CAA attends the opening ceremony of COP28 Business & Philanthropy Climate Forum
Through its engagement with the Sustainable Markets Initiatives, the CAA was invited to attend the opening of the COP28 Business & Philanthropy Climate Forum. The reception was held in the presence of His Majesty King Charles III and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.


CAA participates in a roundtable on 'Building partnerships to deliver climate action in cities, in the Commonwealth and beyond.'
The CAA participated in a roundtable hosted jointly by The King’s Foundation and Community Jameel on the subject of ‘Building partnerships to deliver climate action in cities, in the Commonwealth and beyond.’
With cities accounting for over 70% of global CO2 emissions, and the world’s urban population forecast to increase by 2.5bn by 2050, it’s vital that the growth of cities is managed sustainably.
Nearly 50% of the projected increase in the world’s urban population is forecast to be in Commonwealth countries, with most of that growth taking place in secondary or intermediate cities, the majority of which lack the capacity to plan effectively for sustainable urban expansion. Yet failure to achieve sustainable urbanisation will have disastrous implications for people, planet and prosperity.
With its shared values, derived from the Commonwealth Charter, and its rich ecosystem, the Commonwealth provides the perfect platform from which to develop transformative solutions for addressing these challenges which are both scalable and replicable.
Attendees at the roundtable included representatives from the Government of Zambia, the Rwanda Green Fund, Africa Speciality Risks, C40, Ordnance Survey, WaterAid, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the Kenya Green Building Society and others. The roundtable identified ‘data’ as offering the potential for collaboration between the public and private sectors to enhance better decision making and participants undertook to take forward the discussion in a follow-up workshop.

CAA attends the COP28 Business & Philanthropy Climate Forum
The CAA was represented at the COP28 Business & Philanthropy Climate Forum. The forum provided a platform to convene and engage private sector CEOs and philanthropists from around the world, alongside Heads of State/Government, with a two-day program focused on accelerating solutions and driving bolder results for climate and nature.
The forum included a number of sessions relevant to the built environment sector including: ‘Building City Resilience: Financing Solutions’, ‘Sustainable Steel: Pioneering Low-Carbon Building Solutions’ and ‘Scaling up Innovation in the Built Environment: A Blueprint for Net-Zero’. The forum built upon the SMI roundtable which took place in Nairobi in November 2023 during the State visit of King Charles III to Kenya.

RIBA President, Muyiwa Oki, represents the CAA at an event hosted by the Global Alliance for Buildings & Construction
RIBA President, Muyiwa Oki, represented the CAA at an event hosted by the Global Alliance for Buildings & Construction which recognises that a decarbonized and resilient built environment is urgently required to minimise the impacts of climate change on communities. In line with the GlobalABC’s mission and vision for a decarbonised and resilient building and construction sector, the session showed how different organizations are working to accelerate the decarbonization and resilience in the building sector by offering education, capacity building, guidance and data to help promote greater awareness and understnding of climate issues.
Included in this effort is the work being undertaken by the CAA, in collaboration with IFC Edge, to promote climate literacy among teaching faculty throughout schools of architecture in the Commonwealth.
