SF Climate Week at Yerba Buena Gardens

SF Climate Week’s flagship Energy Summit is running Thursday, April 23, from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Yerba Buena Gardens in downtown San Francisco. (sfclimateweek.org, climate-week.org) The event sits inside SF Climate Week’s April 18-26 schedule, which organizers describe as a decentralized, Bay Area-wide conference with hundreds of events and more than 1,000 speakers. Climatebase co-founded the week and lists the City of San Francisco among its collaborators. (sfclimateweek.org, explore.sfclimateweek.org) Yerba Buena Gardens is at 750 Howard St. and spans three downtown blocks bordered by Third, Fourth, Market, and Folsom streets, putting the summit in one of San Francisco’s busiest cultural districts. (yerbabuena.org, yerbabuenagardens.org) Climate Week events work less like a single trade show than a citywide pop-up network: separate hosts run panels, workshops, fairs, and meetups under one shared calendar. The official site says most 2026 events are in person and spread across the Bay Area. (explore.sfclimateweek.org, sfclimateweek.org) That format helps explain why Yerba Buena Gardens keeps showing up in the program. On April 18, the same venue hosted the official Welcome Day, a Green Business Expo, and an Earth Day festival organized with the San Francisco Environment Department, the Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy, and Climatebase. (climate-week.org, sfenvironment.org, luma.com) The Energy Summit also fits the week’s emphasis on practical climate topics. SF Climate Week’s 2025 Energy Summit focused on grid technology, vehicle charging, utility policy, and electrification, according to the organizers’ recap. (explore.sfclimateweek.org) Organizers are pitching the broader 2026 week at a larger scale than last year. The official site says the program brings together climate leaders, investors, innovators, community groups, and job seekers through an events calendar that ranges from policy talks to arts programming. (sfclimateweek.org, climate-week.org) For attendees, the practical takeaway is simple: this is a drop-in point for the part of SF Climate Week focused on energy, set in a public downtown garden with the rest of the week’s schedule continuing across the Bay Area through April 26. (climate-week.org, yerbabuena.org, explore.sfclimateweek.org)