NYU Wagner Climate Week 2025
As part of Climate Week NYC 2025 and Climate Week at NYU, NYU Wagner is hosting a slate of events focused on policy issues in climate and sustainability.
All events are open to all NYU Wagner students, faculty, and staff, and the general public.
Climate Crossroads — From Forests and Food Systems to Finance and Carbon Markets
Monday, September 22, 8:30am–6:30pm, NYU Wagner Main Event Space
Join global experts, policymakers, and innovators for a dynamic, full-day in-person event, exploring how smallholder empowerment, regenerative agriculture, and circular economy solutions can drive climate resilience and sustainable development. Hosted by O Mundo Que Queremos, ECCON Soluções Ambientais, and NYU Wagner SI3, the program will feature six thought-provoking panels tackling critical issues like agri-finance innovation, forest-friendly economies, and perennial carbon solutions. With voices from the Global South and a strong focus on policy and practice, this event offers actionable insights for a regenerative, equitable future. Speakers to be announced soon.
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Climate Solutions From and For the Amazon Region: Radical Collaboration Based on Science, Local Knowledge and Networks
Tuesday, September 23, 9:00am–10:30am, NYU Wagner Main Event Space
The Amazon stands at the edge of its tipping point, with the convergence of deforestation, fire, and climate change risks undermining its role as a global climate regulator. In the months leading up to a critical COP in the region itself, it becomes essential to highlight both the science that warns of systemic collapse and the solutions that can redirect the region’s trajectory.
The event will bring scientists, local leaders and policymakers together to bridge science, practice, and policy. It will consist of a high-level panel and debate addressing the following guiding issues: What does the most recent science reveal about Amazon tipping points, and what are the global implications of forest loss and recurrent fires?
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Filmmaking and Financing for the Climate: Perspectives from Producers and Project Developers
Wednesday, September 24, 9:30am–10:30am, NYU Wagner Faculty Seminar Room
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Climate Leadership in Uncertain Times
Wednesday, September 24, 12:00pm–6:30pm, NYU Wagner Main Event Space
Presented by the Wagner Office of International Programs, New York Southeast Asia Network, Bespoke ESG, join us for panel discussion about the challenges facing ESG issues in the current global political climate.
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Mass Transit & Climate Change: Capital Programs
Thursday, September 25, 9:00am–10:30am, NYU Wagner Main Event Space
Join the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation for a special Climate Week NYC event exploring the essential role of mass transit in combating climate change. Transportation is the nation’s largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, responsible for about 28% of the U.S. total. While public transit contributes only a small share, it is essential for enabling mode shift and reducing car dependency. At the same time, improving emissions and air quality across all transportation modes—including transit itself—is crucial to building climate resilience. This year’s program will spotlight the environmental benefits of major capital projects, including the Second Avenue Subway extension and the Interborough Express (IBX), highlighting how infrastructure investment drives sustainability. This gathering will bring together leading voices in transportation, climate policy, and urban planning to advance the conversation around transit as a climate solution.
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From Ambition to Action: Financing Ocean and Island Solutions for Communities, Climate, and Nature
Thursday, September 25, 4:00pm–7:00pm, NYU Wagner Main Event Space
This high-level event will spotlight proven partnerships and innovative financing that are scaling climate, biodiversity, and blue economy solutions across Small Island Developing States—also known as Large Ocean States. The conversation will move beyond ideas to highlight real-world outcomes from initiatives in the Caribbean and Pacific, including Indigenous- and community-led efforts. Speakers will share lessons from successful and upcoming collaborations, that leverage and deploy much needed financing for cross-cutting and measurable impact in Large Ocean States. Framed around the ocean–climate–biodiversity nexus, the event will showcase how meaningful investment into SIDS can deliver globally significant results for people, nature, and the global climate. A reception will follow from 6:00–7:00pm.