Overview
- The 16th edition launched on September 21, and organizers say it is the largest yet with record attendance across New York City.
- More than 1,000 independently organized events span policy forums, art and music under the theme “Power On for Climate Action.”
- The Climate Group runs the week in collaboration with New York City and the United Nations, with the skyline lit green and a clean-powered Times Square concert marking the kickoff.
- Speakers include UNFCCC chief Simon Stiell, COP30 leaders Ana Toni and André Correa do Lago, UK energy secretary Ed Miliband, Antigua and Barbuda’s prime minister Gaston Browne, Australia’s Chris Bowen, and actor-activist Mark Ruffalo.
- The backdrop includes President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and a plan to rescind the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding, which Administrator Lee Zeldin called the “largest deregulatory action in US history.”