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September
18
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15:30
CEST
CET
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9:30 am
EDT
EST
18
,
2023
,
September 18–19, 2023
September 18–19, 2023
Watch Clinton Global Initiative live on We Don't Have Time
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With more than 2,000 leaders attending and 3,900 Commitments, the 2022 Clinton Global Initiative meeting was remarkable.
On September 18-19, the Clinton Global Initiative will gather again in New York City. This year’s meeting will focus on what it takes to keep going—to maintain and advance progress, in spite of the difficulties that arise, and increase our capacity to cross the divides and make common cause with one another wherever possible to build a stronger future for all. We’ll hear from those who are tackling some of today’s most pressing issues, including climate change, health inequities, food insecurity, economic inequality, threats to democracy around the world, and record-breaking refugee displacement. We will examine ways to channel energy and investment to scale solutions that are already improving people’s lives, and explore how tools like AI can be responsibly harnessed for good.
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Oceans cover 70 percent of Earth’s surface and produce at least half of the oxygen we breathe, regulate the climate, provide a source of food and biodiversity, and drive economies around the world. Ocean health is threatened by human activity such as plastic pollution and industrial waste and struggles to gain traction in the international climate space. However, innovators and leaders are establishing marine protected areas, developing debt restructuring programs to allow governments to prioritize the protection of coastal areas, and telling stories to inspire action at the individual and policy levels. We will explore together how to keep this momentum going to protect this vital resource for ourselves and for the planet.
Speakers:
Organizers:
As the CGI community knows, making — and keeping — commitments, isn’t easy. Obstacles can arise, global trendlines can disrupt local solutions, and even sustaining the energy and focus to drive projects to completion can waver.
Despite this, we know the antidote is as simple as it is true — we must keep going. From farming cooperatives in Kenya; boardrooms in Manhattan, to food pantries in Appalachia; classrooms in Medellin, to salt flats in India, to community shelters in Ukraine — people around the world wake up every day and make the choice keep going. While these choices individually may be small and focused, taken together, they build the momentum needed to overcome the global challenges we face.
Last year, the CGI community mobilized for the first time in six years to make over 140 Commitments to Action to address global challenges. Just as climate change, economic inequality, growing health disparities, and backsliding for gender equity continue, we must continue to choose action. We must be nimble, focused, and clear-eyed in our objectives. But most importantly, we cannot allow the scale of the challenges we face to overwhelm the solutions we can bring to bear. We must keep going.
Speakers:
Organizers:
Oceans cover 70 percent of Earth’s surface and produce at least half of the oxygen we breathe, regulate the climate, provide a source of food and biodiversity, and drive economies around the world. Ocean health is threatened by human activity such as plastic pollution and industrial waste and struggles to gain traction in the international climate space. However, innovators and leaders are establishing marine protected areas, developing debt restructuring programs to allow governments to prioritize the protection of coastal areas, and telling stories to inspire action at the individual and policy levels. We will explore together how to keep this momentum going to protect this vital resource for ourselves and for the planet.
Speakers:
Organizers:
Feeding and clothing Earth’s population is a significant agricultural undertaking, but the current mass production of food and clothing is not sustainable. The fashion and apparel industry contributes ten percent of annual global carbon emissions, while food systems produce around 30 percent of emissions. According to the World Wildlife Foundation, a shift to regenerative agriculture could contribute 20 percent of the climate mitigation needed to keep temperature increases below the 1.5°C target, but these sectors are not scaling these practices fast enough. Food and fashion, as two of the widest-reaching and most influential industries, can set sustainable trends and inspire a positive ripple effect while tapping into the consumer demand for sustainably sourced products. Through intentional investment, education, and diverse cross-sector partnerships, we can provide affordable, healthy food and ethically sourced materials without doing further damage to the planet while also benefiting businesses.
