ROOTS & RETURNS

​Carbon has become the unit of measure for a problem that resists measurement. We track tonnes, credits, and targets. But what doesn’t reduce to a number is often left out—ecological knowledge, invisible labour, and the systems that sustain entire landscapes.

​Roots & Returns begins where that accounting stops.

​Roots & Returns is a multisensory exhibition that brings climate finance out of abstraction and into lived reality.

​At a time when billions are being mobilised in the name of climate action, the exhibition asks a simple but urgent question: Who does this capital actually reach and what does it change on the ground?

​Through immersive storytelling, the exhibition traces the journey of climate finance from global capital markets to frontline communities across the Global South. It moves beyond carbon as a metric and into the lived realities of climate action across the Himalayas, Sundarbans, Indonesia, and Kutch.

​Featuring:

• ​Documentary photography of people behind climate work

• ​Handcrafted materials and ecological artefacts

• ​Traceable products from frontline communities

• ​Stories of labour, knowledge, and value often left out of climate finance

​This is not an exhibition of answers, but of evidence.

​For those who’ve been adjacent to this sector for years and want, for once, to be in a room with the physical evidence.

​Free to attend. Open to registered London Climate Week participants. Register above.

​Doors open from 5:30pm for guests who would like to meet the team, explore the curated exhibition, and spend more time with the installations before the storytelling session begins at 6:00pm.

​We encourage early arrival to fully experience the exhibition and connect with fellow attendees, practitioners, and partners working across climate and community-led initiatives.