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OnePointFive’s Guide to Must-Attend Climate Week NYC 2026 Events
Our curated guide include both in-person events across New York City and online sessions, making it possible to take part in Climate Week NYC wherever you’re based. Click the buttons below to explore each list and find the events that work best for you:
Climate Week NYC (September 20–26) brings together leaders, practitioners, businesses, and organizations working across climate and sustainability. With hundreds of events taking place throughout New York City and online, knowing where to start can be a challenge.
That’s why we’ve curated a list of Climate Week NYC events recommended by our team. We’ve highlighted sessions covering climate and sustainability topics, practical conversations, and opportunities to connect with others working in the space.
Explore in-person and online events by day
Want to plan your week? Browse our recommended events for each day of Climate Week NYC, plus a dedicated section for multi-day events happening throughout the week.
🟢 Events marked as ‘OPF Team is attending’ are the ones we’ll be at, come say hi!
Multi-day events | Sunday, September 20 | Monday, September 21 | Tuesday, September 22 | Wednesday, September 23 | Thursday, September 24 | Friday, September 25 | Saturday, September 26 | Online Events
Events Hosted or Presented by OPF
We’ll be hosting and presenting at several events throughout Climate Week NYC. Explore the sessions below to see where you can hear from the OPF team and connect with us during the week.
EVENTS BY OPF
We’re Hosting: NYCW 2026 OPFA Alumni Meetup
Meetup | 📍 Tavern 29, New York | 🕒 September 24, 5 - 6pm
In town for New York Climate Week? Join us for our annual OPF Academy alumni meet-up for a chance to step out of the Climate Week whirlwind and reconnect with the OPF community and team.
Our international team is flying in for the occasion. Meet Denise Devlyn (Head of Sustainability Training, joining from Seattle) and Laura Latorre (Sustainability Training & Community Coordinator, joining from Colombia), alongside Neil Yeoh, Matthias Muehlbauer, and Julia Akker.
Space is limited — RSVP by September 22nd to save your spot.
Neil Yeoh at Catalyst Conversations of Consequence: The Leadership Challenge
Salon-style dialogue | 📍 Hybrid (In-person: Pratt Institute, Myrtle Hall, Brooklyn; Livestream available) | 🕒 September 21, 5 - 6:30pm
What does leadership look like when technological change and climate disruption are happening at the same time? Join Neil Yeoh at Pratt Institute’s Catalyst Conversations of Consequence for an open, interactive discussion bringing together practitioners across sustainability, technology, and leadership.
Neil Yeoh at Navigating the Job Search in the Age of AI
Panel | 📍 Project Farmhouse (76 9th Ave, New York) | 🕒 September 22, 2pm
The Green Jobs Pavilion 2026 brings together employers, educators, and changemakers across climate, sustainability, and clean energy for three days of career exploration, networking, and hands-on learning. As part of the Pavilion, Neil Yeoh will join the “Navigating the Job Search in the Age of AI” panel, exploring how AI is changing the way we work and what it means for people building careers in the green economy.
MULTI-DAYS EVENTS
Scope 3 Peer Group - Climate Week New York 2026
Various | 📍 New York (venue TBC) | 🕒 September 21-25
The Scope 3 Peer Group is designed to make the most of Climate Week NYC for professionals working on Scope 3 emissions, with workshops, networking, and opportunities to exchange knowledge with peers. Register to stay updated on the agenda and potential opportunities to contribute as a speaker or facilitator.
GeSI: Impact in Action at NYC Climate Week 2026
Various | 📍 Multiple venues, NYC (Globant NYC offices, The Nest Climate Campus, UN Goals Lounge, Columbia University) | 🕒 September 21-25
This September, GeSI brings Impact in Action to New York City Climate Week. Over five days, we convene global institutions, industry leaders, and academic experts around a single, shared purpose: turning ambition into a measurable impact.
The Nest Climate Campus 2026
Summit | 📍 North Javits Center | 🕒 September 22-24
During Climate Week NYC, the right people are in the city — but rarely in the same room. The Nest Campus changes that. One high-density environment where decision-makers across sectors gather to define and accelerate the resilience economy.
Green Jobs Pavilion 2026
Various | 📍 Project Farmhouse, 76 E 13th St, Manhattan, New York, NY | 🕒 September 21-23
The Green Jobs Pavilion is Green Jobs Board’s premier conference where climate careers take shape. Expect three days of panels, workshops, coaching, and direct employer access designed to connect people to careers in a sector that has historically hired from a narrow pool.
