London Climate Action Week

London Climate Action Week (LCAW) was founded by Nick Mabey in partnership with the Mayor of London in 2019. Nick Mabey chairs the LCAW Steering Group and E3G currently hosts the secretariat.

LCAW is one of the largest independent events in the global climate calendar. LCAW 2022 hosted over 170 in person & on-line events ranging from international policy conferences to community festivals and cultural events as shown in this LCAW 2022 Show Reel.

London has the largest concentration of climate-focused organisations in the world with over 250 thousand people employed in, mostly professional, green jobs. London is the home of globally influential sectoral hubs for professional bodies, education, law, health, film, arts, fashion and many more.

The mission of London Climate Action Week is: “Harnessing the Power of London for Global Climate Action”

London Climate Action Week was designed through consultations with hundreds of London-based organisations. Stakeholders were very clear they wanted an event that built on, and was based in, the messy and diverse realities of London as a global city.

London Climate Action Week has four mission based goals:

-       Highlighting the tough issues facing successful climate action and leveraging London’s global networks to generate solutions.

-       Supporting the globally unique “London Climate Cluster” of climate change organisations to work better together.

 -       Reaching outside the “climate bubble” to engage new sectors, organisations and communities in “whole of society” climate action. LCAW aims to make London an exemplar for building broad societal support for radical climate action.

-       Helping drive the transition to a net zero, resilient & green London where the benefits are shared fairly among all Londoners.

LCAW has already shaped global diplomatic conversations in advance of major events like COP 26. It has incubated major initiatives such as the Professionals Climate Action Charter and the London Schools Climate Summit. LCAW has engaged major London institutions from Tate Modern to the Museum of London and the Barbican.