Once a year for the past eighty years, the leaders of the world’s nations have gathered in New York City for the United Nations General Assembly. Since 2009, climate activists have taken advantage of this democratic assembly of global power to hold a city-wide, freewheeling climate convention, Climate Week NYC. The events range from closed-door, invite-only meetings of corporate CEOs, to speed-dating between cleantech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, to meetings of people dedicated to the task of ending the fascist grip of fossil-fuel extraction and carbon capitalism on the future of humanity.

Below, the U.S. Climate Politics Almanac provides a selection of exciting events. Although many of the open-to-the-public events are officially sold out, most of the time you can just show up to attend.

The Clinton Global Initiative and Concordia Annual Summit are among the high-dollar hobnobbing events with boldfaced names. CGI’s public participants include Gov. Wes Moore (D-Md.), Gov. Bob Ferguson (D-Wash.), Calif. Attorney General Rob Bonta, billionaire Reid Hoffman, World Bank president Ajay Banga, Chrissy Tiegen, and Prince Harry. Gov. Andy Beshear (D-Ky.) is one of the headliners at Concordia.

The People’s Climate Week is a comprehensive, crowdsourced list of Climate Week events on the other end of the spectrum.

Dozens of organizations have put together their own mini-conferences, including Food Tank’s full week’s agenda of climate-food-farm confabs. There are three days of Axios House, the Nest Campus, and the Green Jobs Pavilion; two days of MIT at Climate Week; on Monday, the Narrative Change Summit and Harvard at Climate Week; on Tuesday, Yale at Climate Week; on Wednesday, the Superpollutant Action Summit, Ceres Mainstage, Heatmap House, and World Wildlife Fund’s Panda House; and on Thursday, Climate Desk Live.

Many of our favorite climate groups have put together listings of events and panels their leaderships are participating in, including WE ACT, Project Drawdown, and the House Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition (SEEC). Here are the events at the New School, Columbia University, and New York University.

UPROSE has organized Climate Justice Lives Here!, a full week of climate-justice events in Sunset Park, Brooklyn with the Climate Justice Alliance, GreenLatinos, the Hip Hop Caucus, and more.

At 2:30 pm, SANE Energy, Public Power NY, DSA Ecosocialists, and Climate Defiance host Take Back Our Power, with New York Assemblymembers Emily Gallagher and Sarahana Shrestha, NYC Councilmember Chi Ossé, Democracy in Power author Sandeep Vaheesan, and Ashley Dawson.

At 1:30 pm, Oil Change International convenes Fight LNG, a creator and activist roundtable with ​Jose Reyeros and Keanu Arpels-Josiah, at the Bench.

At 2 pm, the HALT DAPL Coalition has a powerful lineup of global climate leaders to discuss Greenpeace International and The Sixty-Five Million Dollar Letter at the NYC Bar Association. In November 2016, Greenpeace International co-signed a “Halt your support for DAPL” letter, resulting in a $65 million judgment against Greenpeace International, as part of the $345 judgment against Greenpeace US for its opposition to the Dakota Access tar-sands pipeline. Mads Christensen, Natali Segovia, Anne Jellema, and Elizabeth Bast, the executive directors of Greenpeace International, Water Protector Legal Collective, 350, and Oil Change International respectively, join Center for International Environmental Law’s CEO Rebecca Brown, and BankTrack’s Ryan Brightwell and Michelle Chan.

At 6 pm, CodePink, the Institute for Policy Studies, and U.S. Climate Action Network host a screening of Earth’s Greatest Enemy, Abby Martin’s documentary about the world’s largest industrial polluter, the U.S. military, at the People’s Forum.

At 7 pm, the Sunrise NYC and the A22 Network hold a book talk for Soup Throwers and Super Gluers: Inside Europe's Climate Uprising, with Last Generation activists Carla Hinrichs and Henning Jeschke (Germany), Chloé Bertini (Italy), and Thibaut Cantet (France), at the Word Up Community Bookshop.

At 12:30 pm, the Permian Gulf Coast Coalition’s Armon Alex, Eli Hilbert, Feleecia Guillen, Kaitlyn Joshua, Melanie Oldham, and Dr. Roishetta Ozane present Frontline Stories from the Permian Gulf at the Ya-Ya Network space.

At 6:30 pm, the Climate and Community Institute holds a book talk for Building Postcarbon Futures with editor Billy Fleming and co-authors Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Keller Easterling, at the Center for Brooklyn History.

At 8 am, Beyond Bretton Woods’s Frank Van Gansbeke presents The Imaginable in Times of the Inevitable, an introduction to Santa Marta Central Bank Innovation Platform, a transformative vision for global monetary policy, with panelists Sarah Bloom Raskin, Julie Delongchamp, Michael E. Mann, Jwala Rambarran, and Jens van ’t Klooster.

