CPI at Climate Week NYC 2025
Climate Policy Initiative will be hosting and speaking at several events during Climate Week NYC, taking place in the margins of the 2025 United Nations General Assembly, September 21-28, in New York City.
All times are in EDT
Xpansiv Climate Week Summit
Monday, September 22; 9:30 – 10:15am
The Whitby Hotel
Deploying capital for tangible sustainability projects is the defining challenge of this decade. This session brings together leading institutional investors and project finance experts to dissect how large-scale capital is structured and de-risked for physical assets. Discover innovative financing strategies, effective public-private partnerships, and methods for overcoming deployment hurdles across diverse decarbonization and energy transition initiatives that deliver measurable, real-world impact.
CPI Senior Advisor, Vikram Widge, will speak during this panel session.
Climate Crossroads – From Forests and Food Systems to Finance and Carbon Markets
Monday, September 22
105 East 17th Street Main Event Space
Join global experts, policymakers, and innovators on September 22, 2025, for a dynamic, full-day in-person event at NYU Wagner, exploring how smallholder empowerment, regenerative agriculture, and circular economy solutions can drive climate resilience and sustainable development. Hosted by O Mundo Que Queremos, ECCON Soluções Ambientais, and NYU Wagner SI3, the program will feature six thought-provoking panels tackling critical issues like agri-finance innovation, forest-friendly economies, and perennial carbon solutions. With voices from the Global South and a strong focus on policy and practice, this event offers actionable insights for a regenerative, equitable future.
CPI Director Natalie Hoover El Rashidy will moderate Panel 1: Smallholders and Food Systems at the Core: Policy Pathways for Adaptation and Resilient Agriculture.
Investment Outlook: Policy and the Global Energy Transition
Monday, September 22
Invite-only
This event will explore how shifting public policy is reshaping the global energy investment landscape. In the U.S., rollbacks of key energy transition policies have prompted investors to reassess their exposure to policy risk. Meanwhile, governments across Europe, Asia, and beyond are accelerating decarbonization incentives.
CPI Senior Director, Bella Tonkonogy, will speak at this invite-only event.
Latin American Impact Morning
Tuesday, September 23; 8:00 – 13:00
Mattos Filho Offices, 34 E 51st St, 12th Floor
Latimpacto, in partnership with Mattos Filho, will host the first Latin American Impact Morning at Mattos Filho’s offices in New York. This gathering will go beyond lectures to create a collaborative space where leaders, experts, and organizations can engage in deep dialogue around the urgent issues shaping our planet’s future — from climate and biodiversity to food systems and more.
CPI Senior Analyst Guillermo Martinez will speak at this event.
From Plans to Pipelines: Unlocking Subnational Infrastructure for Climate Impact
Tuesday, September 23; 11:30 – 12:45
Bloomberg Office (Invite-only)
This high-level roundtable, co-hosted by the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), the Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF), and the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (CCFLA), and supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, will spotlight solutions and partnerships that empower subnational governments to translate local climate ambition into investable infrastructure projects through targeted project preparation support, bridging the gap from plans to pipeline.
Climate Resilience Without Borders: Technology Transfer for Global Adaptation
Tuesday, September 23; 10:00 – 12:00
In order to address global climate resilience we need to find the most innovative technology solutions and scale them globally. Technology transfer intersects with specific challenges: trade policy, supply chains, political will, currency risk, and more. In this event, hosted by CPI, GARI, and Mercy Corps Ventures, participants will hear from investors and companies who have and are taking global solutions global.
Strategic growth by financing resilience
Tuesday, September 23; 15:30 – 18:00
SHiFT Midtown
Climate X and Risk.net will host this in-person event that will bring together c-suite and executive leaders from banks, asset managers, and the broader financial ecosystem – including Allianz, Bank of America, the World Bank, CBRE, Jeffries, UNEP FI, and others. It will explore how capital markets will play a transformative role in advancing resilient revenue growth and turning climate adaptation from a compliance issue into a growth opportunity.
