SF Climate Week — summit and community events

SF Climate Week ran from April 18 to April 26 as a citywide, Bay Area-wide calendar of climate events organized by Climatebase and partner groups. (sfclimateweek.org) (prnewswire.com) The official site listed flagship events including the three-day Accelerating the Transition conference on April 18, the Earth Summit programs on April 20 and 21, and an Energy Summit on April 23. (sfclimateweek.org) (climateweeknetwork.org) The calendar also included smaller public events such as a breakfast bike ride in the Presidio, a wildfire and utility panel, a Grist storytelling event at Manny’s, and an Earth Day soccer match hosted by Oakland Roots SC. (climateweeknetwork.org) (luma.com) Climate weeks work less like a single convention and more like an open festival schedule: independent groups host their own sessions under one shared umbrella. SF Climate Week’s organizers described the 2026 program as decentralized, with events spread across San Francisco and nearby cities. (sfclimateweek.org) (prnewswire.com) That structure let the week mix investor and startup programming with community gatherings, arts events, food and agriculture sessions, and policy discussions. The event directory sorted programming into tracks including energy, finance, communications, environmental justice and equity, and materials and circular economy. (sfclimateweek.org 1) (sfclimateweek.org 2) (sfclimateweek.org 3) Organizers said this year’s edition included more than 60,000 attendees, 650 events and over 1,000 speakers. The speaker lineup highlighted former Vice President Al Gore, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and climber Alex Honnold. (prnewswire.com) Climatebase said the 2025 edition drew more than 25,000 attendees across 650-plus events, giving a baseline for how quickly the gathering has expanded in a year. (stories.climatebase.org) (prnewswire.com) By late April, the official site had moved the 2026 listings into a past-events archive, marking the end of this year’s run while preserving the full schedule. The next step for attendees is whatever partnerships, funding pitches, volunteer work or local projects survive after the tents come down. (sfclimateweek.org)