London Climate Action Week (LCAW) is one of the world’s largest independent climate events, bringing together policymakers, businesses, cities, scientists, civil society, youth and communities to accelerate climate action. Since its launch in 2019, LCAW has become a major global platform for collaboration, creating space for ideas, partnerships and practical solutions that drive ambition and implementation worldwide.
Throughout the week, UNEP and the GlobalABC will organize and participate in a range of events and discussions focused on some of the most pressing climate challenges and opportunities.
The Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction will advance discussions on resilient, net-zero, and decarbonised buildings, construction, energy demand and implementation on the road COP31. Through side events, roundtables and partner engagements, the GlobalABC will highlight how cliamte action in the buildings and construction sector must be integrated into NDCs, National Action Plans (NAPs), city action, finance, and delivery frameworks.
UNEP will help elevate action and solutions across key areas including methane reduction, energy, protecting and restoring forests, sustainable cooling, decarbonizing buildings and construction, and mobilizing finance to support climate action at scale. Through expert engagement, partnerships and convenings, UNEP will spotlight practical pathways that can reduce emissions, strengthen resilience and unlock the investments needed to accelerate the transition toward a more sustainable future.
UNEP & GLOBALABC AT LCAW
Sessions (co-)organized by UNEP and GlobalABC, or where UNEP/GlobalABC secretariat will be speaking.
- 22 June, 11:35 - 11:50 | Building fast. Falling short. Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2025-2026 (WorldGBC Solutions Forum)
Presentation of the Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2025-2026 during the WorldGBC Solutions Forum
Venue: Leonardo Royal Hotel, London, St Paul’s, 10 Godliman St, London EC4V 5AJ
At this year’s Global Solutions Forum 2026, the global built environment community will showcase feasible, profitable solutions that are underway and ready to be scaled in this era of action. Hanane Hafraoui, GlobalABC Lead at the UN Environment Programme and Ian Hamilton, Chair in Planetary Health at Imperical College London will present findings from the Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2025-2026.
Register here: https://worldgbc.org/global-solutions-forum-2026/
- 22 June, 17:00 - 20:00 | From Global Status to Global Action Networking Reception (WorldGBC Solutions Forum)
A reception networking event co-hosted by WGBC, BPIE - Buildings Performance Institute Europe, Buildings Insights and GlobalABC.
Speakers include: Cristina Gamboa, CEO of World Green Building Council; Oliver Rapf, Executive Director at Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE); Banu Aslan, Director General of Vocational Services at Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change, Türkiye; and Hongpeng Lei, Chief of Mitigation Branch, Climate Change Division at UN Environment Programme - GlobalABC
- 22 June, 15:30-17:00 | Thriving in a Warming World: Improving Climate Intelligence for Resilient Global Cities
Thriving in a Warming World: Improving Climate Intelligence for Resilient Global Cities
Venue: Taj St James Court, London
This roundtable will bring together key practitioners and funders to collectively consider extreme heat risk in South Asia, assess solutions, organize priorities, and provide critical insight for decision makers to consider when financing heat and health resilience.
Register here: https://citiesclimatefinance.org/news-and-events/ccfla-at-london-climate-action-week-lcaw
- 23 June, 10:00-12:00 | From COP30 to COP31: Scaling Buildings, Construction and Infrastructure Climate Solutions - NZERBs PAS Roundtable
From COP30 to COP31: Scaling Buildings, Construction and Infrastructure Climate Solutions
Invitation only
As governments, cities, industry and financial institutions work to deliver climate and development goals, the challenge is no longer identifying solutions but implementing them at scale. This roundtable will explore how the Near-Zero Emission and Resilient Buildings Plan to Accelerate Solutions (NZERB PAS), hosted by the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC), can help translate commitments into action through coordinated approaches to policy, finance, procurement, resilience and market transformation.
Learn more about the roundtable: https://globalabc.org/events/cop30-cop31-scaling-buildings-construction-and-infrastructure-climate-solutions
- 24 June, 8:30-11:00 | Global Green Industrial Forum
Global Green Industrial Forum
Venue: Sustainable Ventures, Floor 5, County Hall, Belvedere Road, London
The Global Green Industrialisation Forum will comprise practical, forward-looking discussions in advance of the launch of the Global Green Industrialization Agenda at COP31. The meeting will kick off with a two-part public panel, including a flagship ministerial session and a strategic discussion on industrial decarbonisation partnerships and hubs. Later in the day there will be a private policy roundtable.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-green-industrialisation-forum-tickets-1990391158535
- 24 June, 10:00-12:00 | Strategic Partnerships Driving Impact on the Energy Transition
Venue: RAF Club, 128 Piccadilly, Mayfair, London, W1J 7PY
Strategic Partnerships Driving Impact on the Energy Transition is a high-level convening focused on how governments, financiers, and delivery partners can work together to accelerate scalable energy transition solutions. Co-hosted by the Government of Iceland and held at the RAF Club, the event will explore how strategic partnerships and innovative financing models can expand electrification, clean cooking, sustainable cooling, and energy efficiency initiatives.
