Event Partners:
Climate-KIC, Metabolic, Pyxera Global, Open Earth Foundation, Dark Matter Labs & Club of Rome

Session Description:

Where are the stories, the computer games, the comic books feeding our collective imagination of a different kind of future? Where is ‘White Mirror’?

The climate crisis is suffering a collective crisis of the imagination.

Join us for an energizing and inspiring breakfast discussion to kick off NYCW.

This session will bring together experts who are passionate about meaningful storytelling, narrative innovation and about mobilising the power of hope and possibility. The discussion will focus on how to inspire a vision of and engagement with a future that we want and that we will fight for. This is just as much about equity and justice as it is about vision.

Event Partners:
‍Pyxera Global & Systemic Action Climate Collaborative

Event Context & Invitation:

The event (see details here) will be held on Monday, 9/23 from 4-8pm at One World Trade Center. It will include a panel entitled “Climate Resilience & Adaptation: Private Sector Perspectives” focused on the role of the business community and all the varied resources it can bring for resilient, equitable and adaptive climate solutions. This session will be followed by a panel of community voices, “Climate Movement Makers: The Front Lines of Hope & Aspiration” which we are excited to bring to the table, as community voices as you know are so often lost in the background during Climate Week!

Event Partners:
‍The Systemic Climate Action Collaborative, Tsao Pao Chee Group

Event Context & Invitation:

Pyxera Global is a partner of the Systemic Climate Action Collaborative, a groundbreaking initiative uniting 15 diverse partners (B-Team, Metabolic, Climate KIC, Club of Rome, Pyxera Global, etc.) working across six continents, with a cumulative global track record of over 250 years. Our coalition is bringing together leading foundations, philanthropists, corporations, public institutions, and more, in a collective endeavor to overcome climate inaction and fragmentation. This invite-only event will feature leaders in the climate/regeneration space discussing how we can finance our collective future. SAP would be positioned to hear leading voices in the climate space from the Family Office/Policy/Philanthropy space on climate adaptation and resilience.

Session Description:

Despite intensifying warnings from the IPCC, visible signs of climate change, and escalating biodiversity loss, our efforts to halt and reverse global warming and adapt to its adverse effects remain dangerously insufficient. Notwithstanding increased political focus on climate action, ‘green’ policies, the rise of environmental, social and governance (ESG) and impact investing and targeted solutions development, our efforts are still inadequate to transform the human design for life required in the next two decades.

An emergent collaborative framework aimed at shifting the current power dynamics from servicing individual projects to creating the conditions for joined up action across sectors - from the few to the many - is urgently needed to proactively address the world’s polycrisis. We designed the Systemic Climate Action Collaborative to address fragmentation, competition, and insufficient funding for systemic transformation: the key barriers that limit us from achieving the paradigm shift needed to address climate change. The Collaborative brings together leading foundations, philanthropists, corporations, public institutions, and other donors, to commit significant funding for climate action through systemic transformation.

To build meaningful dialogue and community with donors and potential collaborators, The Collaborative, in partnership with the Tsao Pao Chee Group, will provide an evening of thoughtful discussions and insights on how a new form of collaboration can emerge to solve the most pressing challenges of our time.

Event Partners:
‍Climate-KIC, IIED, UNIDO, The Vertical

Session Description:

Around the world, there is a rapidly growing need for solutions to tackle the physical impacts of climate change. In response, we are seeing an emergence of innovative start-ups and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), particularly in the Global South, providing a wide range of products and services aimed at tackling different climate threats across different communities and sectors of the economy, tailored to local contexts and needs. Examples of these include:

• Low-cost climate risk mapping tools, combining open-source earth observation data with cheap drone technology.
• New crop types, seed treatments and smart irrigation equipment that perform better under adverse conditions.
• Nature-based cooling solutions for buildings and urban areas.

These businesses represent a significant component of the new ‘adaptation economy’ that is steadily growing around the world and providing an exciting opportunity for investors. At the same time, the adaptation economy is a tiny fraction of the size of the more mature and advanced mitigation economy. Entrepreneurs and their businesses still face many challenges to establishing effective adaptation-focused business models, while most investors are not equipped with the knowledge and tools to effectively assess potential investment opportunities in this new dimension of the green economy.

