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Save The Date!

Innovative thinkers and leaders from business, government, higher education, and nonprofits are invited to attend the 17th Annual Southeast Florida Regional Climate Leadership Summit on December 16 - 17, 2025,​ at the Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, hosted by Palm Beach County.

This year's theme is :  "Roots of Resilience: Cultivating a Sustainable Future"

Previous Summits have attracted nationally- and internationally-renowned speakers, 750 attendees, and dozens of exhibitors, and highlighted major regional projects and cutting-edge tools.

The Annual Climate Leadership Summit is a major regional event hosted by the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact to share knowledge, showcase climate action, engage leadership across sectors, and mobilize the collaboration needed to tackle this significant challenge at scale.​

Tickets sales and information on speakers will follow soon.​​


​​​​​​2024 Climate Summit

Monroe County and the City of Key West hosted the 16th Annual Southeast Florida Regional Climate Leadership Summit

Featured Speakers included:

Albert Carbon
City of Oakland Park
Public Works Director​

Alicia Betancourt
University of Florida, Monroe County Extension
Extension Director
Alison Higgins
City of Key West
Resiliency Manager
Alyssa Panzer
Islamorada Village of the Islands
Sustainability and Resiliency Coordinator
Andrea Ceccolini
Real Ice
Co-CEO
Christine Hurley
Monroe County BOCC
County Administrator
Greg Corning
WSP
Assistant Vice President, FL Civil Design Team Lead


2023 Climate Summit

Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami Beach hosted the 15th Annual Southeast Florida Regional Climate Leadership Summit, an event of the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact to exchange  ideas on expanding the region’s capacity to respond to climate challenges and build climate resilience. The Summit convened hundreds of business, government, academia, and nonprofit leaders at the Miami Beach Convention Center on November 16-17, 2023.

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​F​eatured speakers:​
Thursday, November 16: 
9:00 am – Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and City of Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber
9:45 am – Honorable Michael Connor, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
2:15 pm – Raul Moas, Senior Director/Miami Knight Foundation

​Friday, November 17th:
9:00 am – Miami-Dade County Chairman Oliver G. Gilbert III
9:30 am – Victoria Salinas, Senior Official Performing the Duties of Deputy Administrator, Resilience, Federal Emergency Management Agency and Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava
11:30 am – Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Palm Beach County Mayor Gregg Weiss, Monroe County Mayor Holly Raschein, Broward County Commissioner Beam Furr

To see full agenda, click here: https://southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org/event/15th-annual-southeast-florida-regional-climate-leadership-summit/








Past Climate Summits​

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2022 Climate Summit

The 2022 Climate Summit was hosted by Broward County, December 8-9 at the Visitor Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale.
Read more  here > ​

2021 Climate Summit
Palm Beach County hosted the 13th Summit on December 9-10, 2021. You can view the event https://southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org/event/13th-annual-sefl-summit/
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2020 Climate Summit

The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact hosted a virtual summit on October 13, 2020. https://southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org/event/virtual-climate-leadership-summit-2020/​ 

2019 Climate Summit
Monroe County hosted the 11th Annual Southeast Florida Regional Climate Leadership Summit December 3-5, 2019 at the Casa Marina in Key West.  https://www.climatesummitmonroe.com/home

2018 Climate Summit

Miami-Dade County hosted the 10th Annual Southeast Florida Regional Climate Leadership Summit on October 24-25, 2018, at the Miami Beach Convention Center.  https://southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org/event/10th-annual-summit/


2017 Climate Summit 

Broward County hosted the Annual Southeast Florida Regional Climate Leadership Summit on December 14-15, 2017, at the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale.

Summit 2017 was a Certified Carbon Neutral Event through Broward County Plan It Green ​​

Click on a title below to view the recording:

 

Keynotes

Opening and Keynote by Katherine Hayhoe

The Honorable Dow Constantine, King County Executive

The Honorable Ted Deutch, United States House of Representatives

 

Compact Year in Review

 

Day 1 Panels

County Governments as Resilience Leaders

The Business Case for Economic Resilience

Flood Risk, Insurance, and Infrastructure Resilient Solutions

Resilience Roadmap: The Second Regional Climate Action Plan

The Compact: Onward, Upward, Outward

 

Day 2 Panels

Resilient Regions: Lessons from Across the United States 

Resilience On the Ground: Key Initiatives in Southeast Florida 

People Power: Building Resilience Among Communities, Residents, and Small Businesses

Risk Management: An Economic Imperative

The Future is Here: Energy and Transportation Breakthroughs 

Resiliency Innovations: Science, Tools, and Projects   


To request presentation files that may be available from the speakers, email Resilience@Broward.org.

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