Climate Week NYC 2025 is set to bring together global leaders, businesses, scientists, communities, and activists in New York with a shared goal: accelerating climate action. This year’s official agenda is built around six strategic themes, spanning technology and finance to health, food, biodiversity, and mobility.
More than just categories, these themes represent concrete pathways that aim to align innovation, social justice, and sustainability to face the climate crisis with real solutions.
1. Technology for tomorrow: smarter solutions to climate challenge
Technological innovation is key to transforming critical sectors. From artificial intelligence applied to emissions monitoring, to advanced energy storage systems, this theme explores how the most modern tools can become decisive allies in reducing our environmental footprint and adapting to change.
2. Financing the energy transition
Shifting from fossil fuels to clean energy requires massive investment, but also financial creativity. This theme focuses on how governments, the private sector, and multilateral organizations can mobilize resources for projects that are not only sustainable, but also inclusive and fair for all regions.
3. Health system resilience to climate chang
Heatwaves, droughts, and floods affect more than just the environment—they put public health at risk. Climate Week NYC 2025 will address how to prepare hospitals, infrastructure, and healthcare workers to respond effectively to increasingly frequent and intense climate-related crises.
4. From farm to future: building sustainable food systems
Agriculture and food production are responsible for a large share of global emissions, but they’re also part of the solution. This theme examines how to transform the way we grow, distribute, and consume food by promoting regenerative practices, reducing waste, and ensuring food security.
5. Biodiversity: conservation, innovation and investmen
Protecting ecosystems is not only an ethical imperative—it’s an essential foundation for economies and life itself. This theme will discuss how to connect conservation with innovative financing mechanisms, and the role of technology in monitoring and restoring species and habitats.
6. Urban mobility: navigating towards a sustainable future
Cities concentrate much of the world’s emissions and population. This theme seeks to rethink urban transportation to make it cleaner, more accessible, and resilient, exploring options such as public transport electrification, active mobility, and urban space redesign.
A roadmap for action
After understanding what Climate Week NYC is and how it fits within the broader network of global “climate weeks,” these six themes give us a clear picture of the roadmap that will shape the 2025 discussions. More than talking points, they are urgent areas of action requiring collaboration across all sectors.