7:00 PM
to 10:00 PM
The Garden, part of the Solar Powered Film Series
Location Solar One
Location Solar One
Type ClimateVoice, Movie
Juventino Avila, Co-owner and Chef of Get Fresh Table and Market, Brooklyn and Stacey Murphy, Founder BK Farmyards
The Garden The Garden follows the plight of the farmers who care for a fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country's most blighted neighborhoods but are now challenged by bulldozers are poised to level their oasis. The second year of the series. A six-evening program featuring screenings of environmental documentaries. The Solar-Powered Film Series is the first in New York City to use the power of the sun to construct an outdoor "eco-theater"
Tags movie, garden, agriculture, climate change, community
12:00 AM
to 12:00 AM
Climate Voice
1 Attendees
Type ClimateVoice, Action
Get exclusive access to leading thinkers, decision makers and events from the UN Climate Day Summit, G20 Summit and Climate Week New York. Watch the live stream www.livestream.com/voiceproject. Read the blogs www.tcktcktck.org/climatevoice
1:00 PM
to 8:00 PM
ClimateVoice Registration Brunch
8 Attendees
Location
Digital Media Centre II
Type ClimateVoice, Briefing
ClimateVoice bloggers can pick up their accreditation passes and receive a briefing on the weeks events.
Limited Capacity Max 30 attendees
7:00 PM
to 10:00 PM
Burning the Sun - World Premiere
2 Attendees
Location
Solar One
Type ClimateVoice, Movie
Cambria Matlow is a founding filmmaker of Birdgirl Productions and Co-Director of Burning In The Sun.
26-year-old Daniel Dembele decides to return to his homeland in Mali and start a local business building solar panels - the first of its kind in the sun drenched nation. Burning in the Sun tells the story of Daniel's journey growing the shaky startup into a viable company, and of the business' impact on Daniel's first customers in the tiny village of Banko. Taking controversial stances on climate change, poverty, and African self-sufficiency, the film explores what it means to grow up as a man, and what it takes to prosper as a nation. The second year of the series. A six-evening program featuring screenings of environmental documentaries. The Solar-Powered Film Series is the first in New York City to use the power of the sun to construct an outdoor "eco-theater"
Tags movie, mali, solar panels, climate change, africa
11:00 AM
to 12:00 PM
Four Courageous Women
1 Attendees
Location
Digital Media Centre II
Type HerVoice, Table Talk
Climate Witnesses from Mississippi, Uganda and the Pacific Islands
Today - with an average temperature rise of less than 1 degree Celsius - climate change kills more than 300,000 people each year, according to the Global Humanitarian Forum's recent report "The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis."
Tags climate change, witnesses, livestream
12:00 PM
to 12:45 PM
How Film is Mobilizing Millions to Stop Climate Change
2 Attendees
Location
Digital Media Centre II
Type ClimateVoice, Table Talk
Lizzie Gillett (producer Age of Stupid), Judy Harper (Director, Green Edge Collaborative NYC)
A roundtable discussion on the impact of filmmaking on tackling climate change
Tags climate change, filmmaking, movie, film, cinema
1:00 PM
to 4:00 PM
Human Countdown: A Global Climate Wake-up Call
8 Attendees
Location
Wollman Rink in Central Park
Type ClimateVoice, Action
TBA
Join thousands in creating a massive human sculpture in New York's Central Park to urge world leaders to achieve a fair, ambitious, and binding global climate treaty.
8:30 AM
to 10:00 AM
Global Interfaith Gathering: Calling for Urgent Action by the UN Summit on Climate Change
1 Attendees
Location
Church Center of the United Nations
Type ClimateVoice, Event
Religions for Peace, Office of the Chaplaincy of the UN Church Center, Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and New York Inter-faith Power and Light in partnership with the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA)
Religions for Peace, Office of the Chaplaincy of the UN Church Center, Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and New York Inter-faith Power and Light in partnership with the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA), will hold an interfaith event to celebrate the Climate Week. The program, interspersed by music, will present and reflect the religious, ethical, moral and cultural urgency of the need to act.
9:00 AM
to 11:30 AM
ClimateVoice Briefings (Morning Session)
14 Attendees
Location
Digital Media Centre I
Type ClimateVoice, Briefing
Kumi Naidoo, Chair of GCCA, Greenpeace; Rob Skinner, UN Foundation; Barbara Stocking, Oxfam GB; David Waskow, Oxfam Policy
Policymakers and members of country delegations will brief ClimateVoice participants and take questions.
