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Financing the Transition at Innovation Zero World 2026

Mobilising capital at the pace, scale and risk profile required to deliver real-world change is one of the most critical challenges facing the low-carbon transition. While global investment in clean technologies continues to grow, capital is not always flowing to the projects, sectors and stages where it can deliver the greatest system impact.

The dedicated Financing the Transition Track examines how finance, policy and market design must evolve to close the gap between ambition and deployment – from first-of-a-kind technologies and industrial transformation to large-scale infrastructure and resilience.

By bringing together investors, corporates, policymakers and innovators, Financing the Transition aims to align incentives, de-risk investment pathways and unlock capital where it matters most.

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Innovation Zero World | 28th & 29th April 2026 | Olympia London

Financing the Transition Track Overview

Who Should Attend

Financing the Transition is designed for senior leaders involved in allocating, enabling or deploying capital across the transition, including:

Finance & Investment

  • Institutional and infrastructure investors 

  • Banks, export credit agencies and public finance bodies 

  • Venture capital and corporate venture teams 

Corporates & Industry

  • CFOs, finance and strategy leaders 

  • Energy-intensive and infrastructure-heavy sectors

  • Corporate buyers shaping demand signals

Policy & Enablers

  • Policymakers and regulators 

  • Public banks and national investment institutions 

  • Innovators navigating FOAK and scale risk

Why Attend?

The Financing the Transition Track convenes organisations working across the capital stack, from early-stage innovation to large-scale deployment.

Attendees will benefit from: 

  • A clearer view of where capital is flowing - and where gaps remain
     

  • A focused environment for building bankable pathways and partnerships
     

  • Direct engagement with investors, public finance bodies and corporate buyers
     

  • Practical examples of blended finance, guarantees and offtake models
     

  • Insight into policy, regulation and risk-sharing mechanisms shaping investment decisions 

What Will You Learn?

Across the programme, sessions will explore: 

  • How to unlock investment for infrastructure, industry and frontier technologies
     

  • How capital allocation can accelerate delivery at scale
     

  • Financing pathways for hard-to-abate sectors and FOAK projects
     

  • The role of policy certainty and demand signals in bankability
     

  • Models for sharing risk between public and private capital 

Key Sessions

Financing the Transition is a cross-cutting Track within the Innovation Zero World Congress programme, connecting content and participants across energy, industry, infrastructure and innovation to accelerate investment-led delivery. 

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Main Stage
  1. Main Stage
    The UK is pursuing one of the world’s most ambitious energy transitions, but with some of the highest electricity prices globally and growing pressure on household bills. Delivering a secure net zero ...
Energy & Grid

 

Forum Partners
Energy UK The Association for Decentralised Energy

  1. Energy & Grid
    The UK’s pathway to a resilient, decarbonised energy system depends not only on how much private finance is flowing, but whether it is reaching the innovations that deliver whole-system impact. This s ...
Finance & Emerging Technology
  1. Finance & Emerging Technology
    Heavy industries such as cement, steel and utilities underpin the global economy but remain among the most carbon-tensive and hardest sectors to decarbonise. Transitioning these industries will requir ...
  2. Finance & Emerging Technology
    While rapid emissions reductions remain the priority, achieving global climate targets will also require the large-scale deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions to address residual emissi ...
Built & Infrastructure


Forum Partner
UKGBC

  1. Built & Infrastructure
    Infrastructure will play a central role in delivering the UK’s net zero transition while supporting long-term economic growth. From clean energy and transport to housing and industrial systems, transf ...
Innovation Showcase

 

Showcase Partners
Cleantech Group Cleantech for UK

  1. Innovation Showcase
    Innovators often struggle to demonstrate demand at the scale investors require. This session explores how startups, corporates and venture investors can work together to create credible market pull, f ...
  2. Innovation Showcase
    Corporate venture capital operates on a completely different rhythm from both traditional VC and corporate procurement, demanding new ways of working from startups and CVC teams alike. This session un ...
  3. Innovation Showcase
    Hardware-heavy cleantech faces the toughest path to market, with innovators often forced abroad to scale. This session looks at what it takes to move from seed and FOAK (first-of-a-kind) to Series B a ...
Main Stage
  1. Main Stage
    Despite the politicisation of ESG and the broader sustainability agenda, businesses and investors continue to back low-carbon technologies and resilient infrastructure as core drivers of growth, innov ...
  2. Main Stage
    Global investment in clean energy and climate technologies reached a record $2.1 trillion in 2024. Yet nearly 90% of this capital flowed into mature, proven solutions, leaving frontier technologies su ...
Innovation Showcase

 

Showcase Partners
Cleantech Group Cleantech for UK

  1. Innovation Showcase
    For climatetech founders, the leap from seed to growth capital remains one of the hardest to navigate. Early investors must take big bets on market timing, regulatory shifts, and emerging commercial m ...
  2. Innovation Showcase
    Banks are often hesitant to engage with emerging solutions, citing regulatory constraints, technical unfamiliarity, or insufficient scale. This session unlocks how commercial banks, public finance bod ...

 

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Innovation Zero World | 28th & 29th April 2026 | Olympia London