are policy developments influencing the future design and integrity of carbon markets?
• Where can policy and market action better align to unlock greater decarbonisation impact?
• What actions can policymakers and corporates take to strengthen market confidence and scale?

Senior stakeholders from across the built environment and related sectors will come together to discuss what climate resilience means in practice for business across the value chain, and how collaboration can help shape effective policy and regulation to minimise risk and maximise long term outcomes.

Climate risk in the UK is no longer a distant threat. It’s already reshaping homes, businesses, and local economies. Flooding, in particular, is emerging as a systemic challenge, with implications for property values, SME resilience, insurance access, and regional stability.

In this roundtable, Santander will share insights from its collaboration with the University of Exeter, exploring how nature-based solutions (NbS) can help manage flood risk. We’ll examine where these approaches can deliver measurable impact, their limitations, and what it takes to scale them from local pilots into credible, investable infrastructure.

But resilience goes beyond physical assets. Disruption also tests people, businesses, and communities. It makes societal resilience a critical part of the conversation.

Join us for an open discussion to explore how to build coordinated, scalable solutions that strengthen both environmental and economic resilience in the UK.

• Share concrete examples of collaboration across value chains that improves risk management, reduces geopolitical dependencies and contributes to sustainability goals.
• Explore how data, financing, and partnerships can better connect upstream and downstream actors.
• Identify practical opportunities to align ongoing initiatives and strengthen joint action.

Fresh off the press and launching on the morning of the Climate Innovation Forum, join members of the AI Solutions Taskforce as they unveil the findings of their new report for the first time, spotlighting leading AI solutions supporting the energy transition. In recent years, we’ve seen both the expanding opportunities and emerging challenges driven by the rapid rise of AI – and its increasingly significant influence on climate and energy outcomes.

Convened by former UNFCCC Executive Secretary Ambassador Patricia Espinosa and former UK Energy Minister Chris Skidmore, the Taskforce brought together leading experts from business, industry, and finance. Over recent months, members have examined AI’s role in driving climate action – from unlocking its potential as a powerful enabler of the energy transition to addressing its own expanding energy demand and associated emissions. Join us to be among the first to hear their conclusions.

As climate risks intensify, rail networks face growing disruption from extreme weather, fragile supply chains, and underused data. This moderated roundtable brings industry leaders together to explore how digitalization and AI can strengthen climate resilience and accelerate mitigation across rail systems.

Participants will discuss how combining data from across rail infrastructure, operations, and weather systems can unlock better insights, predictions, and decisions. This will be an open discussion, Chatham House Rules do not apply.

Capital is available for well-structured projects across many sectors, but isn’t reaching reforestation projects at the pace or on the terms required to meet the scale the climate needs. Project economics have to work for developers for the market to scale.

This roundtable will explore why that gap persists and what it will take to close it, drawing on everyone’s real-world experience: where capital is and isn’t flowing, which financial mechanisms are being deployed and where they’re falling short, and what it would actually take to move more capital into reforestation.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their own experience and ideas to support, challenge, or suggest alternatives to shape the direction of the discussion.

As the built environment moves from net zero ambition to delivery, organisations are facing a shared challenge: how to decarbonise existing real estate portfolios in a way that is credible, verifiable and scalable. Retrofit now sits at the centre of climate action – and confidence in standards and evidence has become critical.

This roundtable brings together senior decision‑makers across real estate, standards, verification and sustainable finance who are grappling with the practical realities of delivery. At its core is the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard (NZCBS), developed to address fragmentation in the market by providing a clear, consistent framework for credible net zero performance across building types and lifecycle stages.

The discussion will focus on how NZCBS is interpreted and operationalised at portfolio level, the role of independent verification in turning standards into trusted evidence, and how this credibility – including through the lender perspective of the Loan Market Association (LMA) – helps bridge the climate finance gap for retrofit, moving ambition into real‑world action.

Companies are navigating how to move from climate transition planning to action. One important consideration is their supply chain. Companies must engage their suppliers in reducing pollution, and suppliers need the capital to fund their transition toward cleaner, resilient supply chains. Co-hosted by Ceres and Citi, this roundtable discussion will highlight the crucial role of banks and sustainable supply chain financing to support corporate transition planning and action. The aim of the roundtable is to foster a candid, solutions-oriented discussion on sustainable supply chain finance programs and transition planning.