At Climate Week NYC 2025, Pyxera Global is putting place-based circularity at the center of the climate conversation. Our presence at Climate Week NYC our vision for equitable and regenerative systems to life through three pathways: critical mineral supply chain localization, community stewardship, and integrated skills-based volunteering. These pathways have guided our participation in two events.
Tapping the Urban Mine: Incentivizing & Scaling Critical Mineral Supply Chains
Tuesday, September 23, 2025, 5:30pm – 8:00pm, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Led by members of the Circular Supply Chain Coalition, this engaging 2.5-hour event will provide key insights, implementation best practices, and context on the latest developments taking place at the intersection of critical mineral supply chains, decarbonization, and environmental justice. Consisting of corporate leaders from leading sustainability companies, policymakers and curators from the United States and EU, and key voices from the reverse supply chain, this interactive session will allow you to engage all stakeholders across the reverse supply chain. Register here.
Climate Mic Drop
Tuesday, September 23, 2025, 10:25am – 10:50am | Interactive Panel – Uncovering Forms of Justice in Circularity | Gospel, 281 Lafayette St, New York, NY
There’s more to circularity than meets the eye. Circularity provides a justice framework that links people, livelihoods, and the planet. In this interactive panel, Atossa Soltani (Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative) brings the perspective of Indigenous-led stewardship of forests and waters; Reema Nanavaty (Self-Employed Women’s Association, SEWA) shares lessons from organizing hundreds of thousands of women workers in India’s informal economy; and Emily Janoch (CARE) highlights how humanitarian and development work can integrate climate justice. Moderated by Deirdre White (Pyxera Global), this conversation will surface how circular systems can honor labor, protect ecosystems, and create pathways toward equity across communities worldwide. Register here.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025, 2:15pm – 3:00pm | Roundtable Narrative Audits
Participants dive into four themed roundtables — Climate Science + Story, Energy Transition + Story, Extreme Weather + Public Health + Story, and Justice in Circularity — to unpack how narratives shape their sectors.
Pathway 1: Critical Mineral Supply Chain Localization
Prioritizing local critical mineral supply chain procurement by creating an enabling environment that unlocks economic value for the recovery, reuse, and remanufacturing of high-value resources into local communities.
The clean energy transition can’t happen without critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and nickel, but the current system often separates environmental, equity, and logistics considerations. The Circular Supply Chain Coalition (CSCC) exists to close these gaps:
- Breaking silos – Bringing together logistics, procurement, policy, and equity stakeholders to co-design solutions.
- Shifting from extraction to circularity – Building material recovery and reuse into supply chains to reduce harm and add value.
- Embedding community benefit – Ensuring jobs, investment, and resilience flow to the communities most impacted.
The CSCC will be at Climate Week 2025. Find out more about the event here.
Pathway 2: Community Stewardship
Supporting the enabling conditions for local communities to be an equitable financial partner in leading a regenerative circular economy transition.
Circularity isn’t just about products; it’s about how we steward resources and decision-making power within communities. Community stewardship applies circular principles that center local leadership, shared ownership, and sustained benefits:
- Closing loops in resource flows – Keeping economic value, materials, and knowledge circulating within communities.
- Building regenerative capacity – Supporting practices that restore ecosystems while strengthening local economies.
- Creating shared value – Ensuring communities are financial partners, not just beneficiaries, in circular economy initiatives.
We worked with farming communities in Northern Nigeria on agriculture, education, and community development. Learn more about our regenerative circular economy work.
Pathway 3: Integrated Skills-Based Volunteering
Harnessing the power of the corporate sector to support and enable local communities to thrive.
Circularity-based organizations often have the vision but need capacity to implement and scale. Our integrated skills-based volunteering (SBV) creates a two-way exchange that strengthens the entire system:
- Strengthening capacity – Deploying skilled corporate volunteers to help refine models, strengthen operations, and expand impact.
- Anchoring solutions locally – Supporting governance and leadership structures that keep circular initiatives community-led.
- Shaping leadership perspectives – Giving corporate leaders direct experience with systems-change mechanisms, influencing long-term business decisions.
We have 35+ years of experience co-creating skills-based volunteering programs. Learn more about our different SBV models.
