Programme

MAIN STAGE | Day 4 | Good Business

Businesses play crucial roles creating jobs, driving innovation and shaping green markets and supply chains. But they also drive pollution and unsustainable production and consumption. Shareholder primacy and short-term profit maximization put business success at loggerheads with the common good. But alternative forms and pathways exist for businesses to thrive while advancing the common good. This session examines the role and opportunity for business in the green transition, and makes the case that responsible business is good business. It highlights businesses key roles in growing a better economy, and considers new forms of corporate organization that empower workers, create opportunities for SMEs and entrepreneurs. 18:00-18:10 Video message - Nadia Woodhouse 18:10–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Moderator: Earth Ramrada Mah Fah Luang Foundation's Sustainability Advisory unit Martin Rich Future-Fit Business 18:15–18:50 PM Fireside Chat Belinda Hlatshwayo "Business and Human Rights Project Manager Bangkok Regional Hub United Nations Development Programme" Ben McCarron Asia Research and Engagement Seema Joshi Director of Legal Strategy, Accountability Accelerator Each evening on the main stage, we feature the following: 🎭 Art & Culture Performance (15 min) A showcase celebrating Thailand's Climate Story — 7 Regions, 1 Action. Embracing local wisdom and modern creativity. 📋 BKKCAW recap of the day (15 min) Key highlights, moments and takeaways from today's BKKCAW sessions across the city. 💬 Q&A (10 min) Your questions answered by today's speakers and programme team. 🌀 Theme Wrap-Up (10 min) Reflecting on today's panel discussions and a preview of what's coming tomorrow. 🎵 Climate Concert (1 Hour) Music, art and community energy to close the evening, where sound and culture meet climate action.

Closing Ceremony | Building the Soil

BKKCAW 2026 Closing Ceremony: Building the Soil for What Comes Next 🌱 For nine days, Bangkok has brought together people and ideas from Thailand, across Southeast Asia and around the world. Conversations have crossed communities, sectors and borders, creating new connections and possibilities for what a New Economy, New Climate could become. Now comes the important part: what grows from here? And the timing matters. As BKKCAW closes, Bangkok prepares to welcome the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings, carrying these conversations into an even wider global moment. What has grown across BKKCAW can continue through the partnerships, projects, investment, policy conversations and relationships that follow. . If the Opening was our Moment for Choice, the Closing is where we begin to build the soil for those choices to take root and grow. 16.00-16.30 Registration at Bhirombhakdi Pavilion, Lumphini Park 16.30-17.00 Welcoming Performance 17.00-17.15 Commemorative Photo Session 17.15-17.35 Opening Remarks and Keynote Vision Address - Chadchart Sittipunt Governor of Bangkok - Thapanee Kiatphaibool Director of TAT - Leo Horn-Phathanothai OBE Covenor and Steering Committee Co-chair of BKKCAW 17.35-18.00 Reflections on BKKCAW 2026 By Key Stakeholder Groups 18.00-18.30 Presentation of Key Outcomes and Next Steps 18.30-18.45 Closing Remarks: from Bangkok to the World 19.00-20.00 Climate Concert by Wan Thanakrit

Bangmot Bio-Cruise

The SAFETist Bio-Cruise is a low-carbon eco-tourism initiative hosted at SAFETist Farm in collaboration with the Araya Bangmot Creative Community Enterprise. Driven by the vision of Inclusive Climate Action, the program utilizes clean zero-emission electric boats—supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Thailand—to eliminate noise and air pollution along the Bangmot Canal. Partnering with Scripps College and the 30x30 Thailand Coalition for academic expertise, the cruise invites participants to explore, observe, and document local biodiversity, including native bird and plant species, establishing a crucial ecological database for future conservation. Beyond environmental protection, the project leverages a Citizen Science approach to empower youth and attendees as Active Environmental Citizens who can act as local explorers, eco-communicators, and community change-makers. Managed directly by the local community enterprise, the initiative boosts the grassroots economy by generating sustainable income for neighborhood vendors. Ultimately, it serves as a practical sandbox model to demonstrate environmental impact, paving the way for public policy push toward nationwide electric boat adoption and formal protection of urban canal green spaces.

