COP31 is being shaped as an Implementation COP, responding to one of the central challenges in global climate action: closing the gap between multilateral commitments and real-world delivery. 

As long-term and engaged owners, Wallenberg Investments and Investor are convinced that the climate transition is a powerful driver of innovation, resilience, and competitiveness. Across our portfolios, companies are investing in the transition and developing commercially available solutions that can contribute to implementation at scale. Realising this potential requires predictable conditions, enabling infrastructure and policy frameworks that support investment and reward companies willing to lead. These are areas where we see strong synergies with the Action Agenda.

Alongside the formal negotiations, the Action Agenda is a critical vehicle for turning ambition into delivery, bringing together governments, business, investors and civil society to accelerate practical climate solutions. As a part of the Action Agenda, the Turkish COP31 Presidency has set three ambitions for 2035:

• Electrification: increase electricity’s share of global final energy demand to 35%
• Circularity and waste: halve the growth in global waste
• Buildings: reduce energy consumption intensity by at least 25%

These targets provide a clear direction of travel. Delivering them will depend on decisions taken in the real economy today: where capital is allocated, which technologies are deployed, which markets are created and whether businesses have the conditions to invest and scale.

Against this backdrop, Wallenberg Investments and Investor will convene a closed-door executive roundtable bringing together a select group of senior Swedish, Turkish and Australian business leaders, investors and business organisations. 

The roundtable

The roundtable will seek to identify a focused set of business and policy priorities for accelerating implementation, together with concrete opportunities for multi-national collaboration. The discussion will centre on the question: What will it take to turn the COP31 Action Agenda into investment, deployment and measurable results by 2035?

To support the discussion, the roundtable will be structured around the following questions:

• What solutions are ready to scale now?
• Which commercially available solutions can make the greatest contribution towards the 2035 ambitions, and what would enable significantly faster deployment?
• What would unlock investment and scale?
• Which barriers are most critical, and what needs to change in policy, permitting, infrastructure, finance or market demand to enable businesses and investors to act?
• Where can we act together?
• Where can Swedish, Turkish and Australian capabilities, investments and markets complement one another, and what concrete opportunities should we take forward?