FAIRR at London Climate Action Week 2025

FAIRR is pleased to take part in the 7th edition of London Climate Action Week (LCAW) - a global platform bringing together leaders from across sectors to catalyse bold climate solutions. This year, our team will join high-level roundtables, expert panels, and strategic working sessions to spotlight the pivotal role of sustainable agriculture and food systems in achieving a net-zero, nature-positive future.

From data-driven transition planning to unlocking climate finance and reshaping food systems, FAIRR’s experts will contribute to some of the week’s most critical conversations. Follow along or join us at the events below:

Commonwealth Climate Finance Roundtable

Marlborough House, Pall Mall | Monday, 23 June 2025

• Simi Thambi, PhD, Climate and Nature Economist, FAIRR, will join this high-level, closed-door roundtable to reflect on a decade of impact and chart the path forward while focusing on actionable strategies to enhance access to climate finance, including leveraging private-sector investments to support vulnerable nations in meeting their climate goals

More Than Metrics: Enriching Transition Data for Better Decisions

The View in The Royal College of Surgeons of England, WC2A 3PE | Tuesday, 24 June 2025

• Meena Gurunathan-Raju, Development Director, FAIRR and Sajeev Mohankumar, PhD, Senior Technical Specialist, Climate and Nature, FAIRR, will participate in the roundtable co-hosted by ClimateWorks Foundation

• This collaborative, breakout-driven session will bring together technical leaders to address the most pressing gaps in transition data and analysis-shaping methodologies, testing assumptions, and setting priorities for credible climate action

Financing Resilience, Investing in Nature

Tuesday, 24 June 2025

• Organised by Lobelia, Pegasys, and Mott MacDonald, this two-panel session will explore how systems thinking and climate intelligence can drive smarter, more strategic investment decisions

• Sajeev Mohankumar, PhD, Senior Technical Specialist, Climate and Nature, FAIRR, will speak on the panel 'Financing Resilience across Portfolios, Infrastructure and Value Chains', focusing on how to shift from reactive risk management toward proactive investment in adaptation, resilience, and nature-based solutions—areas of high value that remain underfunded

Raising Ambition for Tropical Forests by World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

The Cinnamon Club, London | Tuesday, 24 June 2025

• Helena Wright, PhD, Policy Director, FAIRR, will join a closed roundtable convened by WWF, featuring insight from Sir Ian Cheshire, WWF Ambassador and Lord Goldsmith, on the action and resource mobilisation we need to protect and restore our most critical tropical forest regions in the Amazon, Congo and South-East Asia

Clim EAT Food Systems MISSION:POSSIBLE Roundtable Series

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

• This closed roundtable will convene 20–30 leading voices from policy, finance, research, philanthropy, and civil society to tackle the systemic challenges facing global food systems

• Helena Wright, PhD, Policy Director, FAIRR, will participate in this closed roundtable and, along with other participants, will identify political and structural barriers, exchange bold reform ideas, and build new alliances to drive transformative action in the lead-up to COP30

Food Tank 2nd Annual Summit

Google HQ, Saint Giles, WC2H 8AG | Thursday, 26 June 2025 | 12:30-18:30 (BST)

• Hosted by Food Tank, the UN Environment Programme, Unilever, and Google Cloud, this exclusive event will bring together 180+ chief sustainability officers from leading food brands to discuss and shape the future of sustainable food systems

• Helena Wright, PhD, Policy Director, FAIRR, will be speaking at the panel 'Voices from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Systems Change'