Back for our NINTH annual event, Marketplace of the Future is a new take on the 1939 New York World’s Fair, which was dubbed “The World of Tomorrow” and featured new inventions such as the fluorescent light bulb, air-conditioning, and television.

​​We're here to show climate solutions in the same light - novel now, normal soon.

​​First thing's first. We're beyond honored and grateful for our 2025 event host Location05! Location05 is a hidden gem located in Hudson Yards right off the highline. Beautiful white box studios and sun drenched rooms will be ready to being the 9th annual MOTF to life!

Join us for Una Sola Lucha, a powerful screening of five short films from Puerto Rico, Brazil, Colombia, and the Pacific that spotlight frontline stories of resistance, resilience, and collective justice. The evening will include a guided discussion connecting these struggles to broader movements for regenerative and climate justice. We will hear from Defiende a Cabo Rojo, ClimaLab, the Brazilian Center for Climate Justice, the Pacific Islands Students Against Climate Change, and El Puente. This event is hosted by Climate Trace Puerto Rico with the support of Blue and White Magazine and the Columbia Climate School Environmental and Climate Justice Project. We aim to create a space of cultural exchange, raise awareness of shared challenges, and inspire collective action among participants.

You’re invited to Healing Is an Inside Job, our Climate Week town hall gathering in New York City. 

If you work in environment, climate or energy please join us to make space, and dig in for honest conversation about our inner work, collective healing, and plans for community transformation .

Vegan  bites and refreshments will be served.

Location: NYC, For Community Safety Reasons the Exact Location Will be Shared After RSVP . 
Date: Friday, September 26, 2025
Time: 2 PM – 3:30 PM ET

​Hear powerful, personal stories from Grist 50 Fixers past and present, as well as Grist journalists who report on the people, policies, and ideas driving climate progress. Through these stories, we’ll spotlight the real-world ways that bold ideas can turn into impact. We’ll also take a moment to reflect on Grist’s 25-year journey as the nation’s only independent newsroom reporting solely on climate change, as well as a celebration of the people and ideas driving meaningful change in climate solutions.

A lively conversation of environmental justice trailblazers from frontline and fence-line communities! They will share about their community’s efforts to fight for clean air in the backdrop of the freight transportation system. Hailing from various areas affected by the pollution from seaports, rail yards, truck routes, and warehouses across the U.S., these EJ leaders will shine light on locally grown climate justice solutions and the strength of coalition and movement building.

Join Indigenous Youth leaders from Not Our Native Daughters and the Pueblo Action Alliance for an immersive and culturally grounded experience during NYC Climate Week.

This isn’t another lecture or traditional panel — this is an engagement-based gathering rooted in culture, ceremony, and conversation-led by Indigenous youth leaders from across the country to share teachings, stories, and solutions for protecting our land, water, and future.

Attendees will be invited to:

Experience cultural grounding through ceremonial opening, story, and traditional knowledge-sharing;

Learn directly from Indigenous youth leaders about their work and advocacy; 

Explore ancestral teachings and ecological knowledge as pathways to protecting the sacred; 

Engage in collective calls to action and discover how you can elevate Indigenous voices through collaborative efforts. 

Indigenous youth have inherited the impacts of the climate crisis, but they are also carrying forward ancestral responsibility to protect the land, water, and communities. This gathering celebrates their leadership, amplifies their voices, and invites you to stand in solidarity with their vision for a just and sustainable future.

Be part of an evening filled with culture, connection, and climate justice — where we honor the past, empower the present, and build the future together.

All students from The New School and other universities are most welcome! Please share this invite with your classmates. 

Presented by the Pueblo Action Alliance's Youth Justice Program and Not Our Native Daughters' Indigenous Youth Voices Program in collaboration with Tishman Environment and Design Center at the New School

The Federal Unionists Network's policy institute, Government for the People, is launching a collaboration between federal unionists, other rank and file public servants, and environmental justice leaders to generate a new blueprint for federal agencies on environmental and climate justice. Join us to help shape a vision for the future that ensures climate and environmental justice for all.  

This event is sponsored by the New School's Tishman and Environment Design Center. Participants from community organizations, public service networks, labor, policy groups, and philanthropy are encouraged to attend.

