(Bloomberg) — Climate may be moving down the world’s agenda, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at this year’s Climate Week NYC.
The annual confab, which coincides with the United Nations General Assembly, will feature more than 1,000 events across New York next week. They run the gamut from clean tech to adaptation and finance, and feature speakers that include bankers, elected officials and insurers.
Parsing the agenda, there’s both a degree of continuity — the world still needs to cut emissions, after all — and new themes taking on greater prominence. Those include artificial intelligence, national security and adapting to the impacts of climate change.
The former two are priorities of President Donald Trump. He has signed executive orders pushing for the US to ramp up AI development and energy projects that can serve both an uptick in data centers and national security interests.
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