Updated 9/15/2025
NEW YORK CITY: At Climate Week NYC, Ceres will bring together business and policy leaders with bipartisan perspectives to explore the challenges and opportunities in advancing climate action. Ceres at Climate Week includes a full-day residency at the Nest Climate Campus on Sept. 24, featuring a main stage event - Championing the Clean Economy: Corporate Action and Protecting the Freedom to Invest - followed by a roundtable discussion and media availability.
Three former Republican members of Congress and thought leaders from center-right organizations will champion efforts to protect the long-standing rights of investors and companies to consider all financial risks in decision-making. They are part of a growing chorus of bipartisan voices working to safeguard American freedoms and free market autonomy, as well as push back against the economic cost implications of responsible investing bans. Ceres CEO and President Mindy Lubber and Inherent Group CEO Tony Davis will also take the stage to highlight the ways businesses are prospering in the clean energy transition.
Ceres at Climate Week comes as the U.S. administration moves to undo federal environmental laws aimed at ensuring clean air and water and spurring clean energy innovation and job growth. It also comes as frequent and costly extreme weather events continue. At the same time, recent analyses show positive trends of sustained clean energy momentum. [See Ceres’ latest commentary on Forbes.com: The Facts Tell the Real Story About the Clean Energy Economy].
WHAT:
Ceres at Climate Week
WHEN:
9:00a - 5:00p Wed., Sept. 24
WHERE:
The Nest Climate Campus (38th Street and 11th Avenue) | Program starts at 9:00a
Ceres’ Mainstage (Expo Hall – Level 3) | 9:30a – 10:15a
Ceres Media Availability (Room 407 – Level 4) | 10:20a – 10:50a
Freedom to Invest Roundtable Discussion (Room 407 – Level 4) | 11:00a– 11: 45a
See campus map here.
WHO:
Mindy Lubber, CEO and President, Ceres
Anne Kelly, Vice President of Government Affairs, Ceres
Andrea Yodsampa, CEO, DEPLOY/US
Carlos Curbelo, former U.S. Congressman (R-Florida)
Ryan Costello, former U.S. Congressman (R- Pennsylvania)
Bob Inglis, former U.S. Congressman (R-South Carolina)
Andrew Collier, Director, Freedom to Invest
Tony Davis, CEO and CIO, Inherent Group
Brandon Arnold, Executive Vice President, National Taxpayers Union
Eli Lehrer, President, R Street
If you are interested in covering Ceres at Climate Week, RSVP [email protected] and register here.
Other Ceres’ events at the Nest Climate Campus will be open to the media, including:
Mapping Risk, Mobilizing Capital: Climate Risk Transparency for the $4 trillion Muni Market
1:30 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. ET, Sept. 24 | Room 408, Nest Climate Campus
From Risk to Resilience: Building Climate-Ready Insurance Portfolios
3:30 p.m. – 4:20 p.m. ET, Sept. 24 | Room 408, Nest Climate Campus
Innovative Load Growth Solutions to Meet Surging Power Demand
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET, Sept. 24 | Room 408, Nest Climate Campus
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About Ceres
Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient economy. With data-driven research and expert analysis, we inspire investors and companies to act on the world's sustainability challenges and advocate for market and policy solutions. Together, our efforts transform industries, unlock new business opportunities, and foster innovation and job growth – proving that sustainability is the bottom line.