Dublin #14 - The climate heist
Tue, 14 Apr
|The Sugar Club
Hacking the system to save nature... and ourselves. Exploring the tools, levers, products and more of the modern interconnected world to drive radical and urgent action on climate and nature - through entrepreneurship and innovation. A special event partnering with Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO).
Time & Location
14 Apr 2026, 18:00 – 22:00
The Sugar Club, 8 Leeson Street Lower, Saint Kevin's, Dublin, D02 ET97, Ireland
About the event
What if we could hijack the very systems driving climate and nature destruction to fuel regeneration instead?
Climate Heist is a night out with substance.
Professional but unbuttoned.
Curious but commercially sharp.
If the future is being quietly assembled in rooms where ideas meet capital and courage, this is one of those rooms. Join us 🍸🌍
This intimate evening brings together entrepreneurs, investors and innovators to explore how business, finance, policy and technology can be re-engineered for impact and advantage. From impact investing, industrial symbiosis, renewable energy and regenerative supply chains to AI and IoT, we’ll unpack real strategies already reshaping industries - not in theory, but in practice.
Expect a candid panel discussion, a keynote from a world-class climate and nature business leader, and space for meaningful conversation in a relaxed, design-led setting. With music, art and light bites, The Climate Heist is designed to feel more like a curated gathering than a conference. It showcases how to use capitalism’s own playbook - but for good
SPEAKERS & PERFORMERS
Tom Popple, Founder-CEO, BE IMPACTFUL & Climate Cocktail Club
Jack McHugh, Folk-singing guitar-slinging songwriting Animator from Kilkenny
Heather Griffin and Patrick Mulvihill, Artists, Living Rhythms & Dinnseanchas project
Lesley O'Connor, Founder and Executive Chair, Trifecta Energy
Aoife O'Leary, Founder and CEO, Opportunity Green
David Scanlon, Director, Resolve Partners
Phil Doyle, Managing Director & Co-Head of the SDCL Global Energy Transition Fund (GETF), Sustainable Development Capital LLP (SDCL)
Annie Leeson, CEO & Co-Founder, Agricarbon
Lavanya Bhandari, CEO & Founder, Ecoroots
Orlaith Delargy, Head of Impact Delivery, BE IMPACTFUL
EVENT SCHEDULE
1800 - Doors open (cocktails, networking and food)
1815 - Live music: Jack McHugh
1900 - Kick off and welcome: Tom Popple
1910 - Creative feature: immersive experimental audio-visual performance by Heather Griffin & Patrick Mulvihill
1930 - Leadership keynote and fireside: Lesley O'Connor
2000 - The power of law for impact (if we just applied it!): Aoife O'Leary
2020 - Panel session: David Scanlon (host), Phil Doyle, Annie Leeson, David Connolly, Lavanya Bhandari
2100 - Closing remarks: Orlaith Delargy
2105 - Live music (with Jack), networking and cocktails
2200 - Close
GET IN THE CCC MOOD... Check out our live folksinger Jack McHugh
WHY ATTEND
Steal the future before it steals you. Climate and nature shifts are redrawing the profit map. Come see where the treasure is buried.
From compliance headache to competitive edge. The transition is not a tax. It is a tactical advantage for those awake enough to spot it.
Regeneration that pays its own bar tab. Real companies. Real margins. Impact baked in, not sprinkled on.
AI meets ROI meets the biosphere. How data, tech and clever tools are turning impact from reporting theatre into strategic muscle.
Capital is moving. Are you? What future-fit businesses must prove to attract serious money in a warming world.
No lanyards. No lurkers. Just sharp minds, good drinks and conversations that actually go somewhere.
Serious ideas. Loosened ties. Professional enough to matter. Playful enough to enjoy.
Where climate ambition gets street smart. Less preaching. More plotting
GET IN THE CCC MOOD... Check out a previous event (and more here)
PARTNERS
We are proud to be supported by our event partners. Contact us to support the mission and become a partner to the Climate Cocktail Club. We need your sponsorship to ensure our events are successful. We have a limited number of event partner and sponsor opportunities - please get in touch (info@climatecocktailclub.org).
