Filming the Justice Climate Fund's Climate Week NYC breakfast and panel

During Climate Week NYC 2026, the Justice Climate Fund hosted a morning breakfast and panel in Midtown Manhattan on financing clean energy projects. We filmed it and delivered a highlight video and the full panel recording, and JCF posted both on its website and YouTube channel.

By Tony Ellis Martinez · TM Productions

The four panelists in front of the Justice Climate Fund screen.

The Justice Climate Fund finances climate and clean energy projects in under-resourced communities across the country, working through a national network of more than 400 community lenders and partners. On Thursday, September 24, 2026, during Climate Week NYC, JCF hosted a morning session in Midtown Manhattan called Designed to Last: Building the Infrastructure Behind Clean Energy Capital. It brought together community finance leaders, funders, investors and clean energy partners for breakfast, networking and a panel discussion.

Kevin Dale of World Haus Media, a New York event photographer we work with regularly, brought us in for the video. Kevin shot the photos and Tony Ellis Martinez shot the video with two cameras, one on a tripod and one on a gimbal. We covered the morning from the first guests checking in through the end of the panel, and delivered a highlight video and the full panel recording.

53 secHIGHLIGHT VIDEO

1 hrFULL PANEL RECORDING

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The highlight video

The highlight covers the whole morning in under a minute, from check-in and breakfast to the panel. JCF posted it on its YouTube channel and at the top of its Climate Week write-up.

The Justice Climate Fund highlight from Climate Week NYC 2026.

Breakfast and networking

Guests checked in at the Justice Climate Fund table and spent the first part of the morning over breakfast, catching up with people they knew and meeting new ones. We worked the room with the camera to get the arrivals, the conversations and the reactions people had when they found each other.

A woman at the check-in area beside a Justice Climate Fund banner with solar panels on it — Check-in beside the Justice Climate Fund banner.

Three guests walking in with name tags, one holding a coffee and one carrying a program — Guests arriving for the session.

A long breakfast counter with pastries and fruit under hanging lights, with guests lined up along it — The breakfast counter during networking.

Two guests hugging while two others stand beside them smiling — Guests greeting each other during networking.

A woman in a yellow sweater and bright scarf laughing while she talks with a man in a suit — Conversation over breakfast.

A crowded room of guests standing and talking, with tall windows along one side — The room filled up before the panel started.

The panel

After opening remarks, JCF's CEO sat down with leaders from the Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice, the African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs and U.S. Green Bank 50. They talked about the financing tools JCF and its partners use to close funding gaps on community clean energy projects, including catalytic capital, credit enhancements, syndication, technical assistance and shared underwriting, and they took questions from the room.

Opening remarks before the panel.

Three panelists seated close together, one of them speaking into a microphone — The panel in conversation.

A woman in the audience holding a microphone and gesturing as she asks a question, with other guests seated around her — A question from the audience.

The full panel recording

We also delivered the whole panel as its own edit, about an hour long, so people who couldn't make it in person could watch the full conversation. JCF posted it on its YouTube channel along with the highlight.

The full panel recording on the Justice Climate Fund YouTube channel. Open on YouTube

Thanks to the Justice Climate Fund team for having us, and to Kevin Dale and World Haus Media for bringing us in.

Session details via the Justice Climate Fund Climate Week NYC 2026 write-up and justiceclimatefund.org. JCF's posted highlight is on YouTube. Every image on this page is a frame from our footage.