A casual conference for carbon newbies interested in getting the 101, 201, and maybe 301 on all things carbon!

Climate Week NYC

Tues, September 23, 2025 | Afternoon

📍Debevoise & Plimpton Offices, Hudson Yards

CO-HOSTS:

The Carbon Newbie Summit is an initiative of:

"The Carbon Newbie Summit is an opportunity for folks from all backgrounds to establish a foundation of climate knowledge and to explore their role in this movement — because shifting to a low carbon future will take all of us, from scientists and technical experts, to artists and entrepreneurs and everyone in between.""

Sustainability Senior Manager, Allbirds
SF Climate Week ‘24 and NYC Climate Week ‘23 Speaker

Aileen Lerch

"When you think of the NBA – or any other sports entity for that matter – the biggest impact that we can have is being able to inspire and educate the fans, that's where we have scale."

Director, Social Responsibility, NBA
NYC Climate Week ‘23 Speaker

Annie Horn

Brands that speak at the summit

Climate Week NYC

Tues, Sept 23, 2025 | Afternoon

📍Debevoise & Plimpton Offices | Hudson Yards

Speakers

  • Martina Donlon

    Chief, Climate & Sustainable Development
    United Nations

  • Shyla Raghav

    Chief Climate Officer
    TIME

  • Malin Berge

    Senior Vice President, New Product Development & Head of the Global Sustainability Lab
    Mastercard

  • Romain Ciarlet

    Executive Director
    Prince Albert II Foundation

  • Chase Cain

    Meteorologist, Climate Reporter
    NBC News

  • Annie Horn

    Director, Social Impact & Sustainability
    NBA

  • Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez

    Special Representative for Climate Change
    Ministry of Environment, Panama

  • Andrew Savage

    VP of Sustainability
    Lime

  • Ulysses Smith

    ESG Senior Advisor
    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

  • Jenelle Shapiro

    Circularity Leader
    Trane Technologies

  • Johann Boedecker

    CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
    Pentatonic

  • Lea d'Auriol

    Founder, Executive Director
    Oceanic Global Foundation

  • Uyen Tran

    Founder & CEO
    TômTex

  • Nick Doman

    Co-Founder & CEO
    Ocean Bottle

  • Maeve Campbell

    Journalist
    Channel 4 News / Forbes

  • Tola St Matthew Daniel

    Founder and CEO
    Kairos and Tola, Inc.

  • Steven Siger

    Cofounder and COO
    CNaught

  • Sapir Markus Alford

    Co-Founder & CTO
    Gigablue

  • Cherie Tirikatene

    Director - Strategic Partnerships and Cultural Engagement Aotearoa New Zealand
    Gigablue

  • Adriel Lubarsky

    Founder
    Beehive

  • Benjamin Sorkin

    CEO
    Flux Marine

  • Yushu Xia

    Lamont Assistant Research Professor
    Columbia University

  • Matthew Hayek

    Associate Professor
    New York University

  • Emilie McGlone

    Executive Director
    Peace Boat US

  • Constantin Marakhov

    CEO & Founder
    KIDEMIS AG

  • Michelle Li

    Founder
    Clever Carbon & Carbon Newbie Summit

  • Shannon Hone

    Research Analyst
    Clever Carbon

At the Carbon Newbie Summit, we're putting the spotlight on the ocean's most brilliant innovators: 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 start-ups! We're selecting four game-changing companies to share their solution in a 2-minute showcase to our audience of leaders, investors, and speakers.

But wait... what is the 𝘽𝙡𝙪𝙚 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙮? 🤔
Think of it as a powerful partnership with our oceans. It’s about:
📈 Driving economic growth & creating jobs.
🐠 Using ocean resources sustainably (from fisheries to renewable energy).
💙 Protecting the health and biodiversity of our marine ecosystems for future generations.

Blue Economy Showcase

  • TômTex

    Plastic | Materials Science
    📍New York, United States

    TômTex is an award-winning material science company creating innovative, eco-friendly textiles from nature biopolymer, not fossil fuels. Our cutting-edge platform challenges traditional oil-based methods, ushering in a new era of sustainable, green chemistry for the material industry.

  • Ocean Bottle

    Plastic | Reduction and Recycling
    📍UK

    At Ocean Bottle, we’re committed to a simple yet impactful idea: every bottle we sell directly contributes to removing plastic from our waterways. When someone buys an Ocean Bottle, we fund the collection of 25lbs of plastic, equivalent to 1000 plastic bottles in weight, and prevent this from entering the ocean.

    We do this by working with plastic collection partners based in communities worst affected by the ocean plastic crisis, including Indonesia, the Philippines, India, Kenya, Brazil, and Egypt. 

    We invest in collection points and enable collectors to exchange plastic for money and get access to social resources such as healthcare, education and financial security. To date, we’ve collected over 22,626,892 kgs of ocean-bound plastic, stopping it from reaching the ocean.

  • Flux Marine

    Maritime Decarbonization
    📍United States

    Flux Marine is transforming the $100B global marine market with a clean-sheet approach to electric propulsion, eliminating the inefficiencies and pain points of traditional combustion engines. Unlike other solutions that require new boat designs, their versatile outboard powertrain system electrifies small to mid-sized vessels across multiple segments — recreational powerboats, fishing vessels, aquaculture, law enforcement, government and commercial fleets. Flux Marine’s propulsion-first approach enables partnership with thousands of boat companies and the potential for millions of boats to go electric.

