London Climate Action Week: 21-29 June 2025
Now in its 7th year, London Climate Action Week (LCAW) is an annual event bringing together world-leading climate expertise to help solve the climate emergency. LCAW provides a brand and platform under which hundreds of stakeholders host their events, creating a large and vibrant programme of climate-focused activities.
The Grantham Research Institute at LSE regularly hosts or co-hosts events as part of London Climate Action Week.
The following events are scheduled for 2025:
Financing climate adaptation – role of the private sector
Tuesday 24 June 2025, 9:30- 11:00
Room 9.04, Fawcett House, 2 Clement’s Inn, London, WC2A 2AZ and online
Climate adaptation remains critically underfunded and the role of the private sector in addressing the finance gap is hotly contested. This event, run in collaboration with the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance and Mercy Corps, will share different perspectives, bringing together varied experiences and insights from the international development sector, investors and governments.
Further details and booking information
From insight to investment: mobilizing capital for nature-based solutions
LSE Campus, London
24 June 2025, 16:00-17:30
This strategic plenary session, hosted by GCA, the Grantham Research Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Oxford aims to identify actionable solutions to scale capital flows to nature-based investments in Africa, by leveraging data, de-risking tools, and innovative financing models. The targeted end outcome include translating these actionable solutions to potential partnerships and projects across the developmental and private institutional finance stakeholders.
Further details and booking information
Harnessing AI: safeguarding high-integrity data for climate action
Tuesday 24 June 2025, 18:30-20:00
LSE Centre Building Auditorium, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE and online
Hosted by the Transition Pathway Initiative Centre
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are versatile technologies that have drastically lowered the cost of data production and analysis, potentially accelerating global decarbonisation and addressing socioeconomic issues. Nonetheless, concerns persist regarding their environmental impact and the risk of propagating low-quality information, especially with large language models (LLMs).
Further details and booking information
From risk to resilience – financing the bioeconomy–climate transition
LSE Campus, London
26 June 2025, 15:30-17:00
Hosted in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Grantham Research Institute at LSE, the event will examine how strategic investment in bioeconomy solutions—across land, livelihoods, and infrastructure—can strengthen macro-fiscal stability and drive inclusive, climate-aligned development.
Further details and booking information
Global Trends in Climate Litigation 2025 Snapshot Report Launch
26 June 2025, 16:30-20:00
LSE Centre Building Auditorium, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE
Join us for the launch of the Grantham Research Institute’s Global Trends in Climate Change Litigation 2025 Snapshot Report– now in its seventh year. This influential report provides an annual overview of key developments in climate litigation worldwide and identifies emerging trends shaping the future of climate law and governance.
Further details and booking information
Navigating the headwinds: uncertainties and resilience of a just transition future
27 June 2025, 09:30-11:30
Shaw Library, 6th Floor, Old Building, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
Join leading thinkers, policy experts, and critical observers from across the just transition community for a vital panel discussion and live Q&A that tackles the challenges and prospects for equitable climate action in the lead-up to COP30. The panel will explore how the multilateral, national, and private sectors are shaping —and sometimes straining— the just transition agenda.
Further details and booking information
Assessing and measuring the financial materiality of nature-related issues
27 June 2025, 11:30-13:00
KPMG Canary Wharf 15 Canada Square London E14 5GL
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and its partners are releasing two publications that illustrate the relationship between dependencies and impacts on nature and risks and opportunities to corporates and financial institutions, and the material financial effects.
Further details and booking information
