The Climate Group, an international, non-profit organization that brings governments and businesses together to tackle climate change, serves as the secretariat for Climate Week NYC. We work to show companies, states and cities that cutting carbon makes sense – for their profits and the planet. Since 2004, we have been bringing together some of the world’s biggest companies and the most influential leaders in government. Through this network, and through our partnerships like Breaking the Climate Deadlock, events like the Montreal Climate Leaders Summit, and reports like Smart2020, we get them talking and sharing ideas. We think that this is the best way to tackle climate change, quickly. By getting governments and business onside, The Climate Group shows why it makes economic sense to tackle climate change.
Schedule of Events
A complete listing of events, activities, lectures, concerts, and high-level meetings happening during Climate Week NY°C.
In December 2009 Denmark is hosting the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The climate change conference, also known as COP 15, will take place in Copenhagen 7-18 December 2009. Representatives from over 170 countries are expected to participate. The total number of officials, ministers, representatives from NGOs and businesses is expected to number between 12,000 and 15,000.
The Danish government's overarching goal is that COP15 should result in an ambitious global climate agreement that includes all the countries of the world and which sets ambitious targets for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.
The UN Foundation – a public charity – was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities. The Foundation serves as an advocate for the UN and a platform for connecting people, ideas, and capital to help the UN solve global problems. We build partnerships, grow constituencies, mobilize resources and advocate policy changes to support the UN’s work for individual and global progress. The UN Foundation’s work – focused on select global problems – is reducing child mortality, improving disaster relief, protecting diverse cultures and environments, creating a clean energy future, empowering women and girls, and improving U.S.-UN relations.
The Tck Tck Tck campaign brings together individuals and an unprecedented alliance of major environmental, faith-based, humanitarian and labor organizations at this crucial time to call for a new international treaty that will save the planet from the dangerous effects caused by climate change. As world leaders prepare to strike a climate deal in Copenhagen in December, Tck Tck Tck will harness the voices of the people to demand an ambitious, fair and binding new international deal that reflects the latest science on climate change. During Climate Week NYC, Tck Tck Tck partners will initiate dozens of strategic events and actions, both offline and online, mobilizing the public to show key decision-makers gathered at the UN there is widespread support for making the right deal in Copenhagen.
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit organization holding the largest database of corporate climate change information in the world. CDP gathers data through its annual Information Requests on behalf of institutional investors, purchasing organizations and government bodies. Since its formation in 2000, CDP has become the gold standard for carbon disclosure methodology and process, providing essential climate change data to the global market place.
Investor CDP represents some 475 institutional investors, with combined assets under management in excess of $55 trillion. CDP also works with private and public sector organizations to facilitate the collection of climate change data from their supply chains, as well as with local government to drive emissions reduction and sustainable development in key cities around the world. More than 2,500 major corporations around the globe report their greenhouse gas emissions and the risks and opportunities posed by climate change through CDP.
The UN-led Seal the Deal Campaign aims to galvanize political will and public support for reaching a comprehensive global climate agreement in Copenhagen in December. On December 7, governments will gather in Copenhagen, Denmark to respond to one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. The main question will be how to protect the planet and create a green economy that will lead to long-term prosperity. Reaching a deal by the time the meeting ends on December 18 will depend not only on complex political negotiations, but also on public pressure from around the globe.
The United Nations has launched “Seal the Deal” campaign that encourages users to sign an online, global petition which will be presented by civil society to governments of the world. The petition will serve as a reminder that our leaders must negotiate a fair, balanced and effective agreement in Copenhagen, and that they must seal a deal to power green growth, protect our planet and build a more sustainable, prosperous global economy that will benefit all nations and people.
In 2007, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, released PlaNYC, a comprehensive sustainability plan for the City’s future. PlaNYC puts forth a strategy to reduce the City’s greenhouse gas footprint, while also accommodating a population growth of nearly one million, and improving our infrastructure and environment. Recognizing the importance to reduce global carbon emissions, and the value of leading by example, New York has set the goal of reducing its citywide carbon emissions by 30% below 2005 levels.