Join us for the release of Cultivating the Conditions for Black Liberation and Just Transition: An Encyclopedia of Power, Peril, and U.S. Climate Finance Policy Prerequisites. This groundbreaking paper examines how climate finance must be restructured to move beyond colonial patterns of extraction and toward materially repairing historical harm.

Through a dynamic panel conversation, speakers will unpack the paper’s core analysis and explore pathways for building Black nation- and community-controlled alternatives that are resilient in the face of institutional backlash.

Interpretation will be available in French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Brunch will be served.

Join Dr Strouble, at an evening of dialogue on connecting the themes of By Any Dreams Necessary—environmental justice, racial equity, and resilience—with the urgent need for solidarity across our movements. Dr. Strouble will be sharing a reading from his book and open up for a lively discussion. Light refreshments will be served. 

Dr. Bruce W. Strouble, Ph.D., is a seasoned program manager specializing in community development, sustainability, and resilience. His experience includes leading innovative programs for Groundwork USA, the City of Tallahassee, and Florida A&M University’s Sustainability Institute. As the executive director of Citizens for a Sustainable Future Inc. and Board Chair of ReThink Energy Florida, he has consistently advanced environmental justice and climate resilience through innovative approaches that empower underserved communities to tackle climate challenges and build sustainable futures.

Hearing a lot about AI and data center expansion? That it's happening quickly, behind closed doors, putting huge demands on strained energy grids, leading to rising utility costs, reversing climate progress, and draining water from communities? 

​Maybe you're also questioning the future we're all being locked into via this AI-fueled infrastructure expansion? Yeah, us too.

​At Climate Week, we’re bringing together the voices that are fighting on the frontlines of the AI data center boom: for their communities, their water, their air, and all our futures.

During this in-person event, women leaders in all their diversity will come together to share comprehensive and intersectional approaches and strategies to accelerate community-led climate solutions, advance a Just Transition, phase out fossil fuels, protect democracy, and uplift the climate justice movement. Critical topics include forest protection and reforestation, gender-responsive climate policies, fossil fuel resistance, food sovereignty, Indigenous and human rights; Rights of Nature; and strategic campaigns and policies for COP30 and beyond. There will also be a special presentation about WECAN’s ongoing campaigns and programs. Speakers to be announced soon!

As global leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), we are calling on governments to take decisive action for global democracy and climate action. As authoritarianism grows worldwide, climate impacts are intensifying, with communities already facing devastating consequences. The window to prevent even worse and irreversible harm is rapidly closing, and government leaders must act now and heed the demands of global climate movements. In anticipation of COP30 in Belem, it is imperative to support the leadership of women climate leaders in all their diversity who are leading the way for a just and healthy future!

REGISTRATION

Registration is required. Registration does not confirm a seat at the event, the events are first come, first serve. Doors open at 3:45 PM. The program will start promptly at 4:00 PM. Please arrive early due to heavy traffic in this part of the city.

This event is free and open to the public. Importantly, due to security in this part of the city because of the UN General Assembly, registration is required. Please remember to have your tickets ready to show security, either on your phone or print them out and bring them with you. You also need a government issued ID.

This Climate Week, the Tishman Environment and Design Center invites you to a webinar where we will share key findings from a first-of-its-kind policy review and database designed to support the integration of cumulative impacts into state environmental permitting frameworks.

Spurred by the leadership of Environmental Justice advocates, states are increasingly engaging in policymaking to respond to the cumulative environmental and social burdens faced by EJ communities. We invite you to join us as we take a critical look at the growing wave of state policies to address cumulative impacts (CI) in environmental permitting.

Join us as we:

Share trends and patterns in proposed and passed state CI permitting policies

Highlight common frameworks, innovative policy features, as well as potential loopholes and pitfalls, in policy design

Launch and publicize our new database on state-level cumulative impacts policies

Build momentum for academic collaborators to align with frontline needs in CI work

This event is designed for scholars, analysts, technical professionals, and environmental justice advocates committed to developing strong and equitable cumulative impacts policies.

We hope you’ll join us for the conversation. The event is open to all but will require advance registration here.

Upon registration, a confirmation email containing the Zoom link will be sent to you.

Presented by Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School

​The advancement and usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has skyrocketed, along with the demand for land, energy, and water to power data centers. If you use AI, are curious about how its growth is affecting the planet, or want to reduce it’s harm then this is the panel for you. Join us to learn how these demands are impacting resources and possible avenues for safeguarding overburdened environmental justice communities.  

