More than ‘saving the Earth’, climate action recast as energy savings amid AI boom

[NEW YORK] Initial expectations that New York Climate Week – widely regarded as the largest climate gathering in the world outside the annual United Nations (UN) climate change conference – would be muted turned out to be quite the opposite.

Despite the US’ slowdown on climate action since the administration under US President Donald Trump took office nine months ago, Climate Week’s main organiser Climate Group estimated that more than 1,000 events were held across the city over the past week, up from about 900 the previous year. 

Running in parallel with the UN General Assembly, it is estimated that more than 100,000 participants – including government officials, investors and non-profits – have descended upon the Big Apple to talk climate.