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This year’s Climate Week NYC has given a sharp new focus to the powerful community of corporates and governments that sees climate action as the drive towards a better world for all.

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Over 1000 events will take place during Climate Week NYC next week, with record government engagement and strong corporate support showing continued momentum for global climate action. New York City, September 18 2025 – ...

3 takeaways on climate & AI from Climate Week NYC

Climate change and artificial intelligence are two of the most pressing and transformative topics of our time. As we navigate the complexities of the climate crisis, the hot topic at Climate Week NYC was the role of AI i...

It’s Time – for the highlights of Climate Week NYC

Climate Week NYC 2024 has come to a close. We’re incredibly proud of this week, which was bigger than ever, with 900 events in total – 50 percent more than last year. We felt an enormous positivity throughout the whole w...

Live: Climate Week NYC

Welcome to the #ClimateWeekNYC 2024 Live Blog where you can catch up on all the updates and insights from the Opening Ceremony and The Hub Live. That's a wrap! Day two of The Hub Live at #ClimateWeekNYC is over. For more...

Climate Week NYC launched with a Global To-Do list to get world ‘on-track’ on climate in one year

Seven actions for governments and businesses, including a ban on relining blast furnaces, unleashing renewables and compensating coal workers COP process alone not delivering the speed of emissions cuts needed Climate Gr...

Climate Communications Events at Climate Week NYC

Beyond policy discussions and green technology showcases, climate communication has become a critical discussion point at Climate Week NYC 2024.

The Energy Supercycle, the Energy Triangle and Modernization of the Power Grid

The threat of climate change is driving the need for a dramatic shift in how we handle the energychallenges we face. Many industry observers see the emergence of a new energy ‘supercycle,’characterized by a rapid increas...

Navigating the physical realities of the energy transition

We are almost halfway through what has been dubbed the decisive decade for climate action, so what better time to take stock.

Enhancing Cosmetic Packaging Recyclability: ELC's Multi-Year Study with SMI

At The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC), sustainability is a journey we continue to navigate with care and responsibility. As we look to the future, we recognize the growing dependence of glass in luxury cosmetics packaging—...

Is a world without air conditioning possible? The key role of the construction sector in meeting this global energy challenge.

As a partner of Climate Group, Saint-Gobain is pleased to share this article with the Climate Week NYC community. It was originally published in Constructing a Sustainable Future, a magazine that is part of the Sustainab...

Energy transition: The road to scale

To help with a successful journey to net zero, consider scaling five verticals in a phased manner, aided by various drivers and enablers, including finance, workforce, technology, and business models.

Sarah Newman, Founder of Climate Mental Health Network, Discusses the Intersection of Climate Change and Mental Health in a Global Crisis

Sarah Newman is the Founder and Executive Director of the Climate Mental Health Network, a collaborative of mental health community advocates who are focused on changing our nation’s conversation and its response around ...

Q&A: Outokumpu on the role of green steel in accelerating the New Industrial Evolution

How to unlock green growth and discover new opportunities in green transition? What is the role of sustainable steel in decarbonizing critical industries? We had the chance to speak with Johann Steiner, EVP, Sustainabili...

Inaugural Climate Film Festival Announces Jurists and Narrative and Documentary Film Finalists

The Climate Film Festival, in partnership with the Guardian US, has announced 59 film finalists. The inaugural festival takes place Friday, September 20 - Sunday, September 22. The opening night premiere will be held at ...

A Q&A with Dr. Elizabeth Gray, CEO of The National Audubon Society

Dr. Elizabeth Gray serves as the Chief Executive Officer of The National Audubon Society. She is a champion of science-based conservation and a renowned expert in global conservation and climate change. Elizabeth joined ...

Laura Clarke on the role of the law in advancing environmental justice

As part of our environmental justice theme week in the countdown to Climate Week NYC, our India Executive Director Divya Sharma spoke with Laura Clarke, CEO of ClientEarth, an environmental charity using the law to creat...

