It’s the busiest week of the year in New York City.
The United Nations General Assembly this week draws world leaders and their delegations from around the globe, heightening security, sparking protests and snarling traffic. (Pro tip: always walk or take the subway if you can.)
Other events draft off the presence of so many dignitaries, including the Clinton Global Initiative, The Concordia Summit, the Gates Foundation’s Goalkeepers event and the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Forum.
It’s also Climate Week NYC, a weeklong event series in the city.
And I’ll be hosting The Times’s event on Wednesday, Sept. 24: the Climate Forward conference.
We’ve got an exceptional lineup this year, including Energy Secretary Chris Wright; Hilda Heine, president of the Marshall Islands; Senator Brian Schatz, Democrat of Hawaii, as well as many other political and business leaders. Tickets are sold out, but you can see the whole lineup here and register for the free livestream.
With so much going on, we’re coming to you with this newsletter a day early.
The stakes couldn’t be higher this year. After another year of record global temperatures and climate-fueled disasters, world leaders are confronting not only a rapidly changing planet, but also a drastically altered political landscape.
The United States, which just last year had positioned itself as a climate leader under President Joseph R. Biden Jr., has now retreated from those efforts. Under President Trump, the U.S. is now dismissing the threats of climate change and promoting fossil fuels. (Trump will address the United Nations on Tuesday.)
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