World Climate Summit: New York

As the global agenda moves from COP30 implementation toward acceleration at UNFCCC COP31 and UNCBD COP17, the World Climate Summit: New York returns as a pivotal mid-year platform in a defining triple COP year. Positioned at the intersection of the Rio Conventions, the Summit acts as a strategic bridge - aligning climate and nature agendas to unlock competitiveness, mobilise capital, and scale real-economy delivery.  

Convened alongside UNGA 81 and Climate Week NYC, the Summit brings together leaders across finance, industry, government and civil society to align capital, policy and markets - translating global ambition into institutional frameworks and investment-ready action.  

Building on momentum generated across Davos, Asia, London and São Paulo, the World Climate Summit: New York advances Sustainability 2.0 - embedding climate and biodiversity into economic strategy, financial systems and corporate decision-making. In doing so, it lays the foundations for COP17 to demonstrate implementation and for COP31 to accelerate the transition economy at scale, driving long-term value, resilience and system-wide transformation.  

WCS: NY functions as the execution platform-converting alignment into partnerships, capital deployment, and system-wide action that delivers into COP17 and scales through COP31.