Limited Capacity Max 40 attendees
12:00 PM
to 1:00 PM
Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony
14 Attendees
by invitation
NOTE THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY
Type ClimateVoice, Event
Rt. Hon. Tony Blair, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Hugh Jackman, Sec. General Ban ki-Moon many more
The Climate Group and Rt. Hon. Tony Blair will host the Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony on September 21, 2009. An array of global business leaders and policymakers representing some of the world's most influential companies, cities, states, regions and nations will present a series of bold commitments to the United Nations Negotiation Process. These commitments will create critical momentum for the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place less than 80 days later in Copenhagen.
Limited Capacity Max 15 attendees
Tags tony blair, climatevoice, livestream
Website http://www.theclimategroup.org/
1:00 PM
to 5:00 PM
ClimateVoice Briefings (Afternoon Session)
13 Attendees
Location
Digital Media Centre I
Type ClimateVoice, Briefing
TBA
Policymakers and members of country delegations will brief ClimateVoice participants and take questions.
Limited Capacity Max 40 attendees
2:00 PM
to 4:00 PM
PANEL DISCUSSION: US-China Clean Energy Cooperation
11 Attendees
Type ClimateVoice, Panel
The Honorable John Kerry (D-MA) Dr. Li Junfeng, Deputy Director, Energy Research Institute, National Development and Reform Commission, China James E. Rogers, Chairman, President and CEO, Duke Energy Dr. Zhengrong Shi, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Suntech Power Holdings
An international panel that will explore both the existing opportunities for US and Chinese businesses and governments to cooperate on the development of clean energy technologies, as well as potential areas for future cooperation and joint venture in the context of a global deal on climate change. Featuring Keynote Remarks from The Honorable John Kerry (D-MA), United States Senate
Tags john kerry, china, united states, clean energy
5:45 PM
to 8:45 PM
Jobs, Justice, Climate
6 Attendees
Location
New York Society for Ethical Culture at Central Park West and 64th Street
Type ClimateVoice, Forum
Mary Robinson, President of Realizing Rights; Mohamed Nasheed, President of The Maldives; Juan Somavia, Director General of the International Labour Organization; Richard Trumka, incoming president of the AFL-CIO; Kevin Knobloch, President of the Union of Concerned Scientists; Sharan Burrow, President of the International Trade Union Confederation; Constance Okollet of Osukuru United Women Network of Uganda; Kumi Naidoo, Chair of the Global Campaign for Climate Action; Ethan Nuss of Chesapeake Climate Action Network; businessman Carlton Brown of Full Spectrum NY; and Bill McKibben author and environmentalist (by video).
Labor, environmental and youth organizations are joining forces at a major public rally on the evening of September 21st in New York to demand faster progress on tackling climate change and creating "green" jobs to advance social justice at home and abroad.
Tags jobs, justice, climate change
Website www.jobsjusticeclimate.net
7:30 PM
to 10:00 PM
Age of Stupid Global Premier
10 Attendees
Location
World Financial Center
by invitation
NOTE THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY
Type ClimateVoice, Movie
Kofi Annan, Radiohead's Thom Yorke, Gillian Anderson, Pete Postlethwaite, Mary Robinson
Broadcast live from a solar powered tent in Lower Manhatt -Tent Screening for Invitees and competition winners only. The world's biggest and greenest live film premiere. At 7.30pm on Monday 21st September, A-list celebrities will walk the green carpet to our solar-powered cinema tent in downtown Manhattan. Following the screening of The Age of Stupid, there will be a panel discussion featuring Kofi Annan, Mary Robinson, Gillian Anderson, star of the film Pete Postlethwaite and the film's director Franny Armstrong. There will be live music from Radiohead's Thom Yorke, plus live satellite links to scientists in the Indonesian rainforests and at the melting glaciers in the Himalayas which provide drinking water for hundreds of millions of people in India and Bangladesh. A group of children will speak from the very room in Copenhagen in which all our futures will be decided at the UN climate summit in December.