SUNDAY
NATCAP: Coral Rave
Party | 📍 New York, NY (address shared on registration) | 🕒 10pm - 12am
NATCAP Coral Rave is the late-night counterpart to the NAT GALA. The night brings the reef to the revellers celebrating coral not just as an ecosystem, but as a living soundscape, a creative muse, and a symbol of collective restoration. Funds raised through NATCAP tickets directly support the creation of THE NAT GARDEN, a newly planted coral nursery in Tahiti, connecting the energy of the night to tangible, living impact.
MONDAY
Convergence Member Breakfast & Networking
Breakfast | 📍 Citi Global Headquarters, 388 Greenwich St, New York NY 10013 | 🕒 9 - 11:30am | 🟢 OPF Team is attending
The Convergence Market Insights team will deliver the latest briefing on the climate blended finance market, featuring an exclusive preview of the upcoming State of Blended Finance – Climate report, along with highlights from other recent and forthcoming climate publications in Convergence’s knowledge suite.
PRI Investor Day at New York Climate Week
Summit | 📍 MetLife Building, 200 Park Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10166 | 🕒 8:30am - 5:30pm
By bringing together senior representatives from across the responsible investment ecosystem, PRI Investor Day will focus on how institutional investors are approaching the practical, financially relevant drivers of long‑term performance, including ways to translate high‑level commitments into measurable actions across portfolios and the real economy.
Columbia Fashion, Energy, and Climate Summit
Summit | 📍 Pulitzer Hall, 3rd Fl Lecture Hall | 🕒 9am - 5pm
The Columbia Fashion, Energy, and Climate Summit will bring together leaders from fashion, energy, climate, technology, business, academia, policy, and design. The theme of this year’s program is Fashion and the Climate Future, with discussions focused on examining how energy systems, materials, markets, finance, regulation, trade, and culture are transforming the industry, and what it will take to build a more resilient, competitive, circular, and climate-conscious fashion system.
The Workforce Revolution: Reskilling for Climate and Growth
Panel | 💻 Hybrid (In-person: Lavan Midtown New York; Livestream available) | 🕒 10 - 10:50am
This panel will explore how companies, platforms, and governments can work together to scale climate tech jobs, ensuring that opportunities are accessible across geographies and demographics. From leveraging and upskilling existing workforces to unlocking entirely new career pathways, the conversation will highlight both the demand signals from employers and the lived experience of workforce development.
NY Tech Meet Up: Climate Tech Edition
Mixer | 📍 124 E 14th St, Manhattan, New York, New York | 🕒 5 - 9:30pm
NY Tech Meetup: Climate Tech Edition brings together more than 350 founders, industry leaders, VCs, family offices, and researchers for an evening exploring mounting risks and the role of transformative new technology in strengthening resilience.
Women in Climate & Food Happy Hour
Happy Hour | 📍 Regen House, New York | 🕒 5 - 9:30pm
Join us for an evening of connection, thoughtful conversation, and celebration of the incredible women driving change across the sector. Whether you've been with us since the beginning or this is your first event, we'd love to have you. Come raise a glass, share what you've been working on, and be part of a community that continues to learn from, support, and champion one another at the intersection of food and climate.
TUESDAY
MIT Solve Challenge Finals
Forum | 📍 450 E 29th Street, Manhattan, New York, New York | 🕒 8am - 7pm
Every year, Solve convenes over 300 social impact leaders in New York City, amidst the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Week, for a thrilling day of live pitches, prize announcements, and world-changing momentum.
Circular Supply Chain Summit
Summit | 📍 New York, NY (address shared on registration) | 🕒 9am - 5pm
Hear from and engage with industry leaders and practitioners shaping circular supply chains in real operations, plus join hands-on workshops led by experts and practitioners, built around real world circular supply chain problems. Lunch is provided.
Navigating the New Rules on Environmental Marketing: Perspectives from the U.S. and the E.U.
Panel | 📍 28 Liberty Street, New York, New York | 🕒 9 - 11:30am
Including the following panels: “View from the National Advertising Division”, “Developments in the United States”, “Developments in the European Union”, and “Putting It All Together”.
Climate Week NYC - Data Centers: Community-Led Advocacy to Real Solutions
Panel | 📍 Iron23, New York, NY | 🕒 9 - 10:30am
You can’t talk about data centers without talking about the South. Our region has become the largest hub for these facilities in the U.S., and communities—from urban neighborhoods to rural towns—are feeling the impact. Hear how grassroots organizers are pushing for change not only at the local level but calling for more transparency and national policy action.
