Past events

This event explores the potential risks of a more environmentally-destabilized world and the challenges they pose to future leaders. 

This event explores how the future of sneakers can be reinvented with a special focus on the role of design, innovation and sustainability. 

Panellists identify the roles, responsibilities, and expectations of different stakeholders in working towards sustainable development, and the impediments to achieving Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This panel discusses the progress cities have already made, whether progress at COP26 was enough, and what more needs to be done to scale action and ambition internationally.

This event will present key findings and lessons from the UK-China Climate Change Risk Assessment Project.

This event assesses Russia’s position vis-à-vis the situation in European gas markets, the latest developments around Nord Stream 2, and the implications for Ukraine.

Was the collapse of USSR avoidable or inevitable, and what are the consequences today?

What’s next for Catalonia and Scotland and how will this impact other independence movements in Europe?

Panellists exchange perspectives on the African Continental Free Trade Area, including the priorities for implementation and how to ensure that Africa’s diverse economies and populations are able to benefit from it.

This event analyses the status of US economic recovery, the effectiveness of Biden’s Build Back Better agenda and the steps made to address the country’s pervasive inequality.

This event analyses The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response’s six-month progress report.

Experts from the UN, International Red Cross and others share insights on how to get essential aid to Afghanistan.