
Climate Week 2025
Regular price $20.00Climate Week at The Explorers Club returns, at the time when your voice matters most. Alongside the events of the United Nations General Assembly, join the foremost climate & sustainability experts, and the world’s greatest explorers, all in our inimitable headquarters.
Highlighting success stories directly from the field, fundamental changes needed in our everyday lives, and pathways to action in order to protect nature as climate change unfolds.
Join us, and help us change the world.
Tickets for all 5PM and 7PM programs are $50, and include a reception after each event, respectively. Check-in for all events begins a half-hour in advance of the listed time. Afternoon events, beginning at 2PM, are $20 and do not include a reception.
Our Explorers Corner Bar at Club Headquarters will remain open all week until 10:00 pm, so Members & Guests can continue to network after the events.
Climate Week Passport tickets include access to all ticketed programs, as well as special recognition throughout the week. A portion of the Climate Ambassador Pass is tax-deductible and helps support programs like our Climate Week and fund critical climate work around the globe through our grant programs and other initiatives.
Sunday at 5PM
Kick-off climate week with our Sunday special event on glacial preservation. Hosted by PBS NOVA Senior Producer Caitlin Saks, we’ll provide an investigation of technologies and questions confronting the problem of glacial melt at scale.
Featuring:
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Marianne Hagen (marianne.hagen@niva.no) - University of the Arctic
- David Holland - New York University
- John Moore - University of Lapland
Monday at 5PM
Glaciers are disappearing, permafrost is thawing, and ice sheets are destabilizing—putting communities and ecosystems worldwide at risk. UNESCO is leading the Cryosphere Decade (2025–2034) to accelerate solutions for one of the planet’s most urgent climate frontiers.
Featuring:
- Amanda Lynch - Professor, Brown University; Chair of Research Board at WMO
- Børge Ousland - Polar Explorer and Founder of IceLegacy
- Alexander More - University of Massachusetts / Harvard; Chair of Climate Week at The Explorers Club
- The iconic Sylvia Earle returning Explorers Club Flag #121 from the Arctic with Sally Ranney, Taylor Griffith & Alex Rose
Monday at 7PM
Leadership insights from the climate vanguard, with moderation and contextualizing commentary from Mathias Wikström, CEO & Founder of Doconomy.
Featuring preeminent climate & sustainability voices:
- Emma Sky - Yale International Leadership Center
- Rebecca Henderson - Harvard Business School
- Marisa Drew - Standard Chartered
- Johan Rockström - Potsdam Institute
- Her Deepness Sylvia Earle returns to stage alongside Keith Tuffley returning Club Flag #73 from Tonga
Tuesday at 2PM
More than sixty contributors from across the world have come together from all walks of life to re-frame perspectives on human hope and human civilization.
Join moderator Lyndsay Howard, Senior Advisor from Bloomberg News, as we take an inside look from leaders featured in Osvald Bjelland’s landmark new book.
Featuring perspectives from:
- Osvald Bjelland - author, HOPE
- Robert Swan - first to walk both Poles
- Robert Thurman - Columbia University
- Michael Douglas - Actor
- Hans Vestberg - CEO and Chairman, Verizon
- Lord John Browne - BeyondNetZero
- The inimitable Dame Jane Goodall via satellite
Tuesday at 5PM
Climate change is accelerating faster than predicted, driving record heat and extreme weather across the globe. We'll break down what the data really shows—using clear graphics, maps, and real stories from Ethiopia, Europe, and California about the human impact of drought, floods, and wildfires. We’ll explore the numbers behind these events, the emerging health risks, and how communities are building resilience through both physical and financial solutions.
Featuring:
- Rich Moyer - Principal, Chief Product Officer, Milliman
- Rong Yi - Principal, Data Science Modeling, Milliman
- David P. Mirkin - Chief Medical Officer, Milliman
- with unique visuals provided by Esri, architects of ArcGIS
Tuesday at 7PM
Since the pioneering work of Alexander von Humboldt, this mega-diverse country has inspired explorers, scholars and citizen scientists all around the world.
Featuring a groundbreaking scientific discovery, art, photography, cuisine, and the projects of Club Members working to preserve the beauty of Colombia.
Featuring:
- Cristián Samper - Director of Nature Solutions, Bezos Earth Fund
- Carolina Vanegas - CEO, Paradis de Colors
- Sean Bedingfield - Marine Mosaic Inc., Club Fellow returning back from a revolutionary expedition with Flag #206
- Nacor Bolanos - Coralina
Wednesday at 5PM
Join us for an evening with the iconic Kris Tompkins to introduce the Jaguar Rivers Initiative, a bold cross-border effort to restore and protect ecosystems at a continental scale.
