Climate Week NYC
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With world leaders gathering at the UN in New York September 20th – 27th, we’re hosting a series of live events focused on climate change in partnership with the Explorers Club.
There’s a sense of urgency that youth are feeling. Although, investment in clean energy and net zero technologies is higher than ever, this year has started out warmer than ever recorded. We’re seeing more frequent and damaging storms and fires, droughts are impacting crops and river levels around the world, and the ocean is warming while rising.
We can go faster, there is undeniable evidence, a growing will, and there are new and exciting technologies to lead us to a greener future that grows economies. This is want Climate Week NYC is all about, putting inspiring businesses and governments that are driving the momentum in the spotlight.
Climate Week NYC is the biggest annual climate event of its kind, with leaders from the world of business, tech, politics, academia, and civil society. It joins the forces of inspiring frontrunners that have the means, the scale and the power to drive the transition forward and turn those who are not yet going fast enough into action takers.
Join Paul live from Vancouver Island as he continues the epic Out of Eden Walk. We’ll be exploring the impacts of climate change his is witnessing on diverse communities around the world. Past connections with Paul on this journey have included Alaska, South Korea, Japan, China, Myanmar, India, and Kyrgyzstan.
Paul’s 21,000-mile Out of Eden Walk is a decade-long experiment in slow journalism, walking from Ethiopia to Tierra del Fuego. Moving at the beat of his footsteps, Paul is walking the pathways of the first humans who migrated out of Africa in the Stone Age and made the Earth ours. Along the way he is covering the major stories of our time—from climate change to technological innovation, from mass migration to cultural survival—by giving voice to the people who inhabit them every day.
Seaweed might be the greatest untapped resource we have on this planet. Join Vincent to learn how seaweed can feed a growing population, create jobs, help mitigate climate change, and bolster biodiversity. It shaped our past and it could very well save our future…plus it tastes great!
Vincent Doumeizel is the vice president, food, beverage and sustainability for the food programme for Lloyd’s Register Foundation as well as editor of Seaweed Revolution: A Manifesto for a Sustainable Future. With 20 years’ experience in the food industry, he is now also senior advisor on oceans at United Nations Global Compact. Vincent leads the charitable objectives of the foundation through the funding of innovative projects to drive safety in the food supply chain. Vincent is now co-leading the first international platform for seaweed stakeholders, the Safe Seaweed Coalition. He is also a member of the expert panel, working to define the algae strategy at the European Commission and supporting the preparation of the UN Food System Summit in fall of 2021.
Alison is an ice core scientist and high-altitude mountaineer who explores the history of sea ice in polar and high-alpine regions using ice core chemistry. This involves long months of living in a tent and drilling ice cores in places like Antarctica, Alaska, and the Canadian High Arctic.
As part of Perpetual Planet Expeditions—a partnership between the National Geographic Society and Rolex—Alison led two expeditions to Mount Logan, Canada’s highest mountain. In 2021, she anchored an all-female team of scientists to install the highest weather station in North America near the mountain’s peak. Alison returned in 2022 to successfully retrieve a record-breaking 1,072-foot-long ice core that could contain one of the continent’s most important climate records and will shed light on how climate change impacts even the world’s highest peaks. Alison is an assistant professor and the director of the Canadian Ice Core Lab at University of Alberta, founder and co-director of Girls on Ice Canada.
Alysa is a conservation biologist specializing in polar bears; she is based out of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada but spends every fall and part of every summer in Churchill, Manitoba, sometimes called the Polar Bear Capital of the World. Alysa has been studying Canadian polar bears for seven years, focusing largely on the western Hudson Bay subpopulation, one of the first to show impacts of climate change. She currently works for Polar Bears International, supporting research and directing conservation outreach programs, all with a mission to protect the polar bear and its sea ice home for future generations. Alysa loves speaking to people across the world about polar bears and their unique lifestyle, and is passionate about helping students feel empowered to take action on climate change.
Chris is a research scientist with the Climate Research Division of Environment and Climate Change Canada. His research activities focus on the use of satellite data and climate models to understand climate change impacts on the Arctic. Chris’ favourite part of his job is getting out on the land for field research: he has participated in more than 25 snow and sea ice measurements campaigns across the Canadian Arctic.
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