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Yale @ Climate Week NYC 2024

Yale’s first-ever climate summit, held in New York Sept. 24 to 27, 2024, highlighted the breadth and depth of the university community’s work to address the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss.

Under the banner of Yale Planetary Solutions (YPS), Yale scholars and other thought leaders in a wide range of fields converged at the Yale Club of New York City to explore and advance solutions to climate threat.

The four-day Yale @ Climate Week NYC summit opened with a lineup that included a live-interview with former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ’66, who served as the inaugural U.S. special envoy for climate, and a panel discussion about the leadership required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the kinds of policies that can result in meaningful change, hosted by Daniel Esty, the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale, and featuring U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse ’78 of Rhode Island; Rob Bonta ’93, ’98 J.D., California’s attorney general; and Fred Krupp ’75, president of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and a current Yale trustee.

Among 20-some other events involving a wide variety of Yale and guest experts was a discussion with Tom Steyer ’79, the investor, business leader, and champion for climate action, on strategies for building a clean energy economy.

Choices made by today’s leaders — including those at Yale — will affect generations to come, said Yale President Maurie McInnis who, along with Provost Scott Strobel, welcomed guests on the summit’s opening day.

“That’s why I’m so proud of the work that Yale Planetary Solutions is doing — bringing together research, scholarship, operations, and experimentation to usher in a new era of collaboration and innovation in the ways we do our work at Yale, but also demonstrating that work to the rest of the world,” McInnis said.

The summit’s broad cross-disciplinary scope — including experts in law, engineering, public health, architecture, chemistry, entrepreneurship and innovation, as well as artists and musicians — reflected the ambitious mission of YPS, a university-wide initiative that since 2020 has fostered collaborations across the Yale community.

On this page, read more about the summit and find selected coverage of related people, research, and sustainability at Yale.

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People and research

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Centers, projects, and initiatives

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Campus sustainability

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Videos

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Creating bird-friendly buildings — on campus and beyond

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