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Date: Monday, 21 September 2026
Time: 08:30 – 17:30, EST
Location: MetLife Building || 200 Park Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10166

Join PRI Investor Day at New York Climate Week for a high-impact convening of global investors.

By bringing together senior representatives from across the responsible investment ecosystem, PRI Investor Day will focus on how institutional investors are approaching the practical, financially relevant drivers of long‑term performance, including ways to translate high‑level commitments into measurable actions across portfolios and the real economy. Participants will gain insights into emerging best practices in stewardship, policy engagement, capital allocation, value creation, and system-level approaches that are shaping responsible investment.

Through dynamic panel discussions and interactive dialogue, the gathering offers a valuable platform for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and thought leadership at a critical moment for the global financial system.

The PRI will also announce the PRI Awards 2026, recognizing PRI signatories who have demonstrated responsible investment leadership and innovation on climate, investment strategy, human rights, nature, communications and stewardship. 

 

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Event Programme

Time 

Session title   

08:30-09:00

  Arrival and networking breakfast

09:00 – 09:30 

Welcome and opening remarks

09:30 - 09:45 

Keynote

09:45-10:30 

Fireside chat

10:30-11:15 

 

The long view: Investor leadership and stewardship when it matters most

By exploring how to operationalize innovative approaches, leading investors will demonstrate how to protect against compounding risks through successful systems-level stewardship and asset owner-asset manager dialogue. Attendees will also gain insights into practical examples of how to utilize systems-level approaches and catalyze investor leadership ahead of COP31.

11:15-11:35   

Coffee break 

11:35-12:20 

 

Navigating the US policy landscape

In the midst of a shifting geopolitical and legal landscape, experts will explore the most critical responsible investment policy developments that may affect investors and outline what to expect for the rest of 2026 and beyond.

12:20 – 13:05 

Adaptation & resilience - a systems-level perspective

How can investors actively manage systemic climate risks and reduce system-level exposure? By translating climate adaptation into concrete, investable actions, experts will explore how interconnected markets amplify compounding hazards—requiring system-wide solutions. By highlighting locally led case studies, the session will demonstrate scalable adaptation strategies and identify practical levers for investors, industry, policymakers, and insurers to align capital, deploy innovative vehicles, and shape policy to strengthen resilience and stabilize markets

13:05-14:05 

Lunch

14:05 – 14:50 

From Code to Concrete: how AI data centres are reshaping energy and water systems

This session will examine data centres as a fast-rising investor issue at the intersection of AI growth, power demand, grid capacity, water stress and local resilience. As new facilities drive utility load growth and infrastructure buildout, the discussion will focus on how resource constraints, permitting pressure and community pushback can affect operating risk, credit quality, valuations and long-term investment outcomes. The aim is to help investors understand data centres not as a narrow technology story, but as a real-economy and infrastructure challenge with growing relevance across asset classes. 

14:50-15:35 

 

Private markets value creation

By focusing on climate, this high-caliber session will discuss Sustainability Value Creation in real assets and private debt.  GPs, LPs, and practitioners will share key insights from PRI’s flagship Sustainability Value Creation Project and outline concrete actions investors can take on financial outcomes.

15:35 – 16:20 

2026 PRI Awards

Join us for the PRI Awards 2026, as we recognize PRI signatories who have demonstrated responsible investment leadership and innovation on climate, investment strategy, human rights, nature, communications and stewardship. We will also announce three special awards for private markets, asset owners and emerging markets. 

16:20 - 16:25 

Closing remarks

16:25 – 17:30

Networking reception 

Please note: This agenda is subject to change. 

Venue

MetLife Building || 200 Park Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10166 

Organiser

The PRI | Contact:alexander.marshall@unpri.org

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