Local BanBat - Walking Tour with Communities

Discover Bangkok beyond the usual landmarks through a community-based walking journey that connects heritage, local livelihoods, and sustainable urban living. Meet Ban Bat’s traditional artisans, observe the centuries-old craft of hand-forging Buddhist alms bowls, and explore the historic Rattanakosin area on foot, including panoramic views from the Golden Mount. This low-carbon experience supports local livelihoods and celebrates Bangkok’s living heritage—reflecting the spirit of Bangkok Climate Action Week and a more sustainable, resilient city.

The Exhibition "Un Monde Sans Fin" (World Without End)

Adapted from the bestselling graphic novel Le Monde sans fin by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain, this exhibition explores the fascinating relationship between energy, climate, and the history of humanity. Through humour, imagination, and accessible storytelling, the exhibition takes visitors on a journey through the rise of fossil fuels, humanity’s impact on the environment, and the challenges of climate change. From low-carbon energy and food to transportation and urban planning, World Without End invites us to reflect on the choices ahead—and the actions we can take towards a more sustainable future.

Beneath the Surface; Everything

An exhibition about artificial reefs in Thailand, exploring the future of coral reefs and how collaboration between humans and nature can help. It reimagines what reef restoration can look like when art, science and community work together. Na Cafe will be open during exhibition hours serving food and drinks No registration required to visit the exhibition.

7 Roles of Change™: Coaching for Change and ESG Action

1-Day Public Masterclass: 7 Roles of Change™ Learn how different roles can influence people, build collaboration, and turn conversations into action. This masterclass introduces the 7 Roles of Change™ — Sleeper, Observer, Advocate, Sponsor, Demander, Fighter, and Catalyst — and equips participants with practical coaching, communication, and collaboration tools to drive meaningful ESG action. Participants will learn to understand people and change dynamics, prioritize and develop communication strategies, build collaboration through coaching, create a shared purpose, and develop a practical 5-day action plan with ready-to-use tools and templates.

Balancing Nature and Communities: Social Safeguards in Biodiversity Conservation

This panel will explore how conservation and restoration practitioners work with forest and coastal communities. Discussions will cover implementing free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) processes, developing inclusive livelihoods, addressing human-wildlife conflict, and ensuring that communities’ role in managing and protecting the environment is reflected in policy and public finance. Drawing on field evidence and experience, it will show how social safeguards and inclusive economic models can be implemented with communities. It positions women, people with disabilities, and customary rights holders as partners in design and decision-making from the outset. Effective conservation and climate action depend on their consent and on recognition of their knowledge and work.

Bangkok May Be Far from Nan, But We Are More Connected Than We Think

Have you ever wondered how the food we eat, the products we buy, and the choices we make every day may be connected to forests, watersheds, and communities hundreds of kilometers away? Join us for an interactive mini exhibition that explores the hidden connections between Bangkok and Nan. Through hands-on activities, discover how food systems, land use, livelihoods, and nature are linked, and share your thoughts on how we can help create a future where both people and nature thrive.

Beyond the Forest: Stories of Governance, Justice, and Restoration - Photo Exhibition

Beyond the Forest: Stories of Governance, Justice, and Restoration is a photo exhibition that showcases community experiences of environmental governance in Indonesia. The exhibition highlights stories from policy advocacy, forest protection, law enforcement, rehabilitation, women’s leadership, community enterprises, and forest-based livelihoods. Through visual storytelling, the exhibition invites visitors to see how environmental governance works in practice. The exhibition will combine photos to make complex environmental governance more accessible to a broader public. We will create a space of experimentation by using visual media to connect people with environmental governance, an issue that may seem distant from everyday life, but in fact shapes communities, livelihoods, and climate futures.

