Powering COP30 with Real Economy Action: Insights from the Business Breakthrough Barometer
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About this Event
As London Climate Action Week gets underway, this high-level session offers a timely pulse-check from business leaders on the state of the net-zero transition through the lens of investment, competitiveness, policy, and collaboration. Grounded in insights from the Business Breakthrough Barometer 2025, the session will unpack the strategic imperatives for business, where investment is accelerating, and the barriers impeding momentum.
With leading voices from business and government, this event will spotlight the critical levers for sustained, year-on-year implementation. It will provide a platform for open exchange on how to overcome persistent challenges, unlock private capital, and create the enabling conditions for credible, high-impact action towards and beyond COP30.
Participants will be invited to engage with the Barometer findings and contribute to the COP30 mutirão, a collaborative drive to surface and scale real-world breakthroughs. Together, we aim to shape a new narrative of business and government leadership: one grounded in implementation, accountability, and international collaboration.
Key themes include:
• Investment Momentum: Where capital is flowing, which sectors are surging ahead, and what signals are shaping business confidence.
• Policy Barriers: From permitting logjams to fragmented standards, we examine what’s stalling progress—and how to overcome it.
• Sector Spotlights: Deep dives into pivotal sectors—power, transport, buildings, steel, cement, fertilizers, and hydrogen—highlighting both innovations and implementation gaps.
• Public-Private Synergy: Exploring how governments, businesses, and multilateral platforms can deliver a step-change in momentum to unlock new waves of.
This is not just a conversation—it’s a call to action. Join us as we build momentum for COP30 and help redefine what credible business and government leadership looks like in this decisive decade.
The in-person event is invitation only. You can register for the livestream via the link.
WBCSD, Breakthrough Agenda, Bain & Company
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is the leading community of over 250 global businesses making sustainability performance a key driver for competitiveness. Established in 1995, WBCSD is a non-profit member-led organization that connects business leaders through all sectors and major economies, and creates the tools and frameworks to scale collective impact, drive cross-sector innovation, and shape an ambitious, enabling policy agenda. WBCSD operates from seven offices worldwide — in Geneva, New York, Chicago, Amsterdam, London, Singapore and Wuhan — enabling collaboration across value chains and geographies. Together with its members, WBCSD is rewiring economic and financial systems to support the transition to a net-zero, nature-positive, and equitable future that creates business value.
The Breakthrough Agenda was launched at COP26 to help the world close the “collaboration gap” and accelerate international action on climate change to meet the Paris Agreement’s global net zero targets. It convenes countries and initiatives to strengthen international collaboration to make clean technologies and sustainable solutions the most affordable, accessible and attractive option in key sectors and in all regions by 2030. It enhances global cooperation in six major emitting sectors (power, road transport, steel, hydrogen, buildings and cement and concrete), with fertilizers as an emerging sector of interest. These sectors cover over 50% of global emissions. At COP28, governments welcomed a new partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development to strengthen private sector engagement to deliver the Breakthrough Agenda goals. The Business Breakthrough Barometer supports this partnership, and the COP-to-COP process, by providing annual insights to countries on the pace and challenges for sector transitions and identifying the business priorities for international collaboration.
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
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