IHSES 2026 will bring together global leaders, technical experts, and front-line practitioners to exchange lessons from the field, explore proven interventions, and discuss how artificial intelligence, automation, and digital assurance can enhance decision-making and strengthen risk management.
As industrial water usage increases, water strategy can no longer be left to governments and utility companies. Economist Impact’s Water Summit brings together senior leaders from across the water industry’s value chain—including industrial users, utilities, investors, technology providers and regulators—to explore resilient strategies to protect their businesses.
COP30 in Brazil will emphasise a people and nature focused response to climate action, captured in the Presidency’s call for a global ‘Mutirão’, a Portuguese word derived from the indigenous Tupi-Guarani language that refers to a collective group coming together to work on a shared task, and the placement of nature issues on the COP30 action agenda.