BKKCAW | Opening Ceremony: Parade: Shaping a Better Economy for People & Planet

You are cordially invited to join the parade and opening ceremony of BKKCAW2026. The schedule of activities is as follows: ​14:30–15:00 | Check-in by presenting your registration QR code in your email (My Ticket) and line up for the parade at the Stretching Area ​15:00–16:00 | Parade procession via the Green Bridge route heading toward Lumpini Park 16:30 – 17:00 Opening Remarks & Vision Sharing Chadchart Sittipunt Bangkok Governor Leo Horn-Phathanothai Convenor of BKKCAW Simon Stiell Executive Director, UNFCCC (by video) 17:10 – 17:30 PM A Moment for Choice Panel Discussion Maria Misovicova Head of Resource Mobilization & Partnerships, UNFCCC Kala Constantino Program Director, Southeast Asia. 17:30 – 18:00 PM Cluster Spotlight

Bus vs PM2.5: Smarter Commuting for Cleaner Air in Bangkok (UK PACT x Mahidol University)

Raise public awareness of PM2.5 exposure and sustainable commuting choices, engage citizens through interactive climate-tech participation, strengthen collaboration between researchers and communities for healthier and more inclusive urban mobility.

CCCL Film Festival at BKKCAW 2026

Changing Climate, Changing Lives (CCCL) Film Festival, under Tonkla Rak Lok Foundation, together with HERA, Hai-Jai, mlkywy.hub, Snappy Duck, and noble PLAY, presents “CCCL Film Festival at BKKCAW 2026,” a two-day program exploring the relationships between living beings, biodiversity, and the environments we share. taking place on 3–4 October 2026 at noble PLAY (Ploenchit BTS Station), the program consists of a curated selection of short films, photography and art exhibitions, and a conversation for filmmakers and environmental and social storytellers as part of Bangkok Climate Action Week 2026. The film program brings together a selection of outstanding Thai and international short films previously screened at CCCL Film Festival. From threatened wetlands to communities working together to protect their local ecosystems, the films invite audiences to consider the connections between living beings, biodiversity, and the changing climate, and how changes within one part of an ecosystem can affect everything around it. The program will also feature a screening of YANUNI on 4 October at 3:00 PM, directed by Richard Ladkani and co-produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. The documentary follows an Indigenous woman leader as she fights to protect her ancestral lands in the Amazon rainforest. Variety described the film as an environmental documentary that is “thrilling and romantic.” Alongside the film program, HERA will present a collection of 12 photographs documenting the impacts of rising urban temperatures on women, including how extreme heat affects their work and health. Hai-Jai and mlkywy.hub will also bring back some of the works from their BREATHE exhibition presented in late 2025, to this pop-up exhibition titled “BREATHE Again.” Bringing the works into a new context, the exhibition continues to explore stories, memories, and our relationship with the environment. On 4 October at 2:00 PM, Snappy Duck will host a conversation exploring the role and importance of environmental storytelling. The session will discuss the topic and exchange perspectives on how environmental stories can connect with audiences and explore ways to move these stories beyond awareness towards meaningful and sustainable change. Through film, exhibition, and conversation, CCCL Film Festival at BKKCAW 2026 creates a space to look at climate and environmental issues not only through data and information, but through the stories, experiences, and relationships that connect all living things. Event schedule October 3, 2026 @noble PLAY 13:00 - 13:45 Short Film Program 1 (45 min) 14:00 - 14:48 Short Film Program 2 (48 min) 15:00 - 15:45 Short Film Program 3 (45 min) 16:00 - 16:42 Short Film Program 4 (42 min) October 4, 2026 @noble PLAY 13:00 - 13:49 Short Film Program 5 (45 min) 14:00 - 15:00 Talk (60 min) 15:00 - 16:50 Yanuni (112 min) ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ POP-UP SCREENING A two-day screening event showcasing films for impact. October 5, 2026 @SCBx NEXTTECH, Siam Paragon (4th fl.) 13:00 - 13:45 Short Film Program 1 (45 min) 14:00 - 14:54 Short Film Program 2 (54 min) 15:00 TBD October 6, 2026 @SCBx NEXTTECH, Siam Paragon (4th fl.) 13:00 - 13:43 Short Film Program 3 (43 min) 14:00 - 14:52 Short Film Program 4 (52 min) 15:00 - 16:21 Feature film: FOOD 2025 (81 min)