Speakers:
Organizers:
The financial investment to mitigate the climate crisis is staggering with the greatest need in frontline communities. While ongoing conversations are focused on who will bear this immense financial burden, we must support leaders who are taking creative and innovative steps toward climate resilience. Inaction is not an option when there are opportunities to develop partnerships with organizations that have shovel-ready projects and to scale innovative financing models that mobilize capital. There are adaptation and mitigation efforts happening all over the world, yet capital remains a key missing piece.
Organizers:
Island states around the world sit on the forefront of climate change, forced to contend with extreme economic, ecological, and social shock. They have begun leading the global charge to implement progressive solutions and mitigation strategies, presenting an opportunity for the global community to learn from, support, replicate, and scale their efforts. On the frontlines of climate change, island states are rapidly writing a new playbook for planning climate resilient communities. Their work has centered cultural diversity in response and resilience efforts. National, state, and territory governments have advanced aggressive policies to promote renewable energy, accelerate ocean conservation, and adopt strategies to spur economic development through local NGOs. Through their efforts, island states are advancing the fight against climate change as the global community learns from, supports, replicates, and scales their best practices.
Organizers:
Today over 300 million people are food insecure – more than double the number in 2020 — due to conflict, climate change, and inflation.From nations around the world to neighborhoods in Manhattan, the global food crisis is upending years of international coordination and progress.
Tactical steps are necessary across the entire food and agricultural spectrum to reverse these alarming trendlines, and we all must find new ways to partner to address both the short- and long-term impacts of the food crisis. Whether it’s the lack of productive land due to climate change, the shrinking livelihood opportunities for farmers around the world, or the loss of dignity a parent experiences when struggling to provide food for their child, new approaches are required to fill these voids.
Developing innovative partnerships that meet the moment we’re inis paramount to addressing the food crisis, and begs the question —who else should have a seat at the table?
Organizers:
The Nature Conservancy estimates nearly one-third of greenhouse gases can be captured through nature-based solutions like forestry management. The goal of reducing our carbon footprint through offsets is an ideal win-win for both nature and society, but as businesses move to implement these solutions, there is warranted skepticism about the integrity of the proposals and the legitimacy of the promises made by carbon-offset markets. There is also a need to balance the pursuit of carbon neutrality in the global economy with the role and needs of indigenous communities as stewards of the environment. By standardizing best practices for carbon offsets and empowering local and indigenous communities by including them in the decision-making that directly impacts their lives, we can strive for greater transparency and integrity in the carbon-offset market to benefit both forests and people.
Organizers:
Renewable energy — including solar, wind, hydropower, biofuels, and others — is at the center of the transition to less carbon-intensive and more sustainable global energy systems. As the world absorbs a global energy crisis from Russia, renewable energy capacity has grown rapidly in recent years, driven by policy support and sharp cost reductions for solar and wind power in particular. This encouraging trend is expected to accelerate in 2023 and beyond, but it will require continued cooperation to address lower-cost energy security. This session will explore where some of the most promising developments are taking place and examine the factors necessary for their success.
Organizers:
The world around us is vast and largely unexplored. From the uncharted depths of our deepest oceans to the ever-expanding universe beyond planet Earth; from the evolving understanding of the human brain to the unknown ways every living organism on earth interact or communicates, humanity is just one small part of an incomprehensibly larger story that spans billions of years and infinite celestial bodies.
To understand the world around us, we stay curious, explore, ask questions. We witness small acts of humanity and big moments of wonder.
A wave of new research suggests there’s more we can — and should— be doing to understand the world around us. Recent scientific studies on human emotion have suggested that being in awe — the feeling we get in the presence of something vast that challenges our understanding of the world — can have numerous cognitive, physiological and social benefits; leading management consultancies point to curiosity as the most effective trait for transformational corporate leadership; and early childhood brain scientists confirm that encouraging children to experience the sensation of wonder can help expand their neural pathways.
As we continue to battle our oldest demons — battles of “us” versus“them,” cooperation versus conflict, forward versus backward — and confront new and human-made challenges like climate change and responsibly using artificial intelligence, we must continue to develop new and imaginative ways to unlock the full potential of solutions that are being identified. As the CGI community prepares to leave New YorkCity to take action together once again, we must seek opportunities to wonder about what we’ve yet to create or understand; stay curious about what — and who — we don’t yet know; and remain in awe of the people and solutions around us that are working to change the world.
