Climate Cocktail Club | London #5 – This revolution will not be televised

REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION

The unofficial closing party for LCAW 2026. 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.

 

ABOUT THE EVENT

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)

• Prof. Mark Maslin, Pro-Vice-Provost: Climate Crisis; Professor of Earth System Sciences, Author, UCL
• Shooka Bidarian, Journalist; Northern Europe Regional Organiser, The Climate Reality Project
• David Sukman, 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
• Tom Popple, Founder-CEO, BE IMPACTFUL & Climate Cocktail Club
• Aisling McCaffrey, London Collective Lead, Climate Cocktail Club; and Just Transition Programme Lead, Impact Investing Institute

 

EVENT SCHEDULE

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

1830 – Kick off and welcome

1845 – Soapbox 1

1900 – Keynote + Fireside /// Soapbox 2+3

2000 – Fireside 2

2030 – Soapbox 4+5+6 /// Close

2100 – Live music, networking and cocktails

2200 – Close

 

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.

Tickets from free to £37.50.

 

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

HOST PARTNER | SUSTAINABLE VENTURES

KNOWLEDGE PARTNER | BE IMPACTFUL

BRAND PARTNER | THINKHOUSE