UN CLIMATE SUMMIT & CLIMATE WEEK NYC:
My Climate Week NYC Schedule (to be updated):
http://www.climateweeknyc.org/
9/20 – 9/26 ‘UNITE FOR CLIMATE’
I will participate as a UNICEF journalist interviewing the world leaders, youth activists, environmentalists etc. on Climate Change. Questions about Climate Change will be asked by high-profile persons and regularly updated on the Channel to support international conferences or summits in the lead to COP15 in December 2009.
LINK:
http://www.uniteforclimate.org/
http://www.youtube.com/youthclimatedebate
9/20 HUMAN COUNTDOWN: A CLIMATE WAKE UP CALL
DATE: Sunday, September 20, 2009. 1pm for main event. 9am for early birds.
LOCATION: Trump Wollman Ice Rink, Central Park, NYC
Join thousands in creating a massive human sculpture in New York's Central Park to urge world leaders to achieve a fair, ambitious, and binding global climate treaty.
As world leaders prepare to meet at the United Nations on September 22nd to discuss the urgent issue of climate change, citizens will gather in Central Park to create a Human Countdown. This international media photo opportunity will demonstrate the TIME TO ACT IS RUNNING OUT.
www.oxfamamerica.org/countdown
9/21 THE AGE OF STUPID GLOBAL PREMIERE GREEN CARPET
TIME: 7:30pm
LOCATION: Broadcast live from a solar powered tent in Lower Manhattan
The world’s biggest and greenest live film premiere. At 7.30pm on Monday 21st September, A-list celebrities will walk the green carpet to our solar-powered cinema tent in downtown Manhattan. Following the screening of The Age of Stupid, there will be a panel discussion featuring Kofi Annan, Mary Robinson, Gillian Anderson, star of the film Pete Postlethwaite and the film’s director Franny Armstrong. There will be live music from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, plus live satellite links to scientists in the Indonesian rainforests and at the melting glaciers in the Himalayas which provide drinking water for hundreds of millions of people in India and Bangladesh. A group of children will speak from the very room in Copenhagen in which all our futures will be decided at the UN climate summit in December.
The film and live event will be broadcast live and in HD to over 400 cinemas across the US on September 21st (7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 PM CT/ 5:30 PM MT/ tape delayed 8PM PT). Over the next 24 hours, it will be rolled out across the world - from Berlin to Buenos Aires, from Turkey to Thailand - with another 250+ cinemas in over 50 countries spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
To purchase tickets for the US live broadcast and locate a participating theatre near you visit www.fathomevents.com/ageofstupid
For more information and global ticket sales visit www.ageofstupid.net
9/22 URBAN GREEN EXPO
Metropolitan Pavilion at the Altman Building - 125 West 18th Street New York, NY
The Urban Green Expo is set to be the Northeast region’s premier educational green building conference and trade expo. The event will explore the opportunities and challenges of the sustainability movement with a focus on those topics of most pressing concern to the densely developed Northeast region, including: retrofitting of existing buildings, integrated design, passive systems, storm water control, and the built environment as an urban eco-system. The program will feature a keynote address by a pioneer of the sustainability movement, an impressive roster of speakers from industry, and more than 20 individual educational sessions, off-site tours, and LEED Workshops.
This event is hosted by the U.S. Green Building Council of New York.
LINK: http://www.urbangreenexpo.com
9/23 GLOBAL WOMEN TAKE ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
TIME: 8:00am-10:00am
LOCATION: Michelangelo Hotel - 152 West 51st Street
New York, NY
This breakfast and panel discussion will focus on the ways in which women around the world are providing leadership and organizing their communities to confront the devastating human impacts of climate change. Carol Jenkins, President of the Women’s Media Center, will welcome 60 high-profile guests from media, policy, government, business, NGOS and entertainment on behalf of the TckTckTck campaign.
Speakers include: The Honorable Melanne Verveer, US Ambassador-At-Large for Global Women’s Issues; Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Canadian Inuit activist; Majora Carter, The Majora Carter Group; and TckTckTck Climate Witnesses Sharon Hanshaw, Executive Director, Coastal Women for Change, Constance Okollet, Chairperson, Osukura United Women, Ursula Rakova, Executive Director, Tulele Peisa, and Ulamila Kurai Wragg, Head of Climate Change Team, WAVE
9/23 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL: THE WAXMAN-MARKEY CLIMATE BILL – TOO WEAK, TOO STRONG, ABOUT RIGHT? A THREE-WAY DEBATE
TIME: 6:30pm-8:00pm
LOCATION: Columbia Law School - 435 W. 116th Street
New York, NY, 10027
This event will be a formal debate concerning the climate legislation that has recently passed the House of Representatives and is now being considered by the Senate. An attorney for the environmental group Earthjustice will argue that the bill is too weak. An industry attorney and former EPA General Counsel under President George W. Bush will argue that the bill is too strong. The Executive Director of Columbia’s Earth Institute will argue that the bill is about right. The public will have an opportunity to ask questions after the formal presentations.
LINK: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY EVENT INFO CLICK HERE
SUPPORT ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
You're invited to Climate Week NYC!
The week will host a series of high-level meetings, panel discussions, cultural events and public engagements to address and underscore the urgency for action on climate change.
Taking place just seventy days before the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) and coinciding with the US Senate process, Climate Week NY˚C will provide a platform for business, government and citizens to demonstrate their support for world leaders to secure an ambitious, fair and binding global deal in Copenhagen.
Climate Week NY˚C is a partnership between The Climate Group, United Nations, UN Foundation, City of New York, the Government of Denmark, TckTckTck and Carbon Disclosure Project.
GET INVOLVED:
-Attend Events
-Invite your friends and family
-Volunteer
-Spread the word! (post on your fb page, tweet #climateweeknyc, write a blog, mention on your website)
-Add your name on tcktcktck.org and sealthedeal2009.org to call on world leaders to sign a treaty in Copenhagen.
For more information and a full list of events, please visit http://www.climateweeknyc.org/
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