Critical Climate Insights for Directors
Monday 23 September, 8:00 – 12:00
Quorum by Convene
Delivered in collaboration with the Climate Governance Initiative and building on the work of the World Economic Forum’s Community of Climate Governance Experts, this session will explore critical issues for boards, including board capability and structure, reporting and disclosures, and climate liability and litigation.
Pollination Managing Director Sarah Barker will be giving a keynote at the event.
Unlocking Nature Finance in the Global South: Policy Strategies, Barriers, and Capital Flow Challenges
Monday 23 September, 11:00 – 16:00
Jay Suites – Chelsea, 159 W 25th St
The event, hosted by the Pakistan Environment Trust, aims to illuminate and address the unique climate challenges faced by the Global South, with a particular focus on policy solutions. By hosting three focused panel discussions, the session seeks to provide a platform for dialogue and solutions on critical issues surrounding nature finance, capital flow, and the policy frameworks that impact these areas. The goal is to foster a deeper understanding among stakeholders and generate actionable insights that can inform policy development, investment strategies, and collaborative efforts.
Pollination Senior Advisor Dr Helen Crowley will share insights on opportunities and obstacles on unlocking nature finance for the Global South; and Director John Ambler will share actionable recommendations and strategies to overcome barriers in nature finance and capital flow.
Register for the session here.
Nature Unleashed: Delivering for People, Planet, and the Bottom Line
Monday 23 September, 18:00 – 21:00
TD Bank, 1 Vanderbilt
Step into a world where nature meets innovation and be a part of the groundbreaking movement to protect our forests and combat climate change. During Climate Week NYC, Nature Unleashed offers an unparalleled opportunity to engage with visionary leaders, explore cutting-edge technologies, and witness the future of nature-based solutions in action. The event will also explore innovative investment strategies and inspiring stories that are redefining the possibilities of climate action and fostering a more sustainable world.
The panel:
- Rick Saines, Managing Director, Pollination
- Chris French, Deputy Chief, USDA Forest Service
- Jose Minaya, Global Head of Investments and Wealth, BNY
- Katherine Neebe, Chief Sustainability Officer, Duke Energy Corp
- Jeannie Renee-Malone, Vice President – Global Sustainability, VF Corp
- Moderated by Bob Woodruff, ABC News
Climate and Capital: Bridging the Gaps on the Path to Net Zero
Tuesday 24 September, 8:30 – 13:30
Hosted by Moody’s, this event will discuss critical data, financing and policy gaps on the path to net zero, and their implications for investment and risk management decisions. It will kick off with morning plenary sessions and expand into two interactive tracks which are designed to provide attendees with insights into climate analytics, credit ratings and sustainable finance.
Pollination Executive Director Matthew Cranford will be speaking at the event.
You can register here.
Maximising Benefits: Practical Advice for Investing In and Procuring Nature-based Solutions – Enhancing Health Outcomes
Tuesday 24 September, 9:30 – 16:00
Nature Hub, Convene, 101 Park Ave
This event, hosted by the WBCSD’s Natural Climate Solutions Alliance, will consist of five separate one-hour thematic clinics concentrating on different aspects of due diligence in NCS credits procurement, with a focus on enhancing health outcomes, gender equality and women’s empowerment, biodiversity conservation, revenue and benefit sharing, and FPIC and human rights. Each session will feature a business speaker sharing their experience, accompanied by a project speaker, followed by a facilitated discussion and Q&A with the audience. The room will be set up for round-table discussions to encourage engagement. The session aims to provide practical insights and encourage the integration of diverse due diligence practices.
Pollination Senior Advisor Dr Helen Crowley will be speaking at the session.
Derisking the Sustainable Food System Transition
Tuesday 24 September, 14:00 – 16:00
Zurich Insurance Group New York Office, Four World Trade Center
Climate change is severely disrupting global food supply chains, particularly in developing countries where small-scale farming underpins food production, security, livelihoods, and employment. Despite its importance, 98% of long-term agricultural finance demand remains unmet due to perceived high risks and low returns, hindering investments in smallholder farmers and agricultural systems.
Hosted by Pollination, with support from UNDP’s Insurance and Risk Finance Facility, this high-level, invitation-only roundtable will invite key innovators across finance, insurance, commodities, policy, data and technology to share expertise and learnings drawn from projects seeking to derisk the sustainable food system transition and improve the financial resilience of agri-SMEs, farmers and their value chains.
Pollination Managing Directors Dr Jane (Carter) Ingram and Dave Haynes will be moderating the discussion alongside Jan Kellett from UNDP and Senior Advisor Geoff Summerhayes will be providing opening remarks at the event.
Accelerating Implementation of High-integrity Voluntary Carbon Markets
Wednesday 25 September, 8:00 – 9:00
The Cure, 345 Park Avenue South
This event will bring together government, corporate, and civil society leaders shaping the new era of VCMs to advance high-integrity rules and unlock significant climate finance. Discussion will build from outcomes from last year’s event to define concrete steps, by who, to be taken.
