Climate Action Summit Local, Everywhere
A one-day global online summit on September 16, 2026. Bringing together global leaders and community voices to move beyond discussion and focus on action.
Where local action drives global climate solutions
A one-day global online summit on September 16, 2026. Bringing together global leaders and community voices to move beyond discussion and focus on climate action.
Scaling local action where it matters most
What this summit will cover
How communities can better anticipate, prepare for, and reduce climate risks.
Turning local leadership into action at scale for adaptation and resilience.
Unlocking funding that reaches the communities who need it most.
New approaches to help communities anticipate and build resilience to climate-related disasters.
Explore the full single-day agenda
- plenarySep 16, 202609:30 UTC
Opening Keynote: Seeing Every Tree
Dr. Amara Okoye opens the summit with a planetary view of forest carbon — from the first global LiDAR baselines to the monthly, tree-by-tree monitoring we now consider routine. Expect a candid look at what the data finally lets us claim, and what it still can't.
Dr. Amara OkoyeGlobal Forest Institute - plenarySep 16, 202610:30 UTC
Panel: Measuring the Unmeasurable
Satellites, AI models, and people on the ground rarely agree on a single forest pixel. This panel walks through where the disagreements actually live, how teams reconcile them, and which trade-offs matter when the number ends up on a balance sheet.
Dr. Amara Okoye +1 moreGlobal Forest Institute - workshopSep 16, 202611:30 UTC
Workshop: Real-Time Forest Alerts
A hands-on session with live alert datasets used to flag deforestation within 48 hours. Bring a laptop — we'll connect to an open feed, tune false-positive thresholds, and walk through what a field team does in the first hour after an alert fires.
Mei ChenAtlas Earth - workshopSep 16, 202611:30 UTC
Workshop: Open MRV Toolkit — Intro
A parallel track for teams new to open MRV. Samuel Okwu walks through setting up a verification pipeline from scratch — repo, configs, first run — so you leave with a working baseline you can extend on Monday.
Samuel OkwuOpenCanopy - workshopSep 16, 202612:30 UTC
Workshop: Open MRV Toolkit — Deep Dive
Build on the morning's baseline by chaining sensor inputs, writing custom validators, and exporting verifiable claims. Geared at engineers who already know their way around a Python repo.
Samuel OkwuOpenCanopy - plenarySep 16, 202614:00 UTC
Fireside: Financing the Forest
Jonas Lindqvist on what actually makes forest carbon bankable, with two unflinching deal post-mortems — one that worked, one that didn't. A practical look at the contracts, MRV clauses, and risk structures behind nine-figure forest finance.
Jonas LindqvistTerra Global Capital
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