The Art and Science of Storytelling
In an era of declining public trust, museums remain among the most trusted institutions. How are museums using their expertise to lead cutting-edge climate storytelling?
The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) conducts research to help museums of all types—natural history, art, science, and history museums—engage audiences around climate change. Join the YPCCC for a panel discussion with museum experts and exhibition designers about how museums are blending data with storytelling, identifying new ways to inform and inspire visitors to act on climate change, and how successful strategies from museums can be applied more broadly across the climate movement.
The panel will include leaders from the Climate Museum, the Natural History Museum of Utah, The Wild Center, the Association of Science and Technology Centers, the American Museum of Natural History, and experience designers Sitara Systems, whose projects included climate change interactive exhibits for the Yale Peabody Museum.
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Climate Arts at The Nest Climate Campus
Join the Climate Museum to engage with climate art and be empowered to take action at the Nest Climate Campus, the official event partner of Climate Week NYC.
The Museum will present a new mural by artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya titled “What winds carry and light holds” themed around the sun, the wind, and intergenerational collective action for a safe and just future.
The Museum will also be hosting an in-person iteration of its caption contest for New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro’s “Yes, the planet got destroyed.”
Rewilding Our Imagination: Climate, Culture, and the Spaces Between
This panel, part of Climate Mic Drop, will explore how imagination, physical space, and storytelling can converge to create worlds where both people and the planet thrive. The session will include Collin Cavote, Biome; Elizabeth Thompson, Visions2030; and Miranda Massie, The Climate Museum; moderated by Susan McPherson, McPherson Strategies.
Climate Mic Drop is a day-long, participatory summit designed to reshape how we tell climate stories— moving from top-down messaging to people-powered narratives that center justice and gender equity and drive real action. Bringing together leaders from philanthropy, climate finance, grassroots activism, conservation, media, and Indigenous communities, the event will blend panels, creative labs, and hands-on workshops to generate tangible narrative tools, campaign concepts, and cross-sector alliances.
Climate Resilience in Action
As climate change reshapes our cities, communities, and health, New York stands at a crossroads—an international city with a responsibility to lead and an opportunity to act.
The evening will open with music by Madame Gandhi, an electronic music producer, artist, and activist recognized as a TED Fellow, Forbes 30 Under 30, and BBC 100 Women honoree. In her lecture demonstration, she will share her experience recording sounds from nature, integrating them into her music, and including nature in royalties.
A series of Lightning Lectures will highlight on-the-ground work by local organizations across the boroughs, from rooftop farming and urban forestry to public cooling infrastructure and community organizing.
A keynote presentation by Rohit T. Aggarwala, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and the City’s Chief Climate Officer, will highlight how New York City is advancing its climate and sustainability goals, offering insight into how local governments are preparing for the growing challenges of climate change.