New York Climate Week: Full List of Forest Trends Events
New York, New York
September 22-29, 2024 | New York, New York
Climate Week NYC is the largest annual climate event of its kind, bringing together over 600 events and activities across the City of New York – in person, hybrid and online. Each year, business leaders, political change makers, local decision takers and civil society representatives of all ages and backgrounds, from all over the world, gather to drive the transition, speed up progress, and champion change that is already happening.
This year, Climate Week NYC is being held from September 22-29, 2024. The event takes place every year in partnership with the United Nations General Assembly and is run in coordination with the United Nations and the City of New York. Learn more about Climate Week events here.
Forest Trends Sessions at Climate Week NYC
Private Film Screening: “We Are Guardians”
Monday, September 23
5:00 – 8:30 PM EST
Angelika Film Center & Cafe
We Are Guardians follows Indigenous activists in Brazil as they risk their lives to protect their ancestral forests. This powerful, award-winning documentary offers a raw and intimate look at those closest to the Amazon, revealing a crisis that impacts us all.
Join us after the film for a conversation with Beto Borges, Director of the Communities and Territorial Governance Initiative at Forest Trends; Puyr Tembé, First Secretary of Indigenous Peoples of the State of Pará; and the film’s directors, Edivan Guajajara and Chelsea Greene.
Featuring: Beto Borges, Director, Communities & Territorial Governance Initiative
New forest carbon standards and monitoring technologies – solutions out of the VCM crisis?
Tuesday, September 24
7:30 – 9:30 AM EST
The Westin New York at Times Square
Earth Observation- and AI-supported carbon monitoring technologies can enhance the quality of the carbon data that underpin the development, financing and monitoring of forest carbon projects. This breakfast session will discuss how new VCM standards, project developers and buyers of carbon credits are using new monitoring technologies to unlock investment at scale for trustworthy forest conservation and restoration.
Financing the Green Transition: A Deep Dive into Climate Finance
Wednesday, September 25
8:00 – 11:00 AM EST
Deloitte Hub
This session will navigate the complex world of climate finance and its numerous forms, mechanisms, and impacts. Through panel discussions, we’ll explore the current barriers to financing the green transition, the multitude of financing mechanisms available, and the accessibility and impact of these mechanisms across various sectors.
Featuring: Gena Gammie, Director, Global Water Initiative; and Art Blundell, Sr. Advisor on Forest Finance & Governance
Accelerating Climate Action: Delivering High Integrity Carbon Markets
Wednesday, September 25
9:00 AM – 6:30 PM EST
The Voluntary Carbon Market is critical to meeting our global climate goals. This is the moment to harness the opportunity and deliver real impact. Hear from high-level business leaders, scientists, economists, NGOs and government representatives from across the world. The dynamic event will include insights from those pledging to step up, debates on what’s getting in the way, and agreements on how to make progress quickly.
Nature: Making the Priceless Valuable
Wednesday, September 25
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST
Ethic HQ
No one market is a silver bullet for bringing value to nature; we need a whole portfolio of solutions. Otherwise, these tools will never deliver finance for a green transition as initially hoped.
So this year at Climate Week, we’re bringing together experts from across carbon markets, water markets, biodiversity markets, ESG policy, government, tech, and finance to help drive that vision. We’ll preview new tools and data that can help us build a mental map of the entire universe of markets and market-like tools that put the power of the economy to work for the planet. We’ll take stock of where we currently stand and where we need to go to bring nature into the economic system.
Featuring: Genevieve Bennett, Director, Communications & Strategic Outreach
No smallholders left behind: Empowering livelihoods & action through climate finance
Thursday, September 26
8:00 – 9:30 AM
Metlife Building
The CASH Coalition and invited guests will host a discussion on empowering smallholder livelihoods through climate action.
This breakfast meeting will focus on identifying incentives that enable smallholder agroforestry projects to scale through access to carbon markets. CASH is developing a portfolio of smallholder-based carbon projects and has developed a sophisticated financial model to understand key variables and tipping points that impact the viability of smallholder agroforestry projects.
Featuring: Michael Jenkins, Founding President & CEO
Nature: Making the Priceless Valuable – Round 2!
Thursday, September 26
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
287 Park Ave S
Featuring: Genevieve Bennett, Director, Communications & Strategic Outreach
Nature: Making the Priceless Valuable – Round 3!
Friday, September 27
9:00 – 10:30 AM
287 Park Ave S
Featuring: Genevieve Bennett, Director, Communications & Strategic Outreach