NY Climate Tech: Mar 5 - Mar 12
NY Climate Tech: Mar 5 - Mar 12
New York City's Green Economy Action Plan, International Women's Day, and more!
Hi friends,
Hot off the press, we’ve got New York City’s Green Economy Action Plan, announced by Mayor Eric Adams last week! We’ll do a deep dive of all 124 pages and give you the deets on the 63 commitments the city is making to support businesses, nonprofits, and New Yorkers in building a green economy ecosystem. The quick highlights:
The City will position New Yorkers to benefit from nearly 400,000 green collar jobs by 2040 - up from 133,000 today
The plan will advance the $100 million Climate Innovation Hub at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, creating space for more than 150 startups
The Climate Collaborative across the Brooklyn Army Terminal, Governors Island, Brooklyn Navy Yard will deliver 6 million square feet for climate education, research, commercialization, and training
Green Training Facilities will be housed in every borough, providing more than 12,000 green economy apprenticeships
City owned assets will be used to create the largest EV charging facilities in the city and speed up the green transition
The NYC Economic Development Corporation will provide tax incentives to activate 500 MW of battery storage capacity, delivering stronger and more efficient renewable energy
There’s plenty more in there and we look forward to sharing fresh perspectives on what this means for New York climate tech ecosystem!
Here are our picks for the week:
On Wednesday, have a drink with your favorite climate friends at 🍹 The Carbonauts Sustainability Mocktails in Soho
Preview the International Women’s Day festivities back to back on Thursday at 🍷 Sips & Sweets with Women in Climate Investing & Finance and Marsh and the Women and Climate 🙋♀️ BOLD Afterparty NYC
Close out the week on Friday at the monthly 🍻 First Friday Meetup in East Village
And last but not least, we look forward to seeing you all at our next 🗽 Climate Tech Demo Night on Monday, March 18 presented by Streetlife Ventures, Climate Tech Cities, Amazon, and NYU Future Labs. Come see the latest and greatest climate innovations coming to life in our own streets and neighborhoods. Special thanks to our friends at SOSV for hosting us!
As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.
Cheers,
Alec, Sonam, and The Climate Tech Cities Team
Events This Week
🌳 Cleantech Open Kickoff Party: Tue, Mar 6
🍹 The Carbonauts Sustainability Mocktails (New York City): Wed, Mar 6
🌱 Redefining the Concrete Jungle: NYC as a Model for Urban Sustainability: Thu, Mar 7
🍷 Sips & Sweets with Women in Climate Investing & Finance and Marsh: Thu, Mar 7
🌊 Financing Resiliency: The Opportunity for Stormwater Fees in New York City: Thu, Mar 7
🟢 BOLD 2024: Thu, Mar 7
🙋♀️ BOLD Afterparty NYC: Thu, Mar 7
🍻 First Friday Meetup: Fri, Mar 8
👩🦰 Climate, Gender, Migration: Public Services, Decent Work, Safe Pathways: Mon, Mar 11
🌍 Empowering Women for Climate Resilience in Pakistan: Mon, Mar 11
☕️ Climate Cafe Facilitator Training: Mon, Mar 11
Read on for more details about this week’s happenings and upcoming events this month
🌎 Climate Tech Cities and Streetlife Ventures Startup and Talent Platforms
Climate Tech Cities and Streetlife Ventures are launching new platforms to support climate founders, funders, and career transitioners! There is no shortage of great companies raising money for their groundbreaking ideas, great investors looking to support with capital, and great talent living the mantra that every job is a climate job. We can’t wait to hear from you!
Grant & Accelerator Opportunities
💸 Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab (Due Mar. 15)
Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab promotes financial inclusion and provides access to capital for early-stage tech companies, offering $250K to companies selected to their New York-based program in exchange for a 5% equity stake, along with access to networks, mentoring, and a tailored curriculum. Apply by March 15th.Apply by
🤩 Brand New Brand (Due Mar. 22)
Brand New Brand! is a juried, pro bono initiative from Ideas On Purpose to rebrand a local nonprofit, at no cost. 🤩
🌇 $10M Empire Technology Prize (Due Mar. 24)
The Empire Technology Prize is focused on finding groundbreaking solutions to tackle the greatest single source of GHG emissions from New York’s tall buildings - heating. Solutions that will be significantly easier for tall building owners to adopt - in short, high GHG reduction, minimally disruptive to install, with a path to cost competitiveness.
