SF Climate Week: Yerba Buena Gardens Event
- Multi-day climate week with panels, talks, workshops, and networking running Apr 18–26. - Public programming at Yerba Buena Gardens (750 Howard St) includes a community session Monday Apr 20, 2:00–6:00 p.m. - Full schedule and event details at sfclimateweek.org.
San Francisco’s climate week is spilling into public space at Yerba Buena Gardens, where a free community session is scheduled for Monday, April 20, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. (sfclimateweek.org) The broader program runs from April 18 through April 26, 2026, and SF Climate Week says it is hosting hundreds of events across the Bay Area. The official site says more than 1,000 speakers are appearing this year. (sfclimateweek.org) Yerba Buena Gardens, at 750 Howard St., already hosted the week’s official kickoff on Saturday, April 18: the 2026 Earth Day Festival and Green Business Expo. The San Francisco Environment Department said that event ran from noon to 3 p.m. and was organized with the Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy and Climatebase. (sfenvironment.org) The setup says a lot about how SF Climate Week works. Its organizers describe it as a decentralized gathering, meaning the calendar is built from many separately hosted events rather than one convention in one hall. (explore.sfclimateweek.org) That model has grown fast in three years. Organizers said the first SF Climate Week in 2023 drew more than 7,000 attendees across more than 100 events, and they said the 2024 edition expanded to more than 300 events, 750 organizations and 15,000 attendees. (explore.sfclimateweek.org, explore.sfclimateweek.org) The public programming matters because much of the week’s schedule is otherwise spread across offices, hubs and ticketed venues. SF Climate Week’s own FAQ says most events are in person around the Bay Area, and the calendar includes both free and paid sessions. (explore.sfclimateweek.org, sfcw.climate-week.org) At Yerba Buena Gardens, the opening weekend event leaned hard into family-friendly outreach: live music, local food vendors, a tree-planting demonstration on the living roof, free carousel rides and a Green Business Expo. The city listed free admission with RSVP. (sfenvironment.org, garysguide.com) For anyone trying to catch the gardens programming next, the official SF Climate Week schedule is the live source to watch. That Monday, April 20 community session is set for 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., and the week runs through Saturday, April 26. (sfclimateweek.org)