Industrial Decarbonization & Urban Resilience
Panel | 📍 250 W 55th St, Manhattan, New York, New York | 🕒 9 - 11am
During NYC Climate Week, Suffolk Technologies, Morrison Foerster and Climate Salon are teaming up to discuss: How do we decarbonize our infrastructure while building for resiliency? We'll start with a panel to hear from experts working on solutions to address some of our biggest challenges, and then ask you for your ideas during roundtable discussions.
Beyond the Commitment: Embedding Climate Action
Panel | 📍 REGEN HOUSE | 🕒 8 - 10am | 🟢 OPF Team is attending
This session, hosted by Environmental Defense Fund, brings sustainability, procurement, and finance leaders from across the sector together. It will feature interactive, small-group discussions on the factors that influence prioritization, funding and partnerships on emission reduction initiatives that can help connect climate considerations to business value and enable greater scale and lasting progress.
Methane leadership in practice: How the EU Methane Regulation is transforming energy markets
Panel | 📍 Convene, 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY | 🕒 11am - 1pm
The discussion will explore early implementation lessons, the regulation’s influence beyond Europe, and how credible data, investment and international cooperation can help suppliers prepare for compliance, reduce emissions, strengthen energy security and propel the industry toward near-zero methane targets. Lunch is provided.
Activating Data Across Urban Environments
Panel | 📍 The Arts Center on Governors Island 110 Andes Road New York, New York | 🕒 1 - 3:30pm
This session brings together the scientists, agencies, and community partners generating environmental data across New York City to confront a shared challenge: critical atmospheric and marine data is being collected across the region, but too often in silos that limit its reach and impact.
Beyond the Pilot: Securing Corporate Adoption
Panel | 📍 Brooklyn Army Terminal Annex | 🕒 1 - 3pm
For many climate startups, scaling beyond the pilot can represent a formidable valley of death. How can climate startups better learn how to master B2B customer engagement? And what do climate corporations wish startups understood about their procurement? Hear reverse pitches from climate corporates as well as success stories from best in class cleantech founders who have mastered the art of securing corporate adoption.
Dynamo Energy Transition Summit
Summit | 📍 Nasdaq, NYC | 🕒 1:30 - 6pm
Bringing together CEOs, investors, policymakers, and founders from the world’s leading energy companies, financial institutions, and emerging technology innovators, the Summit offers a unique forum for candid conversations on the topics redefining the global energy landscape. Note: attendance is exclusively reserved for members of the Dynamo network.
The Data Center Dilemma: Building Smart Policy for the AI Era
Summit | 📍 140 W 62nd St, New York | 🕒 2 - 3pm
This panel will examine how policymakers can respond to one of the defining infrastructure challenges of the AI era. Bringing together advocates, legal scholars, policymakers, and energy experts, the conversation will explore the policy tools available to ensure that data center development serves the public interest rather than undermining affordability, environmental protection, and grid reliability.
Investing in Circularity: The Business Case for Aluminium Beverage Can Recycling
Summit | 📍 730 Third Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York | 🕒 3 - 7pm
Join the Global Beverage Can Circularity Alliance (GBCCA) at Climate Week in NYC as we explore Advancing Aluminium Recycling as a Business Opportunity. Building on the success of the past two years, this year’s event is hosted by the US Aluminum Association, the Can Manufacturers Institute, and the International Aluminium Institute.
Convening the Next-Generation Materials Transition
Forum | 📍 Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York City | 🕒 3:30 - 7pm | 🟢 OPF Team is attending
This Climate Week NYC, Eco Age is convening the organisations, brands, and initiatives helping to shape that future. The Forum creates a platform where leaders can share knowledge, build partnerships, and explore practical pathways to adoption, connecting the people who each play a vital role in scaling next-generation materials.
Powering the Future: Fusion & AI
Panel | 📍 200 Park Ave, New York City | 🕒 3:30 - 6pm | 🟢 OPF Team is attending
Hosted by the Fusion Industry Association and CBRE, the event will explore the intersection and opportunities of fusion energy, AI, and data center scaling. The event will feature conversations with leading companies and experts shaping the future of energy and digital infrastructure. A cocktail reception will follow the program, offering opportunities to connect with leaders across industry, investment, and policy.
