Hill Heat is heading to New York City for Climate Week. Here’s an unscientific sampling of a few of the week’s events, headed by the Make Billionaires Pay mass march on Saturday.

The Trump regime is working to dismantle the United States’ entire climate enterprise as the destabilization of the global climate accelerates. The international community is grappling with the challenge of restructuring insurance and finance as disasters accumulate, even as vast sums are pumped by Wall Street into ever-greater extraction and consumption of the earth’s bounty, especially for the messianistic AI data-center boom. Meanwhile, local leaders are building public power for green infrastructure, keeping the vision of the Green New Deal alive.

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Saturday, September 20

In addition to the march in Manhattan, there are marches and gatherings around the nation. For example, in Washington, D.C., Third Act is hosting a discussion with city climate resilience planners Andrea Limauro and Erin Garnaas-Holmes about building resilience to extreme weather at the Martin Luther King Library at 1 pm.

Sunday, September 21

Sunday is Sun Day! Third Act has been encouraging people around the nation to organize events celebrating solar power, in concert with Third Act founder Bill McKibben’s new book, Here Comes the Sun. In DC, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network has been helping build a wide array of events, with people showing off their solar-powered, battery-charged homes and vehicles for their neighbors.

In New York, Abigail Disney, Comptroller Brad Lander, Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.), and former Rep. Jamaal Bowman are headlining a benefit dinner for Climate Defiance.

Monday, September 22

At 9 am, the Climate Group is holding the opening ceremony for Climate Week, with a grim reality check from international climate negotiators, bankers, and government officials from small island nations.

At 10:30 am, the Building Power Resource Center hosts United for Green Schools, panel of leaders in government, labor, and social movements in Chicago, Columbus, and Los Angeles sharing the nuts and bolts of how they are winning and implementing green schools programs in their districts.

Far from Gotham, at 2 pm, the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee is hosting a field hearing in Henderson, N.C. on the recovery from last year’s fossil-fueled Hurricane Helene disaster.

Axios has a full slate of interviews at its Climate House at 335 Madison Avenue, from Monday to Wednesday, sponsored by utilities Constellation and Exelon, GE Vernova, Salesforce, engineering behemoth SLB (formerly Schlumberger), marketing firm Weber Shandwick, the nonprofit climate marketing firm Potential Energy Coalition, and, for some reason, Suntory and Roblox.

At 2:30 pm, Axios’s Amy Harder and Nicholas Johnston speak with executives from IBM, and SLB, and warehouse construction giant Heidelberg Materials on data center energy use (sponsored by SLB).

In the afternoon at 5:30 pm, Climate Proof and Streetlife Ventures are hosting Adaptation in Action!, a “pecha-kucha¹ style startup showcase of adaptation solutions” at Pier 57.

Tuesday, September 23

Tuesday’s Axios Climate House events include Weathering the Storm, a session at 11 am on insurance, housing and climate costs.

Axios reporters are also interviewing Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer.

At 6 pm, Climate Cabinet, Evergreen Action, and other groups are hosting Progress No Matter What, a happy hour for state and local-level climate action at Amity Hall, with Sen. Brian Kavanagh (D-N.Y.), Del. Lorig Charkoudian (D-Md.), and Assemblymember Howard Watts (D-Nev.).

Wednesday, September 24

At 8 am, the Climate Reality Project hosts Who Will Lead?, a discussion at Climate Week NYC with former Vice President Al Gore on opportunities for ambitious global leadership to accelerate climate action.

At 7:30 pm, Lead Locally, Oil Change USA, Make Polluters Pay Action, and more are hosting a fundraising bash at S.O.B.’s (204 Varick Street) in support of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor of New York City, Zohran for Climate Mayor.

Thursday, September 25

At 4:30 pm, the Building Power Resource Center hosts Achieving Affordability in an Uncertain Future, an in-person panel discussion exploring four distinct program models for equitable residential building decarbonization and electrification, at 136 East 24th Street.

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