Clean Breathing

What does fighting for clean air look like when economic growth, energy demand, and public health collide? 🎲 PowerJungle puts you in charge of a fast-growing city. Your citizens demand affordable power, but dirty energy triggers hazardous PM2.5 spikes and toxic air pollution. Can you transition your grid to clean energy, keep the lights on, and protect public health, or will pollution choke your city’s future? 🌎 Daybreak puts you in the shoes of major global powers balancing rapid decarbonization, industrial emissions, and community resilience. From transboundary smog to heavy industry, each region faces different economic pressures and pollution risks. You will have to decide how to phase out high-emitting infrastructure, invest in clean alternatives, and work together before climate crises and toxic air overwhelm vulnerable communities. There are no easy answers. You will face competing priorities, systemic trade-offs, and crucial decisions to make. Tackling air pollution and climate change requires navigating real political and economic nuances, and this is your chance to explore them firsthand. Through gameplay and guided group debriefs, you will unpack the systemic connections between energy, clean air, and policy, exchange perspectives with passionate peers, and discover how different the fight for clean breathing looks from another seat at the table. Come play, debate, and see the future of clean air from a fresh perspective.

Climate Fresk

EVENT WILL HOLD SIMULTANEOUSLY IN ENGLISH AND IN THAI (in 2 separate rooms at the same venue) 😀 You want to understand the key facts & elements about climate change and set yourself up for taking action? Then “Climate Fresk” is just what you need? A scientific, collaborative and creative workshop to learn about climate change in a fun way. Based on the IPCC report, translated into 50+ languages, the workshop explains the causes and consequences of climate change. It gives the opportunity to learn a lot in a short period of time and is designed for both beginners and experts. Already more than 2,400,000 participants in 160 countries and counting… 🌍 -- WHAT TO EXPECT -- You will work collaboratively with your team of 4 to 7 players. You will play with 42 cards and order them in cause-and-effect relationships. After building and personalising your Climate Fresk, it will be time to take a step back, to reflect on what you’ve learnt and then to start to think all together on how to act, individually and collectively. A trained facilitator will guide you and provide additional insights. The total workshop will last 3 hours (totally worth it!). -- More than 2 Million participants participated worldwide already, from total beginners to experts. PRACTICAL INFORMATION -- ✅ No specific materials required, except your joy, energy, and willingness to learn! (Workshop online) 🕖 Please join on time so we can start the workshop with the whole group and plan to stay the full 3 hours. ✉️ You will receive an email with all the latest information (including detailed location), one day before and 15 minutes before the workshop begins.