The session will spotlight country-led solutions from nations including Kenya, India, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania, showcasing approaches that are successfully moving from pilot programmes to scalable implementation. Discussions will focus on blended finance, public–private partnerships, and investment structures that can help turn energy projects into bankable opportunities.
Bringing together governments, development finance institutions, donors, investors, NGOs, and climate leaders, the event aims to align priorities, strengthen collaboration, and generate actionable partnership and investment opportunities ahead of COP31 and COP32.
- 25 June, 8:30-10:30 | Does Heat Adaptation Pay? From Solutions to Measurable Impact at Scale
Does Heat Adaptation Pay? From Solutions to Measurable Impact at Scale
Venue: Arup London Offices
Urban heat is becoming a measurable risk to health and economic performance. This closed-door event will explore how targeted interventions across buildings and cities can reduce health risks, improve productivity and increase place value, drawing on new evidence on heat risk and adaptation in the urban built environment.
Register here: https://londonclimateactionweek.org/event/does-heat-adaptation-pay-from-solutions-to-measurable-impact-at-scale/
- 25 June, 09:00–11:00 | Climate Transition Event - Accelerating the Built Environment Transition
Venue: ING, 8-10 Moorgate London EC2R 6DA United Kingdom
With banking and relevant external perspectives, this meeting focuses on solutions to scale retrofit finance, boost homeowner demand and help banks support renovations more effectively across markets, with contributions from ING, Santander, Guidehouse, Green Finance Institute, WBCSD, World Green Building Council, Credit Agricole and other industry stakeholders.
- 25 June, 9:00-14:30 | Building Decarbonisation Forum
Building Decarbonisation Forum
Venue: Embassy of Sweden
Join the Embassy of Sweden, the Swedish Energy Agency, Business Sweden, Sustainable Heating and Cooling by Sweden and Regulatory Assistance Project/Clean Heat Forum for an energy conference during London Climate Action Week. Engage with industry leaders and key decisionmakers as we explore the strategic policy pathways, catalytic market enablers, and leading international practices that can advance clean‑heating solutions at scale, in the UK and across international markets.
Register here: https://londonclimateactionweek.org/event/building-decarbonisation-forum/ or https://events.business-sweden.com/events/ce15db4561
- 25 June, 11:00 - 12:00 | Beat The Heat Partner Meeting
Venue: Arup Offices
Beat the Heat, the urban heat resilience drive launched at COP30 by the Brazilian Presidency and the UNEP Cool Coalition, brings together more than 250 cities and over 100 partners to protect people from rising heat. This closed-door meeting convenes key partners during London Climate Action Week to share progress, align on priorities and look ahead to the Global Cooling Pledge Assembly in Singapore.
- 25 June, 12:00-13:30 | Energy infrastructure and real estate: two sides of the same coin
Venue: Sugar Room at the London Climate Resilience Summit. The Brewery, 52 Chiswell Street, London EC1Y
A cross-sector session exploring how harmonised climate data can improve asset-level risk assessment and guide investment in resilient buildings and critical energy infrastructure.
Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and reshaping the risk profile of the infrastructure societies depend on most – from buildings to critical energy systems, with major implications for climate resilience finance.Both sectors face a common challenge: policymakers, investors and operators have access to a significant volume of climate-related data from weather agencies, scientific institutions, satellite programmes and intergovernmental bodies. However, while the data is abundant, it remains fragmented and unharmonised, limiting its use for effective asset-level risk assessment, prevention and decision-making.
The fragmentation cuts across sectors, which is precisely why the solution must too. Consolidating these data points would make risk assessment more consistent for real estate investors and municipal planners, and at the same time help protect critical energy infrastructure from physical disruption – allowing countries to assess cross-border infrastructure needs, adjust security standards to risk levels and direct investment toward modern, resilient assets across both domains.
This will be essential for unlocking effective climate resilience finance and supporting long-term adaptation.
Speakers: Jurei Yada, Director of Strategic Member State Engagement, E3G; Maria Netto, Executive Director, Institute for Climate and Society; Imad N. Fakhoury, Regional Director, South Asia, IFC/World Bank Group; Yves-Laurent Sapoval, Ministerial Delegate for Sustainable Cities and Urban Envoy, Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, France; Juan Pablo Martínez, Policy Analyst, LSE Centre for Economic Transition Expertise (CETEx); Lucca Rizzo, Senior Climate Finance Lead, Institute for Climate and Society (iCS); Arjun Dutt, Senior Programme Lead, CEEW Green Finance Centre; Lucas Deschenes, Policy Advisor, EU Energy Transition and Sustainable Finance, E3G
Sessions organised by GlobalABC Members and Partners.
