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News 17 October 2022 5 min read

Opening Ceremony speech

Our CEO Helen Clarkson started Climate Week NYC with a speech on accountability, justice and urgency at our Opening Ceremony. You can rewatch it below or read the speech here.

News 9 October 2022 3 min read

New York City, "If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere."

For fourteen years, Climate Group has hosted Climate Week NYC, creating worldwide impact and lasting change. This year was no exception; with 400 events across the five boroughs, Climate Week NYC brought together heads o...

News 25 September 2022 6 min read

Climate Week NYC: Uniting the world on climate action

This year’s Climate Week NYC, run by Climate Group, marks the first time we’ve been back in person since 2019 – and the energy, enthusiasm and commitment to Getting It Done was palpable. World leaders gathered in the Big...

News 20 September 2022 3 min read

Q&A: L'Oréal USA CEO David Greenberg on Climate Action as a Business Imperative

We recently sat down with David Greenberg, who was appointed President and CEO of L’Oréal USA in 2022, to talk about climate progress as a business imperative, and localizing ambitious global commitments in the US.

News 20 September 2022 3 min read

Long Island will be a clean energy hub to replicate

This week, thousands of leaders are in New York for Climate Week 2022. While the conversations and networking are happening in the city, action is taking place to the east on Long Island.

News 18 September 2022 5 min read

Q&A with Headline Partner The Estée Lauder Companies

Intro from Helen Clarkson, CEO, Climate Group:

News 15 September 2022 4 min read

Q&A: A conversation on the net positive transition

We sat down with Saloman Salinas, Executive Vice President, Capgemini for a discussion on the challenges to the transition to a net positive future.

News 15 September 2022 2 min read

Q&A: Hydro-Québec on decarbonization, clean energy solutions and sustainability

We were pleased to discuss with Sophie Brochu, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hydro-Québec, how we can achieve deep decarbonization and how, together, we can contribute to a bright sustainable future.

News 13 September 2022 3 min read

Now is the time to accelerate the clean energy transition!

Clearly, there is a crisis taking place in global energy markets, accelerated by events in Ukraine. Even during this crisis, now is the right time to accelerate the energy transition. We need to move away from fossil fue...

News 13 September 2022 3 min read

Optimizing the electrical grid

When the Electrification emergency meets the climate emergency for a sustainable world

News 13 September 2022 4 min read

Strategies to achieve climate progress and other things we learned interviewing 30 corporate professionals

Our new report, Getting Going, in collaboration with Oliver Wyman, provides a toolkit to drive real-world progress on corporate climate action. Leading with how you will contribute to the transition, rather than with emi...

News 12 September 2022 2 min read

Putting resilience at the heart of climate action

Next week, world leaders and experts will come together at Climate Week NYC to raise ambition and drive urgent climate action. The climate crisis is vast, multi-faceted and progressing rapidly, but there is one thing tha...

News 8 September 2022 3 min read

Mitigating the climate crisis through the power of partnership

Climate change is no longer just a future threat. As the world confronts this environmental reality, there’s an urgent need for businesses to commit to sustainable change and lean into partnerships to accelerate action. ...

News 7 September 2022 3 min read

Sustainable Development is our only choice

Addressing climate change across our planet is a huge challenge and time is short - it is only through behavioral change that emissions reduction can be enabled.