SwedBio at New York Climate Week 2025

New York Climate Week 2025 (NYCW 2025) serves as a major hub for global climate conversations, especially in the lead-up to major international agreements like the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30). Each year, business leaders, political change-makers, local decision-makers, and civil society representatives from all ages, backgrounds, and corners of the globe gather to drive the transition, accelerate progress, and champion the change that is already happening. The event will feature over 800 events and activities across New York City – in-person, hybrid, and online – covering key themes such as climate action and adaptation, nature, climate justice, and equity.

Attending NYCW2025 is strategic for informing SwedBio’s continued work in the nexus of biodiversity, climate change and human rights.

SwedBio is pleased to co-organise two events during NYCW 2025!

1. “Law and Justice Go Planetary”, a one-day event during Climate Week NYC 2025.

📅 22 September 2025, 08:30 am- 04:00 pm
📍 Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, New York University School of Law

🔗 Pre-register here

The event will examine how planetary thinking can reorient law, knowledge-making, and financing arrangements towards just and equitable interventions for sustaining life. We are honoured to welcome Elisa Morgera, UN Special Rapporteur on Climate and Human Rights, as one of the speakers.

The programme will include insights from experts, including Indigenous Peoples, local communities, women and youth, on actions to address biodiversity loss and climate change through a human-rights-based approach, and on how to collectively achieve the goals of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

The event is co-organized with NYU School of Law, the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net), Soka Gakkai International, and the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), with support from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat.

2. “Breaking Silos for United Action on Nature, Climate, and Justice

📅 September 24th, 10:30 am – 13:00 pm 

📍 UNDP, FF Building, 9th Floor, 304 East 45th St, NY 10017

🔗 If you would like to learn more please contact ashanapuri.hertz@su.se

This event is co-organized by SwedBio together with the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services Network (BES-Net) Consortium, Soka Gakkai International, the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat.

Departing from the recent International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change, which affirms states’ binding obligations to prevent climate harm, this event will create a unique and safe space for mutual listening, sharing reflections, active questioning and collective learning across diverse actors. With the objective of illuminating pathways for synergies towards a just and sustainable future, Elisa Morgera, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change, will initiate a conversation around untapped and new opportunities to unite efforts to address the interconnected crises linked to biodiversity loss, climate change and injustices. The event will explore ways how breaking the silos will serve opportunities to uphold the rights of present and future generations, can serve as a turning point for more ambitious, united action across climate, biodiversity, and land governance.