Echo at Climate Week NYC: The Conversations We’re Leaning Into

Climate Week NYC brings together leaders, innovators, and storytellers across sectors, all tackling different pieces of the climate challenge. Our team is looking forward to connecting with leaders across the climate space to hear what’s working, understand emerging trends, and explore how communications can strengthen the impact of climate solutions.

We’re headed to panels and events that spotlight how communications can have the greatest effect—how storytelling brings solutions to life, how financial tools are communicated about in clear and trustworthy ways, and how emerging technologies are framed to scale impact effectively.

Here are a few of the events you’ll find us at next week:

1. Kickoff Breakfast with Clean Creatives, Web Summit & UN Global Pulse

Monday, September 22 | 9:00–11:30 AM

This breakfast is about bringing together creatives, policymakers, and innovators, each with different ways of shaping influence and reaching audiences. For us, it’s valuable to see how these perspectives intersect—and how communications can connect them. One of our New York colleagues recently started attending a few Clean Creatives events and found them to be an easy, welcoming way to meet peers tackling similar challenges.

2. Next-Gen Storytelling for Regenerative Futures: Hosted by RGEN HOUSE

Tuesday, September 23 | 12:30–1:45 PM

Climate progress depends on more than good policies—it depends on how those ideas are communicated. This session explores how filmmakers, scientists, and young leaders are using storytelling to make regeneration tangible and urgent. It’s valuable to see how others are shaping narratives that resonate beyond policy circles and reach broader audiences. Seeing how storytelling is being used in different ways also helps us strengthen our own approach to communications in the climate space.

3. Shaping the Market, Powering the Future: Hosted by Calvert Impact

Wednesday, September 24 | 8:30–10:00 AM

Even with record investments, clean energy deployment is running into barriers—from political attacks on tax credits to litigation against the GGRF. Finance is often the bottleneck for scaling solutions, but it’s also where communications has a critical role to play—helping to build trust, counter disinformation, and explain why complex financial tools matter to everyday people and communities. We’ll hear directly from those building financial pathways for climate solutions and gain insight into how climate finance leaders are navigating current challenges. We’ll also explore how communications can help build trust and maintain momentum across the sector.

4. Greenlight America Breakfast

Wednesday, September 24 | 9:00–10:30 AM

We’ll be joining Greenlight America and local clean energy leaders to share perspectives on advancing projects and initiatives nationwide. This gathering brings together people working at the community level, from grassroots organizers to policy and communications specialists. For us, it’s an opportunity to listen to the strategies and stories that resonate locally, understand how successful approaches scale to broader campaigns, and build relationships that could spark new ideas and collaborations across regions.

5. Canary Media + Volts Live Podcast

Wednesday, September 24 | 12:30–4:00 PM

Strong journalism shapes the climate conversation, and outlets like Canary Media and Volts consistently raise the bar. Pair that with a topic we care deeply about—geothermal—and this event hits a sweet spot. We’re looking forward to hearing from innovators in a field with untapped potential while also engaging with reporters who translate the energy transition with clarity and reach.

6. Heatmap House: Live Shift Key

Wednesday, September 24 | 5:00–6:30 PM

Heatmap has quickly become a must-read in climate journalism because of how clearly they communicate complex issues. Their Shift Key podcast takes that same approach, bringing together policymakers, technologists, and reporters to make sense of fast-moving trends like AI’s role in climate action.This event offers a chance to stay ahead of emerging communications challenges while engaging with the journalists shaping how the public understands them.

Each of these events represents a different piece of the climate puzzle—finance, storytelling, technology, collaboration. The throughline is communication: how ideas spread, how trust is built, and how movements scale.

Stay tuned for any updates throughout the week—and if you’re in NYC for Climate Week, we’d love to connect.

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