Introducing: Open Climate
Application-only fireside roundtables with the people doing the Climate work
Welcome to Climate Drift - the place where we dive into climate solutions and help you find your role in the race to net zero.
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Hey everyone! 👋
Chaotic times. And the climate space is moving at break-neck speed. To keep up, we need less noise and more first-hand knowledge about the obstacles (and the opportunities) on the ground.
Over the past 12 months we’ve run 138 closed-door Climate Drift firesides in our accelerator to do exactly that. Now we’re opening the doors.
TLDR:
→ Small, candid roundtables on climate solutions with the people working on them.
→ No pitches. No buzzword bingo. No fluff.
→ Just one hour of real talk with at the people at frontlines of today's climate solutions.
→ Curated audience only: builders, operators, and serious climate problem-solvers (or those ready to become one). In other words, you.
First Open Climate start in May:
🚀 May 7: How to plan (and accelerate) your climate career
Get the inside track on your climate career from three amazing coaches who’ve helped an impressive roster of clients during their career transitions into climate.
🔥 May 22: What the FOAK is Going On?
From financing nightmares to manufacturing hell, team chaos to tech pivots, this is the unfiltered truth about what it takes to scale climate solutions for the very first time and what is going on in FOAK right now.
🛡️ May 28: Climate Insurance: Taking Nonprofit private
Join us for a candid conversation on the future of climate insurance. Featuring decision-makers from philanthropy, government, humanitarian aid, and the insurance sector as they unpack how to scale protection for the most vulnerable through inclusive, equitable, and investable solutions. Especially in the era of shrinking aid, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Climate Drift Community members get instant access + shape future topics by pitching what they want next.
🌊 Let’s dive in
So why are we doing it? Aka the problem
Most ways to get up to speed on what is happening in an industry are painfully inefficient:
Cold-calling insiders, getting on people’s calendar, and actually having a single great conversation is hit-or-miss and VERY slow.
Workshops often turn into thinly veiled sales pitches
Panels are buzzword factories
What you want: Post-conference drinks with 5 of the coolest people you met in the reception area while to panelists play buzzword bingo.
What’s the solution?
Inside our Climate Drift Career Accelerator we cracked the code with Fireside Chats: small, informal sessions where an expert spends 30-40 minutes mapping today’s landscape and toughest challenges, then hands the mic to the cohort so an unfiltered, free-flowing discussion can take off.
This is also where a lot of the insight for our published challenges in the last year came from.
Now we’re opening the model to the public through Open Climate™ .
Across 2025 we’ll host Climate sector-specific roundtables: FOAK, career coaching, climate insurance, and more. Topics like marketing in noisy times and channeling private wealth into climate solutions are already on the runway, and if you’re part of the Climate Drift Community you can help decide what launches next.
We are sharing more info on how to join the climate drift community soon - if you want to be on the waitlist: Apply here
How to participate
Want to join a session? Scroll up or click here and hit the apply button for the ones you find interesting.
Have an idea for an Open Climate session? Drop a comment, send us a message or email.
What are your principles?
Knowledge > noise
Our community keeps telling us the same thing: “I don’t need another panel; I need candid intel I can act on.” So we’re stripping away the fluff and letting experts talk like real humans for an hour. We are big fans of In Our Time, so expect the same type of rapid-fire questions tailored to each participants.
Quality over quantity
Each session is application-only. We cap the room so you can actually get your question answered and a real conversation can happen. Also: no assholes, there are already enough spaces on the internet for them.
Recordings to catch up later
Can’t make it? Every chat lives inside the Climate Drift Community for binge-watch replays and note-taking and followup conversation.
Open Climate is the next wave in our mission to accelerate climate solutions and create a million climate careers. We’d love to see you riding it with us.
Aloha,
Skander & Marco
I love your approach and commitment to providing roundtables that will not be a waste of time, Marco and Skander. The ways that all of these amazing humans in climate work share their personal values and tell their stories along the way, especially outside of the climate insider choir (!), presents a big impact opportunity. Let me know if I can ever be a resource on climate influence.