About Climate Week NYC
Climate Week NYC brings together leaders from business, academia, government, civil society and the climate sector for the largest annual climate event of its kind—hosting hundreds of events and activities across New York City. Each year, these leaders and decision-makers from around the world gather to drive and champion climate action.
From September 20-27, 2026, Climate Week NYC participants from across the globe will gather under this year's focus, which is on the energy, the impact, and the action that we drive together.
The Nature Conservancy is proud to contribute to these vital conversations, sharing science, solutions and stories that inspire action for people and nature. We'll be participating in dozens of events throughout the week. Below are a few opportunities to join us.
Where to find us at Climate Week NYC 2026
This is a living webpage that will be refreshed regularly. Please check back to see if new events have been added.
Events
Monday, September 21
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Title: Rooted in Resilience: From Architecture to Market to Unlock Capital for Mangroves
Description: Three years into the Mangrove Breakthrough, the focus has shifted from proving the value of mangroves to building the systems needed to scale investment. This Climate Week NYC event will explore how emerging financial tools, standards, insurance mechanisms, and investment pipelines are helping connect capital with real-world mangrove restoration opportunities. Attendees will gain insights into investable projects across regions and revenue models, progress toward mobilizing $4 billion for mangrove conservation, and practical pathways for financial institutions, NGOs, and project developers to advance and support high-impact mangrove projects.
Date: Monday, September 21
Time: 9:30–11:00 a.m.
Place: Scandinavia House
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Title: From Models to Markets: How Water Risk Science Is Reshaping Livestock Supply Chains
Description: Water scarcity is becoming a major threat to global food production, with climate change intensifying drought and water stress across key agricultural regions. Join The Nature Conservancy and FAIRR at Climate Week NYC to explore how growing water risks are impacting livestock supply chains and what businesses can do to adapt. Drawing on FAIRR's latest water risk research and TNC's drought modeling, speakers will share practical strategies to strengthen supply chain resilience, followed by discussions on opportunities for collaboration, investment and action.
Date: Monday, September 21
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Place: Regen House
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Title: Investing in Change; Climate, Biodiversity and the Agri-food Future
Description: Climate change and nature loss are transforming agriculture, creating both risks and opportunities for investors. Co-hosted by The Nature Conservancy's NatureVest and RRG Capital Management, this discussion will explore how private capital can help accelerate climate-adaptive agriculture, strengthen resilience across food and farming systems and deliver both financial returns and measurable environmental outcomes.
Date: Monday, September 21
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Place: Scandinavia House
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Title: From Pasture to Port: Bright Spots in Supply Chain Traceability on Land and Sea
Description: This session highlights emerging success stories of supply chain traceability from both land and sea, showcasing how digital technology, data-driven monitoring and cross-sector collaboration are helping businesses meet sustainability goals, reduce risk and deliver greater accountability from source to market. Join leading TNC experts and key partners to explore what's working today and what it will take to scale these solutions globally.
Date: Monday, September 21
Time: 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Place: Scandinavia House
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Title: Climate Implementation Forum
Description: The Climate Implementation Forum is a strategic platform during Climate Week NYC focused on accelerating implementation and advancing the Global Climate Action Agenda.
The Forum brings decision-makers from governments, companies, investors, cities and civil society to showcase proof of progress, including successful projects underway, capital deployed and measurable results, while identifying where expertise, technology, investment and operational capacity are needed to scale implementation. Join TNC’s CEO, Jennifer Morris, in conversation with other experts.
Date: Monday, September 21
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place: Fordham University (Lincoln Center Campus)
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Title: Amazon Forgotten Fishes: Biodiversity for Nature, Food and Climate
Description: Join The Nature Conservancy during NYCW for Amazon Forgotten Fishes, a conversation on the Amazon’s remarkable freshwater biodiversity and its role in sustaining healthy rivers, food security, local livelihoods and Indigenous and riverine communities. Speakers will share insights from a new report and explore why freshwater conservation is essential for nature, food and climate.