Climate Playground

A welcoming space for anyone curious about climate change to come, mingle, experience something new, exchange ideas, or simply listen. You don’t need a finished project, a presentation, or a big idea. Just offer your curiosity. The event features four activity zones: Green Idea Table, with informal discussions around different themes; Idea Wall, where you can share your thoughts anonymously; Green Workshops, simple, hands-on activities such as sustainable waste management and getting to know the plants and animals found in the city; and Green Knowledge, an opportunity to talk about and explore climate change in a simple and accessible way. Sat, 3 Oct 2026 15:00 - 16:00 | Sustainable Settlement Game: Build, Give, Grow: Play a board game and exchange perspectives on sustainability. Join in building a community that’s eager to adapt, overcome challenges, and grow together. 16:00 - 17:00 | Nature's Secrets: Urban Animals: Discover common urban animals, birds, insects, monitor lizards through an interactive game. Track wild animal footprints and match them to the correct species. Sun, 4 Oct 2026 15:00 - 16:00 | Doi Tung's Biodiversity Cards: Connected by Nature: Exchange ideas through activities and cards. 16:00 - 17:00 | Nature's Secrets: Trees & PM2.5: Learn about the parts of a tree, especially the leaves, and the different leaf characteristics. Do a simple experiment: do leaves with different characteristics really trap dust differently? 14:00 - 17:00 | Biodiversity in The City by NUS x CDL x Wewilding x MFLF: National University of Singapore, City Developments Limited and Wewilding to join Mae Fah Luang Foundation to highlight green spaces and urban microforests as a nature-based solution to enhance biodiversity, cooling and wellness in the urban environment. Tue, 6 Oct 2026 15:00 - 16:00 | Secret from Nature (Biodiversity Collection): Learn simple ways to record biodiversity data, through activity photos and nature journaling. Observe and record biodiversity within a small 1×1 metre grid area through drawing, coloring, or collecting natural samples, to discover that even a tiny patch of ground is full of life and stories. Wed, 7 Oct 2026 16:00 - 17:00 | When Nature Falls Silent: Share experiences about natural sounds that are starting to disappear. Try listening to the natural sounds around you, guided by a naturalist and nature-sound recordist who uses everyday sounds to reflect changes in the ecosystem. Thu, 8 Oct 2026 14:00 - 16:30 | Zero Waste Management Workshop. An overview of the approach to zero-waste management. Upskill in practical, hands-on waste sorting. Share ideas and swap waste-management tips. Fri, 9 Oct 2026 10:00 - 18:00 | Every Shade of Joy Exhibition: Climate action can come with a little more joy. Colour and joy are part of climate action too. This exhibition invites you to see sustainability from a new angle by stepping into the everyday life of women artisans on the hills of DoiTung, and discover that everyday joy is the key to lasting climate action. 16:00 - 17:00 | Nature’s Secret (Opening Sense): Open your senses and get closer to nature in the city through your own senses — eyes, ears, nose, and hands — by looking, listening, smelling, and touching. Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:00 - 18:00 | Every Shade of Joy Exhibition: Climate action can come with a little more joy. Colour and joy are part of climate action too.This exhibition invites you to see sustainability from a new angle by stepping into the everyday life of women artisans on the hills of DoiTung, and discover that everyday joy is the key to lasting climate action. 13:30 - 14:30 | Talk: Every Shade of Fashion: Fashion has its dark side. But we can choose a brighter shade. Amid piles of clothing and mountains of waste, join us to explore the hope of bringing brighter shades to the fashion industry with three guest speakers. 13:30 - 18:00 | Clothes and Book Swap: Give your clothes as well as book a new home. Don’t let good-quality pieces sit lonely in the closet — come exchange and rotate your wardrobe, swap the old for something new, save money, and be kinder to the planet. The piece you let go of might become someone else’s new favorite. 15:00 - 16:00 | Sustainable Settlement Game: Build, Give, Grow: Connected by Nature: Play a board game and exchange perspectives on sustainability. Join in building a community that’s ready to adapt, overcome challenges, and grow together. 15:00 - 16:00 | Doi Tung’s Biodiversity Cards: Connected by Nature: Exchange ideas through activities and cards, also discover the biodiversity of Doi Tung through the eyes of its youth. 15:00-17:00 | Workshop: A Frame Full of Joy: What does your Everyday Joy look like, framed in one shot? Explore the world you’d like to see through a collage of fabric scraps, flowers, and photos capturing your own version of Everyday Joy, then join a conversation with the green community about how to hold onto these everyday joys while keeping the planet livable. Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:00 - 18:00 | Every Shade of Joy Exhibition: Climate action can come with a little more joy. Colour and joy are part of climate action too. This exhibition invites you to see sustainability from a new angle by stepping into the everyday life of women artisans on the hills of DoiTung, and discover that everyday joy is the key to lasting climate action. 13:30 - 18:00 | Clothes and Book Swap: Give your clothes as well as book a new home. Don’t let good-quality pieces sit lonely in the closet — come exchange and rotate your wardrobe, swap the old for something new, save money, and be kinder to the planet. The piece you let go of might become someone else’s new favorite. 15:00-17:00 | Workshop: A Frame Full of Joy: What does your Everyday Joy look like, framed in one shot? Explore the world you’d like to see through a collage of fabric scraps, flowers, and photos capturing your own version of Everyday Joy, then join a conversation with the green community about how to hold onto these everyday joys while keeping the planet livable.

