Climate Week NYC 2025
21–28 September, 2025
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Events Schedule
- Raising the Bar: Ensuring Carbon Project Integrity for Market Success
- Nature Risk = Business Risk: From Compliance to Competitive Advantage
- Future-Proofing Climate & Nature Action: Lessons from the Nexus of Water, Biodiversity, and Business Value
- Invitation Only: Networking Reception with Carlyle and Anthesis
- The Cost of Silence – Breakfast Panel with Freya Williams
- Regenerate to Accelerate: The Business Imperative for Climate & Nature Integration
- Recharged & Refueled – Global Electronics Association sponsored Lunch
- Power on: Climate & Circularity in Electronics
- Invitation Only: Integrating ESG at Exit to Realize Value
- Invitation Only: Green Giants – 10-Year Anniversary Reception
An Anthesis activation at Climate Week NYC 2025
At Anthesis, we guide organizations as they transition toward decarbonized and more sustainable futures. This September, during Climate Week NYC, we built an experience that reflects that mission—activating progress through bold ideas, practical solutions, and collective energy.
Our two-day activation was a space for momentum — where leaders convened, systems shifted, and the future took shape. We witnessed dynamic conversations, collaborative solutions, and bold action across climate, nature, and equity.
Tuesday 23 September
Raising the Bar: Ensuring Carbon Project Integrity for Market Success
Anthesis Director Miquel Rubio was joined in conversation with Michael Casey, VP of Partnerships at NativState, Mart de Bruijn, Co-founder and Director at Carboneers, and John Tinsley, Co-Founder of Therm, for an engaging discussion on how to deliver high-integrity carbon and sustainability projects — from nature-based to technological solutions — that drive both climate impact and investment confidence.
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Nature Risk = Business Risk: From Compliance to Competitive Advantage
Betsy Hickman, Global Nature Lead at Anthesis, was joined in conversation with Erin Billman, Executive Director of the Science Based Targets Network (SBTN), and Tony Goldner, CEO of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) for a dynamic discussion on how to respond to rapidly evolving investor expectations and translate nature frameworks into actionable governance, risk management, and long-term value creation.
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Future-Proofing Climate & Nature Action: Lessons from the Nexus of Water, Biodiversity, and Business Value
Biodiversity and water are foundational business assets—indispensable to climate goals, supply chain and operational resilience, and long-term business growth. As climate change, ecosystem degradation, and water scarcity converge, forward-thinking companies are embedding nature action directly into their climate strategies to protect and grow enterprise value.
Sustainability leaders from Ecolab and Diageo shared practical insights into how integrating biodiversity and water stewardship into climate action drives measurable returns. They were joined by their implementing partners to share tangible examples of how implementing these strategies on the ground can further strengthen business resilience.
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Networking Reception with Carlyle and Anthesis
An energizing evening uniting investors, business leaders, and sustainability innovators — featuring Meg Starr, Steve Hatfield, and Stuart McLachlan — that sparked fresh ideas and partnerships for financing the transition to a low-carbon future.
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Wednesday 24 September
The Cost of Silence – Breakfast Panel with Freya Williams
As brands step up on climate, too many are stepping back on communications. The Cost of Silence — the latest research from Revolt (part of Anthesis) — shows that 79% of companies are inauthentic when communicating environmental performance.
The result? Missed opportunities for reputation, growth, and leadership.
In this candid conversation, Anthesis experts highlighted the real risks and opportunities for businesses when they choose silence on climate and sustainability — with Freya Williams and corporate leaders who are shaping the dialogue.
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Regenerate to Accelerate: The Business Imperative for Climate & Nature Integration
As climate shocks, biodiversity loss, and supply chain volatility converge, regenerative agriculture has emerged as one of the most powerful levers to future-proof food systems and build resilience from soil to shelf.
This powerhouse panel of sustainability leaders from across the food and retail value chain met together for a dynamic conversation on the urgent need to scale regenerative agriculture across sourcing regions and landscapes. Featuring senior executives from Campbell’s and Kraft Heinz, this session went beyond strategy to explore tangible action: how companies are embedding nature and climate into unified approaches, mobilizing financing at scale, and working with farmers and partners to de-risk the transition to regenerative management systems.
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Power on: Climate & Circularity in Electronics
From design for reuse, to energy efficiency, to resource conservation, circularity helps the electronics industry improve their sustainable practices. Can circularity also reduce risk and stabilize costs for companies? And if yes, how are they investing in circularity today?
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Invitation Only: Integrating ESG at Exit to Realize Value — Private Equity Strategies
Barrett Lawson and Erin Gregoire—leaders in Anthesis’ Transactions & Sustainable Finance Team—led a session where they explored emerging best practices and challenges for effectively integrating ESG into exit strategies and realising ROI from sustainability advancements made during ownership.
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Green Giants – 10-Year Anniversary Reception
A lively celebration of the 10-year anniversary of Freya Williams’ book Green Giants, reconnecting with the trailblazing brands it spotlighted and exploring what it takes to build the next generation of giants.
Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion Dollar Businesses profiled nine companies, from Tesla to Unilever, that proved sustainability and profitability could go hand in hand — building billion-dollar revenue streams around products, services, and business lines with impact at their core.
A decade later, it’s time to reflect on the first wave of Green Giants and ask: what will it take to build the next?
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