UK at COP31
COP31 Digital showcase
The showreels below will be featured as part of the UK COP31 Digital Showcasing Programme and are displayed on a large screen in the networking areas of the UK Pavilion within the UNFCCC‑accredited Blue Zone.
Together, they showcase the breadth and depth of UK‑led products, services, initiatives and actions addressing climate change, highlighting the diversity of innovation and activity across the UK.
The UK Government offers a global platform for those being showcased; this does not constitute an official endorsement of any product or service.
Ashden Climate Solutions
Ashden accelerates climate action rooted in local communities. Its awards and programmes catalyse enterprises and other organisations in the UK and the Global South; bringing them finance, visibility, connections and knowledge.
Ashden's work includes the Transforming Humanitarian Energy Access (THEA) programme, creating impact in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia. Worldwide, 120 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes. 94% of those living in refugee camps and settlements have no meaningful access to electricity, and 81% rely on firewood or charcoal for cooking – which puts their wellbeing at risk.
With access to clean, affordable energy, refugees can raise their incomes and enjoy a better quality of life. But solutions must be sustainable, tailored to individual communities, and deliver a wide range of benefits – from new jobs and higher incomes to better health. For this reason, it’s vital to increase support for solutions led by displaced people themselves.
THEA give refugee-led organisations unrestricted development grants, technical assistance and strategic communications support. This flexible support helps them strengthen their operations, reach new customers, and attract funding and investment from other sources.
BBC - Blue Planet III
Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, Blue Planet III marks the return of the franchise that transformed audiences' understanding of life beneath the waves. Twenty-five years after the groundbreaking original series first brought the oceans into homes around the world, the new series reveals extraordinary new stories from some of Earth's most important and least understood environments.
Using a new generation of cutting-edge camera technology, including splash drones, long-term remote underwater camera systems and innovative miniature filming rigs, the series showcases remarkable animal behaviours and breathtaking spectacles that have never before been filmed or have only recently been discovered. Across six episodes, viewers will journey through five key underwater habitats: Tropical Seas, Open Ocean, Seasonal Seas, Polar Waters, and the Deep, before a final episode looking towards the future of the world's oceans and what can be done to protect them.
British Council
The British Council is the UK’s international culture and education organisation. We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide. Working across 150 countries and reaching over 700 million people, our mission for almost a century has been to build a world where people connect across borders and trust is the foundation for lasting change.
This mission extends to one of today’s most urgent challenges: climate change. Through our Climate Change Strategy, we connect people in the UK and globally through arts, culture and education, while facilitating international partnerships that unite people through climate action.
Alumni UK Climate Grants and Climate Skills are two programmes under our Climate Change Strategy that work to cultivate global connections into locally rooted action.
Alumni UK Climate Grants supports international UK alumni to develop innovative, inclusive climate solutions across 12 countries, while building a global peer-learning community.
Climate Skills equips marginalised young people across five countries with green skills, training and mentorship, connecting them with institutions and community organisations to inspire a fairer, more sustainable future.
These initiatives demonstrate the British Council’s commitment to connecting the UK globally and supporting inclusive, collaborative climate action.
Compact Syngas Solutions (CSS)
Compact Syngas Solutions (CSS) is a UK clean-technology company specialising in advanced gasification systems that convert sustainable biomass and waste-derived feedstocks into renewable heat, power and valuable biochar.
Our COP31 showreel highlights the Greener Tea project, led by CSS and supported through UNIDO’s Accelerate-to-Demonstrate Facility, with co-funding from the UK Government’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
At Browns Plantations in Kericho, Kenya, CSS will demonstrate its 500 kW MicroHub technology using locally available tea prunings, bamboo and eucalyptus. The system will generate renewable energy for tea production while reducing reliance on fossil fuels and firewood. It will also produce biochar that can improve soil health, support carbon removal and create additional value from agricultural residues.
The project brings together UK and Kenyan partners to demonstrate a practical, scalable pathway for decarbonising tea production and other energy-intensive agricultural industries.
Compact Syngas Solutions and Greener Tea – Powering Sustainable Tea
ekko
ekko is a mission-led fintech that weaves positive action into everyday payments. We work with payment providers, banks, ecommerce platforms, and merchants to meet the growing demand for environmental action.
Consumers see the impact of what they spend and get a simple way to do something about it, right when they pay. Businesses get a powerful new way to engage and retain customers.
Every contribution goes to vetted environmental projects run by partners including Tusk, and Conservation International, and organisations like Gold Standard. From groceries to fashion to gifting, ekko makes positive impact simple, visible, and rewarding.
Trusted by partners including Worldpay (now Global Payments), PPRO, Volt, and Optty, ekko helps businesses meet rising demand for climate-conscious choices.
With offices in London, Paris, Cape Town, and Atlanta, ekko operates globally to help brands build deeper customer loyalty and unlock long-term commercial value.
To learn more, visit ekko.earth, email press@ekko.earth, or connect with us on LinkedIn.
Institute for Environmental Futures
The University of Leicester’s Institute for Environmental Futures (IEF) undertakes transformative, transdisciplinary research addressing relationships between people, ecosystems and environmental change. Working with UK and international partners, we develop science and evidence‑based approaches that support resilient, sustainable futures.
