Climate Week NYC 2024
Hosted by Climate Group, Climate Week NYC brings together over 600 events and activities across the City of New York – in person, hybrid and online. Each year, business leaders, political change makers, local decision-takers and civil society representatives from all over the world, gather to drive the transition, speed up progress, and champion change already happening.
Join Climate KIC events at New York Climate Week
Monday, September 23rd – 7:30-8:30 am: ‘Which One Wins? The Power of Stories of Hope and Possibility’. This session, organised in partnership with Futerra Solutions Union, will bring together experts who are passionate about meaningful storytelling, narrative innovation and about mobilising the power of hope and possibility. The discussion will focus on how to inspire a vision of and engagement with a future that we want and that we will fight for. This is just as much about equity and justice as it is about vision.
Speakers include:
Dr Kirsten Dunlop, CEO, Climate KIC
Lucy Shea, CEO, Futerra and Trustee, Futerra Solutions Union
Csaba Manyai, Impact Architect, Community Arts Network (CAN)
Location: Solutions House, 30 East 23rd Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10010.
Tuesday, September 24 – 4pm-8pm: Action Greater than the Sum of the Parts: Systems Change Collaboration. This event, organised by The Systemic Climate Action Collaborative, in partnership with the Tsao Pao Chee Group and Shakti Regeneration will provide an evening of thoughtful discussions and insights on how a new form of collaboration can emerge to solve the most pressing challenges of our time.
Speakers include:
Kirsten Dunlop – CEO, Climate-KIC
Indrani Pal-Choudhuri. Founder, Shakti Regeneration
Fred Tsao, Chairman TPC Group
Dr. Vincent Pieribone – Co-CEO and Chief Science Officer, OceanX
Location: One World Trade Centre, 285 Fulton Street, New York.
Wednesday, September 25th – 9am-5pm: A series of interactive workshops on various areas of systems change.
Location: Civic Hall, 124 East 14th Street New York, NY 10003 United States.
- 9-11am: The Growth Of The Global Adaptation Economy. This event featuring Climate KIC and The Vertical will invite a discussion and exchange of views among Entrepreneurial Service Organizations (ESOs) with a focus on climate startups and MSMEs, adaptation-focused MSMEs, green investors and international organisations e.g. UN agencies, development banks. They will answer the question: How do we drive investment at scale into climate adaptation and resilience measures?
- 11am – 1pm: Faster, Further and more Fairly: Systemic Approaches to Urban Transformation. This event, featuring Climate KIC, The Club of Rome, Metabolic, Pyxera Global and Dark Matter Labs showcases large-scale urban transformation initiatives from the Systemic Climate Action Collaborative across North America, Latin America, and Europe.
- 1-3pm: Scaling Climate Solutions Through Landscape And Bioregional Regeneration. This event, co-organised by Climate KIC and 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People will feature Commonland, Dark Matter Labs, EcoAgriculture Partners, IIED, Latin America Model Forest Network, Rainforest Alliance, REOS Partners and the UNDP. This session will explore financial innovations that focus on maximising funding flows for the speed and scale of transformation needed, catalytic prototypes in landscape-scale transformations, collective learning, methodologies, tools and delivery strategies. It will be an opportunity for funders and implementers to learn more about these initiatives and convene for a critical discussion on how to engage with and support holistic and systemic approaches to landscapes, land use, regenerative agriculture, and forestry.
- 3-5pm: The Missing Trillions. This event, featuring: Metabolic, Climate KIC and the IIED will present insights on emerging, high-leverage, yet currently largely overlooked approaches to addressing the acute climate finance gap. Speakers will deep dive into four promising solutions with expert practitioners to identify new pathways for collaboration and scale.
Friday, September 27th – 10:30am – 3:30pm – A series of three events with our partners of the Systemic Climate Action Collaborative.
Location: Tzu Chi Center, 229 E 60th St, New York, NY 10022
- 10:30am – 11:45am – Partnership for digital justice: Decolonising digital information. Across the globe, and particularly in the Global South and in under-resourced communities, analog archival assets are rapidly deteriorating, and there are few, if any, scaled efforts to digitalize these assets. This session organised by Pyxera Global, Tropix Media, Amazon Sacred Headwaters and Justice Capital focuses on identifying the core of the problem, ideating on ways to raise awareness and to generate urgency to address it, and a discussion of solutions, including tried and true as well as innovative approaches that the panelist’s would like to see get underway.
- 12:15pm – 1:30pm – Circular Supply Chain Coalition: Accelerating Reuse Practices in Critical Mineral Supply Chains through the Intersection of Policy, Investment, and Consumer Demand. This session organised by Future Foundation, Circular Solutions, Metabolic, PYXERA Global and FedEx will be focused on the current state of critical mineral reverse logistics, the barriers and opportunities that exist in establishing a critical mineral reuse network across the United States and capture key insights and examples (from Europe and the United States) on the role that policy and procurement play in accelerating a critical mineral reuse transition
- 2pm-3:15pm – Coops and Community Ownership: The power and possibilities of cooperatives. This session organised by Pyxera Global and the Systemic Climate Action Collaborative is an opportunity to explore the scope of the role – often unnoticed – that cooperatives across all sectors play in the world. The panellists will share stories of the successes and challenges of the cooperatives movement and discuss ways that investment in a new era of flourishing cooperatives can drive more global inclusivity and equity, better serve people and communities, contribute solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, and advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Contact us at media@climate-kic.org for any question.