Date: Monday, September 21
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Place: Scandinavia House
Tuesday, September 22
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Title: Sustainable Investment Forum
Description: The Sustainable Investment Forum brings together senior decision-makers from across investment, finance, policy and business to examine how sustainable finance can move from commitments to capital allocation. Join TNC’s Global Head for Impact Finance and Markets, Matt Arnold, for a Responsible Investor Dialogue looking at emerging markets at the center of sustainable investing. This session will look at what that means in practice for investors: where blended finance, DFI partnerships and green bond issuance accelerate investment, and to what extent EM exposure is becoming a core part of transition-aligned investing.
Date: Tuesday, September 22
Time: 11:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Place: Fordham University (Lincoln Center Campus)
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Title: Making Commercial Forests Work for Nature and People
Description: Working forests are essential for climate resilience, biodiversity, local economies and sustainable timber production. Join leaders from The Nature Conservancy, the Doris Duke Foundation and BTG Pactual for a discussion on how collaboration between conservation organizations, institutional landowners and investors can advance climate-informed forest management and deliver environmental, social and economic benefits across working forest landscapes in the United States.
Date: Tuesday, September 22
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Place: Doris Duke Foundation Treehouse
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Title: Screening of TNC's first-hand climate docuseries, In My Backyard
Description: Get inspired about what’s possible when local communities take action on climate solutions. This screening of two episodes of The Nature Conservancy’s docuseries, In My Backyard, features individuals from frontline communities across the country engaged in robust and innovative solutions to climate change. You’ll see how these communities are reclaiming agency and shaping their futures with joy and resilience. After the screening, participate in a live panel discussion with series director, Tonyisha Harris, along with cast members from the series.
Date: Tuesday, September 22
Time: 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Place: IFC Center
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Title: International Trade and Climate Change: From Challenges to Alignment Opportunity
Description: Join leading voices in trade and environmental policy, including The Nature Conservancy CEO Jen Morris, for a conversation on the future of the global trade system. This session will explore opportunities to reform WTO rules in ways that strengthen economic resilience, advance climate goals and support sustainable development.
Date: Tuesday, September 22
Time: 2:10 – 3:30 p.m.
Place: Trumbull Room of The Yale Club
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Title: Protect, Enhance, Restore: Crediting forests that capture more
Description: Carbon markets have spent the last few years rebuilding credibility through better standards and tighter methodologies. Join Funga, The Nature Conservancy, Verra, Ceiba Earth and Conservation International on a panel that presents the next step: the first carbon methodology built on randomized controlled trials, the scientific gold standard for proving impact. Six leaders across science, standards and project development will discuss what this means for the field, with each organization representing a different geography or mechanism under the same methodology. Together they are the proof point that this approach scales and that restoring degraded working forests and lands is among the most scalable, cost-efficient pathways in nature-based carbon.
Date: Tuesday, September 22
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Place: TBD
Wednesday, September 23
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Title: Bridging Talent & Climate Innovation: How Nature-Based Jobs Can Become Pathways for Economic Mobility
Description: As investments in nature-based infrastructure grow across New York and beyond, ensuring that frontline communities benefit from the economic opportunities these projects create is critical. This Climate Week NYC event will bring together community advocates, workforce leaders, employers and government partners to explore how collaboration can expand access to green careers while advancing climate resilience. The discussion, which will include Hannah Emple of The Nature Conservancy's New York Cities team, will examine the pathway from workforce entry opportunities to the partnerships and systems needed to support long-term economic mobility and climate solutions.
Date: Wednesday, September 23
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Place: Online
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Title: Beyond the Backlash—How Carbon Markets Are Evolving and Why It Matters
Description: Carbon markets have faced years of scrutiny over issues related to integrity, transparency and impact. Meanwhile a set of innovations has emerged to answer some of the market's most stubborn problems. This session moves past whether carbon markets should exist and asks something more useful: what is improving, what is working both in terms of how we manage risk and unlock opportunity and what still has to happen for confidence and scale to follow? A series of short talks cover the following topics: innovations in science; permanence, durability and reversal risk; government-led policy; implementation and finance. The session looks at how measurement, policy, standards and governance shape the markets of tomorrow.
