Yale @ Climate Week NYC 2026 will take place on Tuesday, September 22, from 8:00 AM to 9:00 PM.
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION
The Yale Club of NYC. Register on the 18th floor; events will also take place at the Rooftop level.
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM MORNING SESSION I
Trumbull: From Risk Awareness to Real-World Action: Aligning Climate Adaptation Policy with Public Demand.
Rooftop: Resilient Cities, Reimagining Health: Practical Decision-Support Tools to Scale Preventative Action in Cities
10:50 AM - 12:10 PM MORNING SESSION II
Trumbull Room: Beyond GDP in Practice: Wealth Accounts for Sustainability, Competitiveness, and Climate [More Info]
Panel:
- Matthew Agarwala, Bennett Chair of Sustainable Finance, Bennett Institute for Innovation & Policy Acceleration, University of Sussex
- Eli Fenichel, Knobloch Family Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Yale School of the Environment
- Valerie Hickey, Director, Environment Department, World Bank Group
- Brian Kernohan, Chief Sustainability Officer, Manulife Investment Management
- Csaba Kőrösi, President of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly
- Leonard Nakamura, Emeritus Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
- Jed Sundwall, Executive Director, Radiant Earth
Moderator:
- Angel Hsu, Associate Professor of Public Policy and the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Director of the Data-Driven EnviroLab
Rooftop: Cities on the Front Line: Leadership, Design, and Data in the Climate Era
Panel:
- Omoyemi Akerele, 2025 Yale Climate Fellow, Founder and CEO, Lagos Fashion Week and Style House Files
- Kotchakorn Voraakhom, 2026 Yale World Fellow & Founder, LANDPROCESS, the Porous City Network
- Roy Yu-Ta Lin, 2026 Yale World Fellow & Head of Urban Informatics, City Science Lab @ Taipei Tech (MIT–NTUT)
Moderator:
- Yuval Ben-David, Chief Strategy Officer, Yale International Leadership Center
Lunch will be provided between the morning and afternoon sessions.
12:30 PM - 1:50 PM AFTERNOON SESSION I
Saybrook Room: The Ripple Effect: Institutional Decarbonization as Regional Catalyst
Trumbull Room: Healthy Planet, Healthy Minds and Brains: Science for Resilient Cities and Communities
Rooftop: Co-Drivers for the Implementation and Scaling of Climate Solutions
2:10 PM - 3:30 PM AFTERNOON SESSION II
Saybrook Room: Toxic Intersections of Migration Law and Climate Policy
Panel:
- Ahmed Gaya, Founder and Director of the Climate Justice Collaborative at the National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA)
- Maya Prabhu, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Professor Adjunct of Law at Yale University
- Rania Sharshr, Director of Climate Action at the International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Maria Cristina Rulli, Professor of Hydrology and Water and Food Security at the Politecnico di Milano
- Brianna Castro, Assistant Professor of Urban Sustainability at Yale School of the Environment
- Sinafekesh Girma Wolde, Climate Migration Program Lead and Postdoctoral Associate at Yale Center for Environmental Justice
Trumbull Room: International Trade and Climate Change: From Challenges to Alignment Opportunity [More Info]
Rooftop: Carbon Markets and the Green Transition: A Policy Dialogue [More Info]
3:50 PM - 5:00 PM AFTERNOON SESSION III
Saybrook Room: Creatures of Change: Multi-Species Urbanism [More Info]
Trumbull Room: Superpollutants: Levers for Corporate Action [More Info]
Rooftop: The Electric Grid: Challenges and Opportunities [More Info]
Panel:
- Joshua Macey, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
- Maria Martinez, Director of Strategy, CleanEcon (MEM ‘19)
- Katie Dykes, Former Commissioner of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Yale Law School ‘06
- Harshit Agrawal, Venture Investor, Connecticut Innovations, YSE/YSM ‘26
Council Room: Strategies that Optimize for Climate Risk Realities: Case Studies in Banking and Insurance [More Info]
Speaker
- Perry Beaumont, PhD, Senior Program Manager at Amazon, Lecturer at Columbia University and Yale
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM EVENING SESSION I
Rooftop: Looking Ahead: A Bipartisan Path Forward
The conversation is expected to feature a core group of lawmakers with longstanding records of bipartisan engagement on policy, alongside distinguished public and private sector leaders, offering attendees a candid look at how cross-partisan leadership can help shape the next chapter of American environmental policy.
Moderator
- Laur Hesse Fisher, Climate and Depolarization Strategy
Panelists TBA.
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM CLOSING RECEPTION
The Yale Club
50 Vanderbilt Ave, New York, NY 10017, USA