What's on at The Conduit for London Climate Action Week

Climate and the Future of Health 2026 is the preeminent climate and health conference at London Climate Action Week, bringing together leaders across health systems, climate policy, finance, innovation, culture and communities.

As part of its Solutions Lab, the one-day summit focuses on practical models of prevention, resilience and renewal – showcasing how data, finance, policy and innovation can protect health while accelerating net zero. Across keynotes, debates, solution sessions and introducing new tracks for culture, art and food systems, participants will move from crisis response to systemic redesign and real‑world implementation.

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As emissions pour into the atmosphere and world leaders struggle for solutions to a climate emergency, the controversial climate-cooling technology called solar geoengineering is entering the world’s stage. It’s an idea so powerful and full of uncertainty that even the proposal of research itself is seen as a dire risk by leading environmental activists and scientists. But for physicist David Keith, what matters is not what’s popular but what could help reduce the harms of a heating planet. And to learn more, he plans to launch the world’s first experiment into the stratosphere.

Plan C for Civilization — described by academy award-winning director of An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim, as “compelling, in the most productive, wonderful way” — tackles the promise and peril of solar geoengineering. From Bangladesh to Nevada, the technology is emerging after more than 60 years in the shadows, and with it, a new chapter of the climate change saga.

Join the film’s director Ben Kalina at The Conduit for a preview screening followed by an interactive dialogue led by Foresight practitioner Tessa Finlev. Expect radical ideas and robust discussion in this deep dive into the emerging realm of climate stabilization technologies and how they may – or may not – factor into our collective future.

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The afternoon is structured in two parts:

Part 1 (Open):
A clear view of the progress made so far — and the four systemic unlocks needed to build a functioning market for water resilience.

Part 2 (Invite-only):
A commercially focused working session testing live projects against real demand — offering a unique opportunity to engage directly with emerging catchments and help shape what comes next.

A complimentary lunch will be provided between sessions.

Attendance is free, but access is via a valid ticket to the London Climate Resilience Finance Summit. Please bring ID on the day.

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Our rivers are under pressure from pollution, misconnection, abstraction and climate extremes. While policy and ambition exist, delivery remains fragmented. What if we shifted our approach, and recognised our rivers as living systems rather than infrastructure?

During London Climate Action Week, join us at The Conduit to discuss a simple but powerful idea: lasting environmental change flows from relationship, not abstraction, and rivers offer the clearest way to align connection, community and governance across the UK.

Drawing on their diverse perspectives, Paul Powlesland, Laura Reineke, Jeevan Vasagar and Baroness Jenny Jones will examine both the philosophical and practical implications of this shift, from legal personhood and ecological democracy to community-led river guardianship and custodianship. The panel will explore how River Guardian networks could work in practice, what legal and political barriers exist, and whether current environmental regulation is capable of protecting rivers in an age of ecological crisis.

At its heart, the conversation asks how we move from extraction to relationship, from ownership to stewardship, and from viewing nature as something we control to something we belong to and are responsible for protecting.

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In November 2025, the National Emergency Briefing brought an audience of 1,200 to Westminster where ten leading experts set out the implications of climate and nature breakdown for health, food systems, national security and the economy. The briefing presented the latest evidence and called for the Government to stage a televised emergency briefing, much like those we saw during the COVID-19 pandemic: the essential first step towards the scale of response required.

Now, a documentary made up of footage from November is being shown across the UK. The People’s Emergency Briefing brings together the science and national implications in one compelling film, and it’s coming to The Conduit.

To close our London Climate Action Week programme, we will be screening the documentary and hearing from the team behind it, including co-founders Nick and Simon Oldridge, and creative director Ben Carey. Some of the experts featured in the film will provide updates on how their research has progressed since November. They will be paired with counterparts from our community of members, who will present their own work and pose their ideas.

Climate & nature crisis threatens all aspects of British life from national security to food supply, but solutions exist, and many of them are being developed by members of The Conduit. Join us for this energising, urgent event to build on the momentum of London Climate Action Week, make connections and celebrate solutions.

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