London #5 - This revolution will not be televised

This is not a talking shop. This is not a drinks reception. This is London Climate Action Week's unofficial closing party — and it ends with a declaration. You can't watch your way out of this one.

We have the ideas. We have the solutions. We have the people. Now we hijack the tools of the old economy, break the system wide enough to let them in, and build what comes after.

Net Zero was never the destination. It was the floor. A decade of climate action has captured the low-hanging fruit — the cost savings, the easy wins, the incremental gains dressed up as transformation. The Middle East is cracking. The fossil fuel era is cracking with it. 2030 deadlines are no longer targets. They are verdicts.

This is the moment the old guard needs to be in the same room as the revolutionaries. Not to be convinced. To be confronted — with the ideas, the models, the leaders and the art that are already building what comes next.

SPEAKERS (more to announce)

FIRESIDES

• Lisa Merrick-Lawless, Co-Founder, Purpose Disruptors

• Shooka Bidarian, Journalist; Northern Europe Regional Organiser, The Climate Reality Project (FIRESIDE HOST)

• Aisling McCaffrey, London Collective Lead, Climate Cocktail Club; and Just Transition Programme Lead, Impact Investing Institute (KEYNOTE LISTENER)

SOAPBOXES

• Prof. Mark Maslin, Pro-Vice-Provost: Climate Crisis; Professor of Earth System Sciences, Author, UCL

• David Shukman, Author; Former BBC Science Editor

• Anne Reaney, Head of Commercial Strategy, Rebalance Earth

• Aoife O'Leary, Founder and CEO, Opportunity Green

• Laura Cook, Spoken word artist; and Global Director of Narrative and Policy, Project Dandelion

• Bonnie Chiu, Managing Director, The Social Investment Consultancy (TSIC)

• Tom Popple, Founder-CEO, BE IMPACTFUL & Climate Cocktail Club (HOST)

SOAPBOX PROVOCATIONS

1. The bold scientist – shooting from the hip and slinging truths (Prof. Mark Maslin)

2. The positive poet - Love Letters to a Living Planet; Poetry and Possibility (Laura Cook)

3. The landscape lighthouse - UK the next Costa Rica (Anne Reaney)

4. The press insurgent – the story that should be told (David Shukman)

5. The renegade insider – power of law (Aoife O'Leary)

6. The system building - power to the people (Bonnie Chiu)

EVENT SCHEDULE

1730 - Doors open (cocktails, networking and live music)

1830 - Kick off and welcome (Tom Popple)

1845 - Soapbox 1 (Prof. Mark Maslin)

1900 - Keynote + Fireside /// Soapbox 2+3 (Laura Cook + Anne Reaney)

2000 - Fireside 2 (Lisa Merrick-Lawless + special guest)

2030 - Soapbox 4+5+6 /// Close (David Shukman + Aoife O'Leary + Bonnie Chiu)

2100 - Live music, networking and cocktails

2130 - Closing remarks, keynote listener (Aisling McCaffrey)

WHY YOU NEED TO BE HERE

The revolution doesn't need your approval. But it does need your presence. Come if you are building the next system. Come if you are ready to stop defending the last one. Come if you believe that regenerative models, radical leadership and bold ideas are not a threat to prosperity — they are the only path to it. Come to be disrupted. Come to be provoked. Come to be liberated. The room will remember who showed up.

TICKETS

All tickets include complimentary full access to all event zones, complimentary bar and finger food (limited supplies). We have full price, student and open (accessible) tickets. Contact us for bookings of 10 or more people.

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WHO THIS IS FOR

The futurists who are already building the next system. The pioneers who have run out of patience with the old one. And the decision-makers, investors and leaders of established institutions who know — whether they admit it or not — that the model they built their careers on is burning itself down.

This room brings all three crashing together… with cocktails in hand and ideas in motion.

THE THREE ZONES

DISRUPT

Thinkers. Pioneers. Truth-tellers.

This is where the decade gets interrogated. One wild keynote to reframe everything you thought you knew about where we are and what comes next. Then two firesides — candid, unscripted, forensic — with the leaders who have actually broken something and built something better in its place. Punchy 15 min keynote and 30 min firesides. Everything designed to go deeper and wilder than the conversation happening anywhere else in London this week.

PROVOKE

Activists. Rebels. Visionaries.

No slides. No moderator. Just a voice, a crowd, a soapbox and ten minutes to say the thing that needs to be said. Provoke is an open soapbox in the heart of the room — raw, unfiltered, unapologetic calls to action from the people already living the revolution. The old guard will hear things here that will keep them up at night. That is precisely the point.

LIBERATE

Artists. Poets. Musicians.

Because revolutions are not won on spreadsheets. Liberate is where culture takes centre stage — live music that belongs to the movement, spoken word that makes the argument land in the body not just the head and creative voices who understand that the stories we tell determine the futures we build. The zone that starts ambient and ends loud. This is still the Climate Cocktail Club. We still know how to close a week.

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).

HOST PARTNER

SUSTAINABLE VENTURES

Sustainable Ventures is Europe’s leading growth partner focused on climate tech. We accelerate startup success by providing integrated access to funding, expert services, and a thriving community of peers and partners - supporting founders from idea to exit.

KNOWLEDGE PARTNER

BE IMPACTFUL

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.

BRAND PARTNER

THINKHOUSE

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

COLLABORATOR

PURPOSE DISRUPTORS

Our mission is to educate and inspire disruptors to write the next chapter of advertising. Like many good ideas, Purpose Disruptors started in a pub. Three like-minded climate-concerned industry insiders met to discuss the question: The better I am at my job the worse I’m making the climate crisis, what do I do about that?

Co-founders Lisa Merrick-Lawless, Rob McFaul and Jonathan Wise founded Purpose Disruptors, to start the conversation and help write the next chapter in advertising’s story. Since 2020, we’ve built a network of 5,000 industry insiders, premiered work at COP26 and COP27, our work has been adopted by the UN and Race to Zero as best practice, we work with all Big Six network agencies and the UK Government, and have created award-winning campaigns reaching millions and recognised as Campaign Magazine’s Trailblazers in 2021.