Organizers:
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This broadcast is part of The Climate Hub at Climate Week NYC. Full day-by-day program.
Oceans cover 70 percent of Earth’s surface and produce at least half of the oxygen we breathe, regulate the climate, provide a source of food and biodiversity, and drive economies around the world. Ocean health is threatened by human activity such as plastic pollution and industrial waste and struggles to gain traction in the international climate space. However, innovators and leaders are establishing marine protected areas, developing debt restructuring programs to allow governments to prioritize the protection of coastal areas, and telling stories to inspire action at the individual and policy levels. We will explore together how to keep this momentum going to protect this vital resource for ourselves and for the planet.
Speakers:
Organizers:
As the CGI community knows, making — and keeping — commitments, isn’t easy. Obstacles can arise, global trendlines can disrupt local solutions, and even sustaining the energy and focus to drive projects to completion can waver.
Despite this, we know the antidote is as simple as it is true — we must keep going. From farming cooperatives in Kenya; boardrooms in Manhattan, to food pantries in Appalachia; classrooms in Medellin, to salt flats in India, to community shelters in Ukraine — people around the world wake up every day and make the choice keep going. While these choices individually may be small and focused, taken together, they build the momentum needed to overcome the global challenges we face.
Last year, the CGI community mobilized for the first time in six years to make over 140 Commitments to Action to address global challenges. Just as climate change, economic inequality, growing health disparities, and backsliding for gender equity continue, we must continue to choose action. We must be nimble, focused, and clear-eyed in our objectives. But most importantly, we cannot allow the scale of the challenges we face to overwhelm the solutions we can bring to bear. We must keep going.
Speakers:
Organizers:
Oceans cover 70 percent of Earth’s surface and produce at least half of the oxygen we breathe, regulate the climate, provide a source of food and biodiversity, and drive economies around the world. Ocean health is threatened by human activity such as plastic pollution and industrial waste and struggles to gain traction in the international climate space. However, innovators and leaders are establishing marine protected areas, developing debt restructuring programs to allow governments to prioritize the protection of coastal areas, and telling stories to inspire action at the individual and policy levels. We will explore together how to keep this momentum going to protect this vital resource for ourselves and for the planet.
Speakers:
Organizers:
Feeding and clothing Earth’s population is a significant agricultural undertaking, but the current mass production of food and clothing is not sustainable. The fashion and apparel industry contributes ten percent of annual global carbon emissions, while food systems produce around 30 percent of emissions. According to the World Wildlife Foundation, a shift to regenerative agriculture could contribute 20 percent of the climate mitigation needed to keep temperature increases below the 1.5°C target, but these sectors are not scaling these practices fast enough. Food and fashion, as two of the widest-reaching and most influential industries, can set sustainable trends and inspire a positive ripple effect while tapping into the consumer demand for sustainably sourced products. Through intentional investment, education, and diverse cross-sector partnerships, we can provide affordable, healthy food and ethically sourced materials without doing further damage to the planet while also benefiting businesses.
Speakers:
Organizers:
The financial investment to mitigate the climate crisis is staggering with the greatest need in frontline communities. While ongoing conversations are focused on who will bear this immense financial burden, we must support leaders who are taking creative and innovative steps toward climate resilience. Inaction is not an option when there are opportunities to develop partnerships with organizations that have shovel-ready projects and to scale innovative financing models that mobilize capital. There are adaptation and mitigation efforts happening all over the world, yet capital remains a key missing piece.
Organizers:
Island states around the world sit on the forefront of climate change, forced to contend with extreme economic, ecological, and social shock. They have begun leading the global charge to implement progressive solutions and mitigation strategies, presenting an opportunity for the global community to learn from, support, replicate, and scale their efforts. On the frontlines of climate change, island states are rapidly writing a new playbook for planning climate resilient communities. Their work has centered cultural diversity in response and resilience efforts. National, state, and territory governments have advanced aggressive policies to promote renewable energy, accelerate ocean conservation, and adopt strategies to spur economic development through local NGOs. Through their efforts, island states are advancing the fight against climate change as the global community learns from, supports, replicates, and scales their best practices.