​This 90 minute panel will immediately be followed by a non-alcoholic social hour featuring artwork from Creative Wildfire, where attendees will have an opportunity to socialize with artists, panelists, and others in attendance.

​We kindly ask that all adult participants wear masks while attending our event, unless eating or drinking. If you don’t have a KN95 or N95 mask, we will have extras available on site. Thank you for doing your part to help keep our community safe.

Join the Planetary Guardians as they launch their 2025 Planetary Health Check at The New School. Limited seats have been reserved for New School students, faculty and staff. 

The communities most impacted by the climate crisis–Black, Brown, Indigenous, and working-class people–are often the least engaged and remain sidelined by mainstream climate narratives. Too often, climate is framed as separate from the lived experiences people face every day, including housing, jobs, health, and safety.

This tension pits economics and climate against each other—when in reality, to win and shift power for the most marginalized communities, climate equity must be tightly woven into the issues people care about most.

Moderated by Jennifer Dillon, our new Communications Accelerator director, and drawing on cutting-edge research, tested messaging strategies, and deep on-the-ground experience, our panelists will share examples of connecting climate to the issues people care about most—without always leading with “climate.”

In September, people will gather from around the world in Lenapehoking to address the climate crisis. As Indigenous Peoples, we will be there to protect Mother Earth and honor our ancestors. From representing our frontline fights on the ground, to holding Big Greens accountable, to fighting false climate solutions and embodying real solutions, to standing in solidarity with our brothers and sisters during this chaotic administration -- it's more important than ever for us to make a presence. If you want to learn why we, as Indigenous Peoples, are at the forefront of climate struggles, please join IEN in this virtual community report back to hear from Indigenous Matriarchs and youth from Turtle Island about what is happening on the ground and how Indigenous leaders are organizing and mobilizing to advance the struggle for climate justice.

Join an evening of community building, exchange and dialogue on the climate moment. This November 2025, frontline peoples, nations, climate justice organizations and global movement forces will converge in Belém, Brazil to face a pivotal time for all peoples and the planet.

This in-person event will gather frontline leaders and allies from across the world. The event is free and open to the public. Donations are welcome. Space is limited so please RSVP.

Black women and femmes have always led with resistance, care, and imagination for just futures. When Sisters Speak brings together grassroots leaders, climate justice advocates, and allies to uplift the urgent demands of Black femme communities in shaping transformative climate policy. This session goes beyond dialogue! Participants will engage directly with the Global Afro-Descendant Policy Platform, reviewing sections on Gender Justice line by line and providing feedback to ensure that Black femme priorities and lived experiences are reflected. Together, we will sharpen our collective demands, develop strategies to confront extractive systems, and advance climate solutions grounded in justice, healing, and liberation. We will also have Solidarity sisters and allies from the Pacific and Puerto Rico at the frontlines of the fight for gender, land and climate justice share their stories. Interpretation will be available in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served.

At a time when environmental policy, regulations, research, and budgets face unprecedented and systemic attacks, new climate coalitions are emerging,  from local neighborhoods to the global stage. These coalitions, powered by the vision and voices of communities, are advancing environmental and climate justice by bringing together policymakers, philanthropy, grassroots organizations, and academia to chart a path toward a just, thriving economy and healthy futures for all.

This Climate Week 2025 keynote will bring together multisectoral leaders who are building and sustaining these transformative alliances. 

Join HowGood, the Institute of Regeneration, and the global Regen House community on our NYC Rooftop to for a Farmers First Nightcap to kick off Climate Week! Hear directly from regenerative, local, and innovative farmers and farmers organizations that working to transform the food system from the ground up. What can the international food industry learn from their stories and leadership? Come find out!

We are excited to invite you to a special evening of film screenings, conversation, and celebration during Climate Week NYC at The New School. 

This screening, presented by the Black Hive and Climate Justice Alliance in collaboration with Tishman Environment and Design Center at the New School, will feature three powerful films that explore the intersections of climate justice, community resilience, and the urgent need for transformative change:

Grasping at the Roots

Directed by Keenan Lacy-Rhodes and Leah Derray

This documentary is a love letter to the black climate justice movement featuring Climate Justice Alliance member organizations and communities in their own words.

