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“There is such a tight link between planet and health – if you undermine biodiversity, you undermine health.” Those words come from Mary Robinson – former President of Ireland and UN Special Envoy for Climate Change. Someone intimately linked to both planetary health and human health, she understands that Mother Earth is not simply a poetic construct. She is the infrastructure on which human health depends. 

Climate change is already reshaping human health – from extreme heat and air pollution to disrupted food systems, pressure on medicines and infrastructure, and a growing epidemic of climate-related poor mental health. The systems we built to protect people were designed for a more stable world; that world is gone. 

That’s the challenge that The Conduit’s Climate and the Future of Health was built to address. 

What is Climate and the Future of Health? 

Now in its second year, Climate and the Future of Health has established itself as London’s leading forum at the intersection of climate and health. 
 
On 22 June, during London Climate Action Week, the conference returns to The Conduit in Covent Garden – bringing together leaders across health systems, climate policy, finance, innovation, culture and communities to move from crisis response to something harder and more necessary: systemic renewal. 

“If you spend 10% of your time describing the problem,” says Paul van Zyl, co-founder of The Conduit, “you can spend 90% asking: what is the solution?” That is the operating principle behind this conference; the challenge is delivery – and that is exactly at the core of the day’s agenda. 

What is The Conduit? 

The world’s most urgent problems are being solved too slowly – in silos, within industries, in isolation from the people most affected. The Conduit exists to change that. 

Based in Covent Garden, with satellite spaces in leading cities and a global community platform, The Conduit is a members’ club and impact network for changemakers. Its annual programme of over 150 conferences, talks, workshops and debates brings together Nobel Prize winners, environmental pioneers, policy makers and industry leaders – not for conversation’s sake, but to create the conditions for collective action. 

Van Zyl is clear about what distinguishes The Conduit from the conference circuit. “Solutions are at the core of it. We built The Conduit to build communities of action.” 

That philosophy runs through the physical space itself. “Somebody in the world has to pick up the bat and act.” The Conduit’s convening power, he argues, creates the intimacy, trust and camaraderie that makes that action possible. 

Climate and the Future of Health is one of its flagship events. In 2026, it is an official London Climate Action Week Hub. 

Who’s in the room? 

In 2025, more than 500 leaders joined – including key decision-makers from Bupa, the NHS, the World Health Organization, Howden, Zurich, Water.org and Clean Air Fund. 

If you work across health systems, climate policy, finance, innovation, food or culture – and you believe in systemic redesign and real‑world implementation – you’ll be in excellent company. 

What’s on? 

The main stage – The Forum – moves from national climate policy to real-world delivery – with Mete Coban MBE, Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy, and the mayors of Miami and Phoenix among those on stage. The afternoon sharpens into debate, including whether the ICJ’s climate ruling should impose enforceable legal obligations on governments and corporations. 

The food systems track, opened by Sue Pritchard of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, makes the case that food is a public good, not a commodity – and asks what it takes to make fairer food choices the default. 

While the culture track closes with Stories from the Frontline – visual narratives, poetry and live performance from activists, artists and civic society telling stories of resilience shaped by the realities of climate and health. 

Van Zyl points to extreme heat as an example of the kind of problem the conference is designed to crack. “Take extreme heat, which does terrible things for human health. We study major cities’ solutions – Freetown, Jakarta, Bogotá, Mexico City, Arizona, Miami – look at the best examples, aggregate and implement them.”