New York Climate Week 2023

Event details

Dates

18 sept 2023 - 20 sept 2023

Where

New York, United States of America

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A platform for public-private climate action

This year’s edition of the Climate Week NYC commemorates its 15^th anniversary. With a substansial present of companies and government representatives, Denmark is actively engaging global climate dialogue to highlight tangible solutions and policies to fight climate change. State of Green will organise multiple events, focusing on three fundamental questions in the green transition: How can we ensure a just transition? How do we finance it? And how do we accelerate cross sectorial collaboration to speed up the application of tangible solutions?

Point of contact

Victoria Lindhardt Zorzi
Project Manager

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+4540478003

State of Green at Climate Week NYC 2023

As part of the upcoming Climate Week NYC 2023 from 17 – 24 September, State of Green and partners will be orchestrating a series of events. With emphasis on public-private climate action, the events will revolve around emission mitigation, energy efficiency, green financing, renewables, green hydrogen and biodiversity.

Programme - Denmark at New York Climate Week 2023

Monday

18 September

09:00 - 09:45

Opening of the Sustainability Summit NYC

The NYC Sustainability Summit covers diverse agendas, stakeholders, and green transition themes, aiming to accelerate sustainable solutions.

Partners: MFA, Creative Denmark, Food Nation, Healthcare Denmark, State of Green

GO TO EVENT

18:00 - 21:00

Sustainability Summit Reception: Financing the green transition

The event will investigate how to incentivize governments to set ambitious targets on decarbonization and enable the private sector to implement innovative solutions.

Partners: MFA, PensionDanmark, PKA, State of Green

EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST

TUESDAY

19 September

11:30 - 15:00

Breaking Barriers, Bridging Divides

The event brings together thought leaders to discuss how governments, companies and societies can move away from a narrow focus on reducing direct emissions towards a more holistic worldview where scope 3 emissions, social justice, and biodiversity must be considered.

Partners: Danish Cleantech Hub, Confederation of Danish Industry, State of Green

EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST

WEDNESDAY

20 September

13:00 - 17:30

World Energy Transition Summit

The World Energy Transition Summit programme will focus on the opportunities for decarbonising energy-intensive sectors and features emerging trends towards clean energy transition in line with net-zero targets.

Partners: World Climate Foundation, State of Green, and partners.

DISCOVER THE POSSIBILITES

MONDAY

18 September

10:00 - 10:45

Sustainable supply of critical minerals for the energy transition

This session will explore how we can secure the resilient supply chain of critical minerals needed for the green global transition while maintaining sustainable mining practices.

Partners: MFA, FLSmidth

GO TO EVENT

12:00 - 12:45

Offshore wind: Developing local and sustainable supply chains to accelerate global deployment

This session is centered around the establishment of resilient and sustainable local supply chains for offshore wind energy.

Partners: MFA, Ramboll

GO TO EVENT

14:00 - 14:45

De-risking large-scale green hydrogen projects

This session aims to bring together industry leaders, thought leaders, and policymakers to discuss and strategize ways to overcome the challenges associated with these pioneering initiatives.

Partners: MFA, Ramboll

GO TO EVENT

TUESDAY

19 September

10:00 - 10:45

The roadmap for decarbonizing cities

The session will delve into key aspects of urban decarbonization, such as optimizing urban planning to integrate sustainability into infrastructure, energy management practices to minimize carbon footprints, and energy-efficient building designs to reduce emissions. More info to be followed.

Partners: MFA, Danfoss

14:30 - 15:15

Cultivating change: Empowering farmers and corporations in regenerative agriculture

This session aims to shed light on the transformative potential of large corporations in driving the green transition of agricultural systems worldwide, and how this potential can be fully realised with support from the public sector.

Partners: MFA, Carlsberg, Food Nation

GO TO EVENT

15:30 - 16:15

De-Risking Investments In Biosolutions

The panel will discuss how can public and private actors embed and support scale-up of innovations in the biotech sector, how much are investments affected by regulatory uncertainty, and how much are investments affected by regulatory uncertainty?

Partners: MFA, The Food & Bio Forum, Food Nation

GO TO EVENT

WEDNESDAY

16 November

09:30 - 12:00

Designing the irresistible, sustainable city – a collaborative approach

Through inspirational speeches, panel-debates, and best cases from key profiles, we will look from different perspectives such as the social, environmental, economical and collaborative approach and how it can facilitate and support innovative processes and move the society towards a more sustainable future.

Partners: MFA, BLOX, BLOXHUB, Creative Denmark, DAC, RPA

GO TO EVENT

Join the largest Danish delegation at COP28 in Dubai

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