Join Julie’s Bicycle at London Climate Action Week 2026 to put culture and creativity at the heart of climate action.
Culture is a powerful force for change. It challenges, inspires, and moves people to act individually and at scale. Culture isn’t just about storytelling and creativity, it’s about how we spend our time, how we design our environments and how we live our lives.
Across the arts – from the global reach of festivals to the deep roots of local theatres, the community hubs of cinemas to the history of heritage sites – the creative sector has been driving climate action for decades.
Despite culture’s power to drive change, it is often overlooked in global climate policy and funding. For truly effective and equitable solutions to flourish, policy must be rooted in local, lived experiences and guided by climate justice. To bridge this gap, the next Global Stocktake must officially integrate culture into UN climate frameworks, ensuring its vital role is recognised and resourced.
Jb’s events for london climate action week 2026
We are proud to be co-hosting three events during London Climate Action Week 2026 to support these interconnected goals: place-based adaptation, climate justice and international collaboration.
Creative Climate Resilience Together
Friday, 26 June | 13:00–17:00 | BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XT
Free but registration essential
Join Julie’s Bicycle, BFI and ACE for a convening of the cultural sector as we strengthen our role as architects of climate action.
We stand at a critical crossroads. How do we ensure our national governance frameworks truly support and reflect the realities of lived experience within communities?
We’re inviting creatives, cultural and community practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to join this generous and open-ended space to explore how we can bridge this gap through place-based, culture-led strategies. Our guest speakers include: Vicky Sword-Daniels (Julie’s Bicycle), Seth Scafe-Smith (Tipping Point East), Tay Aziz (filmmaker, photographer, and community organiser), Helen Adams (KCL and MACC Hub Lead), Imandeep Kaur (Civic Square), Eleanor White (Culture for Climate Scotland), and Parvinder Marwaha (EcoSikh).
This is a warm, open space to listen, learn, and strengthen the cultural sector’s role as essential infrastructure for a climate-just world. Together we can build what’s needed to co-create a resilient, equitable, and culturally vibrant future.
Culture’s Role in a Justice-led Fossil Fuel Phase-out
Saturday, 27 June | 17:00–19:00 | Somerset House, Strand, London,WC2R 1LA
Tickets start at £15
Our world is on fire while the fossil fuel industry continues its expansion in the name of profit. How can global cultural movements help end the reliance on fossil fuels fast and equitably?
This event will explore how the arts can support an urgent transition, and how principles of climate justice rooted in liberatory futures must shape that shift.
Join Julie’s Bicycle and guest speakers Zamzam Ibrahim, Chris Garrard, Kumi Naidoo and Dominique Palmer on Satuday 27 June between 5-7pm at Somerset House for an in-depth panel discussion with artists and activists at the forefront of creative climate action.
The International Seminar on Culture and Climate Change
Friday 16 June | 14:30-18:30 | Somerset House
Attendance by invitation only
A convening of policymakers, artists, creatives, Indigenous leaders, scientists, and activists to explore how culture shapes collective imagination, strengthens social cohesion, and mobilises societies to take action.
The seminar takes as its starting point a significant shift in the global climate agenda: for the first time, culture has been recognised as a key objective of the COP30 Action Agenda. But what does it mean, in practice, to place culture at the heart of the response to the climate emergency?
Culture is not simply entertainment or heritage. It encompasses the ways in which all of us relate to our surroundings, our communities and the future, shaping the values, narratives and collective imagination that may yet determine whether societies are capable of transforming, adapting and acting in the face of the crisis. That question, still being worked through by experts, artists, scientists and Indigenous leaders across the world, is what the seminar sets out to deepen.
Hosted by the Ministry of Culture of Brazil with the COP30 Presidency, People’s Palace Projects, Julie’s Bicycle, the IPP at UCL, the Embassy of Brazil in London, Instituto Guimaraes Rosa, and Volans.
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