At 2 pm, the Climate and Community Institute and Trade Unions for Energy Democracy discuss the Public Pathway in New York and the United States: Energy, Public Services, and Democratic Planning with labor-climate-justice leaders Isabel Estevez, Chris Dols, Batul Hassan, and Lala Peñaranda.

At 9:25 am, SEEC leaders Rep. Deborah Ross (D-N.C.) and Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) participate in the Concordia panel Powering Prosperity: A Pragmatic Agenda for America’s Energy Future.

At 1 pm, SEEC chair Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.-14) is on Mind the Gap: Aligning Insurance, Policy, and Nature for Climate Resilience, a panel on climate insurance organized by World Wildlife Fund’s David Kuhn.

At 9:30 am, the Nest Campus holds a panel entitled The cost of inaction: Building a climate-resilient economy, with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.).

At the same time, SEEC is holding a media briefing with the nine members of Congress who led the Thriving Economy Project report—reach out to [email protected] for more information.

On Tuesday afternoon at 3:15 pm, the political leadership of the national green heavyweights—LCV, NRDC, and the Sierra Club—are hosting a panel on political giving as a climate solution, followed by, at 5 pm, a garden party discussion led by NRDC president Manish Bapna with Bill Nye and U.S. Senate for Maine candidate Troy Jackson—who is not only key to flipping the Senate but also has a reasonably strong climate record.

Switching over to the executive branch: At 10:45 am, Heatmap News hosts a series of sit-down interviews on climate policy with speakers including Al Gore, Chris Hayes, Brian Deese, and Trump’s climate-denier fracker Secretary of Energy Chris Wright.

At 12 pm, BEA for Environmental Justice holds a half-day conference on the question: What Is "Just AI"? at Harlem’s Malt House. The first two hours dive into the true costs of the data center buildout, and the second two investigate what self-determination looks like in the age of AI. Panelists include Melissa Miles, Denise Patel, Tristan Thomas, KD Minor, Khalil Shahyd, KD Chavez, Dwaign Tyndal, Philip Eubanks, and Destiny Hodges.

At 1:55 pm, The Nest Campus is hosting The view from city hall - AI, energy and urban growth, with Climate Mayors head Kate Wright and Daniel Rickenmann, Kate Gallego, and Justin Bibb, the mayors of Columbia, S.C., Phoeniz, Ariz., and Cleveland, Ohio respectively. Gallego and Bibb are also vice presidents of the Democratic Mayors Association.

At 5:30 pm, Data & Society hosts community organizers Ginny Marcille-Kerslake and Brian Crawford and reporters Alejandra Martinez and Kit Roane to discuss How Data Center Fights Are Renewing Local Power Across the U.S.

At 9 am, Climate Desk is hosting a Climate Week keynote at the New School on AI, Energy, and Our Fight for Democracy and a Healthy, Affordable Future, with introductory remarks by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, followed immediately by a panel on the hidden toll of AI, with Mayor Gallego, NRDC’s Manish Bapna, and Memphis youth environmental justice leader LaTricea Adams, moderated by Adam Mahoney. Later speakers include Bill McKibben and Boston mayor Michelle Wu.

At noon, the Climate Justice Alliance, Public Citizen, and We Build Progress are hosting
Communities Take Charge at Civic Hall, at which they’ll be launching the Data Center Policy Toolkit, an interactive resource for policymakers and organizers to address data centers at the state and local level.

At 5 pm, Lead Locally is doing a live recording with The Hum, the anti-data-center podcast produced by Saul Levin, featuring New York state Rep. Emily Gallagher, Georgia Public Service Commissioner Peter Hubbard, and Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Davante Lewis.

At 3:30 pm, the Narrative Change Summit has a panel convened by Covering Climate Now making the case that Journalism is an Effective Climate Solution, with DeSmog’s Geoff Dembicki, ​Jazzmin Jiwa, ​Nina Dietz, ​Jason Spingarn-Koff, Mongabay Africa’s ​David Akana, and Mark Hertsgaard, at SVA Theatre.

At 10:40 am, the Antenna Group hosts The State of Climate Storytelling, a media panel with the Financial Times’s Martha Muir, the Washington Post’s Evan Halper, and Canary Media’s Maria Gallucci, at LUME Studios.

At 5:30 pm, Grist is hosting a live Science Friday podcast at Symphony Space celebrating Ten Years of the Grist 50, with Grist 50 honorees Flora Lichtman, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Steph Speirs, Jerome Foster II, and Jessie Bluedorn.

At 9 am, the Associated Press’s Seth Borenstein discusses How We Talk About Climate Change with scientist-communicators Tony Leiserowitz, Jonathan Foley, and Bernadette Woods Placky, and more.

At 9 am, Swissnex hosts Climate Journalism as Climate Action, a half-day symposium with Grist CEO Nikhil Swaminathan, Floodlight founder Emily Holden, Mongabay founder Rhett Butler, Sentient’s Ana Bradley, Green Philly’s Julie Hancher, Canary Media'‘s Nicholas Rinaldi, and the Macarthur Foundation’s Sean Harder.