Yale Climate Week NYC (Multiple Sessions)

YCEJ will co-host 2 sessions during New York Climate Week!  Register Here!

The Business of Climate Justice 

Wednesday, Sept. 25,  1-2pm ET 

Climate change and justice are inextricably linked, and there is a growing sector of businesses and investors who understand and work from that perspective. The session will explore the ways in which business can drive climate justice and the

drivers/opportunitiesthat climate justice presents to the business community, it will also center challenges posed to climate justice by dominant market paradigms and innovative ways to neutralize them.

Moderated by: Michel Gelobter, Executive Director, YCEJ

Panelists:

Stanley Ng, Global Partnerships Director, New Energy Nexus 

Tracey Osborne, Presidential Chair, U.C. Merced, Management of Complex Systems Department 

Rachel Payne, Climate Portfolio Director , Google X, The Moonshot Company 

Marilyn Waite, CEO, Climate Finance Fund

Climate and Migration: Politics and the Humanitarian Response 

Friday, Sept. 27, 10:15 - 11:15am ET

Panelists will explore approaches to dampen the negative feedback loop of climate migration on climate policy and new paradigms for migration policy in response to a changing climate.

Moderated by: Maya Prabhu, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Professor Adjunct of Law, Yale University

Panelists: 

Michel Gelobter, Executive Director, Yale Center for Environmental Justice

Becca Heller, CEO and Co-Founder, International Refugee Assistance Project

Gerald Torres, Professor of Law, Professor of Environmental Justice, Yale University

Daniel Wilkinson, Senior Advisor, Climate Rights International; Lecturer, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs

About Yale Climate Week: 

The magnitude and urgency of global climate challenges demand bold action and ambitious solutions. Yale @ Climate Week NYC will bring together thought leaders, activists, scholars, students, and innovators to drive new pathways toward impact.

Sea level rise. Biodiversity loss. Water availability. Food insecurity. These issues, among many global climate challenges, are central to our planet’s future and to a sustainable way of life. They require focused and committed attention—especially from those capable of generating knowledge and translating discovery into action across communities. As an institution committed to research and scholarship, education, preservation, and practice, Yale is catalyzing and realizing planetary solutions, guided by its mission to “improve the world today and for future generations.”

In September 2024, Yale Planetary Solutions in collaboration with the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies will host a four-day program to spotlight and drive forward scalable and transformative climate solutions. Events will take place at The Yale Club of New York City during Climate Week NYC, an international summit to drive climate action, held in conjunction with the United Nations General Assembly. The Yale Club offers the ideal nucleating site for this program, bringing together those interested in harnessing collective knowledge for the greatest impact.

Yale @ Climate Week NYC will convene thought-leaders, activists, and innovators along with Yale faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends from across the university’s schools and disciplines. Through a series of panels, workshops, symposia, performances, and events, participants will challenge the status quo and make progress on planetary solutions – through inquiry and innovation, policy and action, and community engagement and empowerment. Climate Week NYC’s global stage offers an opportunity to strengthen existing collaborations and foster new partnerships between the university and national and international governments, industry, and non-governmental organizations.

Yale @ Climate Week NYC is but one piece of our work to catalyze all that Yale is, and all that Yale does in pursuit of planetary solutions.