ACR at New York Climate Week 2025

New York Climate Week 2025 was as vibrant and busy as ever, with hundreds of events around town in late September. Held annually alongside the United Nations General Assembly, Climate Week offers an important opportunity for ACR to meet in-person with many different stakeholders in one location, while also introducing our approach to high-quality carbon crediting to new audiences at various events.

This year, ACR partnered with the Nature4Climate Coalition, which hosted the Nature Hub. As part of this partnership, ACR’s communications director, Brad Kahn, moderated a panel on “Today’s Business Case for Nature-Based Solutions: Delivering Returns for Nature, Climate, and Investors.” Including leaders from Nuveen Natural Capital, TotalEnergies, Lloyds Banking Group, and Nuveen, the session focused on the growth of nature and climate-focused investment, including where trends are headed.

ACR also co-hosted a “Forests for Climate” happy hour with the Forest Stewardship Council U.S. and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. As an informal networking event, we were heartened to see more than 100 people attend, given the plethora of events at the same time. Participants appreciated the opportunity to gather with other forest-focused professionals amidst the “creative chaos” of New York Climate Week.

While we attended many events, we want to highlight one that stood out: Yale University’s session on “Leveraging Carbon Markets to Fight Super Pollutants,” which included Tim Brown from Tradewater and Ben Apple from Environmental Commodities Corporation. With a focus on potent greenhouse gases, such as methane and ozone-depleting substances, the packed session was an important reminder of the need to tackle emissions of other gases alongside CO2.

The events above are just a tiny fraction of the activities at Climate Week. IETA held its North American Climate Summit, Anew hosted a lunch on improved forest management, Weyerhaeuser gathered people to discuss natural climate solutions, the Business Alliance for Climate Action convened a roundtable on measurement, reporting and verification, and much more.

Despite concerns that this year’s New York Climate Week would be under-attended, the reality proved to be a uniquely energizing opportunity to get a feel for just how much is happening to address climate change.

If you’d like to partner with ACR at a future New York Climate Week, please get in touch with Brad Kahn (brad.kahn@winrock.org).