Find your YCC community during climate gatherings.

Climate Justice Camp: September 11-15

The Climate Justice Camp is an international week-long event, which provides a physical space for co-creation, collaboration, and innovation between Global South groups and leaders working at the intersection of climate and social justice. Each year, its program is developed and delivered by the participant body and regional partners. The camp’s objectives are centered on co-creating strategies that cross borders and issues; forging relationships, networks, and alliances between participants; and building capacity and communities of practice that remain active for the long-term. Well-being and resilience are integrated into the foundational design of the camp, as well as an emphasis on creativity and storytelling. The fourth global edition of Climate Justice Camp is happening in Mexico.

Applications are now closed, but you can learn more here: https://climatejusticecamp.com/latin-america

• Say Hi: Find Pooja, our Executive Director, there (Sep 7-16)

NY Climate Week: September 21-28

Climate Week NYC is the largest annual climate event of its kind, bringing together over 900 events and activities across the City of New York – in person, hybrid and online. Each year, business leaders, political change makers, local decision takers and civil society representatives of all ages and backgrounds, from all over the world, gather to drive the transition, speed up progress, and champion change that is already happening.

Climate Group hosts the official program during the week that brings together the most senior international figures from business, government, civil society and the climate sector.

This year, Climate Week NYC is being held from September 21-28, 2025. The event takes place every year in partnership with the United Nations General Assembly and is run in coordination with the United Nations and the City of New York.

Learn more and register for events here: https://www.theclimategroup.org/our-work/events/climate-week-nyc-2025

• Say Hi to our core team members who will be there:

  • Pooja Tilvawala, Founder/Executive Director (Sep 19-28 in NYC)

  • Tanya Haldipur, UK Hub Director (Sep 19-28 in NYC)

  • Samay Bhattacharyya, Software Developer for our app, Jaali (Sep 18-29 in NYC)

COP30: November 10-21

Government representatives from around the world have gathered nearly every year since 1995 at the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP) to advance work on negotiating multilateral agreements and to provide a way forward in the fight against the significant challenges of climate change.

The COP is the supreme decision-making body of the Convention. All States that are Parties to the Convention are represented at the COP, at which they review the implementation of the Convention and any other legal instruments that the COP adopts and take decisions necessary to promote the effective implementation of the Convention, including institutional and administrative arrangements.

A key task for the COP is to review the national communications and emission inventories submitted by Parties. Based on this information, the COP assesses the effects of the measures taken by Parties and the progress made in achieving the ultimate objective of the Convention.

The COP meets every year, unless the Parties decide otherwise. The first COP meeting was held in Berlin, Germany in March, 1995. The COP meets in Bonn, the seat of the secretariat, unless a Party offers to host the session. Just as the COP Presidency rotates among the five recognized UN regions - that is, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe and Western Europe and Others – there is a tendency for the venue of the COP to also shift among these groups.

This year, the COP will be held in Belém, Brazil.

Learn more here: https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/conferences/un-climate-change-conference-belem-november-2025/the-road-to-belem

New to COP? See this comprehensive COP101 Guide that will likely answer all of your questions: https://impactship.beehiiv.com/p/what-is-cop-30-why-and-how-to-attend-cop-30-for-newbees

• Say Hi: Find Pooja, our Executive Director, there (Nov 7-22, exact dates TBD)