Climate Collective Experiential Learning

11th Hour Racing’s LivingGallery provides a space and moment for visitors to slow down and see the hidden forms of life that keep our ecosystem healthy. Through a blend of traditional and “Living” artwork, the gallery reveals the intricate, often overlooked, connection between soil and water health. The subtle movement, sounds, and breathing of the gallery mirror the rhythms of nature. Each piece of artwork serves as a window into a hidden world where microbes, plants, and fungi are constantly at work.

The connection between soil and water health is also reflected in the partnership behind the gallery: two organizations, 11th Hour Racing and Ocean Hour Farm, each rooted in different areas of environmental stewardship, collaborating for healthy changes in the community.

Taking climate action is no longer just the right thing to do for people and planet – it’s the only way we ensure a thriving business and economy for generations to come.

The good news is the case for action has never been clearer. We know from experience that by taking climate action we can reduce costs, create jobs, improve health and ensure we stay competitive. And many of the solutions are already in our hands. Now, we must enable implementation at speed and scale.

Explore our exhibition of 20 Climate Actions to The Nest Climate Campus in the Javits Center, along with an immersive climate experience and a collaborative programme.

Visit L’Oréal Groupe’s booth on the main convention floor to see how nature is shaping the future of beauty. Explore Osmobloom’s breakthrough fragrance extraction, discover space-inspired BioPods for sustainable cultivation, and experience innovations like the AirLight Pro hair dryer and Water Saver showerhead that cut energy and water use. See how L'Oréal is innovating refillable beauty with our Fragrance Refill Fountains and innovative packaging to bring consumers their favorite products while reducing the footprint of the packaging. L’Oréal is delivering high performance with lower impact.

Ager Oliva regenerates abandoned olive groves in Tuscany, engaging social cooperatives and local communities. Through olive adoption, it produces sustainable, ethical extra virgin olive oil, with a model that can be expanded across Italy.

aizoOn used the sustainability analysis service in a research project connected to hydrogen storage (HEHS project). The HEHS project aims to develop innovative technologies for hydrogen storage. A key aspect is the design of a novel storage methodology that reduces energy costs, increases safety and reliability, and improves the overall carbon footprint by employing Clathrate Hydrates, able to traps and stabilizes hydrogen, with lower pressure and temperature constraints in comparison to standard technology. Within this framework, aizoOn developed a model using AI algorithms, to determine the best settings for maximising the H₂ storage. The current results shows a relevant potential efficiency allowing an energy storage in the range of 4490 – 6855 MJ with an energetic storage cost in the range of 6,33 – 7,94 MJ.

AWorld, the official United Nations partner, is a leading Sustainability Engagement platform. With 150+ corporate clients and 26M climate actions recorded, it empowers people and organizations to drive measurable sustainable change.

Join us at the kitchen table for friendly, no-pressure conversations about how climate affects our daily lives—and what CET can do about it. Whether you’re curious, concerned, or just want straight answers without the jargon, CET is here to talk with you. Bring your questions, your ideas, or just yourself. Let’s have a real conversation.

CET envisions a world that has embraced and advanced just and resilient climate solutions. They delivers practical, scalable climate solutions with no-cost consulting in the places they’re most needed—and often hardest to reach: homes, small businesses, farms, and community organizations.

As a complement to our Main Stage discussion, Nest and its partners will host a craft activation with Miniature Rhino to demonstrate the connection between craft and climate, and encourage creativity during a content-rich week of learning and action. Jessica Marquez, founder of Miniature Rhino and author of "Make & Mend" and "Stitched Gifts" will be on site to support attendees interested in the project and sharing information for those who prefer to craft post-event.

Food Rescue US has provided 183M meals to those in need and avoided 541,641 tons of CO2eq emissions by filling plates not landfills. Their proprietary app empowers their over 26,000 volunteers to transfer fresh food surpluses from local businesses (primarily grocery stores and restaurants) to social service agencies serving the food insecure.

Stop by their networking zone to learn more about how to best reduce food waste!

