Upcoming Events
Sink or Swim: A Climate Conversation with Susannah Fisher
Join us for an unforgettable evening of discussion and networking as we welcome Susannah Fisher, UK-based climate adaptation researcher and author of the new book: SINK OR SWIM: How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate.
Hosted by Battery Park City Authority, The New York Climate Exchange, and Waterfront Alliance, this event will explore how communities worldwide can adapt to the accelerating impacts of climate change. Susannah will share insights from her book, offering practical strategies and global perspectives on resilience.
Set against the stunning backdrop of Battery Park City’s resiliency project, the perfect setting for a conversation about adaptation, the event will be held in Battery Park City Authority's 200 Rector Place Community Room.
Registration is required.
Future Directions for Earth Partner Event: Observations and Data Stewardship: A Workshop
This workshop will convene participants from across the Earth observations community to exchange ideas on enhancing coordination, collaboration, and governance mechanisms to support a more robust ecosystem for the creation, curation, and operation of Earth observations and associated tools. In particular, the workshop will explore the respective roles of the public sector, for-profit and not-for-profit private sectors, philanthropy, and academia in developing strategies for addressing challenges and opportunities for resilient Earth observations and data across the growing breadth of Earth observation providers, data, applications, and users.
Partner Event: Urban Tech Summit
The 2025 Urban Tech Summit is set against a backdrop of growing global uncertainty—from governance and markets to climate risks, migration, and rapid technological change. These disruptions are reshaping the landscape for innovation in urban tech. The Summit will offer practical insights and examples of how researchers, companies, governments, and communities can continue to drive innovation amid these headwinds—and how urban tech can help cities do more with less as they prepare for the future.
Campus+ Collaboration for The New York Climate Exchange: A Session at the 2025 AASHE Conference & Expo
Universities work with a diverse array of partners, across several sectors, and on several topics. In most cases, a bilateral partnership is formed around a narrow, desired outcome, such as a university working with city government on job training programs, or with one private firm on the commercialization of a particular innovation. The Exchange’s ‘big tent’ model, which brings 11 academic partners together with the private sector and over 30 community organizations, offers a unique value proposition, and one that is essential to tackle an issue as cross-cutting as climate change. This panel will explore how The Exchange is promoting climate action on several campuses, through its power to convene different sectors, foster climate tech, deepen educational opportunities for students, and test solutions for the built environment as it constructs a 250,000 ft2 campus on Governors Island, in New York Harbor. It will also cover some of the sustainability innovations deployed as part of our capital project, including mass timber, geothermal systems, and a solar array.
Climate Data Workshop: Activating Community Data in Cities
Sensor and data gathering technology is primed to collect and process information about hyperlocal weather and environmental conditions, yet there are distinct gaps in the existing data gathering to data usage journey.
At this workshop, CIV:LAB and The New York Climate Exchange will convene a diverse group of expert professionals and organizations to discuss challenges, and workshop potential solutions from different vantage points, to scale the impact of community data gathering.
Climate Finance Networking Night
The Exchange is convening young leaders to build meaningful connections with peers and professionals in the field, exchange knowledge and insights to support professional development, while exploring the intersection of climate change and the financial sector.
Greening Finance Amidst Shifting Global Trends
Join us at London Climate Action Week for the first meeting of the Global Climate Forum for Young Finance Professionals! The Exchange and Duke University are hosting with Bloomberg a high-impact panel discussion and reception to explore the future of global climate finance in a time of rising geopolitical and market uncertainty. Panelists will spotlight innovative financial tools, policy shifts, and cross-border collaborations aimed at unlocking private capital for climate action, despite today’s complex global landscape.
Extreme Heat: Adapting Cities to Rising Temperatures
The link between climate change and our health and safety is clear and extends beyond New York City across cities globally. Unprecedented collaboration with urban designers is needed, and solutions are emerging and scaling to promote smart growth, cool buildings, and mitigate the urban heat island effect.
Join The Exchange, The Municipal Art Society, & Pratt Institute for a pre-summer networking breakfast and action-focused panel discussion on design innovations that we can all rally around.
Communities for Ocean Resilience: Bridging Science, Policy, and Action through Collaborative Partnerships
The Exchange is thrilled to host this UNOC side event in the Medusa Room at ‘La Baleine’ Green Zone. The event, co-organized with the American Geophysical Union, Waterfront Alliance, and Stony Brook University, will explore how inclusive partnerships can inform global policy frameworks, accelerate implementation, and build capacity across scales of our network.
To attend in person, please select “June 7, 2025" and Slot 3 when you register here.
Youth Climate Summit
GOVERNORS ISLAND
We are excited to participate in New York City Public Schools’ upcoming Youth Climate Summit on May 22 on Governors Island! Exchange staff will lead a career panel that will introduce high school students to a wide range of “green jobs” or careers in climate. The event is open to all NYC public schools.
A Conversation with the Novara One Planet Project
Novara, a 60-foot, aluminum vessel, has sailed to some of the world's most remote coastlines to document the state of climate impacts on communities. Join us at Brooklyn Bridge Park to meet Nigel Jollands and Veronica Lysaght, discuss their climate action work, and learn about their upcoming Arctic expedition!
New York State of Charge
Join The Exchange and Stony Brook University for a discussion featuring New Yorkers who are leading on sustainable battery innovation and deployment. This event will explore the current state of battery deployment in NYC and ways the city can advance sustainable solutions to reduce the lifecycle emissions of batteries.
SBU's Collaborative for the Earth: Nuclear Debate
Join Stony Brook University's Collaborative for the Earth as a panelist of experts from SBU and Georgia Tech debate the role of nuclear energy in meeting our climate change targets.
The NYC Community Climate Data Forum
Cities are critical drivers of climate action. This Earth Week, the Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice and The Exchange are showcasing the city’s publicly accessible climate and greenhouse gas data. The question is: How can we get data into the right hands to lower emissions in our city?
Don't miss the opportunity to hear opening remarks by MOCEJ Deputy Executive Director Kathleen Schmid, see a presentation by Kate MacKenzie, executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Food Policy, and learn from our Isabela Brown and Sylvie A. Binder about the New York City Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory.
Expect insightful panels, interactive maps, and networking with other climate and data experts.
Space is limited—RSVP now to be part of the conversation: https://lnkd.in/eK-sxv5y