Climate Action Week Sydney (CAWSYD26) will be held on 9-15 March, 2026.

CAWSYD26 has 5 main themes:

There are 3 important cross-cutting agendas that we encourage all events to include in their design:

Note: When submitting your event, you can also select as many tags as make sense for your event to help people find it based on their interests.

CAWSYD26’s full program will be launched in early Feb 2026. Some events will be available to register for before then, so check our events page here to find out. There will also be some select pre-events running in the lead up to CAWSYD26.

Event submissions open October 31st and close December 31st (Round 1). Events submitted after Dec 31st may still be included in CAWSYD26 but we will only be able to give limited promotional support.

The program will be launched on February 4th 2026. From then you will be able to register to attend the approved community events and flagship programming.

For your event to be included in the full program launch in early February it must be uploaded in draft mode and sent to the CAWSYD team by the 31st Dec 2025.
You can still submit events after Dec 31st; however, events submitted later will be less likely to be included in the program launch and extensively promoted.

You can join our community WhatsApp group and share your event idea there, or join one of our monthly stakeholder meetings.

You can download our Brand Kit and approved logos here.
Please note you can only use our branding on approved events. You can create your event marketing materials and upload them to the draft event you are submitting, but only once we have approved your event will you have the rights to use our logos publicly.

Yes, we have event host guidelines that are included in the Event Host Submission & Info Pack.

Yes, you can charge for your event. You just need to ensure that at least 10% of your tickets are available for free for accessibility. Check the Event Submission Quick Guide for more information on this.

When you submit your event, please indicate at the top of the event information in bold that you are looking for a space to host the event and provide the basic requirements you need so we can try to help you. Please also include your email so it’s easy for us to reach out to you. You can also complete this form and one of our team members will get back to you.

You can review the event space information sheets here.

We encourage events to be hosted all over Australia during CAWSYD26. Whilst Greater Sydney is the focus, we want to activate as much climate action as possible! Just indicate the location when you submit your event using the event submission process. We have seen partner events hosted in Melbourne, Newcastle, Adelaide and Perth in previous years and welcome all.

If you wish to sponsor us and help support our work and CAWSYD26, you can do so via our donation page.

Yes, we are a registered charity with the ACNC and all donations are tax-deductible.

We are curating and focusing on the 5 main themes and hope that your event can connect to one of them, but if not, that’s ok, you can still submit your event and we will review it.

Registrations will officially open from Feb 4, 2026 for the next Climate Action Week Sydney. People will be able to purchase tickets or register for free events from then onwards.

All submissions will be acknowledged by the Climate Action Week Sydney organising team. Successful and unsuccessful events will be notified of the decision with regard to their inclusion in the Climate Action Week Sydney program, and any advice in support of launching your event.

All approved events will be published via the Climate Action Week Sydney website (direct integration with Luma, our event management platform) and included in the publicised program.
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We will be ramping up social media coverage for events as well. Please refer to the Social Media Promotion section of the Event Host Submission Pack to submit your event for official channel promotion.

You sure can. For Climate Action Week Sydney 2026, we're activating our whole ecosystem to make this initiative happen. Although we expect most event hosts to get their own events live, we can ask the community for support.
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Please let us know what additional support you need to help make it happen.

We're open to all types of events, but we do want to ensure this initiative stays focused on our mission of climate action and is accessible to the whole ecosystem.
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We won't approve events that:
- Are not about climate action
- Are harmful, derogatory or discriminatory to others
- May incite danger or violence
- Could portray climate action in a negative light

Any individual or organisation can host an event. Everyone has a role to play in climate action.

Climate Action Week Sydney is committed to diversity and inclusivity as expressed in your balance of speakers, acknowledgement of alternative perspectives, and consideration of accessibility of the in-person event and/or via live-streaming.

Climate Action Week Sydney is a hybrid program of events that provides a range of opportunities to attend in person or online.
Most events will be held in person in the Greater Sydney Region during the week of 9-15 March 2026. Some events will be streamed online or in other locations across the country, and you can register and attend at your leisure.

Event organisers are responsible for any costs associated with hosting an event. If the event is sponsored or ticketed for revenue, a portion of that money could be paid to Climate Action Week Sydney not for profit entity, Climate Action Foundation (CAF). For any corporate organised events we do value a donation or sponsor contribution to CAF in support of our platform and promotional activities.