Last week, the climate world gathered together in the big apple to during New York Climate Week (NYCW) promote climate action.
This year the event coincided with the United Nations General Assembly making the climate event even more visible to world leaders.
NY Climate Week serves as a taster to the conversations that will take place during COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan in November.
Hosted by nonprofit Climate group, the event is coined as the largest annual climate event of its kind.
Bringing together hundreds of participants and organsinging over 600 events around the central theme ‘It’s Time’.
Some core topics of discussion included: deepening decarbonisation, accelerating renewables, enhancing transition finance, integrating nature & water and scaling social impact.
A key takeaway from the event is that the world needs to stop debating and turn towards taking decisive operational action across society and the economy.
Too much time has been wasted on speaking, said activists.
Insights from attendees new york climate week
Climate activist Grace Malie was a core figure of the event, known as ‘Tuvalu's Greta Thunberg’ or ‘the real life Moana’. She held a very powerful speech to address the sea level rise summit at the UN to save Tuvalu and her people.
UK news channel 4 news and the BBC followed Malie during the event to shed light on the urgency of the situation.
As attendees get back to their home countries, many are taking to LinkedIn to reflect and share their thoughts of the event.
Eva Gladek, Founder and CEO of Metabolic, shared her thoughts as she headed to the two day workshop hosted by Bezos Earth Fund.
‘I believe we can trigger positive tipping points: there are decades of science and lived experience to show the way. And though a lot of people may disparage the global event circuit of which NYCW is part as a vacuous parade of talk and egos, I truly believe that these moments of convening are allowing us to form the social infrastructure and trust critical to triggering the positive tipping points we need’ said Gladek.
The Conference Corner reported earlier this year about the inspiration Gladek was to Martin Valkkov, co-founder of Climate Guardians.
Most prominent activist and founder of Force of Nature, Clover Hogan, had one major topic in her head: the unpaid youth activists.
‘While there was much talk of "engaging young people", youth activists are not getting paid for their work. And organisations with big budgets are not removing financial barriers to access, which prevents frontline activists from participating’ she wrote.
It has been a very busy week in the financial hub of New York, now we wait and see if decision-makers will take action on what they heard.
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By The Conference Corner team.
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