NYC Climate Week Workshop

Leveraging Climate Finance for Tourism’s Future: Building an Investable Pipeline

September 22, 2026, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Co-hosted with the University of Edinburgh and Travel Forward.

In this session, destination managers and climate finance practitioners will help shape a concept for a technical assistance facility to turn real destination projects into investable proposals.  The session is an opportunity for private sector and destination participants to share what they need from such a facility, stress-test early concepts against real company priorities, and uncover available financial instruments that could be matched with those needs.

The aim is for participants to leave with a clearer picture of what private sector engagement could look like, what projects might anchor an early pipeline, and which companies and destinations see themselves as potential partners in taking this forward. For the companies who help build it, this is a chance to shape how tourism engages climate finance from the ground up, strengthen the resilience of the communities and destinations they depend on, and be recognized as the sector’s first movers.