NYCW: Prove It. Sell It. Fund It: Scaling Climate Solutions in 2025
When it comes to corporate adoption of climate tech, pilots prove the tech, offtakes unlock the market, and financing makes it all real.
Unfortunately, in today's economy, each comes with its own moving targets — from shifting investor appetite to eroding executive buy-in to evolving capital costs driven by changing tariff regimes.
This year at New York Climate Week, we’re gathering the people who live and breathe these challenges to talk about what’s working right now across sectors like nature-based solutions, water, heavy industry, electrification and more.
Join Unreasonable, Enduring Planet, and Earth Finance on Monday, September 22nd for a half-day of deep-dive discussions exploring:
The Pilot – Building and proving your first deployment
The Offtake – Securing demand and de-risking the path to scale
The Financing – Unlocking capital for repeatable growth
Come hear from founders, investors, corporate purchasers — moderated by voices who have traversed this terrain before.
The Agenda:
1:00–1:30 pm — Welcome & Registration
1:30–1:45 pm - Opening Remarks
1:35–2:45 pm — The Pilot
How to design, fund, and execute a first deployment that opens the door to scale.
2:45–3:00 pm — BREAK
3.00–4.00 pm — The Offtake
Turning corporate interest into binding commitments that unlock financing.
4:00–4:15 pm — BREAK
4:15–5:15 pm — The Financing
How capital providers are evaluating — and funding — climate projects in 2025’s market.
5:15–6:30 pm — Happy Hour and Mixer
Across the sessions, we’ll touch on everything from nature-based solutions, to water, heavy industry, and electrification, with perspectives from founders, investors, and corporate purchasers.
Speakers include: James Larsen (CEO of E-Zinc), Roxanne Baine (Principal at Piva Capital), Kyle Mceneaney (Director at Schmidt Foundation), Sutton Guldner (Head of Business Development at Arbor Energy), Mark McGough (CEO at Clean Energy Systems), Mario Fernandez (Head of Breakthrough Energy Catalyst), Elaine Hungenberg (SVP at X Prize), Ben Christensen (CEO at Cambium), Marisa Sweeney (Principal at S2G), Rajeev Oak (Investment Director at Prologis Ventures), Emily Liao (VP at Barclays), Kevin Eckerle (Head of Environmental Affairs at Bayer), and more!
Participating is INVITE ONLY. The event is open to:
Founders building your climate hardware company
Corporates seeking solutions to hit climate targets
Capital providers financing real deployments
Big thanks to our sponsor, Unreasonable Impact, a collaboration between Unreasonable Group and Barclays.