SEI at Climate Week NYC 2025

Official report launch of “Sweden – The Climate Matchmaker for Global Action”

Organizer: The Consul General of Sweden in New York, Erik Ullenhag, together with Business Sweden and Sweden’s Non-Negotiating Delegation to COP30

Where: The Swedish Residence, 600 Park Ave, New York.

When: 9–11 EDT

As parties to the Paris Agreement prepare to submit updated NDCs ahead of COP30, raising ambition and accelerating action is critical. Sweden stands ready to make NDCs investable and implementable by contributing with innovative solutions, outlining market barriers for implementation as well as enabling conditions to unlock finance and deploy solutions that support mitigation, adaptation, and address loss and damage.

The event will feature keynote address by Sweden’s Minister of Climate and the Environment, Romina Pourmokhtari, and an expert commentary panel to share reflections of the report. Stakeholders include Mattias Frumerie, Climate Ambassador and Head of Delegation to UNFCCC at the Ministry of Climate and Enterprise in Sweden, climate champions, and executive industry leaders from Sweden and beyond.

LeadIT will speak at this event. 

Official report launch of the 2025 Production Gap Report

Organizer: Stockholm Environment Institute, together with Climate Analytics and International Institute for Sustainable Development

Where: Online

When: 9:30 EDT

The Production Gap Report tracks the misalignment between governments’ planned and projected production of coal, oil, and gas and the global production levels consistent with the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal.

The report’s fifth edition arrives about 10 years after the Paris Agreement’s ratification, and right as governments submit their third round of climate pledges toward fulfilling the Paris Agreement’s goals. This edition compiles the latest fossil fuel production plans from the world’s governments since the last Production Gap Report in 2023. It provides new analysis on how these plans align with internationally agreed efforts to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems and achieve net zero by 2050.

The future is ours to build: Reimagining US leadership in global conservation

Organizer: Reimagining Global Conservation group

Where: Pier 57, 25 11th Ave, New York.

When: 3:00–5:00 EDT

What kind of global conservation system do we need now? What kind of US role could help bring it to life?

Join the Reimagining Global Conservation consortium as they host a dynamic and forward-looking session for honest debate and collaborative design. Explore what it means to move beyond prior models to facilitate bolder, more equitable conservation strategies. This session is an invitation to not only critique the future, but to shape it.

SEI’s Ed Carr and Bonnie Cockman will be present at the event.

“Turning the moment into momentum”

Organizer: LeadIT – Leadership Group for Industry Transition

Where: Baker McKenzie, 452 Fifth Avenue, New York 10018

When: 23 September 2025, 10:30–12:00 EDT

Context

In his 22 July 2025 address, the United Nations’ Secretary-General warned that the world is at a crossroads: “Either we accelerate the transition to a clean, just, and resilient economy — or we accelerate towards crisis.”

For heavy industry – including steel, cement, heavy duty transport and their value chains – this is not a distant choice. These sectors are simultaneously facing decarbonization breakthroughs and acute geopolitical challenges. Low-carbon production methods are achieving commercial viability but clean energy and industrial policy have now become tied to national security and competitiveness. Global trade in critical minerals and industrial products is under strain from fragmentation and uncertain trade conditions.

While technical progress is rapid, deployment remains slow, geographically uneven, and socially fragile. The biggest gaps are a trust deficit between governments and companies across regions and insufficient flows of finance to unlock accelerated decarbonization at scale. This is most pertinent for emerging markets where industrial growth and decarbonization must advance together. As Brazil prepares to host COP30, there is an opportunity to move from pilot projects to globally scaled, cooperative deployment.

This Climate Week event will confront two intertwined challenges to unlocking this opportunity:

• Maintaining cooperation in an era of geopolitical division to ensure the transition is truly just
• Scaling finance and policy to accelerate the industrial transition.

Session objectives

During the session, participants will:

• Share specific examples of industrial decarbonisation efforts that have scaled, with lessons for replication in diverse contexts.
• Identify policy priorities and finance measures to accelerate investment in heavy industry transition, especially in emerging markets.
• Explore practical ways to maintain cooperation across borders and sectors despite geopolitical uncertainty.
• Use the discussions as an input to the COP30 presidency’s Global Climate Action Agenda process.

Planetary Health Check 2025 Launch

Organizers: Planetary Guardians, The New School

Where: Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, The New Schol, 66 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011

When: 12:00 EDT

The Planetary Health Check is the most comprehensive, science-based global initiative dedicated to measuring and maintaining the Earth system.

Johan Rockström, the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, will provide an update on the Planetary Health Check. Join the Planetary Guardians as they launch the 2025 Planetary Health Check.

US Centre Director Ed Carr will be present to represent SEI.

Beyond NDCs

Organizer: Exponential Roadmap Initiative

Where: We Don’t Have Time, the Nest Campus, 429 11th Avenue, New York.

When: 12.00–14:25 EDT

This panel discussion will consider the critical intersection of corporate and national climate action, focusing on Brazil’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in the lead-up to COP30 in Belém. This session will bring together leaders from business, academia, and policy to explore the vital role of public-private collaboration in raising climate ambition. The discussion will showcase how such collaborations have the potential to create synergies for businesses, the economy, and society and identify crucial bottlenecks, providing insights on how private sector engagement can help realize national climate goals

Felipe Sanchez, SEI Policy Fellow and country partnerships lead for LeadIT will be a speaker at this event.