Sustainable Supplier Training Programme 2026: Review and Closing
2026-06-24 14:00 (Europe/London)
This live session is part of the Sustainable Supplier Training Programme, which aims to train global suppliers on the fundamentals of corporate sustainability.

Social Sustainability Peer Learning Platform
2026-06-24 09:00, 2026-06-23 09:00
A structured peer-learning platform that brings together international companies over a 2-day event to share practical approaches, gain expert insight, and strengthen their social sustainability and human rights practices through trusted collaboration and blended in-person and virtual engagement.

The Business Case for Internal Carbon Pricing: Side Event at Reset Connect (LCAW 2026)
2026-06-23 15:00 - 16:30
In collaboration with the Sustainable Procurement Pledge’s Carbon Pricing Pilot Group, this event will highlight the growing importance of internal carbon pricing (ICP) as a tool for embedding climate considerations into business decisions.

Ambition to Action: How the SBTi’s new Corporate Net-Zero Standard V2 represents a step-change for corporate resilience (LCAW 2026)
2026-06-22 15:30 - 19:00
Featuring a keynote address from the SBTi’s CEO David Kennedy, this event will explore how the next evolution of the SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard will help accelerate meaningful action and strengthen corporate resilience in a rapidly evolving context for corporate climate action.

Establishing a Thames Basin Collaborative: Business Roundtable (LCAW 2026)
2026-06-22 09:00 - 10:30
This session hosted by the Water Resilience Coalition, in collaboration with the UN Global Compact Network UK and the World Economic Forum’s Water Future Initiative, will convene a small group of senior leaders across business, government, and civil society to inform the design and launch of a Thames River Basin Collaborative – a business-led platform hosted under the Water Resilience Coalition to manage water risk at scale.

Annual General Meeting 2026
2026-06-18 09:00 - 13:30
Join us for the UN Global Compact Network UK’s 2026 Annual General Meeting (AGM), our flagship members-only gathering.
This year’s AGM will provide a space for learning and discussion, across business, civil society, and academia, on what responsible AI adoption looks like in practice. As AI is becoming increasingly pervasive across operations, from supply chains to recruitment to climate tracking, businesses are navigating both significant opportunity and growing risk.
We will be sharing a Key Takeaways document summarising insights from the event with all members.

Sustainable Supplier Training Programme 2026: Sustainability Reporting
2026-06-17 14:00

SDG Innovation Accelerator for Young Professionals: Camp 4
2026-06-17 09:00
This accelerator empowers your company’s young talent to collaborate and accelerate business innovation toward the SDGs. This six-month programme activates future business leaders and changemakers to develop and drive innovative solutions through new technologies, initiatives, and business models, and to deliver on their company’s sustainability objectives.

Circular Economy Working Group: Meeting 2
2026-06-16 14:00
The group provides a forum for companies to discuss ongoing challenges and solutions related to the implementation of circular economy principles that support businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create positive outcomes for nature and people. This group is for companies that have already begun to identify and address their material impacts, risks, and opportunities related to resource use and the circular economy, and are keen to further build their understanding, discuss challenges and opportunities, and learn from experts and peers.

Business & Human Rights Accelerator: Peer-Learning Group 3
2026-06-16 13:00
A six-month, action-oriented programme that equips companies with the tools, expert guidance, and peer support needed to identify salient human rights risks, establish robust due diligence processes, and turn human rights commitments into practical, measurable action.

Sustainability Reporting Working Group: Meeting 2
2026-06-11 10:00
The Sustainability Reporting Working Group is a forum to share expertise and best practice on sustainability reporting, with a focus on preparing for mandatory reporting under frameworks such as the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS). Through expert insights and peer-to-peer learning, the group provides a space for professionals to explore how they are organising internal reporting systems, preparing for the assurance of sustainability data, and navigating the demands of multiple reporting frameworks and ESG ratings providers.

Modern Slavery Working Group: Meeting 2
2026-06-10 10:00
This peer-learning Working Group supports Network participants to discuss the challenges of addressing modern slavery within their operations and supply chains, share best practice on complying with the UK Modern Slavery Act, and strengthen their approaches through expert insight and collaborative learning.

Nature Ambition Accelerator: Workshop 4 - Prioritise
2026-06-09 10:00
This accelerator is a capacity-building programme designed to support companies to undertake a nature materiality assessment and set science-based targets for nature, in line with the Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) methodology. Delivered in collaboration with Ramboll UK, the accelerator will support companies to build in-house expertise on the SBTN methods, identify their current readiness levels to set science-based targets for nature, and take steps to increase preparedness.

Climate Peer Learning Group: Meeting 2
2026-06-04 14:00
This exclusive forum is to support companies with advanced climate strategies that are seeking a network to discuss obstacles, innovation, collaboration, and best practices relating to science-based net zero targets and decarbonisation pathways.

Sustainable Supplier Training Programme 2026: Human Rights Due Diligence
2026-06-03 14:00

Nature Working Group: Meeting 2
2026-06-02 14:00
This group provides a peer-learning forum for companies to share approaches and challenges related to identifying, addressing, and disclosing nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities.

DEI Working Group: Meeting 2
2026-06-02 10:00
This peer-learning Working Group supports Network participants to discuss some of the challenges companies are facing when integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) into their strategies and operations and to explore how DEI can be a source of competitive advantage

Sustainability Essentials for Core Functions: Corporate Affairs
2026-06-01 14:00
This event will equip professionals in corporate affairs with the knowledge and understanding to contribute to their organisation’s sustainability goals in their day-to-day work. It will explore the intersections of corporate affairs and sustainability, what teams need to know to support ESG integration across the business, and how both functions can collaborate effectively to drive shared objectives.

Members' Breakfast
2026-05-29 09:00, 2026-05-01 09:00
Join this informal morning session open to all members of the UN Global Compact Network UK to meet and share ideas, challenges, and experiences.

Sustainable Supplier Training Programme 2026: Working Towards a Gender Equity Plan
2026-05-20 14:00

Nature Ambition Accelerator: Workshop 3 - Assess (cont.)
2026-05-19 10:00

Nature Action Dialogues
2026-05-14 09:00
The Nature Action Dialogues provide a unique and powerful forum where business, finance and conservation leaders meet as peers to advance collaboration at the nexus of biodiversity, climate, water, and health. This is a working space to accelerate change, shape leadership, and unlock sustainable growth while halting and reversing nature loss.

SDG Innovation Accelerator for Young Professionals: Camp 3
2026-05-14 09:00

Sustainable Supplier Training Programme 2026: Reducing CO2 Emissions – Carbon Footprint
2026-05-06 14:00
This live session is part of the Sustainable Supplier Training Programme, which aims to train global suppliers on the fundamentals of corporate sustainnability.

Business & Human Rights Accelerator: Peer-Learning Group 2
2026-05-06 13:00

Nature Working Group: Meeting 1
2026-04-22 14:00 - 17:00

SDG Innovation Accelerator for Young Professionals: Camp 2
2026-04-16 09:00

Social Mobility Report Launch
2026-04-15 16:30
Join us on 15th April at the launch of our latest report: Unlocking Regional Barriers to Social Mobility. The launch event is in London at Slaughter and May’s offices. It will be an opportunity to hear insights and recommendations, engage with policymakers and ensure your organisation is leading the way in social mobility.
