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Climate Week NYC

How can focusing on coalitions, storytelling, and leadership help in the climate fight?

kyu House put down stakes in its hometown for the very first time for Climate Week NYC.

Over the course of three days (September 23-25, 2024), more than a thousand guests braved diplomatic and presidential gridlock to check out kyu House dialogues, workshops, and debates from BEworks, C2, Gehl, IDEO, IDEO.org, Kepler, and SYPartners, along with partners like Kite Insights, BSR, World Resources Institute, Rocky Mountain Institute, the Aspen Institute, LinkedIn, and others.

Creativity in action was on full display as kyu House took on: gender x climate; what motivates sustainable lifestyle decisions; the space between climate and AI; the importance of cities in the climate fight; the importance of empowering next-generation leaders; whether climate action needs American political leadership; and more.

Founder, Sustainable & Just Future and TIME2023 Next Generation Leader

Sage Lenier

Founder, Sustainable & Just Future and TIME2023 Next Generation Leader

Sage Lenier

Sage Lenier is a climate activist, public speaker, and nonprofit leader. Recently, she was honored by TIME Magazine as one of ten 2023 Next Generation Leaders.

While an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, she began teaching her record-breaking program, “Solutions for a Sustainable & Just Future”, which has enrolled 2,250 students. Sustainable & Just Future is now rapidly expanding to get Gen Z the education they need to become climate solutionists.

Sage’s work covers the circular economy, decarbonization, post-growth economics, community power, food systems, sustainable development, environmental justice, and more, seeking to offer a vision for what a better future could look like.

Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, The World Economic Forum, and Teen Vogue and has brought her to speak at conferences, universities, and organizations around the world. She is NYC-based. To request her for speaking engagements and other events, please fill out the contact form.

Founder, Sustainable & Just Future and TIME2023 Next Generation Leader

Sage Lenier

Sage Lenier is a climate activist, public speaker, and nonprofit leader. Recently, she was honored by TIME Magazine as one of ten 2023 Next Generation Leaders.

While an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, she began teaching her record-breaking program, “Solutions for a Sustainable & Just Future”, which has enrolled 2,250 students. Sustainable & Just Future is now rapidly expanding to get Gen Z the education they need to become climate solutionists.

Sage’s work covers the circular economy, decarbonization, post-growth economics, community power, food systems, sustainable development, environmental justice, and more, seeking to offer a vision for what a better future could look like.

Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, The World Economic Forum, and Teen Vogue and has brought her to speak at conferences, universities, and organizations around the world. She is NYC-based. To request her for speaking engagements and other events, please fill out the contact form.

Sustainability & Impact Valuation Lead and Youth Delegate, Natura &Co

Alexandre da Rocha Leão

Sustainability & Impact Valuation Lead and Youth Delegate, Natura &Co

Alexandre da Rocha Leão

Alexandre is an engineer, passionate about learning and sharing.

Alexandre currently works at Natura &Co, in the Sustainability CoE (Center of Expertise), as the leader of the Impact Valuation program (IP&L). He seeks to foster collective intelligence and generate a positive impact through structuring projects.

Sustainability & Impact Valuation Lead and Youth Delegate, Natura &Co

Alexandre da Rocha Leão

Alexandre is an engineer, passionate about learning and sharing.

Alexandre currently works at Natura &Co, in the Sustainability CoE (Center of Expertise), as the leader of the Impact Valuation program (IP&L). He seeks to foster collective intelligence and generate a positive impact through structuring projects.

Managing Director, Third Derivative and RMI

Rushad Nanavatty

Managing Director, Third Derivative and RMI

Rushad Nanavatty

Rushad Nanavatty currently leads Third Derivative, the world’s leading early-stage climate tech accelerator, which has helped 100+ startups so far — each with gigaton-scale emissions abatement potential — raise over $500 million in funding and forge a range of corporate partnerships through an inclusive ecosystem approach.

Rushad also helped establish and lead the Global Cooling Prize, a global innovation competition to develop a climate-friendly residential cooling solution that produces 80 percent lower emissions than today’s standard room air-conditioners. Previously, he worked with the Energy Web Foundation (EWF), a partnership between RMI and Grid Singularity to develop promising applications for blockchain technology in the energy sector.

Managing Director, Third Derivative and RMI

Rushad Nanavatty

Rushad Nanavatty currently leads Third Derivative, the world’s leading early-stage climate tech accelerator, which has helped 100+ startups so far — each with gigaton-scale emissions abatement potential — raise over $500 million in funding and forge a range of corporate partnerships through an inclusive ecosystem approach.

Rushad also helped establish and lead the Global Cooling Prize, a global innovation competition to develop a climate-friendly residential cooling solution that produces 80 percent lower emissions than today’s standard room air-conditioners. Previously, he worked with the Energy Web Foundation (EWF), a partnership between RMI and Grid Singularity to develop promising applications for blockchain technology in the energy sector.

Senior Associate, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)

Yuki Numata

Senior Associate, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)

Yuki Numata

Yuki is a senior associate at RMI. She develops tools and frameworks that help RMI and RMI’s partners design and implement effective climate strategies. Her research specialty is in systems thinking and systems change, with a current focus on demand-side solutions and urban form.

Senior Associate, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)

Yuki Numata

Yuki is a senior associate at RMI. She develops tools and frameworks that help RMI and RMI’s partners design and implement effective climate strategies. Her research specialty is in systems thinking and systems change, with a current focus on demand-side solutions and urban form.

Stories From CWNYC

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Closing Out kyu House at Climate Week NYC

Discussions covered realms as diverse as consumer lifestyle to AI.
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A Day of Intimate Sessions for Day 2

Discussions covered realms as diverse as consumer lifestyle to AI.
kyu House Launches at Climate Week NYC

kyu House Launches at Climate Week NYC ​

What happened on kyu House’s inaugural day.
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