Events

Our roundtables provide a unique venue for experts to exchange insights and explore effective policy measures. Below you’ll find details of upcoming events, followed by summaries of previous roundtables.

Upcoming events

January 28, 2026

Responsible AI and the Energy Transition

10:00 am

Parliament

This roundtable will examine the role of responsible AI in supporting the energy transition. Chaired by Wera Hobhouse MP, the discussion will explore the growing energy and water demands of data centres alongside opportunities for AI to enhance renewable generation, forecasting and grid optimisation. Participants will also consider the use of AI in ESG reporting, disclosures and due diligence.

February 10, 2026

Aviation

12:30 pm

Parliament

This roundtable, led by Ruth Cadbury MP, Chair of the Transport Committee, will examine how aviation expansion fits into the UK’s economic and environmental strategy. Experts will discuss the balance between growth and net zero, exploring airport capacity, emissions, and the need for a cohesive national strategy to deliver inclusive, sustainable connectivity and investment.

Key takeaways from previous events

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January 19, 2026

Business as a force for good

Chaired by Martin Wrigley MP, the roundtable explored how UK corporate governance can better incorporate environmental and social factors into long-term decision-making. Guided by Wrigley’s Company Directors (Duties) Bill, participants discussed supporting boards to treat ESG considerations as opportunities to enhance resilience and value, beyond short-term financial pressures.

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November 3, 2025

ESG Disclosures and Due Diligence

As the UK prepares to adopt the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS), the Group explored how disclosure and due diligence frameworks together shape responsible business. Participants examined the UK SRS alongside the EU’s CSRD and CSDDD, considering how due diligence drives action while disclosure ensures transparency and accountability.

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September 8, 2025

Mobilising Finance for Nature and Biodiversity

Discussions from this roundtable centred on sectoral transition pathways, the role of public policy in unlocking private investment, strengthening carbon and biodiversity markets, and creating investable pipelines. Participants highlighted the need for blended finance, local biodiversity funds, and frameworks that ensure credits deliver real, measurable benefits. Building resilience in key sectors, particularly food and agriculture, was seen as essential to achieving a nature-positive economy.

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July 2, 2025

ESG in the built environment

The PLG held its first sector-specific roundtable to examine how ESG principles can be embedded across construction, retrofit, and real estate. With the built environment responsible for 25% of UK emissions, the discussion focused on aligning frameworks to drive net zero and social outcomes. Building on a UKREiiF panel with Winvic Construction, key themes included fragmented standards, infrastructure barriers, and policy gaps, highlighting the need for better data, SME support, EPC reform, and local delivery capacity.

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May 29, 2025

UKREiiF Panel: ESG in the built environment

At UKREiiF in Leeds, Winvic, in collaboration with the PLG on ESG, hosted a panel on embedding ESG in the built environment, featuring Katie White MP. The discussion focused on how the UK can meet housing and infrastructure goals while delivering a decarbonised electricity grid by 2030. Panellists highlighted key barriers, including delays in the planning system, fragmented ESG frameworks, and the urgent need for grid reform. There will be a follow-up roundtable in Westminster this July.

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April 22, 2025

Sustainable Investment and Pension Reform

With £3 trillion in assets, UK pensions could drive net zero and economic resilience, but the Pensions Investment Review lacks ambition on ESG. At this discussion, UKSIF shared recommendations to strengthen fiduciary clarity, regulatory certainty, and alignment with global standards to unlock sustainable pension investment ahead of the upcoming Pensions Bill.

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March 31, 2025

The European Commission’s Omnibus I

In February, under pressure to prioritise competitiveness, the European Commission released Omnibus I to ease regulatory burdens. This roundtable explored how to position sustainability as a competitiveness driver through streamlined yet effective standards and how to simplify rules without compromising credibility, especially for SMEs, using tools like the VSME framework.

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March 4, 2025

The UK Modern Industrial Strategy

Clean energy features among eight growth-driving sectors in the government’s ‘Invest 2035’ modern industrial strategy green paper, released in October. Roundtable participants reached a consensus on the need to developa comprehensive framework encompassing established sustainability goals — net zero,social cohesion — together with ESG and geopolitical risks to achieve the strategy’s stated objective of “achieving sustainable, inclusive and resilient growth”

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January 21, 2025

Sustainable development in the Global South

Despite the recent COP29 agreement’s commitment to triple annual climate finance for developing countries to $300bn by 2035 participants expressed concerns that a shifting geopolitical climate would affect investor attitudes, limiting spending.

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December 16, 2024

The Transition Finance Market Review

Released in October 2024, the Review highlighted both the significant challenges and the vast potential of transition finance. McKinsey projects a £1 trillion opportunity for UK companies by 2030, but warns that urgent action is needed to maintain the UK’s competitive edge, as other markets are advancing quickly.

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November 26, 2024

CISL’s competitive sustainability report

Participants at this roundtable of the Policy Liaison Group, chaired by Victoria Collins MP, acknowledged that while ESG disclosures have raised awareness, transformative incentives are key to driving systemic change. Bridging this gap will require bold policy decisions and a shift in business mindset, aligning profitability with sustainability to secure a resilient future.

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July 16, 2024

ESG under Labour

The King’s Speech marked the new Labour government’s green agenda, with a strong focus on the energy transition and sustainability. This session of the PLG engaged with the government’s ambitions, exploring additional priorities as we look to accelerate the green transition.

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May 13, 2024

Group litigation

The rising volume of group litigation cases puts pressure on boardrooms to prioritise ESG strategy and reduce exposure to risk. As group litigation evolves, questions around regulatory mandates, the risk of green hushing, and the ethics behind often massive third-party funding commitments will become more pertinent.

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April 29, 2024

The Future of ESG

A range of factors leads to persistent confusion among investors and corporates, underlining the need for ESG reporting to be more targeted and specific. Regulation is supporting this transition, but there are questions around how best to harness value creation, and how to fill the “vacuum” between corporates (sustainability) and investors (ESG).

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March 25, 2024

Corporate governance

The group’s inaugural roundtable explored a diverse range of topics in the UK’s corporate governance landscape – reform, the regulatory scope of the FRC, changes to the Governance Code, and the review of the Stewardship Code. We were honoured to host Richard Moriarty, CEO of the Financial Reporting Council, and Peter Swabey, Policy and Research Director at the Chartered Governance Institute, who led the discussion.