Deep Time Walk

We are flowers of the Earth We are gifts from the stars We are earthly beings We live in Paradise . Hello, dear friends. We're excited to announce our long-awaited Deep Time Walk in Bangkok Climate Action Week 2026! A transformative journey to experience the deep longing in our bodies. . This time, we are joined by Di Kilsby, a fellow Deep Time Walk facilitator from Australia/Cambodia. Di will invite us to reflect on Deep Time through Indigenous Australian and feminist perspectives, brought to life through art and storytelling. As a result, this session will be conducted primarily in English. We’d love to invite you all to come walk with us! 🙂 . We warmly invite friends to come and learn, reflect, and reconnect with the Earth through the vast and deep dimension of time. . Join us on a 4.6-kilometer walk that embodies the 4.6 billion-year history of the Earth, where each meter walked represents one million years of our planetary body history. We allow ourselves to follow the invitation to see the world anew through a perspective of deep interconnection with all life. . This activity is part of the Deep Ecology Movement, offering an experiential space for participants to question the world as it is and to contemplate their own place within it. . 📅 Saturday, October 3rd, 2026 🕰️ 3:00-6:30 PM 📍 Benjakiti Park (exact meeting point to be shared later) 🇬🇧 English will be the main language of instruction 🥑 Fee: Love Currency - Sliding Scale 200 / 400 / 800+ THB* which can be contributed at the end of the walk 10% of proceeds will be donated to The Deep Time Walk Project . If your heart beats fast as you read this, come accept the invitation 🙂 ✏️ Register at : https://linktr.ee/playandground . Note: Participants are kindly asked to assess their own physical health with safety in mind, as the activity involves a 4.6 km walk over approximately 3 hours. See you 🙂 #playandgroundgathering #deeptimewalk #solarpunk

Designing for Heat, Designing for All

“Designing for Heat, Designing for All” is an interactive exhibition exploring the intersection of climate resilience, accessibility and inclusive design. Through experiential activities and a conceptual design showcase, visitors are invited to consider how extreme heat can deepen existing inequalities and how public spaces can better respond to diverse users. Zone 1 – Experience Unequal Impacts Visitors take part in guided and hands-on activities exploring mobility, sensory and communication barriers experienced by people with disabilities, and how extreme heat can intensify these everyday challenges. Zone 2 – Cooling Shelter Model Visitors explore a conceptual Cooling Shelter through a physical scale model and supporting visuals, demonstrating how accessible design and passive cooling strategies can be integrated into public spaces to provide relief from urban heat.

Eco-Plates Making: The Art of Leaf Plate Crafting

Eco-Plates Making: The Art of Leaf Plate Crafting Where nature meets circular design. Transform naturally shed leaves into durable, biodegradable, and food-safe tableware! In this hands-on workshop, you will explore both traditional knowledge and modern heat-pressing techniques to craft beautiful zero-waste plates—entirely free from chemicals and synthetic binders. Event Overview Format: Interactive, hands-on workshop & design lab Duration: All Day Long! Perfect For: Eco-enthusiasts, design students, sustainable brand builders, DIY crafters, and families The Takeaway: Craft and take home 1 custom heat-pressed leaf plate Featured Event: Bangkok Climate Action Week 2026 Discover the art of zero-waste dining and explore how natural materials can drive the future of sustainable packaging. All materials are provided—just bring your creativity!

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