Events

In this webinar, Dr Polina Yaseneva provides an overview of linear and circular models of chemicals and materials manufacturing. She discusses the role and challenges of environmental impact assessments in industrial transitions to sustainable manufacturing, focusing on how digitalisation acts as a driver to accelerate the search for sustainable production pathways.

Returning for its 7th edition during Climate Week New York in September 2022, Climate Action’s Sustainable Investment Forum North America, in official partnership with UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), will be an online and in-person event.

Date: 7-8 September 2022

Location: The Business Design Centre, London, & Online

In this webinar, Dr Elia Apostolopoulou discusses the links between China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), urban transformation, and inequality. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in five cities across the Global South and North, she examines how BRI infrastructures and investments are currently impacting local communities.

In the face of public health, climate, inequality, and environmental crises which overwhelmingly impact the vulnerable, there is mounting pressure for luxury brands to re-evaluate their purpose. This webinar with Dr Dina Khalifa explores shifting expectations around leadership and corporate purpose, considering the opportunities and challenges of luxury brand activism and its potential to drive large-scale social change.

Led by Prince of Wales Fellow Caroline Lee and Dr Catherine Hammant, this webinar gives a taster of their research exploring supermarkets’ potential to leverage their resources and unique position in local communities to improve wellbeing. They discuss the stages of their work, highlighting the nature of existing social-purpose programmes, the route to impact and potential for greater effectiveness in actions and activities which support communities within local operating contexts.

Climate Action is pleased to announce that the 7th annual Sustainable Investment Forum North America will be returning this year as an in-person event on the on the 22nd September during Climate Week NYC at the Ziegfeld Ballroom, New York.

Business Green Net Zero Festival Wednesday 28 & Thursday 29 September 2022: CISL is delighted to partner with Business Green at this year's Net Zero Festival. 

Coordinated action on climate change is more important than ever. Taking place one month ahead of COP27, this annual conference returns this year as an in-person event that will be simultaneously broadcast on our live virtual event platform.

We are in a decisive decade to deliver on the climate emergency. But to create truly innovative, transformational change requires world governments, multilaterals, the business, investment and NGO communities to work together, accelerating the net-zero economy across the decade.