Event Partners:
‍Climate-KIC, Metabolic, Pyxera Global, Open Earth Foundation, Dark Matter Labs & Club of Rome

Session Description:

Transforming cities and regions is at the forefront of climate action, as cities are responsible for 70% of global emissions and will house 80% of the human population. The future of human civilization depends on how effectively cities can adapt to the challenges of climate change and a growing global population.

This event showcases large-scale urban transformation initiatives from the Systemic Climate Action Collaborative across North America, Latin America, and Europe. These initiatives aim for comprehensive city transformation to reduce emissions and drive structural change. Success relies on the integration of multiple solutions, collaboration among key stakeholders (city governments, industry partners, and local communities),and challenging traditional assumptions about urban development.

Key strategies include coordinated efforts, spatial planning, holistic systems change, and decoupling urban growth from raw material and resource use. Introducing circular economic models, new financing forms, and sustained momentum are critical. Cities can integrate equity, decarbonization, and economic development to prioritize citizens'lives and the natural environment over excess and waste.

Initiatives highlighted include the Circular City Coalition, EU Cities Mission(NetZeroCities), the Circular Supply Chain Coalition, and City Catalyst. The Circular City Coalition received a Fast Company 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards Honorable Mention and a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment. The EU Cities Mission supports accelerated decarbonization of 100+ cities to achieve net-zero by 2030, aiming for a just and sustainable transition that other European cities can quickly follow.

Join this interactive discussion on impactful urban transformation through systems change, leveraging a decarbonized and equitable circular economy, and addressing opportunities, barriers, and capabilities needed to reduce competition, reuse resources, and engage community intelligence.

Event Partners:
‍Climate-KIC and 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People, Commonland, Dark Matter Labs, EcoAgriculture Partners, IIED, Latin America Model Forest Network, Rainforest Alliance, REOS Partners, UNDP

Session Description:

As the world grapples with the interconnected crises of climate change, food and water insecurity, biodiversity loss, ecosystem destruction, poverty and land degradation, the need for innovative and unified solutions has never been more urgent. Traditional, fragmented approaches to these challenges, often isolated and uninformed by local contexts, have proved insufficient. However, fresh hope is emerging through long-term, locally led landscape partnerships in which stakeholders across the landscape – farmers, agribusinesses, local governments, environmental NGOs and community organisations – jointly pursue transformation to a regenerative future for their economy, people, and nature.

This session will profile global/local initiatives focused on landscape and bioregional nature regeneration and sustainable development, currently being delivered through members of the Systemic Climate Action Collaborative and 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People, with others. Their aim is to lay the foundations for scaling the effective use of integrated landscape management (ILM), regenerative agriculture and bioregioning through landscape partnerships. These approaches can help local and global stakeholders to achieve their shared visions of thriving communities, healthy nature, and regenerative economies, and to mobilise funding for transformation at the scale needed to meet climate neutrality targets.

Discussions will explore financial innovations that focus on maximising funding flows for the speed and scale of transformation needed, catalytic prototypes in landscape-scale transformations, collective learning, methodologies, tools and delivery strategies. The session will be an opportunity for funders and implementers to learn more about these initiatives and convene for a critical discussion on how to engage with and support holistic and systemic approaches to landscapes, land use, regenerative agriculture, and forestry.

Event Partners:
‍Metabolic, Ambition Loop, Climate-KIC, Dark Matter Labs, and IIED

Session Description:

A decarbonized global economy requires a sustainable pace of unprecedented investment. Financial institutions are committing capital to financing sustainability by 2030: Goldman $750B, Citigroup $1T, and Barclay’s $1T. And this is just investment banks. Private equity, insurance, venture, philanthropy, and the public sector are forging ahead, investing $1.8T in 2023. Although there’s been rapid growth, we are still far short of $4.5T per year needed to stay within a 1.5°C pathway consistent with the Paris Agreement (IEA 2023).

Join us at The Missing Trillions event at the 2024 New York Climate Week, for a structured exploration of systemic risks, barriers and opportunities in climate finance. In the final event of this year-long series, we will share insights on emerging, high-leverage, yet currently largely overlooked approaches to addressing the acute climate finance gap.

We will deep dive into 4 promising solutions with expert practitioners to identify new pathways for collaboration and scale. Participants will be invited to share promising initiatives they are working on and make calls for collaborations.

