Goals House

Earlier this week, Goals House touched down in Tokyo Together with Community Jameel and C40 Cities, we hosted our first Goals House Tokyo to mark the launch of the Japanese edition of the Climate Action Guide for Urban Planners. Governor Yuriko Koike opened the evening with a keynote, followed by a fireside conversation moderated by Uzma Sulaiman, Associate Director, Community Jameel with Murali Ram, Regional Director, East, Southeast Asia & Oceania, C40 Cities and Bridget Smyth, City Architect and Design Director at the City of Sydney. Against the Tokyo skyline, the conversation explored what climate action means for the future of our cities, from resilient infrastructure and cleaner energy to the neighbourhoods and communities we call home, before the evening closed with live jazz. A brilliant first gathering in Japan, and a reminder of the role cities and communities will play in shaping the next chapter of climate action.

Ideas matter. But progress happens when people roll up their sleeves and get to work. At UNGA, James Kanagasooriam, Chief Research Officer, Focaldata, challenged us to celebrate the doers driving change, not just the conversations about it.

90% of the materials of the future haven't been invented yet. The challenge isn't a lack of ideas. It's developing and scaling them fast enough to meet the urgency of the climate crisis. And Alysia Garmulewicz, Founder and Co-CEO, Materiom, believes that innovation, leadership and demand all have roles to play.

From Berlin to Dublin, the Goals House community has been bringing different voices together around some of today’s most pressing challenges. At the World Health Summit, comedian, writer and actress Ivy Le joined Christoph Benn, Center for Global Health Diplomacy, and Save the Children International’s Inger Ashing for a conversation on turning proven maternal and child health solutions into action. In Dublin, Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland, joined the Gates Foundation, Google and Community Jameel to explore the role AI can play in building more resilient food systems. Our latest newsletter brings together highlights from conversations on maternal and child health and the future of AI and food systems, alongside the latest from Gates Foundation, Ecolab, The Nature Conservancy, AVEVA, The ONE Campaign's ONE Data, Blue Marine Foundation and Trane Technologies.

As AI accelerates, the infrastructure behind it needs to keep pace, not just in scale, but in sustainability. For Trane Technologies’ Jose La Loggia, Group President, EMEA, the opportunity is to think beyond powering data centres: improving energy efficiency, recovering waste heat and designing infrastructure that strengthens the communities around it.

What will be on the table at Goals House during COP31? From climate finance and electrification to resilience, nature, technology and global cooperation, the questions facing the climate community are increasingly interconnected. Across five days in Antalya, Goals House will create space to explore those questions from different perspectives, challenge assumptions and consider what comes next. If you’re interested in joining the conversation, get in touch at info@goalshouse.com or via the link in our comments.

"People want stories that leave them feeling inspired to act" At London Climate Action Week, Benedict Cumberbatch shares why the creative industries have a vital role to play in the climate crisis by helping audiences feel heard, inspiring action, celebrating progress and bringing people together around a shared challenge.

We are heading to Antigua and Barbuda this November.   From 1–3 November, we’ll be showing up alongside CHOGM as Terra Carta House, working with the Sustainable Markets Initiative to convene a series of conversations bringing together leaders from across business, government and civil society.   Across three days, we’ll explore how we can accelerate progress across climate and nature, unlock the partnerships needed to turn ambition into action, and build a more sustainable and resilient future. If you'll be in town, get in touch at info@goalshouse.com, or register your interest using the link in the comments.

A month from now, we’ll open our doors in Antalya for COP31, bringing together leaders from business, government, philanthropy and civil society for the conversations that matter most.    From accelerating the energy transition to scaling climate finance and building more resilient communities, Goals House will once again be a space for the ideas, partnerships and candid discussions needed to turn ambition into action.   If you'll be in town, let us know by emailing info@goalshouse.com

In a new thought leadership piece, Ayesha Al Ateeqi, CEO of the The Mohamed bin Zayed Water Initiative argues that the greatest challenge in water innovation is not a lack of solutions, but a lack of pathways to scale. Building on conversations from World Water Week and the UN General Assembly, the piece explores why so many promising technologies fail to move beyond pilot stage, and what it will take to make water innovation investable, deployable and impactful. From capital and policy to partnerships and adoption, she makes the case that the future of water leadership will be defined not by breakthrough ideas alone, but by our ability to bring them into the real world.