This year’s Climate Week NYC on 20-27 September, has clearly been an impactful one.
Individuals across the POC ecosystem have been sharing their activities and getting stuck into panel sessions and meetings, serving an ever-welcome reminder that the appetite for such conversations is stronger than ever.
Climate Week NYC organisers say that the focus for this year’s event has been the “energy, the impact, and the action that we drive together.”
Climate Week NYC is organised by Climate Group, an international non-profit that has driven climate action for over two decades by convening leaders across business and government. In coordination with the UN General Assembly, the event brings together the decision-makers and experts shaping capital, policy and markets across sectors and regions.
Climate Week NYC was set up to connect the people and ideas shaping how we live, work and build a low-carbon economy and a more secure future.
So, who did what and where? Some highlights we’ve been sent or spotted on socials:
Universal Music Group and Worldly joins panel on sustainable apparel and merch
On Monday, UMG’s Olivia Kelly and Worldly’s Drew Hillman – both POC Members – joined a panel as part of the Powering Forward: Sustainable Sports & Entertainment event. The panel explored how brands are rethinking what gets made to represent them and the values they are supporting through their choices.
Water joins the conversation as an ever-important topic
At the Rockefeller Centre on Thursday, a panel of industry professionals came together to share a new collaborative initiative between the World Water Film Festival, the Lo-TEK Institute, and the Brave Blue World Foundation. We know that climate challenges can only be solved as a collective, and conversations such as this prove why: diverse knowledge systems brought into genuine relationships are the only way such challenges can be addressed.
Evolving beyond plastic with new solutions
The co-founder of Shellworks, creator of Vivomer, a bio-based, home-compostable packaging solution, Amir Afshar, joined a panel to discuss the harmful impacts of plastic on human health, including from microfibres, with a retailer perspective on standards and supply chains. Already adopted by numerous cosmetic brands, such as Wild, Shellworks is proving that there is viable route forward for compostable bioplastic at scale.
Any highlights from Climate Week NYC? Let us at hello@productsofchange.com or by tagging Products of Change in your posts.
Have a wonderful weekend all,
Kathryn and Team POC
