EY Four Futures
Date and time: Monday, September 21 – Friday, September 25
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An AI-generated, climate-guided immersive experience that transports visitors into radically altered futures, each the outcome of a different climate pathway. What can the future teach us — and how can it move us to act today?
Critical conversations debate
Date and time: Monday, September 21, 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Description:
Returning to Climate Week NYC after events at COP30 and London Climate Action Week 2026, the Critical Conversations debate continues to tackle some of the most pressing questions for business and society, challenging assumptions, surfacing tensions and examining the evolving role of sustainability and its interconnection with technology, economic forces and social change. Join to hear diverse voices from business, government and civil society to explore radically different perspectives on the issues shaping decisions today.
The Future of Reporting · ISSB · By Invitation Only
The future of reporting: turning climate risk into decision-useful disclosure
Date and time: Tuesday, September 22, 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Description:
EY US and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) convene corporate leaders and investors to examine how organizations identify, assess and translate physical climate risks into decision-useful disclosures for the 2026 reporting cycle. The session explores emerging practices across governance, strategy and financial effects.
Ecosystems Exchange
Date and time: Tuesday, September 22, 3:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Description:
Ecosystems Exchange is a fast-paced, demo-led experience that brings together technology leaders, start-ups, industry, academia, investors and grassroots innovators to move from emerging ideas to real-world action.
Climate change, nature loss and social inequality are interconnected challenges that affect the resilience of businesses, communities and the systems on which they depend. Addressing them requires solutions that recognize these interdependencies and bring together technological, commercial, scientific and community-led perspectives.
Returning to Climate Week New York, this edition will showcase practical innovations at these intersections, including solutions grounded in community knowledge and lived experience. It will explore how AI and other enabling technologies can connect insights, improve decision-making and support more inclusive and effective action. After all, AI is only as valuable as the hands that shape it, making collaboration across technology, business, academia and communities critical to achieving meaningful outcomes. At the same time, it will recognize the risk of reinforcing existing inequalities if these tools are developed or applied without care.
The goal is to connect ideas, expertise and resources across traditional boundaries, catalyzing collaborations that turn promising innovations into scalable, real-world impact.
Energy Transition and Security
The electrification economy: powering AI, mobility, industry and people in the next decade
Date and time: Tuesday, September 22, 6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
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As electricity demand surges from AI, data centers, transportation, buildings and industry, advancing decarbonization sector by sector is likely no longer enough. It generally demands a coordinated strategy linking clean power, grid investment, electrification, affordability and reliability. Drawing on EY US research, this executive discussion convenes utility, technology, transportation, industrial and consumer leaders to explore how collaboration can accelerate electrification and decarbonization while sustaining competitiveness, customer value and growth.
The Value of Climate Action
Making the case: how climate strategy can create and protect value
Date and time: Wednesday, September 23, 1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
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For decades, companies have recognized the link between climate and business strategy — and the brand, reputation and bottom-line value that climate action can create. Yet few have the systems to measure it. This session explores the innovative approaches companies are using to quantify how climate and financial value reinforce each other.
Scaling Finance
Pricing resilience: how the next economy is defining risk and opportunity for financial markets
Date and time: Wednesday, September 23, 3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
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Financial institutions are being asked to fund the infrastructure, technologies and industries underpinning the next phase of growth — just as resource constraints and emerging risks become increasingly material to performance. This session explores how banks, insurers, asset managers and private capital providers are turning climate- and resource-related risks and opportunities into practical decisions on financing, risk pricing, transition strategy, technology and capital allocation.
Resilience and Supply Chain
Supply chain resilience: from risk to strategic advantage
Date and time: Wednesday, September 23, 5:00 p.m.–6:15 p.m.
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Organizations face a complex risk landscape as climate disruptions, nature loss, geopolitical volatility, human rights challenges and evolving stakeholder expectations test the resilience of supply chains and operations. This interactive session explores how leaders are turning those risks into action — strengthening supply chains, embedding resilience into decision-making and applying new approaches to planning, forecasting and governance that support competitiveness.
Nature as a Strategic Force
Measuring nature, driving action
Date and time: Wednesday, September 23, 6:45 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Description:
EY US teams join leading global sustainability, nature and business organizations to explore how businesses and financial institutions can move from nature ambition to measurable action. Through a film screening and a panel discussion, participants consider how metrics, disclosure frameworks and decision-useful data help organizations understand impacts and dependencies, manage nature-related risk and support a nature-positive transition.