Brennan Spellacy, CEO of Patch, will provide kick-off remarks, followed by discussion co-facilitated by Mark Kenber (CEO of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative, VCMI) and Amy Merrill (CEO of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Markets, ICVCM).
Pollination Managing Directors Rick Saines will be speaking on the panel.
Duke: Financing Global South Energy Transitions
Wednesday 25 September, 12.00 – 13.30
NoMo SoHo Hotel, 9 Crosby St
During the lead-up to New York Climate Week 2024, the Duke University Nicholas Institute Just Energy Transitions Lab (JET Lab) will conduct a series of interviews with major private and concessional capital providers addressing this status-quo, the respective barriers they face for LMIC investments, and pathways forward for more effective catalytic and blended finance arrangements.
The JET Lab will anonymize and synthesize findings from these interviews, and present them at this closed-door roundtable lunch session in partnership with the New York Climate Exchange. Roundtable participants will include interviewee organizations and other relevant practitioners. The brief presentation will seed debate and discussion about tangible near-term steps from both private and concessional capital providers that can increase capital outlays to LMICs for energy transition needs.
Pollination Managing Director Nick Anstett will be speaking at the event.
Adaptation and Mitigation: How Green Banks Address Twin Finance Goals
Wednesday 25 September, 14:00 – 16:00
Learn how green banks deliver both mitigation and adaptation finance. Panelists will discuss how green banks finance the electricity generation sector’s transition and the strategies they use to provide innovative adaptation and resiliency solutions to communities.
Pollination Senior Advisor Rick Nogueira will be speaking at this event.
Maintaining Global Momentum: Nature and Climate Community
Wednesday 25 September, 19:00 – 22:00
Hosted by the World Economic Forum, this intimate dinner brings together high-level, key stakeholders from the nature and climate community to forge a path for creativity, reflection and unity on collective action.
Pollination Managing Director Sarah Barker will be delivering a keynote speech at the start of the dinner.
World Biodiversity Summit
Thursday 26 September
SECOND, 849 6th Ave
World Biodiversity Summit returns for its 4th edition on the sidelines of the UNGA 79 and Climate Week NYC. Pollination Managing Director Dave Hayes will be delivering the keynote speech ‘Resilient Farms and Food Supply. Who Foots the Bill?’ at the event.
The threats confronting the global food system are not static, they are escalating. Continuing with business as usual will have a catastrophic impact on our planet and its people, but also on our economies and the companies within them. If we accept that transforming global agriculture in the way that science, economics and traditional knowledge sources suggest must happen then we must answer the question “Who will pay the Bill?”
In this session Dave will discuss what food industry leaders and companies can do to bridge financing gaps and find solutions for meeting the cost of transforming our food system. There is widespread recognition about the need to act but we are experiencing deficits in data and strategy, and most importantly financing that make action seem difficult or uncertain.
How the cost of transition will be shared remains an open question but the cost of inaction will be borne by all and will be significantly higher and more disruptive than doing more today. This event will share lessons learned from Pollination’s extensive experience collaborating with large food and beverage companies alongside the financial institutions investing in a better future. The talk will share ideas required to catalyse change within the food industry to make this journey possible.
Scaling Innovative Finance for Biodiversity
Thursday 26 September, 15:30 – 18:00
McKinsey Experience Studio, 195 Broadway
With only one month to the CBD COP16 in Colombia, this roundtable workshop, jointly hosted by the World Economic Forum and McKinsey & Company, will bring together senior business leaders, investors, project developers, and market experts to examine how to move from intention to action, including how biodiversity credits can be one impactful tool for businesses to operationalize nature strategies; discuss what biodiversity metrics and measurement practices to adopt to ensure robustness, suitability, and high integrity; and hear about recent developments and next priorities for leading biodiversity actors.
Pollination Managing Director Dr Jane (Carter) Ingram will be facilitating the conversation at this event.
Women Leadership Learning Exchange: Indigenous Forest Stewards and Investment Advisors
Friday 27 September, 9:30 – 13:30
UNDP FF Building
This event hosted by the UNDP Climate Hub and Confluence Philanthropy will bring together Indigenous women forest stewards and women who are values-aligned investment advisors for a special full-morning retreat at the UNDP offices as part of New York Climate Week. The event will include a presentation about the UN protocols and policies that protect Indigenous territories and first-hand accounts of the importance of UN protocols from an Indigenous perspective. Followed by cross-sharing from investment advisors about how global capital markets and capital flows are structured, and company selection. The conversation will highlight ways in which allied investment managers can use their influence to support Indigenous and human rights at the company and investor levels.
Deforestation and forest degradation contribute severely to climate change, representing about a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. As investors turn to forest solutions to the climate emergency, a strong understanding of social and environmental risks is key. Crucial to this is engagement with affected Indigenous communities, who often experience the brunt of the consequences of poorly designed, implemented, or financed projects.
Pollination Managing Director Dr Jane (Carter) Ingram will be sharing her insights at this event.
