Hey everybody! Luke (CCO) right here writing about New York Local weather Week! New York Metropolis’s annual Local weather Week has emerged as a pivotal platform for world local weather motion. Launched in 2009, this occasion brings collectively leaders from around the globe to debate and speed up local weather options. Held in the course of the United Nations Basic Meeting, Local weather Week affords a singular alternative for policymakers, companies, and NGOs to collaborate, share finest practices, and announce formidable local weather commitments.
The UN Basic Meeting kicked off Local weather Week on Saturday the 21st of September with the Summit of the Future Motion Days on the UN Headquarters in New York. This occasion introduced collectively a various group of contributors: authorities officers, civil society leaders, enterprise representatives, teachers, native and regional authorities, youth, and extra. The Motion Days will function a platform for wide-ranging discussions and collaborations, guaranteeing that everybody has a voice in shaping the long run.
This yr 70,000 persons are gathered collectively throughout New York Metropolis, with a rising variety of fringe occasions led by world sustainability consultants, software program corporations and corporates. Momentum continues to turbo cost the sustainability panorama, positively bringing to the floor an ecosystem for change. This week the Rio staff are assembly with current and potential prospects, networking with companions and attending quite a lot of sponsored panels to know extra about these developments. It’s essential for us all to be in listening mode, however cautious that the clock is ticking and we should all take motion. For these not in New York this week, The Local weather Group have made at present and tomorrow’s content material accessible on-line right here.
With 6 years to go till interim targets for world decarbonisation are due below the Paris Local weather Accords, the most recent IPCC studies have been clear that globally we’re not on observe to fulfill the goal of a minimum of 2 levels Celsius cap on world warming. Monetary entities and corporates want calls to arm like Local weather Week, to get a pulse of how the financial system is feeling and the sentiment for the sort of progress.
We have to see far more direct, centered and constant collaboration between the general public sector, monetary companies and corporates to actually speed up on the journey to internet zero.
We have now a packed agenda which we’re enthusiastic about. If you happen to’re on the town and need to meet with Rio’s Industrial staff, drop us a message, we shall be at The Nest Tues-Thurs and fringe sponsored panels and occasions Monday-Friday.
Luke