GM will be featuring an interactive in-person opportunity– experience GM’s electric vehicles and learn about their features, performance, charging, and maintenance.

Afterwards, get inside electric vehicles from the inner roadway on the Nest Climate Campus. Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to experience the latest EVs!

Ganiga.ai is a deep-tech startup that combines robotics and GenAI to revolutionize waste and food waste management. Our systems turn waste into useful data, reducing costs, CO₂ emissions, and supporting certified ESG reports.

Ocean Bottle is a B Corp certified reusable bottle brand working to address the ocean plastic crisis while supporting livelihoods in coastal communities. Their goal is to collect 7 billion waste plastic bottles by 2025.

Their award-winning reusable bottles are made from at least 65% recycled materials. They’re designed to last with a 10-year guarantee and are recyclable at end of life. For every Ocean Bottle we sell, they fund the collection of 1,000 plastic bottles from rivers and coasts in the Global South. Their plastic collectors exchange waste plastic for money and get access to healthcare and education.

Ocean 14 Capital (O14C) is a leading private equity growth firm in the blue economy. It aims to achieve market-leading returns while positively impacting marine ecosystems.  

The Blue Economy Impact Fund channels investment into start-ups working to ensure the sustainable use of ocean resources. This benefits economies, livelihoods and marine ecosystems. 

ISCLEANAIR’s breakthrough filterless, water-based APA solutions and systems remove over 99% of airborne pollutants and greenhouse gases while reducing energy use, operating costs, and emissions.

By driving climate action, protecting health, and enhancing productivity, we create lasting value for communities, businesses, and the planet.

The Javits Center’s Sustainability Activation is an interactive display that will tell their sustainability story.
 
It will allow guests to explore areas that interest them and will include:

• A video highlighting their major energy projects
• An interactive display allowing attendees to measure the heating and cooling capabilities of their sedum based green roof
• Videos highlighting their waste, green space, habitat and technology/power successes
• Equipment used to run Javits Center’s bee farm and the honey produced
• The bountiful crops grown, harvested and prepared on their rooftop farm
• The meeting spot for NYC Bird Alliance tours

A space purposefully designed and centrally located on the Nest Campus, to help you take a break, a moment to reset and reenergize during a busy week – and learn more about their focus on science, innovation, and sustainability.

MyLime’s patented blockchain platform creates the Digital Product Passport, ensuring traceability, authenticity, and ownership. It helps brands comply with sustainability and recycling regulations, preserving value and enabling transparency across the product lifecycle.

NantG Italia is the offspring of NantG Power, a pioneer in advanced lithium-ion battery solutions using AI, novel materials, and innovative designs, aiming for higher performance, cost-efficiency, safety, and sustainability for electric vehicles, renewable energy storage, and military/aerospace.

What do Homer Simpson, viral social memes, Nonna’s meatballs, and clean energy all have in common? Nuclear energy.

Take a deep dive into all aspects of the nuclear energy sector and understand how the largest single clean energy source in the U.S. is evolving to meet the moment. The Nuclear Makes It Happen activation elevates the benefits and value of nuclear energy in the world around us and encourages participants to see how nuclear energy makes “it” happen in their daily lives.

Clean energy advocates will be onsite to help break down misconceptions and hear from attendees about their experiences and perspectives on nuclear energy. Bring your creativity for hands-on activities, along with games and giveaways—and your hardest-hitting, wacky questions.

The Masungi Georeserve Foundation is working to protect biodiversity in the Philippines through conservation, education, and sustainable development. 

They created Masungi Georeserve, a conservation area over 2,000 hectares of land, to protect and restore a degraded area of rainforest in Rizal Province. Through their initiatives, they’re educating tourists on conservation and empowering Indigenous groups and young people to act as stewards of nature.  

Inspired by nature, CompPair develops healable and sustainable composite material solutions that extend product lifespans and support a circular economy. Their technology benefits manufacturers, end-users, and the planet by making composites more durable, repairable, and resource efficient.

HealTech™ is a breakthrough regenerative resin system that enables composite structures to heal damage on-site in just one minute—up to 60+ times—without changing shape or weight. It improves crack resistance, maintains structural integrity after multiple repairs, and is fully compatible with existing manufacturing processes. 

