Climate Week NYC
The Climate Week NYC has taken place annually since 2009 during the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) in New York . This meeting, in coordination with the UN and the City of New York from the international non-profit organization The Climate Group is organized, the presentation and discussion is on climate protection strategies and provides an important network of politicians, businessmen and representatives of civil society is .
In 2018, a number of heads of government and heads of state attended the opening ceremony, including New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the presidents of Haiti , the Marshall Islands and Peru . In August 2019, climate protection activist Greta Thunberg sailed to New York on the ocean- going yacht Malizia II to take part in the 2019 UN climate summit , which takes place at the beginning of Climate Week and is supported by Thunberg.
For Climate Week 2019, which will take place from 23 to 29 September 2019, it is expected that the number of individual events of the previous year will be exceeded by far with more than 150 actions.
Web link
- Climate Week NYC website
- Time to Step Up , Jacinda Ardern at Climate Week NYC 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Climate Week NYC , accessed August 19, 2019.