Hiding in plain sight: the conventional materials that will scale the clean economy
Panel | 📍 New York City | 🕒 3:30 - 4:30pm
This session explores practical strategies to scale supply, build market confidence, and accelerate the adoption of low-carbon materials. We highlight insights into pre-competitive partnerships, procurement models, and standards alignment; all tools to reduce carbon risk, strengthen supply chains, and to ensure strategic infrastructure can meet the growing demands of the clean economy.
Unlocking Value Chain Decarbonization with Market-Based Instruments
Panel | 📍 Midtown, New York City | 🕒 4 - 5pm
Moderated by Jordan Woll (STX Group), the discussion will feature experts from the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS), founders of the Green-e® certification, who will share perspectives on evolving standards, market developments, supplier engagement strategies, and emerging approaches to value chain renewable electricity procurement.
Women and Climate Climate Week NYC Happy Hour
Happy Hour | 📍 Register to see address | 🕒 5:30 - 8pm | 🟢 OPF Team is attending
Women and Climate's Climate Week NYC Happy Hour is a special space for women and non-binary individuals to network, make new friends! As always, no climate experience necessary! Our Board Members and Volunteers will also be attending and eager to meet our community, new and existing!
WEDNESDAY
Scaling the Transition: Clean Fuels and the Future of Corporate Decarbonization
Panel | 📍 Midtown, New York City | 🕒 8 - 10am
Join ACT Group and the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) for a timely discussion with corporate leaders, clean fuel producers, and experts from the Clean Energy Accounting Project. Attendees will gain practical insights into how clean fuels can support net-zero progress, key accounting considerations, and the emerging Market-Based Accounting for Clean Fuels guidance.
MSCI Climate Week NYC 2026
Summit | 📍 Convene, 360 Madison Avenue, NYC| 🕒 9am - 5pm
Physical risk, AI infrastructure and energy disruption are reshaping global markets and creating new opportunities. During New York Climate Week, MSCI will host an exclusive, invitation-only gathering of leaders from across the financial system who are using data and intelligence to find conviction and competitive advantage in a rapidly shifting landscape.
The Scope 3 Control Paradox | Panel & Networking Lunch
Panel + Lunch | 📍 285 Fulton St, Manhattan, New York, New York | 🕒 11am - 1pm
This invitation-only event brings together senior sustainability, procurement, and supply chain leaders from large corporates actively managing Scope 3 programs, to tackle the defining challenge of corporate decarbonization: being fully accountable for emissions that sit entirely outside your direct operations.
Waste Is a Design Flaw: Building the Circular Industrial Economy
Forum | 📍 Penn1: 250 W 34th St., 2nd Floor, Manhattan, New York, New York | 🕒 11:30am - 1pm
In this two-hour forum, speakers will explore what circularity looks like in practice for organizations designing, manufacturing, operating, and recovering complex products and materials at scale. From start-up innovation to enterprise-scale transformation, the discussion will provide practical insights into what it takes to make circularity not just possible, but profitable and scalable.
From Data to Decarbonization: AI-Powered Climate Action Across the Value Chain
Panel | 📍 432 W 45th St, Manhattan, New York, New York | 🕒 1 - 6pm
Join the ASUENE Group during Climate Week NYC as ASUENE, NZero, Iconic Air, and Secaro come together for an afternoon exploring the technologies, strategies, and partnerships shaping the future of corporate decarbonization. The program features expert presentations, customer case studies, and a fireside discussion with sustainability leaders, followed by a networking reception with professionals from across the Climate Week NYC community.
Physical & Digital Decarbonization: Scaling Responsibility Across Corporate Footprints
Panel | 📍 Okta Retail Experience Center, 920 Broadway, New York, NY | 🕒 2 - 5pm
The event will feature two panel discussions exploring how organizations are driving decarbonization across both the physical and digital worlds. Together, these conversations will examine the unique challenges, shared responsibilities, and collaborative solutions needed to accelerate a more sustainable future.
Climate Week NYC 2026: Climate Change Education in focus
Roundtable | 📍 One Penn Plaza, Penn1, New York City | 🕒 2 - 4pm
The New York roundtable aims to bring insights from NGOs, policymakers, and philanthropic stakeholders into a broader international discussion. It will explore how climate literacy and education can become stronger levers for adaptation and more effective tools for countering climate disinformation. It will also examine how philanthropy, international assessment frameworks, and public policy can enable implementation at scale.
