The key takeaways from NY Climate Week, with Climate Group CEO Helen Clarkson

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Energy Gang wraps up Climate Week in New York, after six days of debates, discussions, initiatives and pledges. Scheduled alongside the UN General Assembly, Climate Week brought together leaders from business, policy, finance, academia and activism to share ideas and push forward real solutions for climate change.

Host Ed Crooks sits down with Helen Clarkson, CEO of the Climate Group which organizes Climate Week, to talk about the big stories that emerged from the week. Climate Week has evolved from a small business-focused event to a larger platform, engaging diverse sectors in climate action. This year it included about 900 separate events, attended by an estimated 100,000 people.

Helen explains the evolution of the event, and its shift of focus from the question of why companies should act on climate, to ideas for implementing solutions. Regulations that obstruct investment in low-carbon energy are emerging as one of the biggest challenges in the transition, and Helen and Ed discuss how to break down these barriers and facilitate the growth of renewables. Support from tech companies and other businesses for the development of clean energy was a key theme through the week. The launch of the 24/7 carbon-free coalition of energy buyers, backed by the Climate Group, was one of the big announcements of the week.

Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources, also joins the show to discuss the Biden administration’s role in supporting Ukraine's energy security amid the ongoing conflict with Russia, and the importance of building a resilient energy infrastructure. He says one of the key issues at his meetings at Climate Week has been the importance of the supply chain for critical minerals, and the need to reduce dependence on China by creating new capabilities for mineral extraction and processing. Plus, Ed and Ambassador Pyatt debate the role of the U.S. in leading the energy transition globally.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Energy Gang a discussion show about the fast changing world of energy.
0:07.0	I'm Ed Croix. New York Climate Week wrapped last week and this is the last in a series of special
0:12.2	episodes of the Energy Gang bringing you the last in a series of special episodes of the
0:12.8	energy gang bringing you the highlights from a packed week of
0:15.3	discussions, events and initiatives across the city. During the event I sat down
0:20.0	with Jeffrey Piot, who is the US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources, to talk
0:24.4	about the key issues he's working on in terms of climate and energy security.
0:28.1	But before that, I spoke to Helen Clarkson, who's the Chief Executive of the Climate Group Group which puts on Climate Week every year.
0:35.2	She was recently named as one of the top 100 most important people in global climate.
0:39.9	Helen, thanks very much for joining us.
0:41.3	Thank you.
0:42.3	Particularly thank you for joining us on what is clearly an incredibly busy week for you.
0:48.0	We're now at Thursday.
0:50.0	It's winding down but still a lot going on even now. How are you feeling? I mean
0:54.8	absolutely exhausted but really thrilled it's really sort of caught fire this
0:58.1	year I think you know we've been doing it for 16 years it was pretty big
1:02.1	it's been pretty big since the pandemic I'd say but this year
1:06.4	it's really gone to another level I think partly because there's a lot of
1:11.5	worries probably the wrong word but a lot of people are sort of opting out of the Baku cop for various reasons.
1:18.0	And so it's a sort of very, we sort of position this now as a very natural place to come and meet and so we know people
1:24.3	have got it on their agenda, they've been coming and so the sort of parties that might would normally
1:30.0	go to Bakku are all here and then the kind of civil society pieces are also caught on and those
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