BRAND PARTNER
THINKHOUSE is one of the world’s leading independent agencies. Powered by youth culture, its digital-first, future-fit marketing is for progressive brands that care about people and planet. The company transforms and empowers organisations and teams by helping shift mindsets and adopt new ways of looking at the world - through the lens of the next generation. THINKHOUSE’s innovative, creative work is a vehicle for change, born out of its mission to have a positive impact on the lives of younger generations, now and into the future. www.thinkhousehq.com
SUPPORTING PARTNERS
INDEPENDENT ADVISORY FOR CLIMATE, NATURE AND COMMUNITY IMPACT. We unleash changemakers with the insights, solutions and partnerships they need to reach set goals. We supercharge purpose-driven brands, organisations and social enterprises across the world. We are honest, transparent and fiercely independent. We strive for a just, equitable and thriving planet.
COLLABORATORS
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CAPITAL LLP
Founded in 2007, Sustainable Development Capital LLP (“SDCL”) is one of the most established and innovative investment firms in the sustainability markets and is unique in its dedicated focus on efficient and decentralized energy solutions. SDCL’s core strategy is to develop and invest in sustainable energy infrastructure assets that reduce cost and carbon and improve reliability. The Firm has a long and proven track record in delivering solutions for major technology, healthcare, commercial, industrial, and public sector clients, such as enterprise and hyper-scale data centres, hospitals, heavy and light industrial facilities, universities, warehouses, and hotels. SDCL deploys a wide range of commercially proven technologies such as on-site renewables including solar paired with storage, renewable heat, and cogeneration, as well as energy conservation measures such as LED lighting, energy efficient heating and cooling, motors, building management systems and controls. SDCL’s infrastructure investment capabilities cover all stages of the project development lifecycle, from concept to long term operations. In addition to project investments, SDCL has launched a private equity division to invest growth equity capital in the best companies providing products and services to the EDGE markets. SDCL is headquartered in London and the group, and its investment vehicles also operate from offices in New York, Greenwich, Dublin, Hong Kong, and Singapore. SDCL is authorized and regulated in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority.
We help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) driving climate action (Doers) gain more visibility, greater recognition, and a faster ROI for their sustainability initiatives by providing a dedicated platform where they can launch, share, and compete for prominence through community engagement with climate-conscious supporters (Champions).
B Lab Ireland is part of a global nonprofit network that creates economic systems change through standards, policies, tools, and programs for business, and certifies companies—known as B Corps™—who are leading the way. B Corps are companies verified by B Lab to meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. Globally there are now over 9,600 B Corps in 100+ countries, across 160 industries, employing over 960,000 people.
At Resolve, we back bold climate entrepreneurs. Through hands-on programmes and our early-stage investment fund, we help founders scale solutions that tackle the toughest decarbonisation challenges—with the urgency this moment demands.
We are a not-for-profit organisation advocating for the natural capital approach. This concept frames the values nature provides and our dependence on it in a similar way to other forms of capital – like financial. It provides tools to integrate environmental data into accounting systems, thereby making nature more visible in decision-making. Our mission is to have Ireland's natural capital and nature's contributions to people valued, protected and restored.
Luggala Estate is one of Ireland’s largest private landholdings and is managed as a conservation-driven landscape in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains. The Estate operates as a dedicated conservation organisation, with environmental stewardship at the core of its mission. Through careful land management, habitat restoration, and long-term ecological planning, Luggala works to protect and enhance its forests, lakes, and upland ecosystems.
Committed to being a living landscape, the Estate collaborates with a range of academic and research partners, supporting field study, environmental monitoring, and conservation innovation. By balancing heritage, biodiversity, and responsible land use, Luggala Estate aims to contribute positively to Ireland’s natural environment while ensuring the landscape continues to thrive for future generations.