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\n Representatives from the School of the Environment and other Yale organizations spent last week in New York City connecting with other climate activists. <\/p>\n

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Michelle So<\/a><\/p>\n

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Staff Reporter\n <\/p>\n

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G. Scott Segler via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n

Yale faculty, students and representatives recently returned from Climate Week NYC, the world\u2019s largest climate gathering outside the United Nations\u2019 Conference of Parties<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From Sept. 21-28, attendees participated<\/a> in thousands of Climate Week NYC activities, including Yale @ Climate Week \u2014 two days of programming hosted by Yale Planetary Solutions at the Yale Club of NYC.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s theme \u2014 Power On \u2014 emphasized climate progress across sectors including energy, finance, technology, green jobs and climate justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Climate Week NYC, our faculty, alumni, and students shared expertise and insights on everything from the role of AI in delivering climate progress to how working forests can serve as natural climate solutions,\u201d School of the Environment Dean Indy Burke said. \u201cTheir participation was a powerful reminder of how much determination there is to address the climate crisis, and the important role that our school plays in generating new ideas and exploring pathways to progress.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Climate Week, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Partnership Director Joshua Low spoke on a panel titled \u201cMoving from Data to Dialogue to Doing.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

For Low, Climate Week was a chance to come together with people from all different sectors to discuss, strategize and connect on how the world is powering through climate action.<\/p>\n

\u201cClimate Week can be overwhelming, with over 1,000 public-facing events and many more behind-the-scenes events such as gatherings and coffee chats,\u201d Low said. \u201cYou can\u2019t do it all, you have to pick and choose.\u201d<\/p>\n

Low aimed to connect with those partners to \u201cbuild political will in climate action.\u201d He was able to meet with partners in the Northeast who work with businesses to cut climate waste, as well as climate communicators across the globe, he said.<\/p>\n

Another panel hosted by Yale @ Climate Week featured the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture Co-Director Peter Raymond. Raymond\u2019s goal was both to share climate solutions and share the center\u2019s messaging, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to let people know what we\u2019re doing, but also try to make progress on scaling natural climate solutions,\u201d Raymond said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Raymond, the most important climate solutions involve managing natural ecosystems such as forests, agricultural lands and blue carbon<\/a> systems to management to remove greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome countries and companies are really leaning in, so that\u2019s hopeful for sure. The U.S. isn\u2019t necessarily leading policy right now, but other countries are trying to pick up the slack,\u201d Raymond said.<\/p>\n

School of Environment alum Natasha Feshbach ENV \u201923, a funds manager for the Activate Fellowship, which supports scientific researchers become founders, spoke on a panel about purpose-driven careers in climate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe discussed what we did, the highs and lows of our career, how to balance and prioritize working with great people and building skills for your career toolkit,\u201d Feshbach said. \u201cI thought it was a great opportunity to bring people together both Yale and non-Yale audience members to discuss to drive this kind of career forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Feshbach and other panelists noted the challenges and uncertainties of being in the climate space right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Before arriving at Climate Week, Low was also worried this year\u2019s attendance would be diminished due to federal-level changes to climate change attitude and policy. However, he said he was pleasantly surprised by the turnout.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s most helpful is that there are so many people from so many walks of life in New York working to address climate change,\u201d Low said. \u201cIt makes me incredibly hopeful. For the 100,000 people in town, there are a hundred more back home who care.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first Climate Week NYC took place in 2009.<\/p>\n

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\n Michelle So is a beat reporter for the SciTech desk, covering climate change and the School of the Environment. Originally from Los Angeles, California, she is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College majoring in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. <\/p>\n