NY Climate Week 2026: What WTT Brings Back from New York

World-Transforming Technologies (WTT) participated in Climate Week NYC 2026, held in New York from September 21 to 24, alongside the opening of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. The program brought together discussions on climate, science, technology and innovation, food systems, finance, democracy and international development, in a context marked by growing environmental challenges and the need to accelerate the implementation of global commitments.

WTT took part in discussions on climate innovation, science, technology and artificial intelligence. The conversations reinforced the need to translate global commitments into solutions applied to local contexts and to follow the governance of artificial intelligence as an emerging issue for the STI and climate agenda.

This debate becomes even more relevant in light of the current environmental context. Data from the Planetary Health Check 2026, by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), indicate that seven of the nine planetary boundaries have already been transgressed, reinforcing the urgency of moving beyond emissions reductions and strengthening the capacity of natural systems to regenerate. The slow pace of progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals likewise highlights the gap between commitments and implementation.

In discussions on food systems, the debates highlighted the connections between food security, resilience, biodiversity and livelihoods, including traditional agriculture, agroforestry systems, water protection, fishing and the sustainable use of natural resources. Transition finance also gained prominence, with discussions on blended finance, combining philanthropic, concessional and market-based resources, and on the need to create structures capable of directing resources toward concrete initiatives. Among the issues raised was the importance of mechanisms that expand the participation and decision-making power of Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities, connecting financing with the co-production of knowledge and technology, as in the case of BTIP, within the framework of the UNFCCC.

WTT’s presence in New York also strengthened connections with Latin American networks through the Fundación Avina ecosystem. These exchanges expanded the presence of regional perspectives in international debates and brought visibility to traditional knowledge, environmental education, seeds and genetic resources as components of the knowledge systems that sustain biodiversity and livelihoods. The program also included dialogues on Indigenous Peoples’ responses to climate-related environmental disasters and on philanthropy for science.

We left New York with five reinforced priorities: strengthening civic space and democratic governance as conditions for just transitions; contributing to concrete blended finance mechanisms; expanding the participation of Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities in decisions about resources; advancing the debate on critical minerals and the bioeconomy through territorial safeguards and benefit-sharing; and following the governance of artificial intelligence within the science, technology and innovation agenda for climate.

For WTT, transformation means bringing science, technology, innovation and finance closer to the needs and knowledge of those who care for ecosystems, connecting global commitments to concrete changes in territories.