Our COP31 showcase highlights our work on Agricultural Genomics, showing how genetics, genomics and biodiversity contribute to environmentally sustainable food production and climate resilience.
Food production has improved global nutrition, yet at significant environmental cost. Our research develops improved materials and uses genomic analysis and biodiversity to support three complementary goals for agriculture: sustainability (reducing environmental impact), adaptation (developing climate‑resilient crops and animals), and mitigation (reducing greenhouse‑gas emissions).
We analyse crop diseases, study biodiversity preserved in herbarium and germplasm collections, and work with wild crop relatives to introduce beneficial traits into crops. We identify genetic improvements in grasses that enhance digestibility and reduce methane emissions from ruminants. Peatland and land‑management research is carried out in the IEF.
Our showreel focuses on genomics, genetics and their modelling to deliver improved crop and forage varieties ready for a changing climate, demonstrating partnerships from the UK in agricultural innovation and genomic science.
Local Storytelling Exchange
The Local Storytelling Exchange changes the story of the clean energy transition in Britain’s towns, cities, streets and fields. We make it tangible, visible and credible for the people and places that matter most to its success.
Our network of journalists, content creators and communications experts are based in the heart of communities that most need the benefits of the transition – from clean power and industry to warmer homes and sustainable farming. We build trusted relationships with people locally, listen to them, learn what is important to their lives and bring their story to life, shifting the dynamic of the debate.
Grounded in behavioural science and a deep understanding of where people are on issues relating to the climate crisis, we platform unlikely voices to tell their stories across local news, broadcast and social media.
The stories we tell reflect to people a world they recognise, how it is changing and why that connects to national transformation. They are proof points that influence how industry and government can navigate barriers to progress while maintaining public consensus.
The Exchange is doing something different to raise the ambition for a transition that delivers tangible benefits and shapes places for the better.
Local Storytelling Exchange - This is what the green transition looks like
One Carbon World (Food Value Chain)
One Carbon World (OCW) is a UK-registered not-for-profit organisation and official observer to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. We provide expert advice and practical, science-based solutions to help organisations measure, reduce and rebalance greenhouse gas emissions as they transition to net zero.
A key part of this work is recognising that climate action starts on the land. Across global food and agricultural value chains, land is both a significant source of emissions and a critical opportunity for carbon removals. We help organisations navigate the complexities of measuring land-based emissions and removals, translating robust methodologies into practical approaches applicable across value chains.
Through our work, we support farmers, producers, retailers and industry partners to strengthen data, governance and reporting, while identifying land management practices that can maximise carbon removals alongside productive and sustainable agricultural systems.
By connecting science, expertise and practice, OCW is helping to build a common approach to climate action across value chains, making emissions more measurable, credible and comparable, and enabling organisations to turn climate ambition into practical, scalable action.
Pilio
ACE Cotton: accelerating a just transition in cotton-growing communities
ACE Cotton — Affordable, Clean, Environment — is Pilio’s place-based programme for accelerating climate action and strengthening resilience across cotton-growing communities.
Working with farmers, communities, brands and local delivery partners, ACE brings together interventions that are too often addressed separately. The programme combines clean energy, nature and biodiversity restoration, and stronger rural livelihoods, creating practical pathways for communities to reduce emissions while improving environmental and social outcomes.
Starting at farm, household and community level, ACE identifies locally appropriate opportunities — from solar-powered irrigation and household energy access to biodiversity enhancement and livelihood initiatives — and brings them together within a coordinated programme. This integrated approach enables investment to deliver multiple benefits: reducing dependence on fossil fuels, improving resilience to climate impacts, restoring ecosystems and supporting farmer and community prosperity.
ACE Cotton is currently being implemented in South Asia and East Africa with a model designed to scale across cotton-producing regions and wider agricultural landscapes.
Our ambition is to create a replicable platform through which companies can invest in measurable, place-based climate and nature action within their supply chains — connecting corporate climate commitments with tangible improvements for the landscapes and communities where raw materials are produced.
Royal Horticultural Society (RHS)
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is the UK’s gardening charity, helping people and plants to grow. Our mission is to be there on people’s lifelong journey with gardening – to bring happiness, health, stronger communities and a thriving natural world. With over 220 years of experience, we support gardeners of all ages with expert advice, community and schools’ projects, scientific research, professional qualifications, five RHS Gardens, and events including the iconic RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
This showreel highlights the vital role that gardening and horticulture plays in contributing to the natural and social capital value of the UK, and the RHS’s commitment to fostering this. Showcasing findings from the RHS 2025 State of Gardening, and Space to Grow Reports, it shows the scale, diversity, and significance of gardening, emphasising its importance in supporting wildlife, climate resilience and ecosystem services.
It confirms through research evidence that gardens are no longer just refuges for nature – but are now critical components of the UK’s biodiversity network. It demonstrates how gardening benefits mental, physical and social wellbeing, as a powerful force for inclusion, learning, and community cohesion. It concludes that cultivated plants are central to this story, and that recognising and protecting this living heritage is essential.
