POP4 – Climate Conference
A Climate Conference powered by Ecotricity Business
POP, a climate conference for arts, culture and music, returns to Future Yard for its fourth edition on Thursday 19th November. POP4, powered by Ecotricity Business, is where climate action converges with creativity, conversations turn into collaborations, and ideas become real-world change.
Coinciding with COP31, this day of debate, conversation and assembly will explore the power of culture in the pursuit of climate justice; bringing together venue owners, business leaders, creatives, academics and industry professionals to help shape a greener future for the creative industries.
Don’t be a passenger to the climate crisis, be a part of the response. POP4 combines the two key ingredients to effective action – optimism that we will win; and the agency to make it happen.
Across the day you will work side-by-side with leading thinkers and innovators; and learn, share and collaborate. Through interactive sessions we will explore the intersection of policymaking, funding and sustainable practice; see Liverpool as the world’s first UN Accelerator City; work through the latest in renewable energy; examine the future of transport and how we could shape it; along with opportunities for connection with both nationally significant organisations and grassroots practitioners.
Secure your place to be in the room where new ideas are made.
POWERED BY ECOTRICITY BUSINESS
POP4 is sponsored by our new Sustainability Partner, Ecotricity – Britain’s Greenest Energy Company.
Ecotricity is Britain’s Greenest Energy Company, whose mission is to fight climate change, to remove fossil fuel natural gas from the grid and replace it with green gas, with a wider vision for a zero carbon Britain.
As part of this partnership, Ecotricity will take part in panel sessions and share the company’s knowhow from three decades at the forefront of the global climate movement.
LIVE SOUNDTRACKS TO SILENT FILMS: POP4 SPECIAL
Moolaki Club take the reigns for the evening celebrations with a POP4 edition of their ever-popular Live Soundtracks to Silent Films – a distinctive audiovisual night blending avant-garde cinema with live experimental electronica.
Featuring
+ Rebelski
+ Cottage Children vs VX
+ The Accident Club
SUSTAINABILITY ROADMAP
POP4 will also see the launch of Future Yard’s updated Sustainability Roadmap, documenting our journey over the past 12 months, and building on our ambitious plans to reach operational net zero by 2030.
Originally produced in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University, Future Yard’s Sustainability Roadmap has been conceived as an open resource for other music venues and creative spaces. Society’s response to the climate emergency must be collaborative and this is our opportunity to share our ideas and actions with the wider music and creative community.
Read previous published versions of our Roadmap here: 2022 | 2024 | 2025
Future Yard presents
POP4 – A Climate Conference, powered by Ecotricity Business
Thursday 19th November 2026
75 Argyle Street
Daytime conference | Doors 11am – Event finishes at 6pm
Tickets are FREE | please still claim a ticket in advance
Live Soundtracks to Silent Films | Doors open at 7:30pm, show finishes by 11pm. Seated. Tickets available separately (£10 + booking fee). Tickets available here.
#thefutureisagreenbirkenhead
Future Yard is a cashless venue – all payments are taken by contactless or chip and pin. Kitchen open throughout the day.
If you have any specific access requests, please read all of the details about accessibility at Future Yard here.