SF Climate Week: Summit, Panels, Activations
- What: A multi-day citywide climate festival with 650+ events and panels featuring speakers like Al Gore, Mayor Daniel Lurie and Alex Honnold. - When: Runs Apr 18–26, 2026 with programming throughout the week. - Where: Various venues across San Francisco; full schedule and details at prnewswire.com
San Francisco Climate Week is underway through April 26, with organizers projecting more than 60,000 attendees across 650-plus events around the Bay Area. (prnewswire.com) The event began Saturday, April 18, and is hosted by Climatebase as an open, decentralized gathering rather than a single conference in one venue. Organizers said more than 1,000 speakers are appearing across the week. (prnewswire.com) The speaker lineup includes former Vice President Al Gore, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, investor John Doerr, rock climber Alex Honnold, California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild and former Department of Energy loan chief Jigar Shah. (prnewswire.com) The schedule ranges from policy and finance panels to arts, food systems, transportation and wildfire events. Listed programs this week include an S&P Global climate-risk summit on April 22 and an Energy Summit on April 23. (sfclimateweek.org) (sfcw.climate-week.org) SF Climate Week has become a fixture for the Bay Area climate sector because it pulls startups, investors, city officials, utilities, nonprofits and students into the same calendar. The organizers describe it as community-run, with hundreds of independent groups hosting their own sessions. (sfclimateweek.org) (prnewswire.com) City Hall is tying the week to local policy. On April 16, Lurie’s office said he released a five-year update to San Francisco’s Climate Action Plan while celebrating the start of Climate Week. (sf.gov) The public-facing events are spread across San Francisco and the wider Bay Area, with venues including Yerba Buena Gardens, UC Law San Francisco, the Terra Gallery on Harrison Street and sites whose exact addresses are released after registration. (sfclimateweek.org) (sfcw.climate-week.org) Organizers said attendance could climb past 70,000 if more events and registrations are added before the week ends. For now, the festival’s scale is the story: a climate agenda spread across nine days, hundreds of rooms and much of the Bay Area. (prnewswire.com)