Environmental justice in action: Empowering marginalized communities

Diamond Spratling, MPH (she/her), is an acclaimed environmental health and justice activist, storyteller, and international public speaker. In 2019, she founded Girl Plus Environment, a non-profit dedicated to empowering...

Environmental justice in action: Ecuador's fight for the rights of the Machángara river

Natalia Greene is an Ecuadorian activist and political scientist. She is the Vice President of Ecuadorian Coordinator of Organizations for the Defense of Nature and the Environment (CEDENMA), part of the Collective or or...

Climate Week NYC 2024: It’s Time

We’re in an age of urgency. Yes, investment in the energy transition hit a record high in 2023, overtaking fossil fuels and reaching US $1.8 trillion. And some governments, organizations and businesses are doing incredib...

Four actions businesses can take now to transform to net zero

The theme of Climate Week NYC 2023 was We Can. We Will. As the Masterclass Series Partner, Transform to Net Zero brought some of that can-do energy in two action-oriented Masterclasses, supporting company executives to i...

Salesforce Execs share what to expect at the UN General Assembly and Climate Week

Salesforce will support a week of impact with conversation, collaboration, and continued progress at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and Climate Week NYC. Here, Suzanne DiBianca, EVP and Chief Impact Officer, ...

Climate Week NYC: relentless determination

That’s a wrap for this year’s Climate Week NYC, run by Climate Group in partnership with the UN General Assembly and the City of New York – and what a week it was. By far the biggest ever with almost 600 events across th...

Eco-anxiety to eco-optimism: Learning from youth climate advocates

I always find it moving to hear young people speak truth to power. When they find their voice and a platform to use it, the rest of us are compelled to listen.

Opening Ceremony Speech 2023

Our CEO Helen Clarkson opened Climate Week NYC with a speech on how together We Can. We Will., counter climate challenges. Hello everyone, and welcome to Climate Week NYC 2023.

How Can the Public & Private Sectors Collaborate to Advance Innovation for Climate Solutions?

What role does innovation play in your company's efforts to address climate change?

To advance the clean energy transition, National Grid plans for the Future Grid

The U.S. Northeast stands at a crossroads. With nation-leading climate change, clean energy, and equity goals set by states like New York and Massachusetts, we cannot wait to begin building for the future. The opportunit...

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS: Sustainability and the arts

During Climate Week NYC, many events will give guests an opportunity to celebrate climate action and the arts through exhibitions, screenings, performances, and interactive workshops.

Powering Possibilities: Advancing Climate Solutions for the Beauty Industry & Beyond

With rising global temperatures, devastating wildfires, and other increasingly costly weather-related blows to our environment, we stand at a critical juncture in time. But the call for climate action isn’t just an indiv...

Using E3 to Achieve Business Goals

ESG has become a buzzword in the global business community and caused a paradoxical shift in how investors, business leaders, employees and consumers evaluate companies – most notably now including how a company is perfo...

Event highlights: Environmental Justice at Climate Week NYC

As one of the core themes of Climate Week NYC, Environmental Justice brings together a range of events that showcase the role of diversity and inclusivity to accelerate climate action.

Pursuing Environmental Justice in the Northeast

In 2023 alone, we have already seen over 15 climate disasters across the US ranging from wildfires in Maui to flooding in California to cold waves in the Northeast, where National Grid Ventures (NGV) operates. Many of th...

Taking Action for the Health of People and the Planet

From record heat waves across North America, Europe and China, to devastating wildfires in Hawaii and Canada, and floods in Sudan, the results of a changing climate are all around us. Just as dramatic as the shifts in ou...

How business can focus on building more resiliency for people

Today, climate change is driving the biggest humanitarian crisis of our lives. The frequency and severity with which climate-related disasters are impacting communities unsurprisingly wears down the resiliency of physica...

How Johnson & Johnson is supporting communities on the frontlines of climate change

As the world’s largest and most diversified healthcare company, Johnson & Johnson’s long-standing commitment to climate action is grounded in the knowledge that healthy people need a healthy planet. For the sixth yea...

