SF Climate Week — Yerba Buena Gardens Day

SF Climate Week’s main public gathering is at Yerba Buena Gardens on Thursday, April 23, with free programming running from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (sfclimateweek.org) The event is set for Yerba Buena Gardens at 750 Howard St. in downtown San Francisco, a three-block public space bordered by Third, Fourth, Market, and Folsom streets. (yerbabuena.org) (yerbabuenagardens.org) SF Climate Week’s official site says the 2026 program includes more than 650 events across April 18 to April 26, with more than 1,000 speakers appearing during the week. (sfclimateweek.org) (prnewswire.com) The format helps explain why a day at Yerba Buena Gardens matters in San Francisco this week: SF Climate Week is not a single convention, but a decentralized series of events hosted by hundreds of groups around the Bay Area. (prnewswire.com) Climatebase, the jobs and networking platform that co-founded SF Climate Week, says organizers expected more than 60,000 attendees this year, with participation potentially rising as more registrations were added. (prnewswire.com) (bizjournals.com) Yerba Buena Gardens has already served as a climate-week venue this year: on April 18, the site hosted the official welcome day, a Green Business Expo, live music, local food vendors, a tree-planting demonstration, a planetarium exhibit, and free carousel rides. (luma.com) That earlier program was organized by the San Francisco Environment Department with the Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy and Climatebase, showing how city agencies, nonprofit venue operators, and private organizers are sharing the week’s programming. (luma.com) For Thursday’s schedule, SF Climate Week is directing attendees to its event calendar rather than a single standalone agenda page, which is typical for a week built from independently hosted sessions. (sfclimateweek.org) (sfcw.climate-week.org) By Thursday evening, the week’s public face returns to a simple formula: a downtown park, open admission, and a climate crowd moving between panels, exhibitors, and community events. (sfclimateweek.org) (yerbabuenagardens.org)