Impact events will abound in the last quarter of 2025. Here are eight of them happening across the globe in the coming months:
Climate Week 2025 (22-24 October 2025, Milan, Italy)
Climate Week 2025’s theme is “Addressing Global Climate Change for a Sustainable Future” to accelerate collaboration and integrate climate action into global pandemic recovery. Building forward opens an opportunity to address social inequalities and invest in sustainability development that is good for humanity and nature.
SOCAP 2025 (27-29 October 2025, San Francisco, USA)
Social innovation events list could not be complete with SOCAP. SOCAP 2025 will bring together a global audience of funders and founders, plus people from philanthropy, government, education, media, finance, science, faith-based organizations, NGOs, creatives, nonprofits, community leaders, and others to power meaningful impact.
Impact Investor Annual Conference 2025 (11 Nov 2025, The Hague, The Netherlands)
As the global political landscape shifts, so does the role of impact investing. In light of ongoing political and regulatory changes, this year’s conference will address the evolving context in which impact investors operate, and explore how the contributions and responsibilities of investors, governments and communities are being redefined. Under the theme ‘Future-proofing Impact: investing in a shifting world’, the fourth edition of the annual conference returns to The Hague on 11 November, bringing together key stakeholders from across the impact investing sector.
Globelics International Conference 2025 (24-26 November 2025, Pretoria, South Africa)
Against the backdrop of South Africa’s G20 presidency, the Globelics conference serves as a crucial intellectual forum that aligns with and reinforces the G20 objectives. Both platforms emphasize the transformative power of innovation in addressing global challenges by promoting collaborative innovation policies that prioritize inclusivity and sustainability. The conference will draw from the G20 discussions and contribute insights and recommendations that can shape the leadership role of Africa and the Global South on the world stage, ensuring that the voices of developing nations are amplified in the G20’s decisions and outcomes. The conference will precede the Science Forum South Africa (SFSA), scheduled for November 25–28, 2025. SFSA is widely recognized as one of the most significant events on the African continent for discussing science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy. This forum hosts thousands of international attendees—including policymakers, academia, science funders, industry representatives, and civil society—who come together to discuss the current and future roles of science in society.
Responsible Investment Forum 2025: Europe (18-19 November 2025, London, UK)
A flagship forum for institutional investors, fund managers and sustainability leaders to explore how responsible investment can drive both impact and returns across private markets.
Impact Week 2025 (19-20 November 2025, Malmö, Sweden)
Impact Week is a unique opportunity for the global community of investing for impact changemakers to encounter cutting-edge ideas, discover new trends and engage with partners, old and new, to maximise their impact for people and the planet. Impact Week is organised by Impact Europe.
UN COP 30 Conference 2025 (10-21 November 2025, Belem, Brazil)
COP 30 will include the 30th session of the Conference of the Parties, the 20th meeting of the COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 20), and the seventh meeting of the COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 7), as well as the 63rd sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 63) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 63) will also meet.
Impact Investing World Forum 2025 (4-5 December 2025, London, UK)
A high-level gathering of impact investors, funders and social entrepreneurs committed to ESG, sustainable investing and scaling social impact. Keynotes at Investment Conference London 2025, the Impact Investing Forum 2025 will include Goldman Sachs, HSBC, EU and EIB to focus on ESG, Blended Finance, Climate Finance, Impact Funds, Sustainable Investing, ETFs, Bonds.
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