CNN’s Bill Weir will take guests through film, presentations, and conversation with leaders from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay. We’ll explore how ecological corridors and rewilding projects are addressing drought, climate, wildfires, and biodiversity loss. Hear firsthand from the people driving this work, and learn how large-scale restoration is building resilience for people, climate and nature. Introduction by Natalie Cash – Executive Producer, Wildlife Conservation Society.
Featuring:
- Kris Tompkins – President and Co-Founder, Tompkins Conservation
- Sofia Heinonen – CEO, Fundación Rewilding Argentina
- Mario Haberfeld – CEO and Founder, Onçafari (Brazil)
- Ivan Arnold – CEO, Nativa: Naturaleza, Tierra y Vida (Bolivia)
- Yan Speranza – CEO, Fundación Moises Bertoni (Paraguay)
- Deli Saavedra – Director, Jaguar River Initiative
Wednesday at 7PM
Meet the XPRIZE Wildfire Finalists — winning projects & teams of a bold initiative to accelerate breakthrough solutions. Growing more destructive each year, threatening lives, ecosystems, and economies on a global scale — we’ll explore the technologies and opportunities that could help end wildfires worldwide.
Featuring:
- Anousheh Ansari - CEO, XPRIZE
- Chief Brian Fennessey - Fire Chief, Orange County Fire Authority
- Bosco Lai - Co-Founder & CEO, Little Place Labs
- Ryan Lanclos - Director of National Government & Public Safety Solutions, Esri
- Andrea Santy - Program Director, XPRIZE Wildfire
- Kristian Ullum Vind - Sceye
- Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen - CEO, Sceye
Thursday at 2PM
The Explorers Club Next Generation Explorers Network (NGEN) is a community of 35-and-under Club Members, founded to increase access, visibility, and provide community for those at the start of their journey in field science and exploration.
Hosted by NGEN Chair and Club Member Grace Cordsen, join us for an inside look at several amazing projects from young members at the forefront of their field work.
Featuring:
- Aisha Rashid - Reproductive rights in Southern Resident killer whales
- Alex Rose - Polar Plasticine
- Federico Perez Vasquez - The Jaguar Expedition: Reconnecting Lost Pathways
- Avery Schuyler Nunn - Breath of the Undersea Jungles
- Kate Broug - A Turning Point in Amazon Conservation
- Meg O'Hara - Navigating the Polar Regions: An Artist’s Journey to Ocean Conservation
- Peter Flo Grinde-Hollevik & Martin Mæle - Ice, Rock, and Snow (Leopards) of Khan Tengri
Thursday at 5PM
From the first steps of ancient explorers to the millions of footsteps taken every day across our cities, trails, and remote landscapes, footwear has always been our most universal form of transportation.
Today, the footwear industry stands not at a crossroads, but on the threshold of a remarkable opportunity: to lead a global movement for climate action, supply chain resilience and business creation.
This discussion will underscore how collective action can accelerate climate solutions at the pace and scale the world demands, while celebrating footwear’s unique capacity to inspire culture and mobilize global citizens toward a future where every step leaves a positive impact.
Featuring:
- Yuly Fuentes-Medel - MIT; Founder & Executive Director, The Footwear Collective
- Katy O'Brien - Head of Sustainable Innovation, New Balance
- Deanna Bratter - Chief Sustainability Officer, Crocs Inc.
- Elle Carberry - Board Member, EarthDNA
Owls, coyotes and myriads of birds live side by side with New Yorkers, in Central Park and other green spaces of the City. They capture New York Times’s readers’ imagination, and draw us into the parks in search of relief from the heat and stress of everyday life. Join leading urban wildlife photographers David Lei and Jacqueline Emery, and world renowned Earth Law expert, Grant Wilson, to explore how urban wildlife made a life beside us, and what we can do to protect their rights to exist.
- Jacqueline Emery - wildlife photographer
- David Lei - wildlife photographer
- Grant Wilson - Executive Director, Earth Law Center
Friday at 5PM
Celebrated authors who write about Nature gather to ask a simple question: where are we going, now that it’s come to this? They will answer while also remembering another celebrated writer, Club Member Barry Lopez and the legacy of his work.
Featuring:
- Kurt Caswell (moderator) - author of Iceland Summer
- Terry Tempest Williams - author of The Hour of Land
- Kelsey Leonard - University of Waterloo and Shinnecock Nation
- Susan Brind Morrow - author of Water
- Bill McKibben - author of Here Comes the Sun
Friday at 7PM
Cap Climate Week with an Explorers Club Party as only we do best. Featuring a myriad of Club Flags back from the field — with photo ops, climate exhibits, food, music, climate cocktails, and more.
Don’t miss your chance to close the week with unparalleled networking + plan your next piece of fieldwork — say goodbye to your new friends, or make new ones, all in the home of the greatest explorers on Earth.