Black Soil Rising: A Family Fight for Land and Justice 

Directed by Raya Salter

This 13 minutes short is set in Conecuh County, Alabama — the state’s largest oil field. The film introduces a fight to defend Black land passed down since enslavement. Framing land loss as both a story of reparations and climate justice, it exposes the environmental injustice of oil and gas extraction across the Gulf South.

Exposing the Unspoken

Directed by Rev. Michael Malcolm

This film sheds light on the devastating impacts Southern Company has had on frontline communities in Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama exposing environmental injustice and amplifying the voices of those too often left unheard.

Together, these films shine a light on community-led solutions, untold histories, and bold visions for a just future. Following the screenings, we will hold space for dialogue and reflection with filmmakers, scholars, and community leaders featured in the film.

This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome — students, faculty, organizers, neighbors, and anyone committed to imagining a more just and sustainable future.

Presented by the Black Hive and Climate Justice Alliance in collaboration with Tishman Environment and Design Center at the New School

Join us for an interactive working session shaping a Global Afro-Descendant Policy Platform. Together, we will review and provide feedback line by line on key sections of the draft platform, ensuring it reflects the priorities and voices of Afro-descendant communities worldwide. This is not just a discussion, it’s hands-on policy development that will move us closer to a unified diaspora consensus to be launched at COP30 and advanced globally! The Platform categories include Gender, Migration, Food, Water, Disaster, Reparations and more. This workshop is a space for Afro-descendant leaders, organizers, and allies to actively influence policy language, strengthen collective demands, and build strategies for implementation. Interpretation will be available in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Brunch will be served For in-person attendees, the address will be shared once your registration is confirmed.

Join this panel to hear from leaders in government, labor, and social movements in Chicago, Columbus, and Los Angeles as they share the nuts and bolts of how they are winning and implementing green schools programs in their districts.

UPROSE's Climate Justice Lives Here initiative grew out of NYC Climate Week becoming Manhattan-centric and marginalizing frontline communities.

Climate Justice Lives Here represents our commitment to environmental justice in our frontline communities. This week-long series of events brings together activists, community members, and allies to address the climate crisis through the lens of social justice.

Join us in Sunset Park in Brooklyn, New York for a transformative week of climate justice activism, community-led workshops, and environmental justice initiatives.

"Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act...Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists. Optimists think it will all be fine without our involvement; pessimists adopt the opposite position; both excuse themselves from acting. It is the belief that what we do matters even though how and when it may matter, who and what it may impact, are not things we can know beforehand. We may not, in fact, know them afterwards either, but they matter all the same..." —Rebecca Solnit

On behalf of Courage of Care and The Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN), we warmly invite you to our day-long resourcing retreat on Sunday, September 21 from 10a-4pm.

The event will be hosted at a community house and event space in Ridgewood, NY (on the border of Brooklyn and Queens), that offers us space to gather, reflect, and build connections.

Together, we will engage practices that help us:

resource and strengthen our resilience and felt sense of relationality or interconnection;

address climate anxiety, overwhelm, and burnout;

find ways of slowing down and sensing without succumbing to toxic urgency;

envision and embrace complexity and multiple futures; and

embody a stance of courage and risk to carry forward with grounded, wise hope.

This retreat is scheduled right at the start of Climate Week 2025 in NYC and is open to any and all engaged in climate and environmental justice work. No prior experience necessary; if you feel called to a day of reflection, practice, and community, please join us!

The event includes a vegetarian lunch at our community house and garden.

Join us for the 5th annual BIPOC Climate Justice Summit: Power Shift, a full-day public event launching NYC Climate Week at Columbia University. This year’s summit convenes frontline communities, organizers, researchers, funders, and public servants to build collective power and advance transformative climate justice.

FutureFEST: Climate Reimagined is NJEJA’s first annual youth climate justice convening, taking place on Saturday, September 20, 2025 from 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM at Kean University. This FREE event is geared toward high school and college students.

This intergenerational gathering is led by Gen Z climate activists from across New Jersey and designed to inspire, activate, and connect youth and allies in the fight for climate and environmental justice. Participants will engage in:

✷ Youth-led panels, workshops, and trainings

✷ Organizing skill-shares

✷ Climate-focused art, fashion, and culture

✷ Hands-on activities on composting, textile justice, clean beauty, and more