Over the past year, The Missing Trillions has been exploring overlooked leverage points that can accelerate the climate finance gap. During this time, it has developed a process and convened working groups to identify high-leverage investments interventions at the intersection of systems thinking and transition finance. Our methodology uses systems thinking to develop actionable strategies that resonate with a broad spectrum of capital: public, private, and philanthropic. Our insights to date will be opened to the public for critical feedback, partnership development, and implementation pathways ahead of this New York Climate Week event.

Event Partners:
‍Pyxera Global, Tropix Media, Amazon Sacred Headwaters, Justice Capital

Session Description:

Across the globe, and particularly in the Global South and in under-resourced communities, analog archival assets are rapidly deteriorating, and there are few, if any, scaled efforts to digitalize these assets. There is an urgent need to act for several reasons:

• Invaluable artifacts and records of history will be lost forever due to physical decay, and we have a limited window to capture these assets. This erosion undermines the foundation of our understanding of the past and hampers future generations' access to a more complete picture of world history, as well as to potential solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges.
• There is a massive disbalance in the archival information that has been digitalized (and thus widely available), with the Global North and wealthier nations having archived massive amounts of data compared to narrow efforts in less wealthy nations or communities; the selection of information to be digitalized is often being made by historical or current colonial powers.
• The rise of Artificial Intelligence poses challenges to equitability and inclusivity; aside from the fact that A.I. algorithms can be inherently biased, there is the less-discussed problem that A.I. learns from what is available digitally, and we are now at great risk of perpetuating a skewed and incomplete understanding of the world.
• The discovery — or rediscovery — of these assets can reframe our understanding of the history of the past and alter the trajectory of our future.

The disbalance in digitalization of historical and cultural assets is both a massive and an urgent problem for the planet. But it is also an entirely solvable problem. This session focuses on identifying the core of the problem, ideating on ways to raise awareness and to generate urgency to address it, and a discussion of solutions, including tried and true as well as innovative approaches that the panelist's would like to see get underway.

Event Partners:
‍CSCC (Future Foundation, Circular Solutions, Metabolic, and PYXERA Global, FedEx)

Session Description:

We face a crucial moment amid global challenges such as China's monopoly on critical minerals and the escalating climate crisis disrupting global supply chains. We must pioneer an environment that rapidly accelerates reuse practices leveraging tools of government, business, and social sectors, such as legislation, incentives, and partnerships, on the national and sub-national levels.

CSCC Partner Panelists: TBD

Key Participant Learning Outcomes

• Gain perspective on the current state of critical mineral reverse logistics.
• Get a practical understanding on the barriers and opportunities that exist in establishing a critical mineral reuse network across the United States.
• Capture key insights and examples (from Europe and the United States) on the role that policy and procurement play in accelerating a critical mineral reuse transition.
• Gain specific insights on bottom-up and top-down best practices that can unlock reuse pathways in front line communities.

Event Partners:
‍Pyxera Global and Systemic Climate Action Collaborative

Session Description:

The global cooperative movement is over 200 years old, includes 2.6 million cooperative societies, boasts over 1 billion members, and commands a combined turnover of US$3 trillion among just the largest 300 cooperatives across the world. It is bigger in terms of membership than the trade union movement, economically more powerful than several G20 nations, and provides employment to many more people than all multinational corporations taken together. In theory, such a potent movement should be central to the international development agenda. Yet, despite its size and power, the movement has not been recognized and integrated to end poverty, ensure prosperity, and protect the planet. By their very nature cooperatives play a triple role: as economic actors, they create opportunities for jobs, livelihoods, and income; as social organizations built on a common goal and a common bond, they extend protection and security, and contribute to equity and social justice; and as democratically controlled associations of individuals, they play a constructive role in communities and nations, in society and politics.

After more than three decades of social impact work in over 100 countries at the intersection of the public, private, and social sectors, Pyxera Global knows too well that it is time to recognize human-centered cooperative models for sustained prosperity. This panel session is an opportunity to explore the scope of the role – often unnoticed -- that cooperatives across all sectors play in the world. The panelists will share stories of the successes and challenges of the cooperatives movement and discuss ways that investment in a new era of flourishing cooperatives can drive more global inclusivity and equity, better serve people and communities, contribute solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, and advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals.