Climate Governance Forum 2026 Event Production
International Climate Councils Network (secretariat hosted at E3G)
Service: Event Production
Location: One Birdcage Walk, London
Role: Event Producer (3 months)
DisCom produced the second annual Climate Governance Forum, a flagship event of London Climate Action Week 2026 and the largest gathering of the world's climate councils to date with leading thought leaders including Gina McCarthy and former Irish President Mary Robinson.
The Context
A half day of plenary sessions and parallel closed-door roundtables at One Birdcage Walk brought together 200 climate council members, government officials, researchers and business leaders from across the globe, with a livestream that reached a wider audience beyond the room. Speakers included Gina McCarthy, Mary Robinson and Xiye Bastida, alongside climate council leaders sharing impact stories from Canada, Ukraine, Malta and Chile.
The Challenge
A small secretariat with an ambitious workplan needed to deliver its biggest event yet, with a global speaker list, an international membership and a livestream. This required a producer who could take on the event end-to-end and give the team the confidence to deliver alongside day-to-day operations.
The Work
DisCom worked as part of the ICCN and E3G team.
Owning the production end-to-end across three months, so the secretariat could keep its own workplan moving.
Setting up the operating rhythm: bi-weekly then weekly calls, split into programme and logistics so the two workstreams kept moving, plus an action log and a project WhatsApp group,
Owning the supplier relationships across AV, livestream, photography, the highlights film, catering and badging, and bringing in an external graphic designer for fast turnaround of assets.
Registration, approvals and guest comms on Luma, including a separate online event for the livestream audience, with scheduled blasts for guest communications through the week.
Running a plenary and two closed-door breakouts in parallel, with the breakouts invitation-only and confirmed individually by diary invite rather than open registration.
A single live agenda URL behind a QR code on screens and badges, so the programme could move on the day without reprinting anything.
The details that decide the guest experience: a speaker room next to the plenary, a well-staffed sign-in desk with back-up, and the team on the door greeting people as they arrived. Queuing time was rated ‘excellent’ by guests.
A structured Keep, Change, Stop debrief across the partner team, written up into a ranked set of priorities for the next edition, plus a highlights film that gives ICCN an asset to use across the year rather than a single day.CGF in numbers
200 in the room, plus a livestream audience beyond it.
Around 30 speakers and moderators across a plenary, two closed-door breakouts and the council dispatches.
Overall rating 4.0 out of 5.
Liz was fantastic to work with. She's so good at juggling many balls, adapting to challenges and keeping a great attitude throughout that I had real confidence in our ability to deliver the event as a team.
Izzy Page, Secretariat and Engagement Manager, International Climate Council’s Network
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