WBCSD India Connect - 2026

About the event

India is central to the global sustainability transition because it sits at the intersection of rapid economic growth, rising emissions, and massive development needs. With its 7–8% growth ambition and industrial expansion in steel, cement, power, chemicals and mobility, India is one of the key markets to demonstrate that action and implementation on global climate and nature goals are achievable.

India will host Mumbai Climate Week, the first “Climate Week” to be held in the Global South. The week aims to catalyse citizen-driven climate action, with a focus on food systems, energy transformation, and urban resilience.

WBCSD will be supporting the Mumbai Climate Week effort by hosting the 3rd edition of the WBCSD India Connect alongside Mumbai Climate Week, from 16–18 February 2026, a series of engagements and program launches, connected our powerful community of leading corporations with some of the critical enablers for transformation in India.

What to expect

Discussions will focus on practical, India-relevant approaches to:

  • Driving market transformation in the built environment and heavy industry, including low-carbon materials, demand signals, and pathways to scale during India’s infrastructure build-out
  • Decarbonizing transport and mobility, through investor–corporate dialogue on capital deployment, enabling policy, and scalable solutions
  • Assessing and managing physical climate risks across companies, communities, and value chains, with a focus on resilience, adaptation, and decision-making under uncertainty
  • Strengthening governance, legal readiness, and valuation of sustainability, including implications for boards, C-suite leaders, and fiduciary responsibility
  • Accelerating food systems transformation, through the launch of the Ag & Food Pathway’s India Landscape Accelerator, linking climate action with livelihoods, productivity, and resilience

Sessions will be grounded in WBCSD’s global frameworks and methodologies, co-developed with members, and enriched with real-world examples from India and other emerging and developed markets. Through these discussions we aim to bring leading businesses together to turn complexity into clarity and ambition into action and ensure sustainability becomes a core driver of performance, resilience, and competitiveness.

Why Attend?

  • Accelerate impact – Gain access to practical strategies that support business resilience and enable climate action at scale in one of the world’s most critical growth markets.
  • Engage at the right level – Participate in curated, invitation-only discussions with senior business, finance, and partner leaders shaping India’s transition.
  • Strengthen strategic positioning – Understand how climate risk, valuation, regulation, and market transformation are converging — and what this means for long-term competitiveness.
  • Shape global and India-relevant pathways – Contribute to the evolution of global frameworks and approaches, ensuring they are fit for purpose in India’s economic and development context
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      About WBCSD

      The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is the leading community of over 250 global businesses making sustainability performance a key driver for competitiveness. Established in 1995 as a non-profit member-led organization, WBCSD connects business leaders through all sectors and major economies, and creates the tools and frameworks to scale collective impact, drive cross-sector innovation, and shape an ambitious, enabling policy agenda.

      We operate from seven offices worldwide — in Geneva, New York, Chicago, Amsterdam, London, Singapore and Wuhan — enabling collaboration across value chains and geographies. Together with our members, we are rewiring economic and financial systems to support the transition to a net-zero, nature-positive, and equitable future that creates business value.

      Agenda Overview

      Sessions information

      Decarbonising India’s Built Environment: Collective Action for Low-Carbon Materials & Net Zero Buildings 

      Executive Roundtable

      16 February 2026 | 11.00am – 1.00pm

      Invite-Only Roundtable | Co-hosted with Aditya Birla Group

      Transport & Mobility Decarbonization Investment Roundtable   

      16 February 2026 | 2.00pm – 4.00pm  

      Invite-Only Roundtable | Co-hosted with Aditya Birla Group 

      Senior Leaders Roundtable on the Valuation of Sustainability    

      17 February 2026 | 2.15pm – 3.40pm

      Invite-Only Roundtable | Co-hosted with JSW & KPMG India 

      Driving Climate-Smart and Resilient Agriculture: India Landscape Accelerator Launch  

      18 February 2026 | 11.00am – 1.00pm

      Invite-Only Senior Roundtable | Co-hosted with Godrej Industries Group and BCG

      Mobilizing Adaptation Action: A Strategic Framework for Collaboration  

      18 February 2026 | 3.00pm – 5.30pm

      Invite-Only Roundtable | Co-hosted with Aditya Birla Group 

      Leadership Networking Dinner

      18 February 2026 |  6.30pm onwards

      Invite-Only | Hosted with Aditya Birla Group 

      WBCSD India Connect – 2025

      WBCSD India Connect  2025

      WBCSD India Connect is a key business-led platform catalysing India’s sustainable industrial and climate transition. The inaugural 2024 edition brought together CEOs and senior leaders from 32 forward-thinking companies in Mumbai to accelerate industrial decarbonization and transport transformation, with commitments to drive clean energy uptake, advance hydrogen and zero-emission freight corridors, and collaborate on policy and infrastructure solutions for net-zero pathways.  

      Building on that momentum, the 2025 edition focused on scaling green and regenerative production as a competitive advantage for India’s rapidly growing economy. It spotlighted practical solutions for low-carbon infrastructure, circular value chains, supply chain decarbonization, clean mobility, sustainable agrifood systems, and empowering SMEs with carbon transparency tools. 

      Together, these editions have underscored the role of private-public collaboration, practical solutions and business ambition in driving India’s transition to a globally competitive, low-carbon future – setting the stage for the next chapter in February 2026. 

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