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Bringing CLC’s Research to the Global Stage - London Climate Action Week 2025

31 July 2025

CLC was part of the London Climate Action Week (LCAW) for the first time this year. A delegation, headed by Executive Director Hugh Lim, was in London from 23 - 28 June 2025 to organise a lecture on regenerative cities, and a multi-sectoral workshop.

Regenerative City Forum: Panel Discussion

Regenerative City Forum Panel Discussion (left) and Group Photo (right)

Photo credits: © Sarah Bastin (left), CLC (right

LCAW is the largest city-wide climate festival in Europe, with this year’s edition seeing over 45,000 attendees across more than 700 events.

As part of LCAW, CLC organised the second lecture in our Regenerative City Forum series in collaboration with strategic partners C40 Cities and Arup.

The Forum, held on 25 June, comprised a high-level panel discussion titled “Urban Futures Reimagined: A Mayoral Exchange on Regenerative Cities”, helmed by Eirik Lae Solberg, Governing Mayor of Oslo, Frederick Teo, CEO GenZero, Shirley Rodrigues, C40 Board Member and former Deputy Mayor of London, and Sallieu Kanu, Advisor to the Mayor of Freetown.  

Attended by over 100 guests, the panel explored the importance of long-term, integrated urban planning that prioritises climate resilience and equitable outcomes. Panellists discussed the need for robust financing mechanisms, policy, and planning regulations to safeguard green spaces and natural ecosystems, create compact liveable neighbourhoods, and promote circular material flows in high-emission sectors like construction.

Regenerative City Forum: Multi-sectoral Workshop

Regenerative City Forum Group Photo (left), presentation during workshop (right)

Photo credits: CLC

The panel was followed by a by-invite only, multi-sectoral workshop on enabling and scaling regenerative design that engaged about 25 high-level participants from public agencies, industry partners, academia, and international organisations. The workshop focused on examining how co-benefits generated by regenerative development can be measured and communicated to various stakeholders. Participants discussed the need to balance place-based indicators with broader indicators that enable mutual learning and benchmarking, while addressing challenges around data ownership, collation, and consistency in reporting. Co-benefits from regenerative actions would also need to be communicated in targeted ways according to stakeholders’ priorities.

Memorandum of Understanding with C40 Cities

Photo of CLC and C40 representatives with MOU signed

Photo credit: CLC

The panel marked the first event organised under the auspices of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between CLC and C40 Cities.

The MoU was inked in London by Hugh and Mark Watts, Executive Director, C40 Cities, and witnessed by C40 Board Member Shirley Rodrigues. It represents a joint commitment between CLC and C40 to strengthen city networks and exchange knowledge on liveable and regenerative cities. Both organisations will deepen collaborations through capability development, joint research, peer exchanges, and curated knowledge platforms in the coming years.

This MoU reinforces the long working relationship between CLC and C40 Cities, and serves as a firm step towards deepening knowledge sharing and innovation in urban sustainability and resilience efforts.

Contributed by: Alysia Wee, Assistant Director, Research

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