The Security Imperative: Data, AI, Critical Minerals, and Energy Systems
Panel + Reception | 📍 SAP Experience Center 10 Hudson Yards, 52nd floor, New York, NY | 🕒 2:30 - 7pm
Join the Irving Institute and SAP for two executive panels on AI, data-sharing, and the energy supply chain. Panel 1: Intelligent Power Systems for a Secure, Resilient, and Data-Driven Energy Future. Panel 2: Critical Minerals, Energy Security, and the Energy Supply Chain. A reception with refreshments will follow the panels.
Climate Leadership Beyond Reporting: How Boards and Executives Can Turn Climate Information into Better Business Decisions
Panel | 📍 1177 Avenue of the Americas, Fl 14, New York, New York, NY | 🕒 2 - 4:30pm
Climate is no longer just a reporting requirement—it is a business issue that influences strategy, operations, investment decisions, and long-term value creation. This session will explore how organizations can move beyond compliance and use climate intelligence as a strategic leadership tool.
Net Zero Value Chains - From accounting to action: advancing credible Scope 3 decarbonization
Panel + Networking | 📍 135 Madison Avenue, New York, New York | 🕒 2:30 - 6pm
Join corporate sustainability leaders, standard setters, climate experts, and solution providers to explore two key developments shaping the future of value chain decarbonization: Implementing the GHG Protocol Land Sector and Removals Standard; and The emerging role of Market-Based Instruments (MBIs). The event will conclude with networking drinks.
Gridlock or Growth? Securing the Infrastructure for America's Thriving Economy
Fireside session + Playbook | 📍 Convene 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY | 🕒 3:30 - 5pm
How can we deploy clean energy as fast as possible while keeping affordability for businesses and consumers at the center of the narrative? Join our special two-part panel session to find out. Participants will first engage with the tensions at play, then learn about the enabling policies that can unlock our affordable energy future.
Heatmap House: America's Great Reindustrialization
Panel | 📍 22 Vanderbilt, New York | 🕒 4:15 - 6pm
The U.S. is in the middle of an industrial buildout – and the energy system is at the center of it. This conversation explores what the explosive growth of data centers and advanced manufacturing means for energy, economic competitiveness, and the future of American industry.
Ceres Partners Reception
Reception | 📍 Invite-only, New York | 🕒 5 - 6:30pm | 🟢 OPF Team is attending
Ceres hosts a private Partners Reception that brings the Ceres Community together at a pivotal moment during Climate Week. Partners and invited guests will connect across sectors, share perspectives, and reflect on what’s ahead as work to advance climate action.
Methane mission control: Total transparency for global impact
Fireside Chat | 📍 TED HQ, 330 Hudson Street, New York | 🕒 4:30 - 6:30pm
This TED Countdown event brings together leaders from policy, science and technology. The conversation will explore how complementary satellite systems, international cooperation and government action can translate better information into accountability and lasting emissions reductions.
Before the Storm: Building the Foundations for Sustainable AI
Panel | 📍 Ludlow House, 139 Ludlow St, New York, NY | 🕒 6:30 - 9pm | 🟢 OPF Team is attending
As demand for AI accelerates, data centre infrastructure is rapidly becoming one of the defining sustainability challenges of the decade. This working dinner convenes a cross-sector group of leaders from technology, data centre operators, investors, city leadership, foundations and sustainability organisations to explore how the industry can coordinate around the environmental and community impacts of data centre growth.
THURSDAY
AI for Energy - Founder Breakfast: NextEra Energy, Venrock, SVB, Google
Mixer | 📍 Register to see address | 🕒 8:30 - 11am | 🟢 OPF Team is attending
Join us during NY Climate Week for an invite-only breakfast bringing together founders, investors, operators, utility leaders, and industry partners working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and energy. Note on Capacity: To create space for substantive conversations and meaningful networking, registrations will be reviewed and confirmed on a rolling basis.
Power, Permitting, and Progress: Navigating Today’s Data Center Challenges
Panel + Networking | 📍 Arnold & Porter, 250 W 55th St, New York, NY| 🕒 8:30 - 11am
Join Arnold & Porter and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) for a timely discussion featuring legal, policy, sustainability, energy, and industry leaders at the forefront of one of today’s most significant infrastructure and energy challenges. Panelists will also provide an overview of the new wave of legal challenges and environmental disputes targeting data centers, drawing valuable lessons for those in the field.
