WECAN AT CLIMATE WEEK 2026
Join WECAN at New York Climate Week this September as the escalating impacts of extreme heat, wildfires, flooding, and biodiversity loss underscore the urgent need for systemic change and transformative climate action. This political moment calls for strong leadership rooted in justice, care, equity, and solidarity. During this NY Climate Week, WECAN is convening global women leaders who are advancing bold, innovative, and community-led solutions to the climate crisis.
This Climate Week takes place amid an especially challenging political landscape. Around the world, governments and companies continue to expand fossil fuel extraction and to advance the large-scale build-out of data centers, which we, along with many citizens oppose because of the negative pressures they place on already scarce water and energy resources, in addition to social harms they cause to our communities. At the same time, the root causes of record-breaking heatwaves, devastating wildfires, and flash flooding are being overlooked despite the science linking them to the climate crisis.
We gather during this New York Climate Week, alongside governments, Indigenous leaders, civil society, and frontline communities to strengthen partnerships, amplify solutions, and build momentum toward a just and regenerative future. WECAN remains committed to uplifting the leadership of women in all their diversity, Indigenous Peoples, and frontline communities. Through our events, roundtables, and partner meetings, we will convene women around the globe who are leading climate solutions. We will also be advocating for the Rights of Nature, a Just Transition, the phaseout of fossil fuels, and community-led climate solutions that build a more equitable, resilient, and regenerative future.
WECAN will be in New York City during Climate Week 2026 from September 20-26, organizing alongside movement partners at public events and strategy sessions with policymakers. Please be welcome to join us!
We will continue to update this page soon with our confirmed speakers as well as highlights of our events in collaboration with our partners and colleagues.
WECAN CLIMATE WEEK EVENTS
This page will be updated regularly as additional events and speakers are confirmed.
Women Building a Resilient World: Implementing a Just Transition and Fossil Fuel Phaseout
Wednesday, September 23
5:00 - 8:00 pm ET NYC Time
Luma Studios, Studio 1505
307 West 38th Street, New York, NY 10018
Amid a growing polycrisis of geopolitical tensions and climate disasters, women leaders in all their diversity are speaking out. Please join us this Climate Week in New York City for an inspiring and solutions-oriented WECAN event, "Women Building a Resilient World: Implementing a Just Transition and Fossil Fuel Phaseout. "
During this event, frontline women, Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and climate justice advocates will come together to explore the bold actions and solutions needed to accelerate a Just Transition and an equitable phaseout of fossil fuels. Through policy advocacy, frontline experiences, and community-led solutions, speakers will examine how to translate climate commitments into meaningful implementation while raising ambition to meet the urgency of the climate crisis.
Discussions will highlight women's leadership in advancing renewable energy, phasing out fossil fuels, protecting and regenerating ecosystems, advocating for Rights of Nature, resourcing Indigenous-led stewardship models, dismantling false solutions, strengthening care economies, and building equitable, regenerative solutions that leave no one behind.
Featured Speakers will be announced soon.