Limited Capacity Max 15 attendees
Tags movie, age of stupid, film, livestream
Website http://www.ageofstupid.net/
9:00 AM
to 6:30 PM
UN Summit on ClimateChange
15 Attendees
Location
United Nations Headquarters
by invitation
NOTE THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY
Type ClimateVoice, Summit
Over 100 World Leaders
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is convening a Summit on Climate Change - on 22 September 2009 - to focus Heads of State and Government on the need for urgent action, and to mobilize the highest level political will needed to reach a fair, effective, and scientifically ambitious global climate deal at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December.
Limited Capacity Max 10 attendees
Tags climate change, leaders, united nations
1:00 PM
to 2:00 PM
How Charity:Water is using the web to mobilize supporters
1 Attendees
Location
Bahai International Community Office
Type ClimateVoice, Forum
Becky Straw, Director of Water Programs, charity:water
A discussion on Charity:Water's work and how it impacts issues of gender politics and empowering women. Prospects for resource-based conflict in the future.
Tags water, charitywater, climate change, women, gender, conflict, resources
3:00 PM
to 4:00 PM
The US Climate Change Bill
3 Attendees
Type ClimateVoice, Forum
David Waskow, Policy Advisor Oxfam America; Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
6:00 PM
to 12:00 AM
Times Up! Let's Dance!
7 Attendees
Location
Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn
Type ClimateVoice, Event
Oxfam America Invites You To Celebrate Climate Week NYC
Tags climate change, celebrate, party, climate week, fun
Website www.oxfamamerica.org
8:00 AM
to 10:00 AM
Global Women Lead on Confronting Climate Change
5 Attendees
Type ClimateVoice, Forum
The Women's Media Center's president Carol Jenkins will welcome 60 high-profile guests from media, policy, government, business, NGOS and entertainment on behalf of the tcktcktck campaign. Keynote address by Melanne Verveer, US Ambassador-At-Large for Global Women's Issues.
GCCA/Women's Media Center with partners Realizing Rights, Greenpeace, Oxfam, WWF, and Climate Law Policy
This breakfast and panel discussion will focus on the ways in which women around the world are providing leadership and organizing their communities to confront the devastating human impacts of climate change.
Tags women, leaders, leadership, climate change, gender
Website www.tcktcktck.org
8:00 AM
to 9:00 AM
The Moral and Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change
4 Attendees
Location
Bahai International Community Office
by invitation
NOTE THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY
Type ClimateVoice, Launch
Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the Nobel prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will speak at the launch of an Appeal to the world's leaders on the moral and ethical dimensions of climate change. The appeal, which has been endorsed by 23 non-governmental organizations, calls for consideration of the moral and ethical questions at the root of the climate crisis.
Limited Capacity Max 10 attendees
Tags moral, climate change, morality
10:00 AM
to 11:00 AM
Women and Conflict
7 Attendees
Location
Digital Media Centre I
Sering Falu Njie, Senior Policy Adviser, UN Millenium Campaign Pollyanna Truscott, Amnesty International's Deputy Representative at the United Nations
This is an intimate breakfast briefing as part of the HerVoice initiative. It also pre-launches the ConflictVoive project that will take place during first week of October. The breakfast will give bloggers the opportunity to listen to short presentations and join in frank conversation with some of the world's leading experts in the field of women and conflict. Particular focus will be given to maternal mortality and the effect of irresponsible arms transfers. Speakers will be announced here shortly. The event will include the launch of a short online video from Oxfam, introducing a report to be launched October 7th and introducing the bloggers to UN process towards a legally binding Arms Trade Treaty.
Limited Capacity Max 40 attendees
Tags control arms, conflict, gender, women, livestream
Website http://www.controlarms.org
10:00 AM
to 11:00 AM
Women and Conflict
Location Bahai Center, Voice Digital Media Center
Location Bahai Center, Voice Digital Media Center
Sering Falu Njie, Senior Policy Adviser, UN Millenium Campaign Pollyanna Truscott, Amnesty International Deputy Representative at the United Nations
Sering Falu Njie, Senior Policy Adviser, UN Millenium Campaign will talk about the link between conflict and the failure of some countries to meet the MDGs. Highlight the specific impact on women and children in conflict and post-conflict countries. A video from Sierra Leone will be shown. and Pollyanna Truscott, Amnesty International Deputy Representative at the United Nations will talk about Amnesty's new report on Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone (launched yesterday) and specifically the work AI is doing at the UN to address maternal mortality as a human rights issue.