Digitalization holds the key to industrial decarbonization

Siemens is proud to sponsor Climate Week NYC! We are committed to playing our part in helping to address the climate crisis for ourselves and our customers. With the publication of our Sustainability Report for fiscal 20...

The world’s next big challenge is becoming nature positive

Being nature positive means that the world interacts with nature in a way that’s restorative and regenerative rather than just extractive. Of course, that’s a broad definition, and people can think differently about how ...

Q&A: BMW Group VP Sustainability and Mobility Strategy at BMW Group Dr. Thomas Becker on driving towards a net zero future

We recently sat down with Dr. Thomas Becker, VP Sustainability and Mobility Strategy at BMW Group, to talk about innovative approaches and commitment to reducing carbon footprint within the automotive industry.

Climate Week NYC: We Can. We Will.

Climate Week NYC 2023 is all about joining forces to drive climate action. This year our message is clear. We Can. We Will.

Partnership between the Youth Climate Justice Fund and Climate Group for Climate Week NYC 2023

We are thrilled to announce an exciting partnership between the Youth Climate Justice Fund and Climate Group in anticipation of New York Climate Week 2023. This collaboration marks a significant effort towards fostering ...

Financing the Energy Transition Will Take Collective Action

Financing the Energy Transition Will Take Collective Action

Why climate and nature matter to every business

Everyone attending Climate Week NYC knows that the world is nowhere near where we need to be to tackle the threats to our planet. But with that shared understanding of the situation comes a risk. The lack of sufficient a...

Three weeks to Climate Week NYC – Finding the connections between nature loss and climate change

With just three weeks to go until Climate Week NYC kicks off, we’re looking at the topic of nature – one of the week’s key themes. Seeing changes in nature can help us understand the impact climate change is having on ou...

Case closed: Climate change impacts financial performance

Understanding risks and rewards in the transition to a sustainable economy Is climate change material to investment decision making? As asset managers, it’s a question that’s core to our fiduciary duty.

Five weeks to Climate Week NYC – Talking finance

With just five weeks to go until Climate Week NYC kicks off and, in the run up to the event, this week we’re talking finance. And the importance of local jobs and local investment, as that’s something people can really s...

15 Years of Climate Week NYC: Why You Should Be A Part of Our Most Impactful Summit Yet

With less than 50 days to go until Climate Week NYC 2023, it’s time to highlight what makes this year so special, and why everyone in the climate community needs to be a part of it.

Sustainable construction shouldn’t be an unaffordable luxury (and we’re working on making it accessible to all)

The concept of “home” can conjure up a wide variety of meanings in our minds. It can be the place we live in; the place where we feel “at home;” the place where our loved ones are waiting for us; the place we came from a...

Climate Week NYC – We Can. We Will

Joining forces to drive climate action

Opening Ceremony speech

Our CEO Helen Clarkson started Climate Week NYC with a speech on accountability, justice and urgency at our Opening Ceremony. You can rewatch it below or read the speech here. Hello everyone, and welcome back to our firs...

New York City, "If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere."

For fourteen years, Climate Group has hosted Climate Week NYC, creating worldwide impact and lasting change. This year was no exception; with 400 events across the five boroughs, Climate Week NYC brought together heads o...

Climate Week NYC: Uniting the world on climate action

This year’s Climate Week NYC, run by Climate Group, marks the first time we’ve been back in person since 2019 – and the energy, enthusiasm and commitment to Getting It Done was palpable. World leaders gathered in the Big...

Strategies to achieve climate progress and other things we learned interviewing 30 corporate professionals

Our new report, Getting Going, in collaboration with Oliver Wyman, provides a toolkit to drive real-world progress on corporate climate action. Leading with how you will contribute to the transition, rather than with emi...

Sustainable Development is our only choice

Addressing climate change across our planet is a huge challenge and time is short - it is only through behavioral change that emissions reduction can be enabled.