📐Third Derivative (Due Mar. 26)
We’re looking for world-changing climate tech startups with significant climate impact potential, addressing billion-dollar markets bringing innovations in hard science, hardware, software and business models to the world. If accepted, you’ll take part in our virtual, 18-month accelerator program.
🦚 Biodiversity Accelerator (Due Mar. 31)
The world's leading capacity-building programme for early-stage companies creating biodiversity-positive impact. For tech enabled companies that are addressing the current drivers of biodiversity loss and/ or provide solutions to valuing, protecting and restore natural ecosystems.
☀️ Mária Telkes Fellowship (Due Mar. 31)
The Mária Telkes Fellowship is hosted by the Cleantech Leaders Roundtable and Clean Energy Business Network. Cleantech Leaders Roundtable (CTLR) is a community of peers including cleantech CEOs, investors, and influencers. This community facilitates trusted exchange of information, collective problem-solving through partnerships, and amplification of individual business and communications efforts. The Clean Energy Business Network (CEBN) is the small business voice for the clean energy economy, and partners closely with CTLR on events and industry collaboration.
🏙️ URBAN-X Accelerator (Rolling for Spring Cohort)
For founders building businesses in areas such as Mobility, Buildings, Energy, Circularity, and Community. Within those sectors, we are specifically interested in solutions that have an aspect of scalable climate mitigation and adaptation.
Rolling Deadlines and Upcoming
🚀 ERA Summer 2024 Program (Due Apr. 23)
💸 The Insurance Innovation Prize (Due Q2)
⚒️ Pilots at the Brooklyn Army Terminal (Rolling)
🏢 Urban Tech XChange (Rolling)
Upcoming Events
🍏 Green Apple Trivia: Tue, Mar 12
🌿 Wall Street Green Summit 2024: Tue, Mar 12
🤝 CSW From Policy To Practice: Funding Locally-led Gender-Just Climate Action: Tue, Mar 12
🌱 Empowering Nepali Women in Agriculture: Climate-Resilient Financing: Tue, Mar 12
🗽 2024 Digital New York Summit: Thu, Mar 14
⚖️ Youth-Powered Green Future | Visions for a Just Transition: Thu, Mar 14
🔬 LEAP Research Updates: Florencio Portocarrero + Jaeyoung Jung: Thu, Mar 14
🗣️ Climate Techies NYC Monthly Member Sustainability and Networking Meetup: Thu, Mar 14
🧩 From Rhetoric to Reality in Building Climate Resilience: Fri, Mar 15
🔐 Unlocking Enterprise Value through Embedded Sustainability: Fri, Mar 15
🗽 Climate Tech Demo Night: Mon, Mar 18
🌅 Leaders in Impact Happy Hour: Mon, Mar 18
🌍 How to Save a Planet (Before it is Too Late): Mon, Mar 18
🌳 Business Networking Event - SILC's Leadership Council: Tue, Mar 19
🍽️ Pratt Presents Food Equity: A Design Equity Event: Tue, Mar 19
👷♀️ Creating Jobs Out of the Green: The Employment Effects of the Energy Transition: Tue, Mar 19
🍻 Green Drinks Brooklyn: Wed, Mar 20
🍺 Climate Pints: Thu, Mar 21
👑 Columbia University Sustainability Symposium: Fri, Mar 22
🌊 Waves of Change: World Water Day Celebration: Sat, Mar 23
🎨 Earth Forum: A Forum for artist working in the environmental realm: Sun, Mar 24
☁️ LEAP Spring 2024 Lecture in Climate Data Science: ANDREW GETTELMAN: Tue, Mar 26
🧀 Milking Sustainability (with Taste): Dairy’s Role in Carbon Neutrality: Wed, Mar 27
⚖️ Climate Constitutionalism Conference: Fri, Mar 29
🌍 IPPA's 18th Annual Spring Summit: Fri, Mar 29
🌱 Impact & Sustainability Summit Hosted by GWI X GAIC: Sat, Mar 30
📚 Transforming Education for Sustainability: Wed, Apr 10
🌍 Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis: Mon, Apr 15
🍽️ FoodNiche Summit NYC: Mon, Apr 22
💧 Brave Blue World Studios present: 'Our Blue World - We Are Water' Premiere: Mon, Apr 22
☕️ Climate Café at the Brooklyn Public Library: Wed, Apr 24
Event Details
🌳 Cleantech Open Kickoff Party
When: Tue, Mar 5th from 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Where: Newlab, 19 Morris Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205
Come join Cleantech Open Northeast for an evening of food, drink, celebration and opportunity at Newlab in Brooklyn, NY! Learn how the accelerator program can help you develop your cleantech venture and how to apply to the accelerator. We welcome entrepreneurs, students, investors, savvy technologists, and those interested in joining our growing cleantech community.