Organizers:
Today over 300 million people are food insecure – more than double the number in 2020 — due to conflict, climate change, and inflation.From nations around the world to neighborhoods in Manhattan, the global food crisis is upending years of international coordination and progress.
Tactical steps are necessary across the entire food and agricultural spectrum to reverse these alarming trendlines, and we all must find new ways to partner to address both the short- and long-term impacts of the food crisis. Whether it’s the lack of productive land due to climate change, the shrinking livelihood opportunities for farmers around the world, or the loss of dignity a parent experiences when struggling to provide food for their child, new approaches are required to fill these voids.
Developing innovative partnerships that meet the moment we’re inis paramount to addressing the food crisis, and begs the question —who else should have a seat at the table?
Organizers:
The Nature Conservancy estimates nearly one-third of greenhouse gases can be captured through nature-based solutions like forestry management. The goal of reducing our carbon footprint through offsets is an ideal win-win for both nature and society, but as businesses move to implement these solutions, there is warranted skepticism about the integrity of the proposals and the legitimacy of the promises made by carbon-offset markets. There is also a need to balance the pursuit of carbon neutrality in the global economy with the role and needs of indigenous communities as stewards of the environment. By standardizing best practices for carbon offsets and empowering local and indigenous communities by including them in the decision-making that directly impacts their lives, we can strive for greater transparency and integrity in the carbon-offset market to benefit both forests and people.
Organizers:
Renewable energy — including solar, wind, hydropower, biofuels, and others — is at the center of the transition to less carbon-intensive and more sustainable global energy systems. As the world absorbs a global energy crisis from Russia, renewable energy capacity has grown rapidly in recent years, driven by policy support and sharp cost reductions for solar and wind power in particular. This encouraging trend is expected to accelerate in 2023 and beyond, but it will require continued cooperation to address lower-cost energy security. This session will explore where some of the most promising developments are taking place and examine the factors necessary for their success.
Organizers:
The world around us is vast and largely unexplored. From the uncharted depths of our deepest oceans to the ever-expanding universe beyond planet Earth; from the evolving understanding of the human brain to the unknown ways every living organism on earth interact or communicates, humanity is just one small part of an incomprehensibly larger story that spans billions of years and infinite celestial bodies.
To understand the world around us, we stay curious, explore, ask questions. We witness small acts of humanity and big moments of wonder.
A wave of new research suggests there’s more we can — and should— be doing to understand the world around us. Recent scientific studies on human emotion have suggested that being in awe — the feeling we get in the presence of something vast that challenges our understanding of the world — can have numerous cognitive, physiological and social benefits; leading management consultancies point to curiosity as the most effective trait for transformational corporate leadership; and early childhood brain scientists confirm that encouraging children to experience the sensation of wonder can help expand their neural pathways.
As we continue to battle our oldest demons — battles of “us” versus“them,” cooperation versus conflict, forward versus backward — and confront new and human-made challenges like climate change and responsibly using artificial intelligence, we must continue to develop new and imaginative ways to unlock the full potential of solutions that are being identified. As the CGI community prepares to leave New YorkCity to take action together once again, we must seek opportunities to wonder about what we’ve yet to create or understand; stay curious about what — and who — we don’t yet know; and remain in awe of the people and solutions around us that are working to change the world.
Organizers:
Sophia Kianni is an Iranian-American environmentalist studying climate science and public policy at Stanford University. She is the founder and executive director of Climate Cardinals, an international nonprofit with 8,000 volunteers in 40+ countries working to translate climate information into over 100 languages. She represents the U.S as the youngest member of the inaugural United Nations Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change. She has been named VICE Media’s youngest Human of the Year, a National Geographic Young Explorer, and BuzzFeed’s youngest Woman to Watch.
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