Climate Week NYC 2024

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Join us live from New York for the 2024 edition of our annual Climate Week NYC event.

This event is part of our 2024 climate series that will be running through COP29 in November! By registering for this event, you will also receive reminders and updates about future events in the series.

Speakers

Agenda

Moderator: David Shukman, Former Science Editor of BBC News
11:00 AMOpening Keynote
  1. Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados
11:05 AMOpening Keynote
  1. Nadia Calviño, President of the European Investment Bank
Session One: Climate Finance Action Gaps
By some estimates, developing countries and emerging markets require $1.8 trillion in climate finance every year, and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals calls for another $1.2 trillion per year on top of that. Yet total global climate finance was only around $1 trillion in 2022, and most of that went to developed countries. Closing such a massive gap calls for more than just marginal changes; it requires a fundamental rethinking of how development and climate finance is done, and in how international financial institutions operate.
11:10 AMPanel Discussion and Q&A with International Media
  1. Daouii Abouchere, Director of Sustainable Investment at Wellington Management
  2. Jiwoh Abdulai, Minister of Environment and Climate Change of Sierra Leone
  3. Bertrand Badré, CEO and Founder of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital and Former Managing Director of the World Bank
  4. Pepukaye Bardouille, Special Adviser on Climate Resilience to the Prime Minister of Barbados and Director of the Bridgetown Initiative
11:55 PMClosing Remarks
  1. Ambroise Fayolle, Vice President of the European Investment Bank
Session Two: LATAM Leadership
Latin America has a key role to play in realizing the energy transition. It combines elements such as territory, natural resources, stability, clean energy potential, human resources and industrial base that set it apart from other regions in the world. It is also suffering some of the worst impacts of climate change. With COP16 upcoming in Colombia and Brazil hosting 2023’s G20 Summit and 2024’s COP30, now is the moment for leadership in enacting and supporting a regional collaboration that enable progress on the green transition locally and regionally, rebuffing old power dynamics to ensure the benefits of this progress stays close to home, supporting development, reducing inequalities and demonstrating international cooperation against a backdrop of wider geopolitical uncertainty.
12:30 PMOpening Keynote
  1. Gabriel Boric, President of Chile
12:35 PMOpening Remarks
  1. Mafalda Duarte, Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund
12:40 PMPanel Discussion and Q&A with International Media
  1. Maisa Rojas Corradi, Minister of the Environment of Chile
  2. Juan Carlos Losada, Member of the House of Representatives of Colombia
  3. Tim Sahay, Co-Director of the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab at Johns Hopkins University
  4. Ana Toni, National Secretary for Climate Change of Brazil
1:20 PMClosing Remarks
  1. Marcelo Mena, CEO of Global Methane Hub and Former Minister of Environment of Chile
High-Level Fireside Chat
Moderated by David Shukman.
2:00 PMFireside Chat
  1. Bogolo Kenewendo, Special Adviser for the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions for COP27-28
  2. Todd Stern, Former US Special Envoy for Climate Change and Author of Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next
2:35 PMClosing Keynote
  1. Mukhtar Babayev, President-Designate of COP29 and Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan

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