Climate Week NYC is Getting It Done together

Climate Week NYC 2022 is all about coming together. This year, like last, we’re aiming to get it done.

50-day countdown to Climate Week NYC begins

10 August 2022, London – With just fifty days to go until Climate Week NYC (September 19-25), the next wave of high-profile speakers have been announced. Big ticket names include the likes of David Miliband, Executive Di...

“Irresistible Sustainability”: Brands Must Find Ways to Organically Bring Consumers Along on Sustainability Journey

I can’t think of a global, consumer-facing brand that hasn’t announced bold climate change initiatives. Consumers and other stakeholders rightly expect the brands they trust and rely on to take decisive action to avoid t...

Climate Week NYC Opening Speech

Speech given by Helen Clarkson, CEO Climate Group, to open Climate Week NYC 2021

That’s a wrap: The success stories from Climate Week NYC 2021

As yet another Climate Week NYC draws to a close, we reflect on the many highlights, the electric atmosphere in New York City, the Late-Night comedy shows banding together for ‘Climate Night’, the triumph of The Hub Live...

ZEV Community Virtual Tour: Scottish Zero Emission Vehicle Innovation

An old Michelin tire production factory in Dundee, Scotland closed last year due to its inability to compete on the international market. The space has been reinvented as a cutting-edge site for shaping the skills and te...

Climate Change, Health & Equity

Last month, UNICEF reported that one billion children live in countries at extremely high risk for the negative impacts of climate change. A recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency analysis showed that climate impact...

Communicating Climate Change

With climate change and climate-related weather events playing a more central role in our lives, does how we communicate about the crisis need to shift? That’s the question a panel of communications experts, from filmmak...

Peas, trees and 1.5 degrees: nature and agriculture in the Climate Decade

From big business to small farmer, we can all work together to help fix our world

Developing the Hydrogen Economy: A vision for New York

Green hydrogen as an energy or fuel source is not a science project. It's happening now. But more investment and collaboration are needed if the hydrogen-powered economy is to deliver economic growth and jobs.

Transform To Net Zero: The Supply Chain Perspective

More than 3,000 businesses have made net zero commitments as part of the UN's Race To Zero Campaign. But the IPCC's latest report confirmed that the earth is warming at an even faster rate than initially thought. Bolder ...

Transformation of Transport and Energy by 2040 or Sooner

Addressing climate change is a team sport. By collaborating, organizations can achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040, if not sooner, corporate leaders told Climate Week NYC. The interrelated spheres of transportation...

Driving Co-Benefits for Climate and Health: How private sector action can accelerate progress

Climate change and pollution obviously have a big impact on public health. But can we actually leverage climate mitigation strategies to have positive effects for both the environment and human health?

Green jobs in the clean energy transition

This year, US President Biden pledged to transition the country’s energy supply to 100% clean energy by 2035. This historic commitment has the potential to create over 10 million green jobs.

Leaving no one behind in the transition to net zero

The last 18 months have been overwhelming for so many in the face of a global pandemic and, in recent months, extreme weather events have exacerbated the challenges being felt across society. We know we’ve got to act big...

Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony

Industry, financial and political leaders shared that they are ready and willing to go beyond the Paris climate accords by taking more urgent and immediate actions.

Climate Week NYC is Getting It Done with Palmetto, Saint-Gobain, Con Edison and Barings

September 16, 2021 – New York, NY– Climate Week NYC is about Getting It Done, and that means collaborating with the diverse organizations who play a crucial part in achieving climate action. The Climate Week NYC events p...

The Value of Zero: Understand how the Net Zero transition may affect shareholder value

As the scientific community made clear in last month’s IPCC Report, climate change is not just coming - it’s here. As a warming climate’s consequences become more visible and the urgency of action more unequivocal, resol...

