Stand.earth gears up for Climate Week NYC 2025

International environmental advocacy organization Stand.earth will be hosting and collaborating on numerous events as part of Climate Week NYC later this month.

Stand aims to deliver large-scale change for the planet and its people by interrupting the systems that create climate crises, and challenging corporations and governments to treat people and the environment with respect.

Join the organization’s campaigns at the events below to learn about their vision for a climate-safe, equitable future, where environmental and climate justice policies uphold the dignity of people everywhere — at the scale our world requires.

Climate Finance

Stand’s Climate Finance program is collaborating with partners and PlanetHAUS to host a panel that discusses the impact and momentum behind the Retire Big Oil campaign from 10:45 to 11:10 a.m. ET Wednesday, Sept. 24 at Maxwell Tribeca, 135 Watts Street, New York, NY 10013. The event will dig into the campaign through which 500+ actors and SAG-AFTRA members are publicly calling on the $4 billion SAG-Producers Pension Plan to divest from fossil fuels. Featured panelists include Stand Executive Director Todd Paglia, Sphere Founder and CEO Alex Wright-Goldstein, and actors and SAG-AFTRA members such as Alysia Reiner (Orange is the New Black, The Diplomat), Daphne Rubin-Vega (In The Heights, Rent), and Miss Peppermint (RuPaul’s Drag Race, Survival of the Thickest). Learn more and register here.

Climate finance experts available in person for interviews:

• Stand Executive Director Todd Paglia

Transportation

Stand’s Deliver Change campaign is collaborating with Clean Mobility Collective partners on an event titled “Where do all the polluters go?” from 4 to 5:30 p.m. ET Wednesday, Sept. 24 at Civic Hall, 124 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10003. Exploring a path to equitably retire, reuse, and upcycle polluting vehicles, panelists will discuss strategies for creating a circular, low-emission freight system that minimizes environmental burdens while maximizing resource efficiency. This conversation will explore where polluting vehicles are offloaded and how we must engage with small fleet operators to respond to the unique cultural/market limitations of environmental justice communities worldwide. Learn more and register here.

Transportation experts available in person for interviews:

• Clean Mobility Collective Campaigner Michelle Piñon

Big Tech

Stand’s Big Tech campaign is collaborating with Kairos partners on an event titled “Magical thinking and greenwashing in Big Tech’s AI takeover” from 3 to 5 p.m. ET Thursday, Sept. 25 at RESOBOX East Village, 91 East 3rd Street, New York, NY 10003. This event will feature a panel discussion and Q&A with representatives from a powerful mix of national and community-based organizations campaigning to limit the impact of data centers on communities and the climate. The panel will explore topics ranging from local impacts (water use, electricity prices, air/light/noise pollution) to global issues (climate change pollution), to the attempts of Big Tech to spin AI as a climate solution silver bullet while ignoring how it enables fossil fuel companies to increase extraction and its primacy in the federal government’s attempts to roll back environmental regulations. We will also discuss what large tech companies can and should be doing to actually address the problems they are creating with their data centers and AI products. Learn more and register here.

IT experts available in person for interviews:

• Senior Campaigner Nathan Taft
• Senior Corporate Climate Campaigner Rachel Kitchin

Amazon Rainforest

Stand’s Amazonia campaign is collaborating with Indigenous leaders as well as partner organizations iIndigenous and Avaaz on an event titled, “Defending a Living Amazon: Indigenous Peoples’ Proposals on the Road to COP30” from 5 to 8 p.m. ET Thursday, Sept. 25 at The Peoples Forum, 320 W. 37th Street, New York, NY 10018. This event will bring together the Indigenous organizations of the Amazon Basin to present their unified priorities for COP30 in Belém. It will be an opportunity to hear directly from Indigenous leaders about their proposals for protecting territories, including ensuring full and effective participation, direct access to climate finance, and declaring the Amazonia an exclusion zone for extractive activities. Learn more and register here.

Amazonia experts available in person for interviews:

• Amazonia Senior Campaigner Gisela Hurtado

Make Billionaires Pay March

Stand is a supporting partner in the Make Billionaires Pay mass mobilization happening in New York City and across the U.S. on Saturday, Sept. 20 in effort to stand up to Trump and the Billionaire Class, and demand better for our people and planet. The Make Billionaires Pay March is one inflection point in an ever-growing rebellion against the fascist billionaires trying to take control of our government and extract as much profit from our communities as possible. To get involved in the movement of people nationwide joining together in this nonviolent resistance, sign up to participate in the anchor march in NYC or to host an action in your own community.

Sun Day

Stand is a supporting partner in the Sun Day celebration happening in New York City and across the U.S. on Sunday, Sept. 21. Sun Day is a nationwide celebration of clean energy progress and a call to accelerate the transition that’s already underway. We’ll be joining communities across the country to showcase the businesses, organizations, and families that are already leading the way to a clean energy future. To help harness the power of the sun and support clean energy, find events near you and RSVP at sunday.earth.

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Media contact: 

Cari Barcas, Communications Director, cari.barcas@stand.earth