The Resilience Test: An Interactive Catastrophic Disaster Simulation
Workshop | 📍 DLA Piper 1251 Avenue of the Americas 27th Floor New York, NY | 🕒 9 - 11:30am
Join DLA Piper for an interactive simulation that will challenge participants to navigate a realistic, evolving climate scenario. Through guided decision-making and real-time discussion, attendees will gain practical insights into effective catastrophic event response, lessons learned from real-world events, emerging enforcement and litigation trends, and best practices for managing risk and strengthening organizational resilience.
Responsible & Sustainable AI: Powering the Next Economy
Panel | 📍Okta Retail Experience Center, 920 Broadway, New York, NY | 🕒 10:30am - 12pm
The panel will explore what responsible and sustainable AI looks like beyond the technology itself—including how we power it, who pays for it, who benefits from it, and how we can ensure the communities most affected by energy burden and climate change share in the opportunities created by this next wave of infrastructure investment.
New Climate Futures 2026
Forum | 📍 Newlab, Brooklyn Navy Yard, NYC | 🕒 11am - 7pm
Hosted at Newlab's Brooklyn Navy Yard headquarters, the heart of critical technology startups in New York City, New Climate Futures captures the momentum built up across Climate Week with showcases, conversations and a few surprises through-out the day...all towards opening more pathways for adoption and shaping lasting relationships to enable the most critical technologies our planet urgently needs.
Exploring Risk, Resilience and Opportunity at Climate Week NYC
Forum | 📍 The Nest Summit, North Javits Center - 445 11th Avenue at the intersection of 38th Street, New York, NY | 🕒 12:30 - 6:45pm
Join S&P Global at Climate Week NYC to explore the key considerations of risk, resilience, and opportunity. Please register your interest in this event by completing the form below. Given limited capacity, we will follow up with registration confirmation if your request to join is approved.
Are AI Datacenters a Threat to our Clean Energy Future? Local & Global Perspectives
Panel | 📍 144 West 14th Street, Manhattan, New York, New York | 🕒 2:30- 4pm
Join Pratt Institute’s Sustainable Environmental Systems program for our third annual just energy transition event during NYC Climate Week. Global and local experts will join in conversation across just energy challenges, solutions, and perspectives with a particular focus on the rapid expansion of energy-hungry datacenters powering artificial intelligence (AI).
AI, Space Systems and Science Shaping Sustainable Solutions
Panel | 📍 SAP Experience Center 10 Hudson Yards, 52nd floor, New York, NY | 🕒 2 - 3:30pm
Climate change is reshaping the Arctic and Nordic regions, while space-based technologies are improving how governments and businesses measure risk, protect biodiversity, and build resilience. Our panel will look at what is happening now, can it be scaled, what still needs collaboration, and where investment or regulation is needed.
Can AI deliver? Balancing impact, investment and infrastructure
Panel + Networking | 📍 New York, NYC | 🕒 4 - 5:30pm
AI has the potential to improve energy efficiency and optimise everything from power grids to supply chains. Yet as investment and expectations grow, many people are questioning whether AI can produce these gains quickly enough to justify the hype, cost and infrastructure demands. As businesses and governments expand AI adoption, where is the technology delivering impact—and where is it not?
The Energy Transition Deferred: Dr. Jesse Jenkins On The Race For More Power
Panel | 📍 370 7th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, New York | 🕒 6 - 8pm
SOSV Deep Tech LIVE brings together the world's leading innovators for conversations on breakthrough technologies, commercialization, and venture creation. Register now to be the first to hear about our next featured speaker.
For The Ocean — Closing Night of Climate Week NYC
Reception | 📍 Register to see address | 🕒 6 - 9pm
An evening reception closing out Climate Week NYC, exploring how innovation and smart investment are reshaping ocean health — and why the platform of professional sport may be conservation's most powerful, most underused microphone. Co-hosted with Progression and REEFLINE and ImpactAssets.
FRIDAY
AI for Energy - Founder Breakfast: NextEra Energy, Venrock, SVB, Google
Mixer | 📍 Register to see address | 🕒 8:30 - 11am | 🟢 OPF Team is attending
Join us during NY Climate Week for an invite-only breakfast bringing together founders, investors, operators, utility leaders, and industry partners working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and energy. Note on Capacity: To create space for substantive conversations and meaningful networking, registrations will be reviewed and confirmed on a rolling basis.
