NY Climate Tech: November 1st - 7th
COP26, climbing for climate, diving into deep tech, and our next meetup
Happy November 🦃!
This is a New York newsletter, but of course this week is really all about Glasgow and COP26.
As someone relatively new to climate, I have to admit I’d never paid much attention to the last twenty-five Conferences of Parties, but this one has been all over my feeds. When I sat down to write this newsletter, I realized I had no idea if every COP gets this much attention in the climate community or whether this one was particularly special.
It turns out that it is. The 2015 Paris Agreement (COP21) calls for participating countries to reassess and raise their commitments every five years. The Glasgow conference was originally scheduled for 2020—we know how that went—and is the first major check-in by all the signatories and a real opportunity to set new, stricter goals.
In this Newsletter
💥 Our Next Meetup: Wednesday, Nov 10th
🗽 NY Events
🌐 COP26 Online
🛠 Jobs
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💥 The November NY Climate Tech Meetup
When: Wednesday, Nov 10th from 6:30pm - 9pm
Where: Loreley at 7 Rivington St.
RSVP: https://lu.ma/ny-climate-tech-november
With the colder weather and growing group, it's time to move inside!
I've booked the downstairs room at Loreley for our meetup — we'll have it to ourselves and should be easier to chat.
If this is your first time — we normally have 25-30 people, about half of whom are regulars. A lot of attendees are just looking to get into climate tech and come from a variety of backgrounds, while others are already old hands.
Once a critical mass of people have arrived, we typically do a round of intros so everyone knows who's there and what people are working on. We encourage you to through out any asks or requests when you're doing it and to go follow up with people working on things you're interested in.
We’ll have space this time for some lightning talks, if anyone wants to present to the group for <5 minutes — let me know and we’ll set it up.
🗽 NY Events
⚡️ Why decarbonization requires DERs with Karl Rabago of Local Solar for All
When: Wednesday, November 3rd from 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Where: Online
RSVP: https://www.dertaskforce.com/meetups/2021-november-meetup
New York’s DER Task Force hosts their November meetup online (you can listen to previous meetups on their podcast). They write:
For November's meetup, we will be joined by Karl Rábago of Local Solar for All. In partnership with Vibrant Clean Energy, Local Solar for All has recently released a study that examines how DERs can support decarbonizing the grid by 2035. For those who have been following this work, it is a follow-up to the group's most recent study on the same topic that was acclaimed for being the first grid optimization study to incorporate DERs in a manner that values their unique benefits.
👩🚀 Frontier Tech Spotlight: Deep Tech Investment
When: Thursday, November 4th from 6:30pm - 8:45pm
Where: New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Join us at Newlab (19 Morris Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205) for a fireside chat, roundtable discussion, and networking reception with real-world decision-makers and end-users of quantum computing and other innovative deep technologies. Corporate users and investors will share their perspectives on some of the industry’s most pressing challenges and opportunities in a candid discussion of the state of deep tech investment and implementation in the enterprise.
🍻 First Friday Climate Meetup
When: Friday, November 5th from 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Where: Blue and Gold Tavern at 79 E. 7th St.
RSVP: https://lu.ma/qh35ohy3
First Friday climate meetups are hosted by James McWalter, host of the Carbotnic podcast. This’ll be my first one, hope to meet some of you there!
🧗 Climbing for Climate
When: Help decide in this Doodle
Where: Vital Climbing Gym in Williamsburg
Marc Pellegrino is organizing a monthly climate climb and chat. He writes
Climbing is a sport that touches so many important topics within the climate world--from sustainability, social and environmental justice, to conservation and stewardship--so in addition to being an opportunity to learn from and connect with all of you on a general level, it could be great to highlight some of that crossover as well.
🖼 Exhibition: Rising Tide @ Museum of the City of New York
When: Friday - Sunday 10am to 6pm, through Jan 2, 2022
Where: Museum of the City of New York
This show has been up since April, but it’s been a little under the radar. Haven’t visited yet, but looks quite affecting and worth a trip uptown if you’re looking for something to do this weekend.