A clear vision to achieve economywide electrification

Getting Real: A blueprint for a commercially smart climate transition

Getting Real provides a blueprint for a commercially smart climate transition, distilling the vast collective insight of the world’s most experienced corporate climate action practitioners to demonstrate how ambitious cl...

The Estée Lauder Companies: United in a vision of a better future

Climate Week NYC comes at a critical moment for our planet. Across countries, industries, and communities, we are navigating both an ongoing global pandemic and the detrimental consequences of climate change. The latest ...

Net zero: A bold and worthy goal, but now it’s time to deliver

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has yet again issued perilous warnings about the earth’s changing climate. And who, among us, has not experienced such changes firsthand? Be it record high temperature...

AT&T: The role of broadband in addressing climate change and enabling a net-zero economy

As the world sets its sights on a net-zero economy, businesses are stepping up. Fifty-five percent of Fortune Global 200 companies have established targets for the partial or total elimination of greenhouse gas (GHG) emi...

Grist announced as US Media Partner for Climate Week NYC

NEW YORK, NY – Grist joins Climate Week NYC as the Climate Group’s US Media Partner. As a nonprofit, independent media organization with a long track-record of environmental coverage, Grist brings its expertise in climat...

Climate justice leads the way to real solutions for people and the planet

Our path to partnership with Climate Week NYC didn’t start out as fast friends. Rather, it was one that began by our offering them feedback; they cared enough to listen and hear us out — a process we wish were more commo...

Countdown to Climate Week NYC

It is now just two weeks until Climate Week NYC (September 20-26) gets underway in New York and around the world.

Working together, leveraging our strengths, and getting it done right, by Hydro-Québec

Sophie Brochu, President and CEO, discusses Getting It Done:

Investments in nature are a win for climate – and for local communities

In the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, elephants, black rhinos and giraffes roam the expansive rangelands of Chyulu Hills. So too do tourists, who normally flock to the region to catch glimpses of its iconic wildlife. In pr...

We need to build our cities from the ground up with sustainable choices

Municipal Tenders Should Value Partners Through a Sustainable Filter Only systemic policy can address climate change and municipalities need strategic approaches To change the way we build our cities, to change the way w...

Stemming the rising tide of global sea levels

Jerry Speltz, Head of U.S. Real Estate Engineering, Barings Real Estate discusses getting it done ahead of Climate Week NYC.

There is nothing ‘business-as-usual’ about climate change

Page Motes, Head of Corporate Sustainability at Dell Technologies, discusses Getting It Done:

Climate Week NYC invites the global community to take part

June 28, 2021, New York City – Climate Week NYC invites the global community to take part by hosting and attending events, supporting sustainable businesses, and learning more about how climate leaders and organizations ...

The Power of Vision: The Marketplace of the Future

By Amer Jandali, Founder, Future Meets Present

What happened during Climate Week NYC 2021?

Climate Week NYC 2021 saw ambitious commitments and launch of initiatives from business, governments, and civil society. See some of the highlights: Built Environment Commitment Commitment Commitment Full list of Built E...

Nature Commitments

From oceans to forests, nature plays an essential role in the wellbeing and livelihoods of all species. The Nature program addresses the importance of preserving and restoring the Earth’s ecosystems and biodiversity. It ...

Celebrating World Environment Day by Getting It Done

Recently, we launched Climate Week NYC 2021. This is the year, the week, the time, for getting it done.

Global leaders driving environmental change to speak at Climate Week NYC 2021

1 June 2021, London – This World Environment Day, the Climate Group is delighted to announce the first wave of speakers at Climate Week NYC (September 20-26). Centered on the theme “Getting It Done”, The Hub Live will sh...

Comment: Climate Group CEO responds to Biden's NDC commitment 

Climate Group CEO Helen Clarkson has responded to President Biden's commitment to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030. The announcement was made ahead of the Leaders' Climate Summit, taking place on Earth Day.

Climate Week NYC is returning in September 2021

Climate Group has today announced that Climate Week NYC will be taking place on September 20-26, 2021.