SF Climate Week at Yerba Buena Gardens

San Francisco’s main public SF Climate Week gathering lands at Yerba Buena Gardens on Thursday, April 23, with a free day of climate programming in the middle of downtown. (sfclimateweek.org, yerbabuena.org) The event runs from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Yerba Buena Gardens, 750 Howard St., a three-block park bounded by Third, Fourth, Market and Folsom streets. (sfclimateweek.org, yerbabuenagardens.org) SF Climate Week is not a single convention hall program. Organizers describe it as a decentralized, Bay Area-wide gathering with hundreds of independently hosted events tied to climate technology, policy, food systems, transportation and adaptation. (sfclimateweek.org, climateweeknetwork.org) That format has grown fast in 2026. SF Climate Week said this year’s edition includes more than 650 events and over 1,000 speakers across April 18-26. (prnewswire.com, sfclimateweek.org) Yerba Buena Gardens has become one of the week’s most visible public-facing sites. The official Welcome Day on Saturday, April 18 paired a Green Business Expo and Earth Day festival there with partners including the San Francisco Environment Department, Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy and Climatebase. (sfenvironment.org, luma.com) That earlier festival sketched the model for the Gardens programming: booths, live music, food vendors, family activities and demonstrations aimed at people who are not attending investor or industry sessions elsewhere in the week. (garysguide.com, sfenvironment.org) Climatebase, the jobs platform that co-founded SF Climate Week, has helped push the event beyond startup networking into a broader civic calendar that mixes public agencies, nonprofits, businesses and neighborhood groups. (prnewswire.com, crunchbase.com) The setting matters too. Yerba Buena Gardens sits next to museums, Moscone Center and downtown transit, making it one of the few places in the week where office workers, tourists and families can wander into climate programming without a ticketed conference pass. (moscone.com, yerbabuenagardens.org) By Thursday evening, the Gardens program closes while the rest of SF Climate Week keeps going across the city, ending with additional April 23 events and a closing party at the California Academy of Sciences. (climateweeknetwork.org, sfclimateweek.org)