Bangkok Climate Action Week 3-11 October 2026

Programme

7 Programme found

MAIN STAGE  | Day 1 | A Tantalizing Prospect
Talk or panel discussion

MAIN STAGE | Day 1 | A Tantalizing Prospect

This session explores the promise and tantalizing possibility of new approaches to economics that put people and planet first. It considers how prevailing economic systems fail us and what ‘better’ looks like. It invites the public to ponder: - What if investing in people & nature is the biggest economic opportunity of our time? - What if our economies nurtured rather than exploited people and nature? - What if economics were about nurturing abundance and wellbeing rather than managing scarcity? - How would we rethink value, wealth, metrics of success? 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.

04/10/202616:30

Lumphini Park

MAIN STAGE | Day 2  | Signals from the Future: What’s Emerging?
Talk or panel discussion

MAIN STAGE | Day 2 | Signals from the Future: What’s Emerging?

Better, alternative economies are not fiction, but an ever-present reality across the region. NE pioneers will share lessons from their experience about the necessary conditions to grow a better economy, the obstacles that stands in the way, and how these may be overcome. New trends and technological possibilities are explored while highlighting the enduring relevance of cultural heritage, local wisdom, traditional practices, and indigenous knowledge. 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.

05/10/202616:30

Lumphini Park

MAIN STAGE | Day 3 | Our Economy, Our Choice
Talk or panel discussion

MAIN STAGE | Day 3 | Our Economy, Our Choice

A better economy is people-centered: it is inclusive, accountable to people and responsive to their priorities, and leaves no one behind. This session considers: - The central role of civil society actors - How individuals have agency beyond being consumers - How power is shifted, participation enabled, and fairness guaranteed in a people-centered economy - The skills needed to flourish in a wellbeing economy - Decolonizing our economic narratives 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.

06/10/202616:30

Lumphini Park

MAIN STAGE | Day 4 | Good Business
Talk or panel discussion

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.

07/10/202616:30

Lumphini Park

MAIN STAGE | Day 5 | Transforming Finance
Talk or panel discussion

MAIN STAGE | Day 5 | Transforming Finance

Finance is the key lever for accelerating the green transition and realizing the vision of a better economy. Our desired futures will remain beyond reach as long as finance works against sustainability, deepens fossil fuel dependency, and fuels inequality and environmental devastation. Shifting investment into green infrastructure and solutions is one part of it. Another is rewiring finance to align with development and climate protection goals. In sum: financing the shift is the outcome; shifting finance is the how. This session considers the respective roles of public, private and philanthropic finance; aligning financial regulation with wellbeing goals; SMEs, and the economic opportunity in harmonizing green finance rules & standards across the region. 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.

08/10/202616:30

Lumphini Park

MAIN STAGE | Day 6 | ‘Your Government is here to help’
Talk or panel discussion

MAIN STAGE | Day 6 | ‘Your Government is here to help’

Governments have a crucial and irreplaceable role in enabling other actors and marshaling resources towards growing a better economy. To fulfill that role requires visionary leadership; a capable public sector; well-designed policies, regulations and procurement; and ecological fiscal reform. A spotlight talk restates the rationale for public action, underscoring the need for political responsibility, public sector leadership and smart governmental intervention to address climate change and related crises. A panel will then consider: - Government’s role as ‘market-shaper’ - Green Industrial policy - Public procurement as a transformative lever - Subnational governments 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.

09/10/202616:30

Lumphini Park

MAIN STAGE | Day 7 | The Path Forward: Proposals for a Better Economy
Talk or panel discussion

MAIN STAGE | Day 7 | The Path Forward: Proposals for a Better Economy

After a week of ideas, conversations and collaboration across BKKCAW, the next step is to turn them into action. 15 proposals will be developed through the BKKCAW clusters and Asia’s Next Economies Forum, capturing key priorities and possibilities that emerged throughout the week. The proposals will then be brought into a fireside conversation with delegates from the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings, carrying the momentum of BKKCAW into the conversations shaping what comes next. 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.

10/10/202616:30

Lumphini Park