New York Climate Week
No green without digital
Climate Week NYC and UN General Assembly
Nokia was proud to be at Climate Week NYC from September 22-29, 2024. Climate Week NYC is the largest annual climate event of its kind, bringing together over 600 events and activities across the City of New York – in person, hybrid and online. Climate Week NYC is hosted by Climate Group, an international non-profit. The event takes place every year in partnership with the United Nations General Assembly and is run in coordination with the United Nations and the City of New York.
Networks play a critical role in realizing the full potential of digital and driving climate action
Networking technologies such as digital twins, low latency connectivity, analytics and AI can help hard-to-abate sectors find ways to accelerate sustainability efforts. Digitalization can play a role in supporting all industries on their decarbonization journey. At the same time, to ensure the benefits of digitalization continue to outweigh the climate impacts of digital infrastructure, the digital industry must also continually reduce its own footprint.
Ultimately, there is no green without digital and we see networks as being key to driving sustainability for three key reasons:
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Ensuring digital resilience
Our world was built for a different climate. Digital can make us more resilient. Networks and digital technologies can make communities, companies and countries more resilient.
Enabling digital transformation
The world needs to move to a low-carbon economy. Networks and digital technologies can help industry transform and decarbonize. By supporting industry’s transformation toward sustainable business models, digital also helps industry get into gear for growth.
Driving digital equity
AI is reshaping the world around us. We can turn AI from a risk to an opportunity. Digital equity can drive positive progress, allowing everyone to harness AI for innovation, growth and sustainability.
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At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together
By leveraging digital technology, businesses, industries, and society can create a more productive, sustainable, and accessible future. However, maximizing the opportunity of digital cannot be achieved alone.
At Nokia we believe that to create the digital services and applications of the future, businesses, technologies and innovators must act together to build on each other’s expertise.
We create technology that helps the world’s organizations, machines and devices act in sync with each other and the people they serve, because that’s when real transformation happens.
Collective action is required
We work with a range of stakeholders and look for where we can increase collaboration and respond to requirements in building sustainable solutions.
Collaboration is key to moving the needle on many sustainability topics – from protecting the environment to bridging the digital divide. In that spirit, Nokia will be present at a series of events during Climate Week.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of some of these events.
Nokia at Climate Week New York
Monday 23 September
Closing the Gap: Partnerships for a Digitally Empowered Future
The digital divide persists, with 2.6 billion people lacking access to digital opportunities. Bridging this gap is crucial for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Nokia is committed to fostering partnerships that bridge the digital infrastructure gap.
This roundtable will bring together international stakeholders (leaders from EU, US recipient countries, development finance institutions) to share experiences, lessons learned, and recommendations for collective action.
Funding, innovation, and implementation - scaling corporate decarbonization
Hosted by
Melissa Schoeb
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Nokia
Tuesday 24 September
AI is coming: Can technology change the trajectory of climate change?
The widespread use of artificial intelligence promises to help revolutionize our approach to fighting climate change. It is a lofty claim but with AI’s ability to learn, predict, and innovate currently forecast to help solve the world’s biggest scientific challenges – where can it help us on fast-forwarding climate action and how can we scale use in an equitable manner to ensure we all benefit?
The panel will explore where next in terms of technology innovation and address AI's potential, limitations, and opportunities to transform our approach to climate mitigation
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Melissa SchoebChief Corporate Affairs Officer, Nokia
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Nitesh BangaPresident and CEO, GlobalLogic
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Blair SwedeenGlobal Head of Net Zero and Sustainability, Meta
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Moderator: Helen ClarksonCEO, Climate Group
Friday 20 September
Broadband Commission
Saturday 21 September
UN SDG Digital event
- Organizer: United Nations
- Location: UN building
- Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday 23 September
Digitalization for Good & ESG Reporting Standards – (AI & digital systems for good)
- Organizer: UN Global Compact FI
- Location: New York
- Time: 3.00 pm - 6.00 pm ET
Monday 23 September
Nokia Digital for Development Roundtable
- Organizer: UN Global Compact FI
- Location: New York
- Time: 6.30 pm ET
Tuesday 24 September
Stakeholder engagement and co-creation for a just transition
- Organizer: BSR
- Location: New York
- Time: 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm ET
Tuesday 24 September
AI Roundtable: Taking a byte out of carbon: How to use AI to accelerate decarbonisation
- Organizer: PWC
- Location: The Glasshouse
Tuesday 24 September
From digital divide to digital dividend: reviving the SDGs
- Organizer: The Economist
- Location: The Paramount Club, New York
- Time: 5.30 pm - 6.45 pm ET
Wednesday 25 September
Tackling social inequalities: A material business issue
- Organizer: B4SI
- Location: New York
Wednesday 25 September
Digital for Sustainable Development (D4SD)—Enabling a Digital Arab States Region to Advance SDGs Agenda.
- Organizer: UN Global Compact FI
- Location: UN Headquarters in New York
- Time: 6.30 pm ET
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