Chatham House Environment and Society

Dr Daniel Quiggin hosted a lively conversation at yesterday's #CHClimateEnergy on 'Removals vs reduction: Investment in divergent transition pathways'. Panellists included: Alan Fotheringham, Global Director of Low Carbon, Jacobs Michael Grubb, Professor of Energy and Climate Change, University College London Yamina Saheb, Senior Researcher and Lecturer at Sciences Po Aniruddha Sharma, CEO and Chair, Carbon Clean

Yesterday at #CHClimateEnergy Glada Lahn hosted a conversation on lessons from Africa for a just transition, with Lord Jonathan Oates, Co-Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Africa and Giza Gaspar Martins, Regional Director at Sun Africa LLC.

Day 2 of #CHClimateEnergy started with a session on accelerating the energy transition. Panellist were: Jane Dennett-Thorpe FEI, Decarbonisation & Energy Transition lead at Ofgem Jon Fuller, Director - United Kingdom, Breakthrough Energy Ben Parsons, Partner, Oaklin Leila Benali, PhD., Minister for the Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Kingdom of Morocco Sanjeet Sanghera, Head of Strategic Futures, National Energy System Operator Chair: Mike Hemsley, Deputy Director, Energy Transitions  

🚨 New podcast alert 🚨 🎙 China is the world’s largest emitter and dominates the production of low-carbon technologies worldwide. It thus plays a key role in global efforts to address the climate crisis. How has China obtained its leading position in the production of green technologies? What role does China play in international climate negotiations? How important has the US-China relationship been in global efforts to reduce emissions, and what will happen now when Donald Trump is back in the White House? To discuss this and more, Ruth Townend and Anna Åberg are joined by Shuo Li (Director of China Climate Hub at the Asia Society Policy Institute) and Chris Aylett (Research Fellow at the Environment and Society Centre at Chatham House). To read Chris' report on UK-China cooperation on climate, please click here: https://lnkd.in/eSCu8zef Streaming now: https://lnkd.in/er28yjEg

This session of #CHClimateEnergy focused on how corporate and financial institutions must navigate evolving climate risks. Panellists included: Peter Bragg, EMEA Sustainability & Government Affairs Director, Canon John Willis, Senior Director, Aligning Finance & Value (Corporate Performance & Accountability),World Business Council for Sustainable Development Andrew Griffiths, Policy & Corporate Development Director, Planet Mark Sue Armstrong Brown, Global Director of Environmental Impact and Thought Leadership, CDP Chair: Daianna Kairarian, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Today Do This

🌎Climate and Energy Summit 2025 | In conversation: Flipping the script on climate change In our next session at #CHClimateEnergy, Clover Hogan (Founder & Advisor, Force of Nature) and Laurie Laybourn (Associate Fellow, Environment and Society Centre, Chatham House) explore the narratives and perspectives that can drive just and sustainable collective action. #CHEvents

The second session of #CHClimateEnergy focused on adaptation strategies for cascading climate risks. Panellists included: Paola Albrito, Director, (UNDRR)  Olivia Lazard, Fellow, Carnegie Europe  Clare Shakya, Global Managing Director for Climate, The Nature Conservancy  Harriet Cullum, Global Head of Water, Nature and Agriculture, Diageo Chair: Ruth Townend, Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House

Yesterday at #CHClimateEnergy Summit, Laurie Laybourn hosted a conversation with Clover Hogan, Founder & Advisor at Force of Nature. Here's what she had to say on 'flipping the script on climate change'.

Great first day at Chatham House Events Climate and Energy Summit 2025 #CHClimateEnergy. What stayed with me from the really interesting speakers and conversations happening here today?   Starting with the keynote… 🌏 Ana Toni (CEO of COP30) stressing that #COP30 #Brazil will be the COP of implementation: 10 years on from the Paris Agreement, there is a lot to celebrate, but there is no question that we need to accelerate action to make the energy transition a reality. Collective action needs to start today. 🌏 Rachel Kyte (UK Special Representative on Climate)'s quote that climate is everything and everything is climate could have not been more spot on, highlighting that we need practical and cross-sectoral partnerships to make the energy transition happen and reach everyone in a fair and equitable way.   … And a couple of relevant snippets of the 🔝 panels and conversations on #geopolitics, #adaptation and #resilience to cascading climate risks, #food-#water nexus, and #finance for the future: ⚡ The climate crisis should not be a competing priority to other crises/conflicts. Without climate action, crises will just increase. ⚖️ Climate action cannot be paused, it needs to be continuous. Especially climate justice needs to be taken as a priority by governments, private sector, civil society leaders, and everyone. 🫂 We're still working very much in silos, this must change. We need geospatial rather than sectoral analytics, and multi-stakeholder dialogue and collaborative solutions. 🌱 Nature-based solutions ones deserve more attention as we know that they are cost effective and deliver on both adaptation/resilience and emissions reductions. 🗞️ Also, language matters, and framing really matters. We need to be more strategic about communicating the evidence we have to reach beyond our bubble, meeting people where they are, avoiding further polarisation. 🕊️ Let's not despair about the difficult geopolitical context: it is in the times of crisis that collaboration tends to increase. And while traditional multilateral finance mechanisms may be shrinking, there are innovative financial solutions and mechanisms that are emerging and should be tapped into. Looking forward to Day 2 tomorrow!

Resilience and rivalry was the focus of the first session of today's #CHClimateEnergy Summit. Panellists considered the geopolitics of climate and energy transitions, in what was a very timely discussion. They included: Laura Clarke OBE, CEO, ClientEarth  Fatou Jeng, Climate Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General; Founder, Clean Earth Gambia  Todd Stern, United States Special Envoy for Climate Change (2009-2016) Malin Östman, Vice President, Strategy & Business Development, Wärtsilä Energy