Orientations for a Shared Horizon: East-West Learning in a Time of Climate Transition
Orientations for a Shared Horizon: East-West Learning in a Time of Climate Transition
June 23 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm BST
The session explores how Asia–Europe relationships can be reimagined in a time of global uncertainty, geopolitical fragmentation, and the emergence of well-being economies.
The panel will open the dialogue with speakers from Asia and Europe sharing practical experiences and reflections on what helps societies work better together across regions. It will touch on ideas like care, love, and learning from different cultural traditions and ways of living.
The second half of the session moves into facilitated small-group conversations, where participants will actively engage and explore the themes together.
It’s designed to spark new thinking, build meaningful connections, and surface practical examples of collaboration that can inspire future action. Participants will leave with fresh perspectives, cross-regional connections, and ideas they can apply in their own organisations, networks, and communities.
Who is this session for?
The event would benefit from a deliberately mixed group, including:
- Climate and systems practitioners from Asia and Europe
- Philanthropy, finance, and well-being economy actors
- Indigenous, cultural, and movement-based knowledge holders
- Facilitators, storytellers, and bridge-builders working across regions or traditions
- Policymakers and conveners interested in new forms of international cooperation
Key speakers
- Kirsten Dunlop, CEO of Climate KIC
- Leo Horn, Founder and Convenor, Bangkok Climate Action Week
- Theo Mitchell, Global Director Climate, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
- Sumitra Pasupathy, Co-Founder, Philanthropy Dialogue
- Naina Subberwal Batra, CEO of AVPN
Register below!
About the organiser
The largest innovation agency in Europe, Climate KIC bridges the private and public sector green skills gap by combining technical expertise (e.g. renewable energy, carbon accounting) with transversal leadership skills (e.g., systems thinking, collaboration). The Academy is Climate KIC’s flagship learning program for the public and private sector.
Contributing organisations
Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW) provides a platform for citizens, creatives, communities, and institutions to come together in new ways, celebrating local leadership and collective imagination to shape a climate-safe, inclusive future for Southeast Asia.
Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) is an independent global philanthropic organisation, founded in 2002 and headquartered in London, that focuses on transforming the lives of poor and vulnerable children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries by funding large‑scale, evidence‑driven programmes across areas such as maternal and child health, nutrition, sexual and reproductive health and rights, education, child protection, and climate change, often working with governments, multilaterals and NGOs from offices in Addis Ababa, Beijing, London, Nairobi and New Delhi.
Philanthropy Dialogues is a global majority‑led action and learning platform co‑founded by a collective of women leaders from regions including Latin America and Asia to advance inclusive, equitable systems transformation for climate and planetary well‑being by convening philanthropy and ecosystem actors for dialogue, reflection and collaboration aimed at strengthening whole‑ecosystem resilience and a lively, healthy citizen sector.