- 22 June, 8:00-13:00 | GCCA at LCAW: Building the Sustainable Future: Pathways to low-carbon cement and concrete
GCCA at LCAW: Building the Sustainable Future: Pathways to low-carbon cement and concrete
Venue: Sustainable Ventures, County Hall, 5th Floor, Belvedere Road, London SE1 7PB
This event will explore the frameworks and enablers required to unlock the full potential of our sector’s transformation, from driving demand and innovation to supporting implementation across diverse regional contexts.
- 22 June, 9:00-17:00 | WorldGBC Global Solutions Forum 2026
WorldGBC Global Solutions Forum 2026 - Scaling today's Progress into tomorrow's built realities
Venue: Leonardo Royal London Hotel, St Paul's, 10 Godliman St, London EC4V 5AJ
The Forum will showcase proven solutions and explore what our sector can do next to scale today’s progress into tomorrow’s built realities. Featuring keynotes, innovation showcases and interactive panels.
Register here: https://londonclimateactionweek.org/event/worldgbc-global-solutions-forum-2026/ or here: https://worldgbc.org/global-solutions-forum-2026/
22 June, 11:35 - 11:50 AM | Presentation: Building fast. Falling short. Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2025-2026
During the Forum, Hanane Hafraoui, GlobalABC Lead at the UN Environment Programme and Ian Hamilton, Chair in Planetary Health at Imperical College London will present findings from the Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2025-2026.
- 22 June, 09:30-10:30 | Climate Resilience and Risk in the Built Environment
Climate Resilience and Risk in the Built Environment
- 23 June, 10:00-11:00 | Cement and Concrete Breakthrough Country Roundtable
Venue: Canada House
- 23 June, 10:00-13:00 | WBCSD - Delivering our Future: Integrated solutions for resilient and low-carbon cities
Venue: Foster + Partners head office, London
This executive-level gathering will bring together business leaders, investors and city representatives to explore how they are shaping a low-carbon, resilient and future-ready built environment. The program will include an optional tour of Foster + Partners’ Materials Lab, as well as an opportunity to experience their London Climate Action Week exhibition.
At the heart of the program will be a high-level discussion hosted by Peter Bakker, President and CEO, WBCSD, and Nigel Dancey, Senior Executive Partner, Foster + Partners, on collaboration and delivery models, financing structures and decision-making frameworks needed to accelerate the transition toward 2030 and beyond.
Full overview of WBCSD’s events: WBCSD’s LCAW 2026 events
- 23 June, 13:30-15:00 | WBCSD - Scaling use of near-zero emissions materials in the EU construction sector
Venue: Leonardo Hotel London Aldgate
Invite only. An event organised by WBCSD, Arcadis, and Mission Possible Partnership. This invite-only roundtable will convene leading cement, steel, and construction value chain actors alongside policymakers to identify practical policy measures that can accelerate demand and investment in near-zero emissions materials across the EU construction sector, supporting implementation of the Industrial Accelerator Act and scaling clean commodity markets.
Full overview of WBCSD’s events: WBCSD’s LCAW 2026 events
- 24 June, 15:00-17:00 | Saint-Gobain - Sustainable Construction Talk
Venue: The Pelligon in London, United Kingdom.
Unlocking the true value of sustainable construction: Driving positive impact at scale through the transformation
of the built environment. The event will focus on how to fully realise the social and economic value of sustainable construction. Doing so promises to set off a virtuous cycle of investment and impact. The discussion will bring together industry leaders including developers, architects, urban planners, construction and materials actors, and corporate occupiers shaping market expectations, alongside public and private financial institutions such as investors and insurers, local and global policymakers, and NGOs.Regsiter here: https://sustainable-construction-talks-london.com/en/
- 24 June | Holcim - Industry roundtable on low-carbon materials and demand stimulation
Venue: Holcim UK Fitzrovia
- 25 June, 16:00-19:00 | IFC & World Bank - Driving Sustainable Real Estate in Europe with EDGE
Venue: Courthouse Hotel Soho, 19-21 Great Marlborough St, London W1F 7HL
Join us during London Climate Action Week to hear directly from IFC as they share their vision for the future of EDGE, including how the framework is evolving to respond to changing market expectations, sustainability priorities, and financing requirements across Europe and beyond. The event will also bring together organisations already using EDGE in practice to share their experiences, explore how certification supports wider investment and ESG objectives, and discuss the opportunities and challenges shaping future adoption.
Attendees will gain valuable insights into the growing role of certification within real estate and finance, the future direction of EDGE, and how leading organisations are approaching sustainability performance in an increasingly data-driven market.
The session will conclude with a networking reception, providing an opportunity to connect with investors, developers, lenders, consultants, and industry leaders from across the built environment.Register here: https://sintali.com/lcaw-2026
