The 17th Annual Sustainable Innovation Forum is the flagship event of the Climate Action Innovation Zone, taking place during the first week of COP31 at the Sueno Hotels Deluxe Belek Convention & Meeting Center.
Since its launch, the Forum has brought business into the heart of the COP. At COP31, its role is clearer than ever: engaging corporate leaders and investors and connecting them with the policymakers and subnational leaders who shape the conditions for delivery on the ground.
The Forum will:
- Advance implementation of the Global Climate Action Agenda
- Mobilise investment into climate solutions ready to scale
- Showcase proven solutions and the results they are already delivering
- Accelerate collaboration across business, finance, government and civil society
- Connect corporate leaders and investors with the policymakers shaping the conditions for delivery
Opening the arc of high-level engagement at COP31, ahead of the COP Presidency’s World Leaders Summit and the COP31 Business Summit, the programme is structured around the six thematic axes of the Global Climate Action Agenda, within which the COP31 Presidency’s 10 Priority Themes sit.
The Forum will convene 150+ speakers and more than 2,000 senior leaders from business, finance, government and civil society.
Featured speakers include:
- Lord Alok Sharma, Chair, Transition Finance Council, Former President, COP26, & Former Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
- Faustine Delasalle, CEO, Mission Possible, and Executive Director, Industrial Transition Accelerator (ITA)
- Lord Adair Turner, Co-Chair, Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) & Former Chairman, UK Climate Change Committee
- Marina Grossi, President, CEBDS
- Nigar Arpadarai, Member of Parliament, Azerbaijan, & UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP29
- Sir Andrew Steer, Professor in Practice, LSE, & Former CEO, Bezos Earth Fund
- Stephanie Pfeifer, CEO, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change
- Chris Skidmore OBE, Chair, Climate Action
- Tzeporah Berman, Chair, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
- Tom Mitchell, Executive Director, International Institute for Environment & Development
- Fiona Howarth, Founder & Chair, Octopus Electric Vehicles
- Leslie Maasdorp, CEO, British International Investment