🍹 The Carbonauts Sustainability Mocktails
When: Wed, Mar 6th from 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Where: The Climate Museum, 105 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10012
Join us for delicious mocktails and conversations with other passionate sustainability advocates. This is a great opportunity to meet others in the sustainability community, so feel free to share this invite with friends and colleagues. The more the merrier!
🌱 Redefining the Concrete Jungle: NYC as a Model for Urban Sustainability
When: Thu, Mar 7th from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: Primary, 26 Broadway, New York, NY 10004
Join the Downtown Alliance for a discussion with innovative companies developing sustainable initiatives in NYC. Learn about progress made and goals for the future, and how you can get involved. Speakers include Marisa DeDominicis, Lenore Kantor, Warrie Price, and Gail Tierney.
🍷 Sips & Sweets with Women in Climate Investing & Finance and Marsh
When: Thu, Mar 7th from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Where: Marsh, 1166 Avenue of the Americas, 35th Floor, New York, NY 10036
Join us on Thursday, March 7, 2024 in NYC for desserts and drinks with women working within climate investing and finance in honor of Women's History Month! Thank you to the Marsh team for providing drinks and snacks. Feel free to bring a dessert if you would like!
🌊 Financing Resiliency: The Opportunity for Stormwater Fees in New York City
When: Thu, Mar 7th from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Where: Online
Join the Guarini Center for a discussion with a distinguished panel of speakers on how the City could develop and implement a stormwater fee as part of its broader response to climate adaptation challenges.
🟢 BOLD 2024
When: Thu, Mar 7th from 10:30 AM
Where: Online
Join us virtually on March 7, 2024 at 10:30 EST where we will convene experts and our global community on BOLD conversations for International Women’s Day!
🙋♀️ BOLD Afterparty NYC
When: Thu, Mar 7th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: OCabannon, 245 West 29th Street New York, NY 10001
Come celebrate BOLD ideas and International Women's Day with Women and Climate! Our International Women's Day programming, BOLD, will take place on March 7, and we invite our members and friends to celebrate together after!
🍻 First Friday Meetup
When: Fri, Mar 8th from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Where: Belvedere Lounge, 77 E 7th St, New York, NY 10003
Monthly happy hour for people who care about climate, tech, and building cool things!
🎨 ClimART Cafe at BioBAT Art Space
When: Sat, Mar 9th from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Where: BioBat Art Space, 58th Street Brooklyn, NY 11220
In this art-exhibition-meets-Climate-Cafe, you’ll have the opportunity to share your emotions about climate change with a caring, concerned community, while being surrounded by artwork at the intersection of biology, technology, and care. Art has the capacity to resonate with our deepest emotions. This purposeful pairing with the exhibition “Embodied Futures & the Ecology of Care” at BioBAT Art Space will make for a unique Climate Cafe experience.
👩🦰 Climate, Gender, Migration: Public Services, Decent Work, Safe Pathways
When: Mon, Mar 11th from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Where: Church Center for the United Nations, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY
Join the Women in Migration Network (WIMN) at a UN CSW Parallel event to hear women’s experiences, organizing responses and feminist policy demands.
🌍 Empowering Women for Climate Resilience in Pakistan
When: Mon, Mar 11th from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Where: Church Center of the United Nations, United Nations Plaza, New York, NY, USA, Drew Room, New York, NY
Join us at the Church Center of the United Nations for an inspiring event focused on empowering women in Pakistan to tackle climate change. We will explore the impact of climate change on women, especially in vulnerable communities, and how they are uniquely affected by loss and damage. We will discuss strategies and policies that empower women to take an active role in building climate resilience.
☕️ Climate Cafe Facilitator Training
When: Mon, Mar 11th from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Penington Friends House, 215 East 15th Street, New York, NY
NYC needs more Climate Cafes! Attend our training to learn about facilitation and become a facilitator in our network. We'll share resources with your new cafe and grant you a stake in our community governance. Rep your neighborhood and be a hyper-local climate leader!