Climate Week: 116 new listings, and the week takes shape
Mike Iacovella
September 15, 2026
This is the September 15 edition of the PIQUE daily briefing. Figures and registration checks below are a dated snapshot; event availability can change.
1,328 event listings · 2,507 sessions
116 event listings newly available since the September 14 briefing. Plus 146 new session listings.
Climate Week NYC / UNGA · September 20–27 · Snapshot: September 15, 5:17pm ET. All times below are New York time.
Two things stand out in today’s additions. Tuesday, September 22 is the crowded day, with 368 listings now on the map against 219 on Monday and 307 on Wednesday, so Tuesday choices need to be made early. Governors Island has become a hub of its own, with 14 listings across the week, most of them at the weekend.
Moving fast: 8 of the 116 new listings are already waitlisted, and 2 are sold out. Greentown Labs’ startup showcase, the Heatmap House Party, Nature in Practice, and Monday’s Leah Stokes and Katharine Wilkinson conversation all went to waitlist within a day of appearing. If something below matters to you, request it today.
Monday: the ferry decision
The New York Climate Exchange at Climate Week NYC 2026
Mon, Sept 21 · 9am–3:30pm · Governors Island
Request to join · free · approval required · waitlist open
The Exchange’s day covers climate data, urban resilience, and climate finance in one programme. It is a full day on the island, so it competes with everything in Manhattan on Monday. Choose it if you want depth over sampling.
If you stay in Manhattan, two afternoon sessions run back to back without overlapping:
Retrofits for Resilience: From Policy to Implementation
Mon, Sept 21 · 1–3pm · Urban Future Lab
Request to join · free · approval required
Building retrofits for resilience and mitigation in New York’s residential stock, from policy to what actually gets built. Relevant if Local Law 97 is on your desk.
Big Problems v. Bigger Solutions: Data Centers & Clean Energy Transition
Mon, Sept 21 · 4–6pm · Pratt Institute
Register · free · tickets available at our last check
A workshop format rather than a panel: data-center power demand, AI growth, and what a fair transition looks like. It picks up the AI-and-electricity thread from the September 14 briefing.
On the ground: heat and flooding
Adaptation you can walk
Brownsville Resilience Corridor Interactive Walking Tour
Tue, Sept 22 · 3–5pm · Zion Triangle, Brownsville
Free tickets · on sale at our last check
Two hours through community-led heat and flooding projects with Resilient Cities Catalyst. Consider it as your Tuesday afternoon if the morning programmes leave you wanting something built rather than discussed.
Extreme heat, told with data
Mixed-Media Data and Storytelling for Extreme Heat in New York City
Wed, Sept 23 · 12:30–3:30pm · Silberman School of Social Work, East Harlem
Free tickets · on sale at our last check
WE ACT for Environmental Justice combines heat data, multimedia storytelling, a panel, and an East Harlem walking tour. It finishes in time for the Stokes talk below.
Also new on Wednesday: NYC Emergency Management’s site tour of the deployable flood barriers at South Street Seaport, 11:30am–12:30pm. Check the listing for registration; we have not verified availability.
Policy and public conversation
Book Talk: Leah C. Stokes, The Carbon Wave
Wed, Sept 23 · 6–7:30pm · NYU Institute for Public Knowledge, Grand Hall
RSVP · free
Stokes discusses the IRA and what comes after it with Jay Inslee, Bill McKibben, and David Wallace-Wells. Her Monday conversation with Katharine Wilkinson in Tribeca is already sold out with a waitlist, so Wednesday at NYU is the open door.
Build something
TRACE THE UNSEEN: Climate Intelligence Build Day
Fri, Sept 25 · 8:30am–6pm · Microsoft Garage
Request to join · free · approval required · waitlist open
A one-day hackathon from The AI Collective: teams prototype climate intelligence tools from supply-chain and trade data. If you build with agents, this is the technical day of the week.
Governors Island, if you plan a weekend
Fourteen listings now sit on the island between Saturday, September 20 and Sunday, September 27, including Earth Matter’s Climate Week soirée at the Lavender Field on Friday evening, BIPOC Climate Connections on Saturday, and a guided birding tour on Sunday morning. The ferry schedule is the constraint; plan the island as a block.
One useful thing to ask your AI
Connect your assistant from Settings → Integrations, then try:
Use PIQUE to plan my Monday, September 21 at Climate Week NYC. Compare The New York Climate Exchange on Governors Island with Retrofits for Resilience and the Pratt data-centers workshop in Manhattan. Show times, locations, registration requirements and travel time between them, and flag anything that still needs checking.
Your PIQUE Pass covers access to our event information and planning tools. Event admission is handled separately by each organizer. Registration details checked September 15, approximately 4:50pm ET; availability can change.