CPI Senior Advisor, Vikram Widge, will participate in the following session:
- 4:30pm: Fireside chat – Adaptation pioneers; real estate, insurance, and banking
- Moderator: Sakshi Sharma, News Editor, Risk.net
- Konstantinos Papapetridis, Regional Manager for North America, Allianz
- Helen Gurfel, Head of Global Sustainability and Innovation, CBRE
- Vikram Widge, Senior Advisor, Climate Finance, Climate Policy Initiative
Aggregated Purchasing Power for Climate-Neutral Cities – Towards Intra-City Procurement
Tuesday, September 23; 16:00 – 20:00
Invite-only
Cities are critical to the climate transition but face a massive investment gap for urban climate projects. One of the key barriers for cities to scale climate action is the lack of investment-ready project pipelines, which results in challenges in mobilizing private capital for climate-neutral projects.
Representatives from C40 Cities, Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance, the First Movers, Coalition / World Economic Forum, Global Convenant of Mayors, Government of Sweden, Leadership Group for Industry Transition, NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice, the Global Environment Facility, UN-Habitat and the World Resources Institute will attend this invite-only event.
CPI’s John Michael LaSalle will speak at this event.
Private Roundtable on Mobilizing Finance for Grassroots Adaptation: Prioritizing Solutions & Scale
Wednesday, September 24
Financial inclusion is central to advancing locally-led adaptation by channeling resources, tools, and decision-making power directly to the community-level. This closed-door session will provide space for candid reflection on identifying high-impact solutions and charting priorities for collectively broadening their reach.
Future Proof: Aligning Incentives for Global Climate Resilient Infrastructure
Wednesday, September 24; 13:00 – 15:00
CPI, GARI, and WSP are co-convening a high-level discussion on how private and public sector investors, project developers, and other stakeholders are working together to create climate resilient infrastructure worldwide. The session will highlight lessons learned from investors with global portfolios and explore case studies that demonstrate practical approaches to resilience.
Speakers include leading voices from WSP, Climate Bonds Initiative, WaterEquity, Meridiam, Outrigger Impact, CPI, RES, Pollination, and the Water Environment Federation.
CPI Analyst William Wallock will speak at this event.
GIIN’s Inaugural Climate Solutions Investing Roundtable & Networking Event
Wednesday, September 24; 13:30 – 18:30
CPI Senior Director, Bella Tonkonogy, will speak at this GIIN event, which will bring together asset owners, managers, and other leaders in climate finance to explore:
- Current climate capital flows and allocation gaps.
- Which investment pathways are overvalued versus underappreciated in climate finance.
- How investors can align their strategies across the investment chain to accelerate progress towards a below-2°C future.
The program will feature expert presentations, sector-specific breakout discussions and a networking reception.
Please note: You must complete the registration form at the link below. RSVPs will be reviewed and approved on a case-by-case basis to ensure a targeted audience. Approved attendees will receive a confirmation email with event details and a calendar hold.
Mobilizing Capital for Climate Solutions in Emerging Markets
Wednesday, September 24; 14:00-17:00pm
Deutsche Bank Center
Join CPI and Deutsche Bank at New York Climate Week for an action-oriented event showcasing five investable climate finance solutions from the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance and the Catalytic Climate Finance Facility, bringing together investors, entrepreneurs, and experts to tackle barriers, scale capital to underserved markets, and build on CPI’s track record of supporting 90+ vehicles that have mobilized USD 4.3 billion in emerging economies.
From Urgency to Action: Scaling Climate Finance for Resilience
Thursday, September 25; 12:00 – 15:00
Global poverty reduction has stalled, and climate change threatens to push an additional 130 million people into poverty across developing economies. While entrepreneurial innovations are emerging to build resilience in vulnerable communities across sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, a critical lack of appropriate capital is holding them back. This event, co-hosted by Acumen and Climate Policy Initiative, brings together entrepreneurs, investors, and climate leaders to tackle one of the most urgent questions of our time: How can we mobilize capital at scale to support climate resilience and adaptation in the world’s most vulnerable regions?
