Back in London,
bigger than before
London Climate Action Week is coming, and our Solutions House agenda is now live. Join us at Somerset House as we explore this year’s theme, Solutions Storytelling – how narrative, culture and communications can accelerate climate and sustainability action with leaders from across business, government, media and the arts.
To help you navigate 30+ sessions more easily, we’ve organised our programme into three tracks: Business, Culture & Storytelling, and Policymaker.
Thank you to all our sponsors
CHECK OUT SOME OF OUR AMAZING SPEAKERS
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Sara Pascoe
Comedian, actress, presenter and writer
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Justin Worland
Principal, North Star Strategy
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Solitaire Townsend
Chief solutionist & Co-Founder, Futerra
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Madame Gandhi
Award-winning artist and activist
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Mete Coban
Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy
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Katie White
Minister for Climate in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
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Ezgi Barcenas
Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer, L’Oréal Groupe and Chief Executive Officer of the Fondation L’Oréal
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Pops Mensah-Bonsu
Basketball Executive, former NBA Basketball player
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Julia Gillard
Former Prime Minister of Australia
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Lindsay Levin
Head of TED Countdown
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Mary Robinson
Former President of Ireland;
Chair, The Elders; Co-Founder, Project Dandelion
CHECK OUT OUR AMAZING SESSIONS
tuesday june 23
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everyone says climate needs a new narrative - but what does that actually mean? This live debate pits sharp messaging against deep storytelling to explore what each can do, where each fails, and how leaders can invest in both.
Join Sky, Futerra and leading voices from film and TV to explore how storytelling and standout communications drive real climate impact - with inspiring perspectives and practical takeaways on cutting through the noise.
From cotton fields to wool regions, climate change is already disrupting the raw materials fashion depends on. Senior leaders across finance, sustainability and investment discuss what C-suite must do right now - before scarcity becomes an existential threat.
Wednesday june 24
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thursday june 25
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Part of a global series
Solutions House London part of a growing international sustainability summit series.