Rising sea levels affect us all. In Rising Tide: Visualizing the Human Costs of the Climate Crisis, Dutch documentary photographer Kadir van Lohuizen illustrates the dramatic consequences of climate change across the world through photographs, video, drone images, and sound. Experience the effects of rising sea levels in Greenland, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, Fiji, Amsterdam, Panama, Miami, and our own neighborhoods here in New York City.
🌐 COP26 Online
👩⚖️ Climate Law & Governance Day
When: November 5th, 5am to 1:30pm Eastern
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/climate-law-and-governance-day-tickets-154026099209
Featuring 16 in person and online sessions hosted by international organizations, country delegations, foundations, law associations and firms, law faculties and many other leading climate law and governance actors, Climate Law and Governance Day 2021 provides an important point for the global climate law and governance community to meet, share ideas and build new innovative collaborations to tackle climate change and implement the Paris Agreement across international and domestic regulation, climate litigation, legal scholarship, and commercial practice circles. Please click here for the full Programme.
🏔 World Climate Summit / Investment COP
When: November 7th & 8th, 4am to 12pm Eastern
RSVP: https://hopin.com/events/world-climate-summit-investment-cop-f346759c-c686-453e-8e37-7814fe974f69
Organised by World Climate Foundation, World Climate Summit - The Investment COP 2021 is recognized as one of the most important official side events of COP26. It is the leading forum for business and investment-driven solutions to climate change, acknowledging the essential importance of collaboration and the “bottom-up” perspective in solving climate change.
☀️ Climate Action Innovation Zone
When: November 8th - 11th
RSVP: https://cop26.uk/innovation-zone/registration/digital/standard
Three events with free online access: the Sustainable Innovation Forum, the Hydrogen Transition Summit, and the Agri-Food Transition Summit.
The Innovation Zone organised by Climate Action in partnership with Scottish Enterprise is a powerful example of the importance of public-private partnerships in addressing climate change. The Zone places innovation and investment at the heart of COP26 to accelerate the pathway to net zero and achieve a just transition.
🛠 Jobs
👩🔬 Support Hard-Tech @ Activate
Activate is one of the leading climate + hardtech incubators supporting scientists from lab-to-market. Over 74 companies have gone through the program and have raised over $330M in follow-on funding. Some notable companies include Fervo, Nitricity, and twelve.
If you are (or know someone who is) an early-stage scientist needing support to make the dream idea into reality. APPLY! Applications are open now for Cohort 2022 across Berkeley, Boston, NYC and Anywhere (remote).
If you are interested to join Activate to help grow the climate hardtech ecosystem or one of our portfolio companies, please see below:
Fellowship Manager—Activate Anywhere
Director of Philanthropic Partnerships—Berkeley or Boston
💹 Build out ESG @ YourStake
YourStake helps people understand the social and environmental impact of their investments. We believe that by providing people insight into what their investment portfolios actually do, we can help create real change.
We've built a pipeline for ingesting data about public companies from hundreds of sources, and the tools for financial advisors to use our data to help their clients make a difference with their investments. Users of our platform are managing over $200 billion in total assets–a number that's growing every day.
👊 Drive Citizen Engagement @ Dashboard.earth
Dashboard.earth is a technology start-up working to drive citizen engagement in climate change adaptation. We’re a small distributed team building our first fully fledged product for Los Angeles. We’ve just released our MVP and have six months of testing and partner pilots planned before our official release later this year. You will be working with a small, passionate, international team to deliver the first city in our city-by-city roll out.
As our first Product Marketing Manager, this is an interdisciplinary role to spearhead our marketing initiatives as well as be a liaison with our product team. This is not only a strategy and analytics focused role, but an opportunity to shape the voice of our brand. You will collaborate with our product team to create long-term engagement of our app. You will be responsible for app copywriting, email marketing, push notifications, social media marketing, and analytics.
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