Mission Statement
Cleveland Climate Week brings together residents, youth, educators, organizations, institutions, and public partners to strengthen climate action across Cleveland and Northeast Ohio.
We help build a culture of sustainability rooted in local knowledge, shared learning, and collaborative solutions. It operates as an independent, community-centered platform for connection, visibility, and collaboration.
Youth Leaders: Empowering the next generation to organize, lead conversations, and develop innovative environmental solutions.
Community Groups: Strengthening local infrastructure and restoring healthy living spaces through deep grassroots collaboration.
Businesses: Connecting local enterprises, organizations and institutions with opportunities and sustainable circular economy practices.
Public Agencies and Civic Institutions: Contribute policy insight implementation experience, and regional coordination alongside residents, educators, organizations, and businesses.
Our Story
Cleveland Climate Week began as a grassroots spark among a small group of residents, educators, community groups and organizations who recognized that while significant environmental work was happening, it often remained disconnected in silos.
Cleveland Climate Week was created as an independent platform to connect and elevate climate work already happening across communities, sectors, and institutions. We envisioned a platform where these voices could be amplified, transforming individual efforts into a powerful movement for local resilience and equity.
What started as an idea sparking action grew into an initiative honoring Cleveland’s history while looking toward the future.
From the banks of the Cuyahoga River to classrooms led by educators, our first Cleveland Climate Week naturally united youth leaders, residents, and local organizations to share knowledge and restore our urban canopy, lived experience, inspire future generations and more.
Proving grassroots leadership is one of the most effective tools we have for lasting city-wide change.
Team and Partners
Cleveland Climate Week is a collaborative effort, bringing together residents, youth leaders, universities, the arts, and organizations to create a unified platform.
Our work is driven by the dedication of residents, communities, youth, leaders, educators, organizations, and public institutions.
Partners and participants help shape the work, while no single institution defines or owns the initiative.
Unity in Action
Community Groups
Resident and neighborhood organizations that serve as the primary hubs for local resilience workshops and community-building events across the entire city and region.
Future Voices
Youth Leaders
Ambitious young advocates and learners who head environmental talks, start research projects, and motivate change inside their own schools.
Local Growth
Businesses and Organizations
Local and regional businesses and organizations demonstrating how sustainable practices drive economic resilience and build a stronger Cleveland and regional economies.
PUBLIC PARTNERS
Public Agencies and Civic Institutions
Public agencies and civic institutions contribute policy insight, implementation experience, and regional coordination alongside residents, educators, organizations, and businesses.
Impact and Achievements
Cleveland Climate Week helps bring visibility to the climate work already happening in Cleveland and across Northeast Ohio.
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By connecting residents, organizations, educators, and community leaders, the initiative creates space for shared learning, collaboration,
and continued momentum.
What began as an organically coordinated week of events
continues to grow through partnerships, participation,
and community-led action across the region.
These collective achievements are just the beginning.
From resident workshops and youth summits to regional conferences and
cross-sector policy conversations, the momentum we build together continues to drive
resilient solutions for our community's shared future.
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Collaboration expands the work while preserving Cleveland Climate Week's
community-centered identity.