Amazon Climate Week NYC 2022
Every year international leaders from business, government, and civil society congregate in New York City for Climate Week to spotlight global climate action—in conjunction with the United Nations General Assembly. Climate Week 2022’s focus is “Getting It Done,” and Amazon hosted a series of interactive events around the city to spotlight new partnerships, investments, and progress towards our Climate Pledge goal to be net-zero carbon by 2040. For complete coverage of Amazon at Climate Week NYC 2022, Click HERE.
Event: Climate Pledge Summit
On September 22nd, The Climate Pledge hosted its first in-person signatory experience, The Climate Pledge Summit at Fotogrfiska in NYC. The day-long event brought together senior executives from signatory companies for a series of panel discussions addressing Pledge progress, future focus areas, and opportunities for joint action.
In addition to panel discussions, select Climate Pledge signatories and Climate Fund recipients gave Summit attendees a sneak-peek of their latest innovations and case studies through interactive exhibits. The displays allowed audience members to experience Pledge signatory innovations on a tangible level. Attendees were also encouraged to participate in a ‘No Swag Bag’ swag event, where they could choose a Cotopaxi ‘Do Good’ bag and select patches to customize on site, in hopes of creating a more sustainable approach to swag.
Speakers included AWS CEO Adam Selipsky, Matt Damon and Gary White for Water.org, Van Jones and Climate Justice, Al Roker, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuinness, Christiana Figueres the architect of the Paris Agreement, Cotopaxi’s Chief People Officer Grace Zunic and their head of impact and sustainability Angie Agle, Head of Environment and Sustainability at Maersk Lee Kindberg among others.
Responsibilities: develop creative approach for event, develop content strategy, develop visual staging strategy for lobby, develop individual sessions with signatories, develop run of show, speakers selection and accruement, approve visual designs including window clings and signage, source content for interactives, manage photographer and video crews at the event, develop and manage content for media.
Event Content: Nasdaq Billboard
Amazon announced on the first day of Climate Week NYC that The Climate Pledge has been signed more than 375 companies—a milestone indicating the growing importance of more sustainable operations to organizations worldwide. In 2019, Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge—a commitment to be net zero carbon across our business by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. Companies that sign the Pledge recognize that there is no more “business as usual” when it comes to taking climate action.
Responsibilities: develop creative approach for billboard, approve visual designs, manage Nasdaq communications, liason w/ Amazon PR, manage content for media distribution.
Event: Climate Week NYC Leaders Reception
The Climate Week NYC Leaders’ Reception was held at The Edge in NYC, set high above the city to see the building tops turned green for Climate Week. Amazon VP of Sustainability, Kara Hurst announced a partnership with Water.org to help provide access to safe water for 100 million people. This $10M financial announcement was followed days later by a panel discussion at The Climate Pledge Summit with Adam Selipsky (CEO, Amazon Web Services), Gary White (CEO & Co-Founder, Water.org and WaterEquity), and Matt Damon (Co-Founder, Water.org) focusing on the importance of the private sector in providing access to clean water.
The night was built around the concept of “Future Forward”, displaying interactives from six Pledge signatories that are trailblazing paths and changing the way they do business, in an effort to bring decarbonization at scale. Featuring Future of Transportation: Rivian. Future of Flight: JetBlue. Future of Buildings: CarbonCure. The Future of Farming: Uniliever. The Future of Food: Impossible Food. Future of Forest: Heineken.
Responsibilities: develop creative approach, approve visual designs, source content for interactives, manage photographer and video crews at the event, develop and manage content for media.
