Clinton Global Initiative

We are honored to share our space and vision with so many incredible climate leaders this week 🌱 #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateAction #Sustainability #GreenTransition #Justice40 Together with Clinton Global Initiative, The Plant welcomed Ryan Whalen from The White House, Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano, and Josh Sorin from Centre for Public Impact to lead a productive discussion on how our industry can leverage the unprecedented public funds through the #InflationReductionAct to decarbonize the built environment. Representatives from the offices of New York State Executive Chamber Governor Kathy Hochul, United States Senate Senator Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins also joined us for this event. Local high schoolers from The Obama School for Social Justice highlighted the immense need for #EnvironmentalJustice in disadvantaged and low-income communities like where The Plant is located in Yonkers, NY. Thank you to our incredible and inspiring participants for their contributions from every corner of the built environment and green transition. Climate United | Coalition for Green Capital | Power Forward Communities | BlocPower | C40 Cities | CDP | City of Yonkers | Climate Mayors | Foss & Company | GKV Architects, DPC | Goldman Sachs | Hudson Valley Economic Development Corporation | Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law | International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) | Leading Cities | New America | NY Green Bank | Nuveen Green Capital | NYSERDA | NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business | OCEANIX | Pana Low Carbon Economy (LCE) Investments | Skanska | Thalo Labs | TruFund Financial Services | UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) | Yonkers Arts INC | Groundwork Hudson Valley | United Way | Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) | Rewiring America

🤝 This week, I had the incredible opportunity to join the Clinton Global Initiative to moderate an important discussion with Ryan Whalen from The White House. 🌎 Our conversation centered on how cities can harness funds from the #InflationReductionAct and other federal programs to invest in #cleanenergy projects. These initiatives aim to slash greenhouse gas emissions while creating sustainable economic opportunities for communities most impacted by pollution and #climatechange. 🏭 The event was held at The Plant New York: a former coal-burning power plant now being transformed into a sustainable space to showcase innovative climate solutions. This rugged event site was an inspiring example of the #greentransition happening across the country and the globe. #Sustainability #ClimateAction #GreenEconomy Centre for Public Impact

This Week at the Clinton Foundation: 🇺🇸 Monday → For #AANHPIHM, our CEO Kevin Thurm joined a celebration at the White House to commemorate 25 years since the creation of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. 📺 Tuesday → Too Small to Fail, in partnership with the FrameWorks Institute and The Rockefeller Foundation, released a new resource on how we can reframe the narrative and drive increased action on the climate crisis and its unique impact on children and families. ♻️ Wednesday → Clinton Global Initiative, the Centre for Public Impact, and The Plant New York hosted climate leaders to build solutions to rapidly scale best practices in decarbonization. Hosted at the Plant in Yonkers, their team is restoring and converting a former coal-burning power plant into a global home for climate solutions. 💡 Thursday → The Presidential Leadership Scholars met for its fifth module at the LBJ Center, focusing on the leadership principles of influence and persuasion through the lens of President Lyndon B. Johnson and his administration. 🇧🇬 Friday → The Clinton Global Initiative and Secretary Hillary Clinton kick off a convening in Sofia, Bulgaria.

🌎 The built environment is the largest contributor to climate change. In partnership with the Centre for Public Impact and The Plant New York, we convened climate leaders to share solutions on how to rapidly scale best practices in decarbonization of the built environment. 📍 The Plant is restoring and converting a former coal-burning power plant into a global home for climate solutions. ♻️ Their team spent a decade changing policy and practice to launch this effort and spoke to lessons learned for more rapid, effective scaling and replication of built environment climate efforts.

👀 Spotted at CGI: leaders who get stuff done. 📸 #1: Rev. Dr. William Barber II preaches to the CGI community on elevating our moral consciousness to create sustainable change. Photo featured in the Nation: https://lnkd.in/e23yVREE 📸 #2: Jen Psaki moderates a panel on expanding women’s rights and health care. Photo featured in NPR: https://lnkd.in/efjpHCzS 📸 #3: Larry Fink shares Blackrock's playbook for leadership, climate mitigation, and beyond. Photo featured in Reuters: https://lnkd.in/g9RF_me4

At the Clinton Global Initiative’s Spring Event addressing #builtenvironmentdecarbonization one building at a time. Starting at The Plant in Yonkers led by the visionary #realestatedeveloper Lela Goren https://www.theplant.com This former power plant will be an example of how to implement policies that not only adhere to #netzero for #embodiedcarbon but also for #operationalcarbon. Great to see Skanska’s Myrrh Caplan, MBA, LEED Fellow share the policies of the construction industry. Thank you for the support of the Mayor of Yonkers Mike Spano and glad to see the participation of high school students from Obama High school for Social Justice. And of course thank you Laura Barron for your amazing work putting this event together with the Centre for Public Impact. Ryan Whalen Josh Sorin Great learning about the #inflationreductionact and how to access these public funds. #privatepublicpartnerships #peopleandplanet

It is an honour for one of our founding Partners Isabella da Costa Mendes to join Hillary Clinton and an esteemed group of stakeholders at the Clinton Foundation Executive Roundtable tomorrow in Sofia. The theme is right up our street: Scaling Climate Finance and Capital Deployment: The Urgent Imperative for Private, Public and Philanthropic Sectors to Work Together 🤝   They will explore #ClimateFinancing as the greatest enabler to unlock climate action globally, and deploy capital towards models, solutions and partnerships which are working, can be replicated, and scaled 🔓   We are grateful for being in the room and look forward to the conversation.   Thank you to the Foundation for their continued work around investing in women entrepreneurs and focusing on opportunities for finance-driven change. USAID 2X Global Victoria Miles Roderic Norman Susan Ward Audrey Caulliez-Louis #SustainableInfrastructure #Climate #Gender #Health https://lnkd.in/gPx6fzF

Young girls/adolescents and their mothers receiving menstrual health training from BRA health workers in batey community of El Laurel, Monte Plata province, Dominican Republic🇩🇴. In response to a 2021 study conducted by BRA, in collaboration with the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, revealing that more than 20% of girls in the country’s rural areas missed monthly 2-3 schooldays due to the lack of access to sanitary pads, the organization launched a Clinton Global Initiative Health Equity Commitment to Action in 2022 to support the vulnerable female populations with access to the tools that they need to improve their health and fight the cycle of poverty.

It's a busy week ahead as we welcome the Clinton Global Initiative back to Bulgaria for a special event featuring Secretary Clinton – a trailblazer, a champion for women's rights, and a global leader in her own right. Read more about this exciting event: https://lnkd.in/gXYnDJRc

️⚡️ Quick question for Christy Turlington Burns, founder of Every Mother Counts, for #MothersDay 💪 What's your mantra in the fight for maternal health?