The Lewis Pugh Foundation
The Lewis Pugh Foundation works to protect our oceans for a peaceful and sustainable future.
For more than two decades, endurance swimmer and UNEP Patron of the Oceans Lewis Pugh has undertaken pioneering swims in some of the world’s most challenging and vulnerable environments, from the North Pole to Antarctica. His swims draw attention to the threats facing our oceans and help build support for their protection.
The Foundation works with governments, scientists, conservation organisations and communities to turn that awareness into action. Its campaigns have helped secure protection for some of the world’s most important marine ecosystems, including in Antarctica and the seas around South Georgia.
Healthy oceans are also vital to tackling climate change. They absorb vast amounts of heat and carbon dioxide, support biodiversity and livelihoods, and play a fundamental role in regulating our climate. Protecting them must therefore be part of the global response to a warming world.
Treeconomy
Treeconomy is a UK-based earthtech company scaling nature restoration with remote sensing and machine learning. Our technology provides the digital proof needed to unlock finance for high-quality restoration projects worldwide. We serve project developers, nature investors and corporate carbon buyers, raising the bar for traceability, transparency and trust in nature-based carbon removal.
Our showreel features the Treeconomy Biomass Engine. Carbon stocks are still measured by hand, in a handful of plots, then stretched across a whole project as a single number. Nobody can say how confident to be in it.
The engine builds a biomass digital twin for each project: a site-specific model of above-ground biomass that reports a range, not one figure. Satellite data maps any site on Earth in minutes. That is enough to screen land, not to credit it. Add field plots, drone captures and airborne LiDAR, and the range narrows.
This work is backed by the UK Space Agency through QUBIST (Quantifying Uncertainty in Biomass using Integrated Satellite Technologies).
Measuring nature. Powering regeneration.
Ubuntu Energy Limited (a subsidiary of Greenage Technologies Limited)
Greenage Technologies is a smart power company, electrifying Africa’s economy. Greenage has deployed over 9.5 MW of clean energy across schools, hospitals, and critical infrastructure, abating 40,000 tonnes of CO₂ each year.
The reel showcases Ubuntu Energy, our peer-to-peer platform that enables anyone with surplus solar electricity to share it with nearby consumers. Using machine learning, the Ubuntu technology monitors generation and demand, identifies available surplus, and enables consumers to purchase clean electricity.
At over 200 sites in Nigeria, the technology demonstrates how solar powered anchors can become community energy sources. Rather than allowing available solar electricity to go unused while neighbouring businesses and families rely on diesel generators, Ubuntu Energy connects surplus power with those who need it.
Through the app, the anchors earn revenue from their solar systems, while consumers access cheaper and cleaner, more reliable electricity at their fingertips, without the upfront cost of owning a solar system.
Ubuntu Energy spreads possibilities by enabling surplus renewable energy to reach those who need it, reducing dependence on polluting fuels and associated carbon emissions.
Building on this impact, our ambition is to scale Ubuntu Energy across Africa and contribute to a more connected, resilient and inclusive energy future.
University of Hull - Risky Cities
Risky Cities is an innovative climate resilience initiative building public engagement with flood risk in vulnerable coastal and estuarine cities around the world.
Led by Professor Briony McDonagh at the University of Hull, the project tackles climate change impacts by strengthening community resilience and preparedness. It employs “learning histories” to connect past flood experiences with present and future risks, encouraging behavioural change and increasing uptake of adaptation measures such as flood planning and alerts. This unique approach benefits local communities – especially those in high-risk or underserved areas – as well as policymakers, cultural organisations and practitioners working in climate adaptation.
Risky Cities helps communities better understand and respond to climate risks by using arts, heritage and participatory research to make flood resilience accessible and meaningful. Co-created outputs, including workshops, exhibitions and performances, engage diverse audiences and embed climate awareness locally.
The project’s origins are rooted in Hull, a UK city with an 800-year history of flooding and increasing exposure to climate-driven sea level rise. Its methods are transferable and globally relevant, having already been applied in Europe, America and Asia. Professor McDonagh has also supported DESNZ’s public participation strategy, advancing inclusive, community-led approaches to climate engagement.
University of Hull - Risky Cities
Waste to Wonder Worldwide (W2WW)
Waste to Wonder Worldwide (W2WW) is the largest ethical reuse social enterprise in the world, founded in 2003 to give surplus office furniture and equipment a second life - ethically clearing it from businesses undergoing refurbishment or relocation and redistributing it to schools, community projects and charities in need. Rather than furniture and equipment going to landfill, W2WW keeps it in use, cutting carbon emissions and closing the loop on office waste.
To date, W2WW has redistributed over £60 million worth of furniture and equipment to more than 1,700 schools across 50+ countries, achieving a 98% reuse rate on everything it collects. In 2026, the organisation's work was recognised with the King's Award for Enterprise in Sustainability.
The reel showcased at the UK Pavilion highlights W2WW's model in action -turning what one organisation no longer needs into a resource for another. It's a practical and scalable approach to reuse that plays into the wider transition to net zero, while changing lives and supporting education globally.