Date: Wednesday, September 23
Time: 1:20 - 2:15 p.m.
Place: The Nature Hub
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Title: The Future of Biodiversity Finance
Description: Join the Paulson Institute, WWF and TNC for the public launch of Financing Nature: The Future of Biodiversity Finance, the latest installment in the Financing Nature series. Building on previous reports that defined the scale of the global biodiversity finance gap and informed funding targets under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, this new report shifts from diagnosing the challenge to highlighting solutions.
Date: Wednesday, September 23
Time: 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
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Title: Mapping Durability: The Science Shaping the Next Generation of Carbon Markets
Description: Confidence in natural climate solutions depends on a more robust, science-backed understanding of durability risk—where carbon storage is more exposed to reversal, how those risks are changing under climate change, and how standards and buyers should account for them. This working session will start with durability mapping to date—from foundational work and its implementation in Article 6 non-permanence risk tools to the critiques and limitations. And then focus on next-generation datasets and systems needed to make reversal risk more transparent, dynamic and decision-useful. Participants have an opportunity to shape the future of how durability is handled and help decide what the science can already support and what still needs to be built.
Date: Wednesday, September 23
Time: 3:50 - 4:45 p.m.
Place: The Nature Hub
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Title: Women & Allies in Climate New York Climate Week Happy Hour 2026
Description: Join Women & Allies in Climate at New York Climate Week for a happy hour with network members and partners! Enjoy drinks, appetizers and conversation.
Date: Wednesday, September 23
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Place: Address will be provided when you register
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Title: Nature, Health and Resilience: Protecting Community Well-Being in a Changing Climate
Description: As the closing plenary of the 2026 Climate and Health Commons, this discussion will explore how nature-based solutions can improve public health and help communities adapt to climate change. Moderated by Shameika Hanson, Climate Adaptation Specialist at The Nature Conservancy in New York, the panel will also feature Katharine Hayhoe, Chief Scientist at The Nature Conservancy, and Catherine Machalaba, Planetary Health Scientist at The Nature Conservancy, alongside Liz Chatwin of AstraZeneca, Alonzo Plough of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Judith Rodin of the NAM Climate Grand Challenge and University of Pennsylvania. Together, they will examine how strategies such as urban forests, salt marsh restoration and flood adaptation can create healthier, more resilient communities.
Date: Wednesday, September 23
Time: 5:05 - 6:05 p.m.
Place: New York Academy of Medicine (remote option available too)
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Thursday, September 24
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Title: Nature: From Source to Shelf
Descriptions: From supply chains to food production, business depends on healthy natural systems. Join The Nature Conservancy’s CEO, Jen Morris, and Walmart Chief Sustainability Officer Kathleen McLaughlin as they discuss the role of business and conservation in advancing large-scale solutions that protect nature, strengthen resilience and create a more sustainable future.
Date: Thursday, September 24
Time: 10:40 - 11:05 a.m.
Place: The Nest Campus, North Javits Center
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Title: Building Nature Investment Portfolios
Description: Building Nature Investment Portfolios will explore how companies are broadening their nature ambitions, with growing interest in investment approaches that deliver multiple environmental and social outcomes. Rather than procuring individual carbon credits in isolation, organizations are beginning to explore how climate, biodiversity, water, resilience and community outcomes can be considered together within longer-term investment strategies. Using a 2035 scenario, panelists and participants will explore what the next generation of corporate nature investment could look like, then work backwards to consider what companies need to start doing today. This is the second in a series of three sessions focusing on Carbon Markets and Nature Investments.
Date: Thursday, September 24
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Place: NTT Data Launch Office
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