  • KIDEMIS AG

    Aquaculture
    📍 Switzerland

    KIDEMIS has developed a proprietary process for upcycling agrifood sidestreams into a Composite Mycelium (MyCo) ingredient suitable for use in the pet food and aquafeed industries.

Summit Program

🚪 1:45pm EST | Doors Open and Check-In

Qualify for raffle before 2:30pm - prizes include an Allbirds gift card, Ocean Bottle, Electric Boat Ride on the Hudson River, Clever Carbon goodies, and more!

🌟 2:30pm - 3:20pm | PART 1

🎤 Launchpad for Change: Igniting Climate Action from Global Platforms
Annie Horn with the NBA, Martina Donlon with the United Nations, Shyla Raghav with TIME Magazine

🎤 Making Waves with the Blue Standard
Lea d’Auriol with Oceanic Global

🎤 Forests on our Plates: Connecting Food to Nature Restoration
Matthew Hayek with New York University

🎤 Life After Leftovers: The Science of Composting
Yushu Xia with Columbia University

🎤 Cloudy with a Chance of Climate Change
Chase Cain with NBC News

🎤 Live from the Frontlines of a Changing Planet
Chase Cain with NBC News, Michelle Li with Clever Carbon (moderator)

☕️ 3:20pm - 3:35pm | Coffee Break

⭐️ 3:35pm - 4:30pm | Part 2

🎤 Two Industries, One Loop: A Conversation on Practical Circularity
Jenelle Shapiro with Trane Technologies, Andrew Savage with Lime, Tola St Matthew Daniel with Kairos and Tola, Inc. (moderator)

🎤 Coming soon

🎤 Choose Your Own Carbon Adventure: A Buyer's Journey
Steve Siger with CNaught

🎤 Coming soon

🍩 4:30pm - 4:45pm | Coffee Break

⭐️ 4:45pm - 5:35pm | Part 3

🎤 Building the Blue Economy: A Foundation's Deep Dive into Ocean Innovation
Romain Ciarlet with the Prince Albert II Foundation, Michelle Li with Clever Carbon (moderator)

🎤 Te Mana o te Moana – Local Value, Global Impact
Sapir Markus Alford with Gigablue, Cherie Tirikatene with Gigablue, Maeve Campbell with Channel 4 News / Forbes

🎤 A Seat at the Table: Inside Global Climate Negotiations with Panama's Climate Envoy
Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez with Ministry of Environment Panama, Michelle Li with Clever Carbon

🎤 Blue Economy Showcase
Emilie McGlone with Peace Boat US
Uyen Tran with TomTex
Constantin Marakhov with KIDEMIS AG
Benjamin Sorken with Flux Marine
Will Pearson with Ocean Bottle

🏆 Raffle draw

🥂 5:35pm - 6:30pm | Reception

Co-Hosts

  • Trusted by buyers like Asana, Medium, and Tiger Global, CNaught makes it easy to drive real climate impact through high-quality carbon credit portfolios. We deliver access to sophisticated buying strategies, previously available only to the largest buyers, enabling companies of any size to take meaningful climate action.

  • Gigablue offers a deep science-based marine carbon dioxide removal solution that helps companies achieve their net-zero goals by exporting CO2 to the deep ocean for long-term sequestration.

  • Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is a premier law firm with market-leading practices, a global perspective and strong New York roots. Our clients look to us to bring a distinctively high degree of quality, intensity and creativity to resolve legal challenges effectively and cost efficiently. We have particularly deep experience in the broad range of issues that arise as environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns and requirements become increasingly important. The firm brings together sophisticated, multidisciplinary and multinational teams to provide tailored and practical guidance across the evolving ESG and business integrity spectrum by counseling on trends and prudential issues, delivering concrete legal advice on evolving sustainability regulations and policies, and helping clients prepare for the legal, financial and reputational risks arising in this rapidly changing landscape.

Past Events

SF Climate Week ‘25

CO-HOSTS:

📍 Silicon Valley Bank Offices

Climate Week NYC ‘24

CO-HOSTS:

📍 Indie Bio Offices

SF Climate Week ‘24

CO-HOSTS:

📍 Allbirds Offices

NYC Climate Week ‘23

HOST and SPONSORS:

Past Speakers

  • Michelle Li

    Clever Carbon

  • Aileen Lerch

    Allbirds

  • Jackie Ventura

    Golden State Warriors

  • Martina Donlon

    United Nations

  • Annie Horn

    NBA

  • Jackie Moore

    Mastercard

  • Sarabeth Brockley

    Carbonetter

  • Kathy Kearns

    CEEZER

  • Fiona Morgan

    SailGP

  • Eduardo Carriles

    Mubadala Investment Company

  • Natsuru Toda

    Mitsubishi Corporation

  • Ted Christie-Miller

    BeZero Carbon

  • Andrea Bouch

    DocuSign

  • Sean McPhillips

    Asana

  • Andrew Savage

    Lime

Apply to Speak

Have something to share with carbon newbies? From climate science to individual actions and corporate applications, we’re always looking for engaging speakers for our newbies!

Know an organization that would like to co-host? They can reach us through our Contact page!

Summit Friends

"Getting started in climate can be intimidating. The Carbon Newbie Summit aims to create a welcoming space for those new to climate and provide a strong foundation of knowledge and skills for accelerated and impactful climate action."

Founder, Carbon Newbie Summit, Clever Carbon, Women and Climate
SUMMIT SPEAKER AND ORGANIZER

Michelle Li