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.
This panel will convene leaders from the OECD, Intact Financial Corporation, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC), and partners to introduce the IMPACT Survey (Individuals’ Preferences for Measures and Policies to Adapt to Climate Threats)—a forthcoming 2027 international study on public demand for climate adaptation that will inform national adaptation plans in the run-up to COP32 next year.
Moderator:
- Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz, JoshAni-TomKat Professor, Yale School of the Environment & Director, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
Panelists
- Ravi Mahabir, Vice President of Climate, Intact Financial Corporation
- Dr. Jennifer Carman, Director of Survey Strategy, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
- Catherine Gamper, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Lead, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Jagan Chapagain, Chief Executive Officer and Secretary General, International Federation of Red Cross (IRFC)
- Jaime de Bourbon de Parme, Director, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Environment Directorate
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