Join us during New York Climate Week for WWF @ The NEST

Nature's Climate Fix: Why We All Should Support Seaweed Farming

Featuring WWF Expert: Marcene Mitchell, Senior VP, Climate Change, and Paul Dobbins, Senior Director of Impact Investing and Ecosystems Services, Aquaculture

The Nest Climate Campus (Javits Center)
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WWF’s Senior Vice President of Climate Change Marcene Mitchell will lead a panel with Oceans 2050’s Alexandra Cousteau and other industry experts as they discuss seaweed as a climate change strategy and a conversion-free crop that builds coastal resiliency around the world. Alexandra Cousteau will also debut a new short film exploring the value of seaweed.

Decarbonizing Industrial Heat: Could It Be Easier Than We Thought?

Featuring WWF Expert: Marty Spitzer, Senior Director, Renewable Energy

The Nest Climate Campus (Javits Center)
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Industrial GHG emissions are 23% of US emissions and half of those are from burning fossil fuel for heat. These long neglected and difficult to decarbonize emissions are getting new attention. Join us for an interactive session to learn about recent analysis by the Renewable Thermal Collaborative and Boston Consulting Group showing that we have more opportunities and technology options for meeting our 2030 climate goals than just going after the most difficult to decarbonize sectors that use the highest heat. This interactive session will profile industrial heat emissions in the US in key sectors, highlight opportunities across industry and dive deeper into the promise and challenges for several unsung technology opportunities. You will hear perspectives from key stakeholders, industrial energy users and solution providers.

Wearing it Well: How the Apparel Sector is Accelerating Change in Supply Chains

Featuring WWF Expert: Payal Luthra, Global Apparel and Textiles Lead

The Nest Climate Campus (Javits Center)
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With more and more sectors focusing on Scope 3 data and emission reductions, supply chain data integrity and transparency have never been more critical.  In this multi-stakeholder session, panelists from the apparel sector will share reflections, lessons learned, case studies, and tools from their work, discussing the role of open data and cross-sector collaboration in enabling and advancing Scope 3 mitigation measures.

Forests at the Forefront: Delivering High Quality Nature Based Solutions

Featuring WWF Expert: Kerry Cesareo, Senior VP, Forests

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WWF will launch its Nature-Based Solutions Origination Platform (NbS-OP), an innovative vehicle to drive impact at scale for people, climate, and nature across tropical forest landscapes. Supporting a variety of conservation approaches, the NbS-OP will power quantifiable results in priority landscapes using blended finance while simultaneously shifting the global market for transparent, high-integrity NbS.

Moving Faster Without Breaking Things: Accelerating Just and Sustainable Renewables Development

Featuring WWF Expert: Marcene Mitchell, Senior VP, Climate Change

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The U.S. has committed to taking decisive action to curb greenhouse gas emissions and avoid the worst impacts of climate change by containing the rise in global temperatures to 1.5°C. To meet this goal, the U.S. and global partners will need to accelerate the deployment of clean and renewable energy resources at an unprecedented scale and pace.

Escalating demands on the electrical grid, increasing constraints on siting, and the relentless pressure of climate change along with a simultaneous worsening biodiversity crisis continue to present headwinds. However, a rapid and responsible transition to clean and renewable energy is not only a far better future for both people and nature, but also presents vast opportunities for communities, ecosystems, and our domestic workforce. This session will provide national, regional, and local perspectives on these opportunities and how we can increase progress toward an accelerated, just, and sustainable transition to clean and renewable energy resources.

LIVE PODCAST: How Can Companies Advance Global Climate and Nature Goals?

Featuring: Sheila Bonini, Senior Vice President for Private Sector Engagement, WWF and James McCall, Chief Sustainability Officer, HP Inc.

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This live edition of WWF’s Nature Breaking podcast will focus on the role of companies in tackling climate change and biodiversity loss globally. Hear from leaders at WWF and HP Inc. about how they are working together to unlock the power of forests to stabilize climate, nurture complex ecosystems, and support local communities.

Decisive Decade Calls for Whole-of-Society Action

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There is no singular solution to the climate crisis. This session will highlight members of America Is All In, who will share perspectives related to addressing climate change from higher education institutions, energy communities and communities of color, health care organizations, and local governments. Speakers will outline the potential impact each of their sectors of the economy can have on the climate as well as best practices and barriers to success for meeting our climate commitments in the context of new federal investments and near-term targets.

Fireside Chat with Leadership of All In

Featuring:
Gina McCarthy, Managing Co-Chair, America Is All In
Jay Inslee, Governor, State of Washington; Co-Chair, America Is All In
Lisa Jackson, VP of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, Apple

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America Is All In leaders will share their vision for how the coalition of communities, businesses, and other institutions can rise to current challenges and take full advantage of present and future opportunities for action. Hear from prominent climate champions in a fireside chat on their own experiences pushing for climate action and the power of this growing partnership, including an exciting announcement regarding the future of America Is All In.

Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Why We Need It, and How to Do It

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The 6th Assessment Report of the IPCC highlighted fossil fuels as a primary driver of climate change. Recently, the COP 28 Presidency has also highlighted recently that phasing down fossil fuels is inevitable. The energy transition will be one of the most important political asks from civil societies and the most vulnerable countries at this year’s COP. We will discuss how the widespread phase-out of all fossil fuels is a crucial element of the transition to net zero, why we need this push at COP28 , and how this can be achieved only by joint efforts.

Cutting Food Waste 50%: Accelerating the US Goal to Reduce Methane Emissions

Featuring WWF Expert: Pete Pearson, Senior Director of Food Waste

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The session will focus on showcasing the imperative of moving United States policy at the local and national levels to reduce food waste and how US leadership can catalyze global policy efforts to mitigate methane emissions. A moderator from the Zero Food Waste Coalition will highlight success stories and challenges to implementing U.S. food waste policy and showcase how the private sector is moving food waste reduction forward.

How Companies Can Build Resilience for People and Nature

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As climate risks intensify, more companies recognize the need to manage risk and build resilience “beyond the fence line” for natural and social systems critical to their operations and supply chains. Led by WWF, this session will break down a scalable model and the steps needed to operationalize climate resilience in landscapes while using nature. Through a moderated discussion, panelists will highlight what their companies are doing to build social-ecological resilience, giving specific examples in geographies worldwide, and why this is important.

Companies will also share challenges and important lessons they have learned in their resilience journeys, including how to thoughtfully manage trade-offs to support resilience to climate change over the long term. The session will include questions and answers from the audience.

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Food Production

Featuring WWF Expert: Emily Moberg, Director, Markets Institute

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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in food production is key to keeping global temperatures from increasing by 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. How can companies strategically mitigate these emissions in their supply chains? In this session, learn more about the Science-Based Targets initiative guidance for the Forestry, Land, and Agriculture sector from one of its developers; the key emissions sources and variation for key commodities, including row and tree crops, livestock, and aquaculture from a WWF expert; and from leading data & food and leather companies on how to use data to build supply-chain mitigation strategies.