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Make connections and get inspired at the inaugural Toronto Climate Week.
Good news, Toronto! This fall we are joining the ranks of such cities as NYC, San Francisco, LA, London, Mexico City, and Tokyo. We are getting our very own Climate Week.
Toronto Climate Week’s inaugural event launches October 1–3 and will follow with an annual week-long event in June 2026. Events are open to all, and include casual networking moments and panels featuring expert speakers from industry, government, and community organizations, but also more light-hearted events such as a solar-punk fashion and comedy show; 1:1 coffee chats; sustainable building tours; a hands-on, plant-based cooking class; a guided park walk; and a game-like Climate Fresk workshop. Attending the conference is free, as are most of the events, which are planned and presented by individuals, community groups, or companies, with support from Toronto Climate Week’s volunteer team.
There will be music, and dance, and art, and biking, and meditating, and all of those things that are good for your soul and good for the community.
– Becky Park-Romanovsky
The city’s first Climate Week is the result of months of planning and work by Becky Park-Romanovsky, who is well versed in creating community for people who want to think, learn, and talk about what a healthy, clean, climate-friendly future could look like. Park-Romanovsky was already connected with people engaged in climate solutions through her work as a co-founder of Climate North. Park-Romanovsky has spent the last two and a half years, along with co-founders Fab Barrillot and Chloe D'Agostini, helping create a community in the city where speakers share how they are innovating change in places ranging from film industry to recycling, finance to the oceans.
What came next seems almost inevitable. “Individuals kept reaching out and asking if we knew about a Climate Week happening in Toronto. And if not, whether anybody's working on it,” Park-Romanovsky recalls. “So I started reaching out to some individuals in the industry, like from MaRS and ArcTurn Ventures and CSI [the Centre for Social Innovation], and asking, do you know anybody working on this? And just radio silence, nobody knew. So I figured, you know what? I'm going to see if I can do it.”
By summer 2025, Park-Romanovsky had put together an illustrious team of Toronto-based climate leaders on her advisory board and steering committee — as well as sponsors — who helped galvanize support around the idea. Then, she gathered some foot soldiers. “And because of Climate North, I have all of these volunteers that have been working with us, the community, and so as soon as I started sort of asking around, before I knew it, I had a team of 20 people, and … we're just doing it.”
“I don't care if you come because you want to hear about this new agricultural invention, or because your friend is coming and you just want to hang out with them,” Park-Romanovsky says. Her goal is for the week to be fun. “There will be music, and dance, and art, and biking, and meditating, and all of those things that are good for your soul and good for the community,” she says.
Come join the party at Toronto Climate Week, and get more involved by hosting an event or participating as a volunteer, speaker, sponsor, or partner. Find the full event listing here.
Looking for more fun in the city? Take a walk on the Humber River.