The Nuclear Renaissance: Financing the Global Expansion
Panel | 💻 Hybrid (In-person: 140 W 62nd St, Manhattan, New York, New York; Livestream available) | 🕒 8:30am - 1pm
This event will convene investors, analysts, and policy leaders shaping the nuclear finance debate, giving speakers a high-visibility platform to help define how fixed income capital supports the nuclear build-out. It will also inform and engage investors, analysts, and other stakeholders on key aspects of financing nuclear development, including the risks and opportunities in this sector.
Industrial Electrification Symposium
Panel | 📍 NYU MakerSpaceBrooklyn, NY | 🕒 9am - 6pm
This symposium brings together experts from industry, academia, government, and the nonprofit sector to take stock of where industrial electrification stands today, what the possibilities look like on the horizon, and what it will take to get there.
US SIF 'Brunch-and-Learn': How AI Can Help Investors Navigate Interconnected Sustainability Risks
Workshop | 📍 50 Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 1600, Manhattan, New York, New York | 🕒 9 - 11am
During this interactive discussion, TIIP will introduce SAIL (Systems Aware Investing Launchpad), its AI-enhanced platform designed to help investors understand, analyze, and implement systems-aware investment strategies. Attendees will learn how artificial intelligence can help investors identify systemic risks, evaluate opportunities, and integrate systems thinking into investment policies, stewardship, asset allocation, and portfolio management.
Power Sector Transformation in Challenging Geographies: The Texas Opportunity
Panel | 📍 EDF NYC Office, 257 Park Avenue S, New York, NY | 🕒 10 - 11:30am
Join EDF and industry leaders to explore how growing demand can unlock opportunities for clean energy technologies and how to ensure policies and markets continue to support innovation, affordability, and climate goals.
Addressing the Cost of Climate Impact: Actions at the Scale of the City
Panel | 💻 Hybrid (In person: 31 Chambers Street, Suite 608, Manhattan, New York, New York; Livestream available) | 🕒 12 - 2pm
Co-hosted by Climate Solutions International and C40 Cities, this high-level panel brings together policy architects and municipal finance leaders to discuss the landmark report, Mainstreaming Climate Adaptation in City Financial Planning and Budgeting. Moving beyond theory, the session will unpack how pioneering cities are using these foundational frameworks to institutionalize climate resilience across all levels of urban governance.
Circular Economy & Green Finance: From Circular Materials to Climate Capital — Scaling Asia-U.S. Net-Zero Partnerships
Panel + Networking | 📍 800 Second Ave, Suite 804, New York NY, Manhattan, New York | 🕒 1:30- 6:30pm
Through two curated panels and a networking reception with sponsor showcases, the program will connect practical circular economy innovation with the capital, policy and market infrastructure needed to accelerate Asia-U.S. net-zero partnerships.
SATURDAY
Global Goals Week
Panel | 💻 Hybrid (In person: New York City; Livestream available) | 🕒 9am - 5pm
Global Goals Week is a shared commitment between 100+ Supporters across civil society, business, academia, and the UN system to accelerate action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially during the UN General Assembly High-level Week.
ONLINE EVENTS
Opening Ceremony part one: Higher Stakes, Harder Choices.
Summit | 🕒 Monday, 9 - 10:30am
We’re operating in a disrupted world. Climate, energy, and economic realities are now fully entangled, with a profound impact on markets and growth. Conditions that once underpinned stability, from insurable risk to reliable infrastructure, can no longer be taken for granted. For leaders, the question is how to seize control over what comes next. The choices made now will determine whether businesses and governments are merely responding to the transition – or driving it.
Opening Ceremony Part Two: Real Momentum, Material Change
Summit | 🕒 Monday, 11am - 12:30pm
The momentum of the clean transition is clear and evidence based. Momentum is vital, but not enough on its own. The real divide is execution. Who can scale fastest. Who can build under pressure. Who can turn the transition into competitive advantage before the laggards change course. What’s emerging is a contest over speed, scale, and system readiness –and in that contest, leadership will be defined by delivery.
DEI in the Green Work Era: Reshaping Net-Zero Industries for Gender Equality
Panel | 🕒 Tuesday, 8:30 - 10am
Co-hosted by the Taiwan Green Energy for Charity Association (TGECA) and Out for Sustainability (Out4S), this 1.5-hour virtual event redefines DEI not just as a corporate metric, but as a strategic solution to unlock human potential and de-risk ESG investments.
The Invisible Ceiling: Why the Qualities That Made You Exceptional as a Climate Leader Are Now Working Against You
Workshop | 🕒 Tuesday, 9:15 - 10:45am
What if the problem isn't what you think it is? What if the very qualities that built your career are now the things capping it? Not because they're wrong, or because you need to start over. But because they've become so dominant that they're blocking the thing you actually need for the next level. This is the invisible ceiling. And it's invisible precisely because it's made of your strengths.
