Holcim at Climate Week NYC 2024
Climate Week NYC is a key annual event for companies to showcase climate action and engage stakeholders in New York City. The theme this year is “It’s Time”, with a focus on the need to accelerate scalable innovation in energy storage, grid infrastructure, low-carbon steel and concrete production, and finance.
Holcim’s senior leaders and sustainability and innovation experts attended and hosted a range of events to engage with like-minded organizations to accelerate the shift to net-zero building together – from public authorities, designers, engineers and architects to real estate and infrastructure developers.
- Date: 22-29 September 2024
- Location: New York, US
Holcim at Sustainable Investment
Forum North America
Sustainable Investment Forum North America in official partnership with UNEP FI unites asset owners with over USD $3 trillion in assets under management. For its 9th annual edition the Forum convened 500 qualified institutional investors and financial leaders, to foster dialogue, partnerships, and collaboration to advance sustainable investment practices in the region and worldwide.
Together with Holcim MAQER Ventures and three of our cleantech startups we were at the forefront of shaping and accelerating responsible investment at this year’s Forum during Climate Week NYC, while showcasing how hard-to-abate industry is being disrupted by novel startup solutions.
- Date: 24 September
- Location: The Ziegfeld Ballroom, New York
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Holcim at Sustainable Investment Forum North America
Leah Ellis, Founder & CEO, Sublime Systems, and Nollaig Forrest, Chief Sustainability Officer, Holcim
Leah Ellis, Founder & CEO, Sublime Systems, and Nollaig Forrest, Chief Sustainability Officer, Holcim
Leah Ellis, Founder & CEO, Sublime Systems, and Nollaig Forrest, Chief Sustainability Officer, Holcim
Startups are a growing avenue for new ideas, approaches and solutions to today’s main challenges for the building materials industry. Events such as Climate Week NYC help startups gain access to the markets, expertise and networks necessary to continue reinventing how the world builds.
Holcim and Systemiq roundtable at Goals House: Unleashing a Regenerative Revolution for the Built Environment
Today's built environment delivers the essentials for human life – from housing to sanitation and transport – on an astonishing scale. With evolving infrastructure needs, the sector has an opportunity to embark on a gradual transformation whereby our cities, neighborhoods and built places become the engines of a thriving future where humans and nature coevolve.
Holcim and Systemiq launched a new approach that explores how to unleash a regenerative revolution in the built environment. It aims for positive, life-enhancing outcomes for both people and nature that go beyond merely doing ‘less harm’. It calls on pioneers to experiment with regenerative frameworks and metrics on live built environment projects, which will form the core of the moderated discussion.
- Date and time:
25 September,
19:00-21:30
Hosted by:
- Nollaig Forrest, Chief Sustainability Officer, Holcim
- Jeremy Oppenheim, Founder, Systemiq
Special guests:
- Andrew Morlet, CEO, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
- Alison Landry, Chief Infrastructure Officer,
New York City
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Cédric de Meeûs, Vice President of Group Public Affairs & Social Impact, Holcim
"We can do better than just sustainable building – we can put people and nature at the center of the built environment. All of you are the agents of change – join us in speeding up this regenerative revolution."
Nollaig Forrest, Chief Sustainability Officer, Holcim
"This is our moment to get it right: ambition with the right design, translation into a metric, and mobilizing capital around the right things. And this is the group that’s going to be integral to unleashing this regenerative revolution."
Jeremy Oppenheim, Founder, Systemiq
"Leaders in city government need to facilitate and inspire more collaboration between urban planners, architects, builders and the communities themselves. We also need to be responsive to both the changing climate and the housing challenge. Partnerships between the project delivery community and the people our projects are designed to serve will help cities be more flexible to addressing these demands."
Alison Landry, Chief Infrastructure Officer, New York City
"A circular built environment has always been a design agenda so we keep materials in use for as long as possible and maximize their use. And it’s a large economic opportunity to deliver to nature and communities by building materiality, circularity and nature into building design. There is intent in many companies we’re working with to explore how to bring this thinking into real world projects."
Andrew Morlet, CEO, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
At Holcim we want to ignite a regenerative revolution in the built environment - using our sustainable building solutions, and partnering across the value chain to scale low-carbon, circular, energy efficient building.
Holcim and Henning Larsen: Collaborative Decarbonization
Henning Larsen and Holcim hosted an evening of quick-fire Pecha Kucha presentations on the topic of “Collaborative Decarbonization”.
Celebrating the launch of the Holcim Sustainable Construction Academy, the event brought together leading industry innovators in rapid rounds of thought-provoking presentations. The Holcim Sustainable Construction Academy is a new open access online course aimed at empowering professionals in the built environment. It provides them with access to cutting-edge knowledge and practical tools, designed to accelerate the adoption of environmentally responsible practices.
- Date and time:
26 September,
17:30-20:00 - Location: Henning Larsen office, NYC
Holcim and Henning Larsen presenting “Collaborative Decarbonization”
"It’s a movement more than an academy. We need architects, engineers, urban planners and more to join us to make sustainable construction the norm."
Antonio Carillo, Vice President of Sustainability, Holcim
"It takes the whole value chain to move the needle. It’s gatherings like these that get all the people we need in the room to achieve a real systems change in construction."
Nollaig Forrest, Chief Sustainability Officer, Holcim
Kritika Kharbanda, Head of Sustainability, Henning Larsen
"Data-driven science is shaping the built environment. There is a lot of AI at play in this space. It’s starting to change the way we plan and run cities. And it’s shaping the way we think about decarbonization of cities."
Anthony Townsend, Senior Research Associate, Cornell Tech
"As an organization we have the opportunity to steward in an increased use of more sustainable and circular building materials."
Sydney Mainster, Vice President of Sustainability & Design Management, The Durst Organization
"We want to facilitate demand for low-carbon materials and circular building solutions and practices by leveraging our capital construction and asset portfolios to truly harness the power of circularity and do it in a big way, at scale."
Nicole Spina, Vice President of Climate Innovation & Industry Development, New York City Economic Development Corporation
Participants at the "Collaborative Decarbonization" presentation hosted by Holcim and Henning Larsen
For our sector to achieve net zero, it's more important than ever that we make use of events such as Climate Week NYC to come together and share best practices and insights on how to accelerate this transition. We have the solutions. Now, together, we must put them into action.
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