S&P Global Sustainable1 will be displaying an interactive data wall, which illustrates scenario analysis of climate-related financial risk as well as nature and biodiversity risks.

Sunspeker develops patented technologies for the seamless integration of solar panels in urban spaces. With SeeBeyond and Invisible Energy, it turns photovoltaics into communicative surfaces for architecture, advertising, and Smart Cities.

Sustainable Italy is an initiative promoted by the Italian Trade Agency in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in New York. For the third time, Italy will participate in the Nest Climate Campus, engaging numerous organizations through a Climate Collective Pavilion. The focus is on showcasing Italian leadership in sustainability, highlighting the circular economy, and demonstrating environmental best practices. Leading Italian companies and associations known for their contributions to sustainability will be featured, presenting innovative projects and initiatives. Engage with these sustainable solutions in the Climate Collective Experiential Learning area!

Nordic SeaFarm is the largest seaweed farmer in Sweden. They cultivate seaweed for food, biomaterials, fertiliser and animal feed.

They have developed an innovative cultivation method that enables large-scale production of high-quality seaweed at a low cost directly in the sea. In their hatchery, they create spores from seaweed mother plants that we seed onto spools. These are then deployed in the ocean, off the west coast of Sweden.

SSAB is transforming the future of steel. Based on the HYBRIT® technology, which replaces coal in the iron ore reduction process with fossil-free electricity and hydrogen, SSAB aims to be the first steel company in the world to bring fossil-free steel to the market and largely eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from our own operations in around 2030.

Together with our partners and customers, SSAB aims to create a fossil-free value chain, from the mine to the end-product. The result will be the world’s first fossil-free steelmaking technology, with virtually no carbon footprint.

Ocean 14 Capital (O14C) is a leading private equity growth firm in the blue economy. It aims to achieve market-leading returns while positively impacting marine ecosystems.  

The Blue Economy Impact Fund channels investment into start-ups working to ensure the sustainable use of ocean resources. This benefits economies, livelihoods and marine ecosystems. 

The Climate Museum, the first museum dedicated to climate in the US, is a home for climate art, learning, and action. The Museum uses arts and cultural programming to empower visitors to recognize their own agency, creating a ripple effect and moving us toward a public culture that elevates the priority of climate action at scale. Its exhibitions and events meet people where they are and build community.

In its Climate Collective activation area, the Museum will host an in-person iteration of its caption contest for New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro’s “Yes, the planet got destroyed.” The Climate Museum will also present a stunning new mural by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya themed around the sun, the wind, and intergenerational collective action for a safe and just future.

Terra Innovatum is the company behind SOLO™, the world’s first micro-modular nuclear reactor set for commercialization by 2028. SOLO™ delivers 1 MWe at a time, providing safe, scalable, CO₂-free energy for data centers, remote grids, and industry, with uses spanning electricity, heat, water, and medicine.

Have you ever wondered what it takes for a wildfire to make it to the news? At Impact Ventures they utilize data to play, learn, and predict such various risks of fires.

PyroPath is an interactive, audience-adapted platform that empowers viewers to understand the science of wildfires through hands-on simulations, real-world data, and predictive modeling.

Stop by Impact Venture’s space at the Climate Collective to pick up your ‘Wildfire perennial plant’ and to play a game of guessing the next fire’s path, and maybe capture some residual carbon.

Stop by this networking zone to learn more about Vela's decarbonised, 100% wind-powered, transatlantic freight service. This next-generation shipping solution offers up to 99% lower carbon emissions and faster lead times than traditional sea freight while offering high-end service for product integrity and traceability at air freight standards. Long term, VELA aims at operating the world’s largest fleet of sailing cargo vessels!

Witty X from Italy: a fireproof battery cabinet with gas sensors (CO, CO₂, H₂), managed by a SaaS that cuts battery degradation by up to 50%, and enhanced by vehicle software that calculates real-world range, boosting both operational range and rentals per vehicle by 18%