Climate Week New York City 2026
Dartmouth @ NYC Climate Week 2026
The Climate Collaborative, Sustainability Office, Irving Institute, and Institute of Arctic Studies will be participating in Climate Week in NYC and hosting sessions throughout the week of September 20 - 27. Engage with Dartmouth and collaborators in workshops, panels, and candid conversations as we explore this year's focus of energy, impact, and the action that we drive together. Join us in celebrating the world’s largest climate event, bringing together more than 100,000 people across 1,000+ events in New York City. Dartmouth will contribute to 7 of these events.
Resilience Action Lab: Building an Integrated Just Transition for Our Communities
This interactive, train-the-trainers workshop explores how communities and organizations can build more resilient, equitable futures by addressing multiple challenges at once. Through a facilitated World Café process, Dartmouth insight briefings, peer learning, and hands-on activities, participants will apply systems thinking, multisolving, and a justice lens to identify opportunities, overcome barriers, and develop practical strategies for advancing climate resilience, energy affordability, public health, economic vitality, and community well-being.
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Join Jasmine Graham (Left), Executive Director of Mid-Hudson Energy Transition, Mark James (Center), Director of the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law and Graduate School, and Sarah Kelly (Right), Head of the Energy Justice Clinic at Dartmouth for a discussion on community-based and equitable energy transitions.
Affordable and Resilient: Community-Based Sustainable Energy Transitions
A successful energy transition requires community leadership, local partnerships, and solutions that meet the needs of the people they serve. This panel will explore how municipalities, organizations and communities are designing and implementing distributed energy systems that improve resilience, affordability, and sustainability while advancing local goals. Panelists will explore practical approaches for moving from vision to action through community engagement, collaborative governance, and equitable implementation. Virtual option available with registration.
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Climate Collaborative & Sustainability Reception
Join the Dartmouth Climate Collaborative and Sustainability Office for drinks and appetizers! Connect with Dartmouth faculty and student researchers from the Energy Justice Clinic and the Dartmouth as Living Lab initiative, explore their work, and discover how Dartmouth is transforming its campus into a living laboratory for climate and sustainability research and innovation.
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Dartmouth Climate Alliance Meet-Up
Join the Dartmouth Climate Alliance for an informal networking meetup where alumni and students can meet and chat with campus climate leaders in town for the week.This event offers an opportunity to build connections, exchange ideas, and engage in conversation with members of Dartmouth's climate community.
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Circular Innovation and Resilient Futures: Insights from the Arctic
Co-hosted by Dartmouth, UArctic, and the Finnish Consulate of New York, this session brings together Sámi leaders alongside Finnish business and finance leaders advancing circular economy innovation. As the Arctic faces rapid environmental, economic, and geopolitical change, speakers will explore how Indigenous knowledge, circular economy principles, sustainable resource management, and community-driven leadership are creating practical climate solutions that strengthen resilience, local economies, and environmental stewardship. Through real-world examples from Finland and across the Arctic, participants will examine how these place-based approaches can inform resilient, equitable, and economically vibrant communities worldwide.
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The Security Imperative: Data, AI, Critical Minerals, and Energy Systems
Join Dartmouth’s Irving Institute for Energy and Society and SAP on Sept. 23 at the SAP Experience Center for two high-level panels featuring industry CEOs, leading academics, and TIME100 Climate leaders. Explore: 1) “Intelligent Power Systems for a Secure, Resilient, and Data-Driven Energy Future”; and 2) “Critical Minerals, Energy Security, and Supply Chains.”
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Hype, Investment, and the Hard Infrastructure of the Energy Transition
Join Dartmouth’s Irving Institute for Energy and Society on Sept. 24 at the Yale and Dartmouth Club for two expert-led discussions featuring investors financing the energy transition, regulators and utilities shaping resource availability, and scholars informing policy decisions. Explore: 1) “Bubble or Breakthrough: How Capital Shapes the Energy Transition”; and 2) “Beyond the Bottleneck: Financing the Grid America Needs Now.”
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