honest views, positive news
Through this blog we are planning to bring you a stream of honest viewpoints on the big challenges, and solutions to them, and much-needed snippets of positive news to keep us all going.
Shared Responsibility, Shared Future: Faith and Climate Leadership in Action
Faith communities have the power to unite people behind climate action. Senior faith leaders and ministers from the UK and Pacific Islands explore how religious communities can strengthen support for ambitious climate policy and inspire collective action at scale.
Procurement - The Hidden Lever for Climate Action
Procurement is emerging as a powerful lever for climate action. This interactive session brings together procurement, sustainability and industry leaders to explore how client demand and purchasing decisions can accelerate progress on serviced emissions across professional service providers.
The $1 Trillion Blind Spot: Redirecting Climate Finance to Women-Led Solutions
Climate finance is overlooking one of its biggest growth opportunities. Join Mastercard, CARE, Project Dandelion and Futerra for the exclusive launch of The $1 Trillion Blind Spot, a blueprint mapping ten high-impact, investment-ready solutions led by women entrepreneurs.
What Will Be Your Legacy? A conversation with Roman Krznaric
Philosopher Roman Krznaric joins us for an immersive session on what it means to become a Good Ancestor. Through guided reflection and shared conversation, explore how to think long-term in a short-term world and act as a steward of the future.
Climate Narratives Toolkit Training: In-Person Workshop
A hands-on training session introducing the Climate Narratives Toolkit, developed by Futerra Solutions Union. Drawing on 20 years of practice, explore the message frames and narrative approaches that move audiences beyond fatalism and toward genuine engagement and momentum for change.
Advancing the Plan to Accelerate Solutions (PAS) on Narratives for Climate Action
Climate action needs more than policy and technology. On June 25th, Creatives for Climate and Futerra Solutions House present the world's first UNFCCC-backed Plan to Accelerate on Narratives for Climate Action, exploring how narrative power can drive a just transition.
Imagine5 Magazine Launch: The Wild Issue
Imagine5 launches its newest magazine with rewilding at its core. An evening of talks, music and good company, featuring conversations on rewilding and a fireside chat with author Adam Weymouth, followed by a live set from Madame Gandhi.
Listen Up! Lessons From Outside the Bubble
Climate communications has a communications problem. This interactive session brings together communicators who have mastered making complicated issues resonate, examining what climate can learn from health, politics and identity storytelling. What makes people care, and where are we going wrong?
Stand of the Sun, Special Edition for Solutions House
Blending live dance, original music and immersive video, Stand of the Sun is an embodied encounter between human and sun. This specially adapted excerpt asks us to feel our relationship with a hotter world, not just understand it.
Performing Under Pressure: Sport, Art and Life in a Hotter World
Sport and performing arts have always pushed the limits of the human body. Now the climate is setting new ones. Leaders, athletes and artists explore what it takes to keep performing in a hotter world, and what we can all learn.
Making Urban Heat Visible
Heatwaves are hard to visualise and describe. Led by the Wellcome-funded Melting Metropolis project, this workshop interrogates how to make urban heat visible as a rallying call for climate action, blending creative practice, community research and live illustration.
Collective Creativity as Catalyst
What if creativity is one of the most powerful catalysts for climate action we have? Leaders from science, technology, education and the creative industries explore how music, storytelling and participatory practice keep people engaged, hopeful and capable of action.
Accelerating Innovation in 2026: Culture, Partnerships and the Stories That Stick
Innovation is about more than ideas. In this open, rotating discussion, innovators, corporate leaders and policymakers swap seats and shape the conversation in real time, exploring what it takes to build cultures where radical ideas survive and scale.
Putting Nature in the Picture: Bold stories about our biggest ally
We are a nation of nature lovers, but we are now 60% less connected with nature than 200 years ago. Presented by BAFTA Albert, this session explores how putting nature on screen can inspire real-world climate action.
Breaking the Big Silence: brands and sustainability messaging
Brands are going quiet on sustainability just as consumers want cheaper energy, healthier products and more resilient lives. Marketing leaders unpack the rise of greenhushing and explore how to talk about sustainability without sounding worthy, political or joyless.
F*ck Doom Party
Join the F*CK DOOM party. We're gathering the people still prepared to imagine, make, fund, film, write, sing and build a liveable future. A celebration for serious optimists and anyone tired of fashionable despair. Yes, there will be merch.
Working Class Heroes. Climate storytelling beyond the stereotype
Climate change affects everyone, but too often reads as a middle-class concern. This session brings together storytellers reshaping the face of climate action, exploring what it takes to make it a genuinely shared adventure across all communities.
The Culture Crunch: Can we get beyond harmful norms?
Many social norms undermine sustainability, but norms can change. This session brings cultural leaders together to explore what we can learn from societies that already elevate restraint and collective responsibility, and how culture makers can spread them further.
Join The Writers Room. Storytelling Masterclass
Climate work is full of evidence, but evidence rarely becomes memorable without story. In this writer's room, professional storytellers unpack the mechanics of narrative and help you shape your own climate story into something compelling, specific and real.
The Jargon Detox, or how not to talk
Comedy can make climate easier to face - but no joke is neutral. As environmentalism becomes a target for satire, this session asks what laughter unlocks, what it risks, and who gets to draw the line.