12:30 PM
to 1:30 PM
Your Money or Your Life
4 Attendees
Location
Digital Media Centre I
Type HerVoice, Table Talk
Dr. Mohga Kamal-Yanni is a senior health & HIV policy advisor in Oxfam. She has extensive experience of health policy and programming in developing countries. doctor, programme manager, and health advisor. Mohga holds an MPhil in Primary Health Care and has been awarded an MBE this year
The 23rd September will see a global opportunity for world leaders to really make a difference to poor people by backing the expansion of free health care in a number of countries. A high-level fringe event in New York, hosted by the British Prime Minister, will convene leaders from donor and recipient countries to discuss financing for health care in poor countries. The opportunity marks a true test of leaders' commitment to save lives and accelerate progress towards health care for all in our lifetime. The question is, will they pass it? Ahead of the event, Oxfam's senior health policy adviser will be running a briefing about the impact of user fees in poor countries, the scale of the maternal mortality crisis, and our expectations for the high-level event later that afternoon. She will talk about Oxfam's latest report which has been endorsed by over 60 organisations, "
3:00 PM
to 4:00 PM
Investing in Our Common Future: Healthy Women, Healthy Children
3 Attendees
Location
Trusteeship Council Chamber, UN Headquarters, New York
by invitation
NOTE THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY
Mr Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Mr Robert Zoellick, President, the World Bank Group
HM Government, The World Bank, The Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems in partnership with the Governments of Chile, Finland and Tanzania, The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
More money for health, and more health for the money; an event coinciding with the opening of the 64th session of the UN General Assembly
Tags maternal health, children, heath, mortality, gordon brown
1:15 PM
to 2:15 PM
A giant step towards a Nuclear-weapon-free world?
1 Attendees
Location
Bahai Center, Voice Digital Media Center
Jim Wurst, Middle Powers Initiative; John Burroughs, Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy; Rhianna Tyson Kreger, Global Security Institute; Chair: Oistein Thorsen, Oxfam
President Obama is chairing a special session of the UN Security Council on preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and eradicating the world's atomic arsenals, in the morning of September 24th. The heads of state or government of all 15 council members have been invited and are expected to attend the session. The three main issues to be discussed are nuclear arms control and disarmament, strengthening the international nuclear non-proliferation regime and denying and disrupting illicit trafficking in materials used in atomic weapons. Bilateral arms control treaties between Russia and the United States also will come up. Washington hopes the summit will bolster support for global nuclear arms control treaties and disarmament efforts, including the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT. Nuclear disarmament experts from three NGOs will be on the panel to assess the outcomes of the special session and the prospects of 2010 becoming a major year for disarmament.
Tags nuclear disarm, control arms
4:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Peace and Security through Women's Leadership
7 Attendees
Location
United Nations Headquarters
by invitation
NOTE THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY
President of the Republic of Finland, Tarja Halonen Vice President of the Republic of Liberia, Joseph N. Bokai
The meeting will serve as a forum for discussion and mutual commitments on the next steps to achieve implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security by its 10th anniversary in 2010. The forum will also discuss the incorporation of gender perspective on the world's climate change negotiations.
Limited Capacity Max 10 attendees
6:30 PM
to 8:00 PM
Climate Ride
3 Attendees
Location
The Central Park Zoo
Type ClimateVoice, Event
Carsten Staur, Denmark's Ambassador to the United Nations, Per Stig Moller, Denmark's Foreign Minister, Dr. James Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, renowned climatologist, Time Magazine top 100 influential people, and winner of the 2009 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, the highest honor of the American Meteorological Society, Josh Dorfman, The Lazy Environmentalist, Alison Gannett - Founder Save Our Snow Foundation, voted Outside Magazine's '08 Green All-Stars, US Champ Freeskier, Randy Swisher - Recently retired Executive Director of AWEA, the American Wind Energy Association, and avid cyclist.
Join Climate Riders as they kick-off their 5-day, 300 mile journey from New York City to Washington DC! The bike registration and rider meet-up will take place at the Central Park Zoo. Mingle with Climate Riders, visit the Polar Bear, sea lion and penguin exhibits (which will remain open after hours for us) and hear some great speakers.
Tags climate change, cycling, bike, journey, cental park
Website www.climateride.org
