259. Live! From Climate Week NYC with Mission 2025
Outrage + Optimism
Persephonica
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode, our hosts are live at Climate Week New York, joined onstage by a stellar line-up of influential voices from government, the private sector, science, civil society and academia.
This flagship event highlights how transformative climate strategies can be supercharged. The conversation centers on the push for ‘positive tipping points’ across three key themes: energy, nature & food, and finance. Supported by Mission 2025 Partners and convened by Groundswell – a collaboration between Global Optimism, Bezos Earth Fund, and Systems Change Lab – alongside the Climate Group, the event showcases leaders from various sectors driving impactful change.
Mission 2025 is a coalition of bold leaders, including mayors, governors, CEOs, investors, athletes, musicians, and everyday citizens, all rallying governments to strengthen their national climate commitments (Nationally Determined Contributions) in alignment with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
Known as the 'Defenders of Paris,' Mission 2025 Partners arrived at Climate Week NYC with exciting updates. New organizations are stepping up to support governments in setting more ambitious climate plans, accelerating action that can unlock trillions in private investment, boost renewable energy, help industries thrive in a low-carbon economy, and ensure equitable living standards for all.
Tune in to hear the latest from Climate Week NYC and how global leaders are working together to shape a sustainable future!
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GUESTS
Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change
Jennifer Morgan, Special Envoy for International Climate Action
Tim Lenton, Professor of Earth System Science at University of Exeter
Veena Balakrishnan, Political Scientist, Intersectional Environmentalist. Co - Founder, Youth Negotiators Academy
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Renata Koch Alvarenga, Disaster Risk Financing Specialist, World Bank I Master of Public Policy, Harvard University I Founder and Executive Director, EmpoderaClima
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Vaishali Nigam Sinha, Co-Founder of ReNew and Chairperson Sustainability
Dr. Günther Thallinger, Member of the Board of Management of Allianz SE, Investment Management, Sustainability
Peter Bakker, President & CEO at World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Helen Clarkson, Chief Executive Officer at Climate Group
Nigar Arpadarai, Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP29
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HE Ana Toni, National Secretary for Climate Change at the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, from Brazil as COP30 Presidency
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and optimism. I'm Tom Rifik Carnack. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:16.0 | Today we're coming to you from New York Climate Week with some reflections and with a special live recording. |
| 0:21.0 | Thanks for being. Hey Paul, so just me and you today. |
| 0:36.7 | Well, not really just me. |
| 0:40.7 | Because Christina is going to be later, but not now, right? |
| 0:42.4 | Exactly. So Christina and, and well the three of us |
| 0:44.8 | recorded yesterday a fantastically fun live podcast at which we had 600 people |
| 0:49.6 | in New York together with lots of guests that we're going to introduce in a minute, but we were all three going to get together to record an intro, but Christina is sadly traveling at the moment, so unable to join, but in a minute we'll go to the live recording and she's very much a big part of that. |
| 1:03.0 | So what to say to introduce this week, what a busy week it's been. |
| 1:07.4 | We're now on Wednesday, it's been sort of six months since we arrived last Sunday. |
| 1:12.1 | How's it been for you, Paul? |
| 1:13.8 | I love it here. |
| 1:15.1 | I want to stay. |
| 1:16.4 | I'm leaving today. |
| 1:17.4 | I'm leaving today. |
| 1:18.3 | But I want to stay in New York with all these people |
| 1:20.5 | and just carry on Climate Week for about the next six months and we'll sort it. |
| 1:24.0 | And do you know what, I'm, I'm, it's so big, |
| 1:28.0 | I think it's a really, really good sign. |
| 1:32.0 | But I think a huge gathering like this and just to be clear this is |
| 1:35.2 | by far the largest climate week ever with 800 events or something. I've been |
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