A Climate Investor's Guide to Fiduciary Duty: Who's Actually Looking Out for You?
Workshop | 🕒 Tuesday, 1 - 2pm
During NY Climate Week, GreenPortfolio and Michelman Robinson are bringing together climate-curious angel and experienced investors for an honest conversation about the fine print that most people never read. Free to attend. Bring your questions. Leave with a one-pager and a more informed perspective.
Build your Climate Action Plan in 60 minutes
Workshop | 🕒 Tuesday, 5 - 6pm
The workshop uses Giki Actions, a platform designed for SMEs to build and implement their action plans. You will leave with: Your company’s action plan, built by you, guided by Giki, based on global best practice and ready to implement; on-going access to track your action plan and explore new actions as your plans and needs evolve; plus, answers to your pressing questions
Ceres Mainstage
Summit | 🕒 Wednesday, 9am - 12pm
Including: “Financing Our Future: Unlocking Capital for Deployment and Innovation”, “State Leadership: Opportunities in an Era of Transformation”, and “Powering the Digital Economy: Sustainable Data Centers”. Joining the registered livestream broadcast means you can participate in a moderated chat, access dedicated resources, and have Ceres experts respond to your questions.
Bridging Talent & Climate Innovation: How Nature-Based Jobs Can Become Pathways for Economic Mobility
Panel | 🕒 Wednesday, 12 - 1:30pm
This event brings together community advocates, workforce developers, employers, and government partners to explore how cross-sector collaboration can build talent pipelines that advance both climate resilience and economic mobility – tracing the journey from a resident's first entry point into a green career through to the employer and systems changes needed to sustain it.
Beyond the Energy Bill: AI and the Circular Economy
Summit | 🕒 Wednesday, 12:30 - 2pm
Most conversations about AI ask what it costs the planet — the energy, the water, the hardware. This one asks a different question: what can AI give back? Join the Leadership Circle for a candid, two-sided look at how artificial intelligence could help build a circular economy — keeping materials in use and making circular choices measurable and affordable — and where we should be wary.
Building Adaptive Organizations for the Circular Economy
Workshop | 🕒 Wednesday, 4 - 5pm
In this keynote, I'll introduce the Adaptive Organizations Framework—a strategic perspective on how systems thinking, inclusive leadership and strategic innovation can help organizations build resilience, accelerate transformation and create long-term competitive advantage. This session is designed for business leaders, sustainability professionals, innovation teams, policymakers and anyone interested in the organizational capabilities required to make the circular transition successful.
Make it count. Measuring Impact in Urban Regeneration
Panel | 🕒 Thursday, 12 - 1:30pm
In its sixth appearance at Climate Week NYC, following editions devoted to art (2024) and technology (2025), Near spa benefit (former EuroMilano Spa) turns to the substance of the question: what does it mean to regenerate a city with impact, and how do we tell genuine impact from its imitations? The conversation brings together an international panel — research, the global cities and climate networks, and social-housing finance — to explore how patient capital, credible metrics, and plural public-private partnerships are redefining the value cities create.
Shaping Corporate Transparency Together | a multi-stakeholder session on corporate sustainability, accountability & impact
Workshop | 🕒 Friday, 10 - 11:15am
We'll share findings from our Corporate Sustainability, Transparency & Accountability Survey alongside timely environmental, social, governance trends, then open the conversation to identify gaps in data, reporting, communication, and stakeholder engagement. You'll also get a first look at Impatico, our multi-stakeholder platform that aggregates fragmented corporate sustainability data and reporting in one place to improve efficiency, data intelligence, and decision-making.
At First Glance: How Visualising Climate Can Change the Game
Panel | 🕒 Friday, 10 - 11:30am
This webinar brings together a panel of international experts who will explore photographs that tell the human story of the climate crisis, unpack the infographics that have become iconic examples of climate science communication, and share how one global event brought images and imagination together to reshape the way we make sense of climate's impact on society and the environment.
Climate Education in Action: Realizing New York's Climate Requirement
Panel | 🕒 Friday, 5 - 6:30pm
Join us for virtually for an evening at the American Museum of Natural History. This year’s event will feature a keynote from environmental educator Suzie Hicks and a presentation by ecologist Carolyn Hall, as well as teacher presentations on bringing climate education into the classroom.