London Climate Action Week (LCAW) brings together leaders from government, business, finance, and civil society to accelerate climate action and advance practical solutions for a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy, with a strong focus on collaboration, policy development, and scaling high-integrity carbon markets.

The VCMI team will participate to contribute to these discussions and help shape the future of credible carbon markets, with Mark Kenber, Executive Director, taking on multiple key roles across the programme, including delivering remarks, speaking on panels, and hosting a high-level Coalition session alongside VCMI Chair Usha Rao-Monari, who will also speak at a senior-level event.

  22 June      
  14:30-16:30     
  Guildhall, Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7HH 

Carbon Markets Policy Forum

Hosted by Ernst & Young   |   Mark Kenber will give remarks

Discussions at this event will explore practical policy levers to build credible demand, improve legal and accounting certainty, strengthen market infrastructure, and unlock investment, while preserving integrity in claims and transition plans. 

Attendance to this event is by invite only.

  22 June       
  15:00-16:30    
  KPMG, 15 Canada Square, E14 5GL 

Scaling Carbon Markets: A Public-Private Agenda for Decarbonization, Nature, and Innovation

Hosted by World Economic Forum and KPMG  |  Usha Rao-Monari will speak

This session convenes leaders from public and private carbon market coalitions to ensure carbon markets evolve as credible tools for competitiveness, innovation, resilience, and nature protection. 

Carbon markets are increasingly being reframed as a strategic tool to accelerate decarbonisation, mobilise private capital, and support nature and competitiveness goals amid constrained public finance. Yet scale remains limited by fragmented policy signals, uncertainty around credit quality, and weak buyer confidence. This session provides a platform for governments, corporates, and market coalitions to exchange lessons, address barriers, and identify practical pathways to scale high-integrity carbon markets. 

Attendance to this event is by invite only.

  23 June     
  09:30-12:00    
  Kita Earth Limited, Lloyd’s of London, Tower 1, One Lime Street, London 

The Future of the Global Carbon Markets

Hosted by Business Alliance for Climate Action (BACA) |  Mark Kenber will speak

Discussion at this event will focus on the future of the global carbon market, interoperability between compliance and voluntary markets, and buyer perspectives. 

Topics such as the future of the carbon market from the perspectives of buyers, standard setters, policy, nature, and insurance will be discussed. 

Senior Industry leaders will gather to analyse the interoperability between compliance and voluntary carbon markets and share vital buyer perspectives.  

Attendance to this event is by invite only

  23 June 
  12:30-17:00       
  The Clermont London, Charing Cross, WC2N 5HX 

VCM+ Coalition Global Convening

Hosted by VCM+ Coalition   |  Mark Kenber will speak

This event will bring together senior leaders from global initiatives shaping the future generation of verified carbon markets and Green House Gas accounting standards to reaffirm a shared commitment to collaboration and to explore how we can drive greater harmonisation and alignment across the ecosystem.

Attendance to this event is by invite only

  23 June      
  15:30-17:00   
  London Stock Exchange

Policies to Unlock Carbon Credit Demand

 Hosted by The Coalition to Grow Carbon Markets    |   Mark Kenber will be the MC

This high-level Coalition event will bring together senior leaders from governments and businesses around the world, to explore the Coalition’s next steps to accelerate the development of clear, consistent, and stable guidance, policies, and incentives, to build corporate confidence and drive demand for high-integrity carbon credits. Speakers include Climate Envoys and Ministers from across the Coalition membership, and business and financial sector leaders. 

Discussion will explore how clear, consistent, and stable guidance, policies, and incentives, can build corporate confidence and help to de-risk investment, and the next steps the Coalition will take to boost finance for ambitious climate action. 

Attendance is by registration only via this registration link

  24 June
  13:00-17:00      
  The Clermont London, Charing Cross, WC2N 5HX 

Working Session: Financial Infrastructure for Carbon Markets 

Hosted by VCM+ Coalition   |  Mark Kenber will speak

Hosted by VCM+ Coalition and partners, this invitation-only working session convenes VCM+ partners and collaborators to advance key topics on the financial infrastructure of verified carbon markets. The agenda progresses across foundational issue areas identified by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Markets (ICVCM) Continuous Improvement Work Program (CIWP 7) report, including legal title, data integrity, registry interoperability, accounting, and dispute resolution.

Attendance is by invitation only

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