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 will attend and host 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 editionthe Forum will convene 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 will be 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

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.

Bengt Steinbrecher| Head of Digital Partnership, Holcim MAQER Ventures

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 will launch 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

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.

Nollaig Forrest| Chief Sustainability Officer, Holcim

Holcim and Henning Larsen: Collaborative Decarbonization

Henning Larsen and Holcim will host 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 will bring 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

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.

Antonio Carillo| VP Sustainability, Holcim

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