London Climate Action Week: Finance Live
Latest developments on climate finance
During London Climate Action Week (LCAW) 2025, LSEG, the Green Finance Institute (GFI) and Reuters partnered to deliver a live broadcast every morning from Monday 23 June to Thursday 26 June from the LSEG studios in the heart of the city.
Each episode focused on topics and themes across key finance events throughout the week. The show was hosted by Axel Threlfall, Editor-at-Large, Reuters, and he was joined by 50+ leading climate experts to cast views on the hot topics in the world of climate finance – in the UK and beyond.
Find out more about each of the four episodes below and watch them now on-demand.
Monday 23 June
Show 1: Taking the lead in green growth on the global stage
Bringing together influential voices in climate and nature finance, policy, economics and business, this show highlighted the latest developments and biggest announcements in the world of green finance, delved into the key themes being explored at LCAW’s daily flagship events, and explored the City of London’s pivotal role in shaping sustainable futures worldwide.
Tuesday 24 June
Show 2: Finance in action: Demonstrating climate leadership in changing times
We brought together a diverse range of impactful voices from across the worlds of finance, philanthropy and policy to discuss the huge potential that the City of London has to drive real-economy change globally, and how, against a backdrop of change and uncertainty, businesses are stepping into the void to focus on the values and vision for a prosperous economy that delivers long-term benefits to households and businesses.
Wednesday 25 June
Show 3: Global action on climate transition plans
Transition plans emerged at the Glasgow climate conference COP26 as a critical concept. This show covered the latest news and developments on transition plan reporting standards, and how investors are using such information to move multi-billion-dollar portfolios. Experts took stock of progress on global sustainability disclosure, two years from the launch of the ISSB’s inaugural standards and explored how companies are using climate transition plans in practice. And how this is enabling strategic engagement between companies, the finance sector and policy makers.
Thursday 26 June
Show 4: Investing in nature: Turning finance into action
Nature-related risks are financial risks. Managing and mitigating these risks is good business and makes economic sense. We were joined by some of the most innovative voices in nature finance, across financial institutions and corporates, to discuss how we can move beyond disclosures to ensure economic resilience, making even clearer the business case for reducing impacts to nature and restoring the natural environment, and outlining the impact of clear actionable pathways.
Speakers
David Atkin
CEO
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
Helen Avery
Programme Director – Nature
GFI
Julie Baddeley
Chair
Chapter Zero
Peter Bakker
President & CEO
WBCSD
Michela Bariletti
Chief Credit Officer
Phoenix Group
Dr Adi Budiarso
Head of the Climate Change and Multilateral Policy Center of the Fiscal Policy Agency in the Ministry of Finance of Indonesia
Shuen Chan
Head of Responsible Investment & Sustainability, Private Markets
L&G
Yawen Chen
EMEA columnist
Reuters Breakingviews
David Craig
Co-Chair
TNFD
Ruth Davis OBE
UK Special Representative for Nature
Prof. Simon Dietz
Research Director
TPI Centre at LSE
Rowan Douglas CBE
CEO Climate Risk and Resilience
Howden
Marisa Drew
CSO
Standard Chartered
Mafalda Duarte
Executive Director
Green Climate Fund
Elizabeth Fernando
CIO
NEST
Christiana Figueres
Former Executive Secretary
UN Climate Change
Nili Gilbert CFA CAIA
Vice Chairwoman
Carbon Direct
Jane Goodland
Group Head of Sustainability
LSEG
Sarah Gordon
Visiting Professor in Practice
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment
LSE
Tim Gould
Chief Energy Economist
International Energy Agency
David Harris
Head of Sustainable Finance Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships
LSEG
Julia Hoggett DBE
CEO
London Stock Exchange
Ingrid Holmes
Deputy CEO
Green Finance Institute (GFI)
Ekhosuehi Iyahen
Secretary General
Insurance Development Forum
Dr Ma Jun
Former Chief Economist
People’s Bank of China, Chairman of Green Finance Committee of China Society for Finance and Banking and Co-Chair of G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group
Shaun Kingsbury
Co-Chief Investment Officer
Just Climate
Jaakko Kooroshy
Head of SI Research
LSEG
Rachel Kyte
UK Special Representative for Climate
Sue Lloyd
Vice-Chair
ISSB
Dr Harvey Locke
Author, Environmentalist and former Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas
Ng Yao Loong
Senior Managing Director, Head of Equities
SGX Group
Leslie Maasdorp
CEO
British International Investment
Nick Mabey
Founding Director and CEO
E3G
Stephanie Maier
Global Head of Sustainable
FTSE Russell
Adam Matthews
Chief Responsibility Officer
CoE
Ravi Menon
Ambassador for Climate Action, Singapore
Anthony Miller
Head of UNSSE
Ali Daud Mohamed
Special Envoy for Climate Change, Executive Office of the President, Kenya
Dr Chantal Naidoo
CEO
Rabia Transitions
Carmen Nuzzo
Executive Director
TPI Centre at LSE
Adrian Rimmer
Director, Sustainable Finance & Investment
LSEG
Tatiana Rosito
Secretary for International Affairs
Ministry of Finance, Brazil
David Russell
Chair
Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI)
André Schneider
Chairman
World Climate Foundation
David Schwimmer
CEO
LSEG
Chris Sood-Nicholls
Managing Director, Regional Development, Sustainable Finance
Lloyds
Tanya Steele
CEO
WWF
Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE
Chief Executive
Green Finance Institute (GFI)
Axel Threlfall
Editor-at-Large
Reuters
Ana Toni
CEO
COP30
Bill Winters
CEO
Standard Chartered
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