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Welcome to our digital hub for Climate Week NYC. September 22–25, 2026





The challenge is no longer ambition. It is implementation. Turning commitments into real change, at speed and at scale.
Building on the global fossil-fuel phase-out initiative launched in Santa Marta, Colombia, we will bring on stage the leaders working to turn the goal into reality. Who is ready to move, and what will it really take to build an energy system without oil, coal and gas?
And what about energy security? Ongoing conflicts are disrupting supply routes and exposing the vulnerabilities of an energy system dependent on fuels transported across borders and through geopolitical chokepoints.
We’ll also look ahead to the UN climate summit COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, where the electrification of our energy systems will take center stage. We’ll explore the massive economic opportunities and the challenges we need to solve, from soaring electricity demand and AI to grids, efficiency and investment.
And don’t miss our special focus on climate communication, including the International launch of the Planetary Communications Handbook, presented live on stage in collaboration with Stockholm Resilience Centre.
Meet the people driving the transition. Hear what works. Discover what needs to happen next.
Join us on-site at the Nest Campus in New York City or online from anywhere in the world.
The Climate Hub program will be continuously updated. Register below to be the first to know when new speakers and segments are announced!

Dr. Sweta Chakraborty is the CEO of North America, We Don’t Have Time. She is a partner at Pioneer Public Affairs. She is also the founder and principal of Adapt to Thrive, a venture that seeks to better inform individuals, businesses, and government entities on the complex, interconnected challenges, such as food insecurity and disease, already existing and emerging from a warming planet.
http://swetachakraborty.comPreviously with the Times Newspaper London, the U.N. Environment, and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Nick was the Director of Communications and Spokesperson for the Paris Agreement of 2015. More recently, he has served as the Director of Communications for the Global Climate Action Summit that took place in San Francisco in September 2018.
https://www.earthday.orgCatarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson is an expert moderator, lecturer, and devoted workshop leader in facilitating sustainable development. Catarina moderates for the EU Commission, the Swedish Government, corporations, local municipalities, and universities. She is also content director at A Sustainable Tomorrow and co-founder of the global climate NGO Our Kids´Climate.
Thai-Swedish multimodal artist, singer, and producer Sirintip creates works that center climate action through empathy and meaningful connections. She has issued three critically-acclaimed releases, Carbon (Ropeadope), The Lost World (GroundUP) and Tribus (GroundUP); collaborated on 19 releases; and produced albums for artists like actor Melanie Smith (Seinfeld). She has appeared at international festivals and major venues across the world, alongside Benny Andersson (ABBA), Snarky Puppy, and countless diverse acts. Commissioned pieces include orchestral arrangements for the Swedish Radio and Malmo Symphony Orchestras, respectively; and interpretations for both Nobel Chemistry Prize and Nobel Prize for Peace.
Johan Falk is a leader and entrepreneur in exponential strategies for climate and business. Falk is the CEO and Co-founder of Exponential Roadmap Initiative, with the mission to accelerate exponential climate action. Falk is the co-lead author of Exponential Roadmap and 1.5°C Business Playbook. Falk is a former Senior Innovation Fellow at Stockholm Resilience Centre and Future Earth. Falk was one of the initiators of the Global Carbon Law idea, together with Owen Gaffney and Johan Rockström, inspired by Moore's Law. Further, Falk was part of Intel Corporation 2006-2018, responsible for Intel IoT Ignition Lab and heading up the Intel Edge Cloud Game Changer program for 5G networks. Falk received the Intel Global Design Win of the Year 2010 for accelerating the telecom business exponentially to a multi-billion dollar business.
https://exponentialroadmap.org/https://exponentialroadmap.org/1-5c-business-playbook/Tara Helms serves as Director of Sustainability for Electrolux Group, an organization committed to shaping living for the better through its product innovation and design that help consumers make more sustainable choices in the home. Each day, Tara ambitiously drives sustainable actions across the North American business region, home to 10,000 employees. Her work elevates Electrolux Group as an industry leader in sustainability and has contributed to the organization being named as TIME Magazine’s Most Sustainable Companies of 2025.
Phil is the founder of the energy think tank Ember, and has featured on the TIME Climate 100 list. Phil built Ember from a handful of people passionate about the energy transition, to a global team of more than 80 working across 20 countries today, shaping political and investment decisions.
I am a professor of environmental ethics and philosophy and chair of the Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University in the wild and snowy upper peninsula of Michigan. For more than three decades I've worked at the intersection of philosophy, social science, advocacy, ecology, and the written word. My word touches on a wide swath of environmental discourse: from climate ethics to wolf ecology and policy, from the concept of wilderness to conceptions of values in natural resources, and from Indigenous thought to key ideas in environmental law and policy. I am the co-editor of Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril with Kathleen Dean Moore and my current book, Conservation: a philosophical practice, is under review at Yale University Press.


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Climate Week NYC 2026 brings together the most influential leaders in climate action from business, government, and the climate community, in conjunction with the United Nations General Assembly and the City of New York. Climate Week NYC creates an ambitious platform to drive climate action. Climate Week NYC is all about Getting It Done. Through celebrating climate action, challenging ourselves to do more, and exploring ways to increase ambition, Climate Week NYC inspires, amplifies and provides a global platform for connection and discussion.
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