Student Energy at Climate Week NYC 2024
Student Energy is excited to attend Climate Week NYC 2024, a leading global climate and energy event. We’ll connect with partners and youth, celebrate our 15 years of impact, and share our vision for 2030.
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Student Energy is thrilled to be attending Climate Week NYC 2024, one of the world’s leading gatherings on climate and energy. Leveraging this strategic event at the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, we’re looking forward to connecting with our partners, amplifying youth voices on a global stage, and celebrating our collective impact throughout Student Energy’s 15-year history. We’re also excited to unveil our new vision for 2030!
What to Expect from Student Energy at Climate Week NYC
While we’re gearing up for a week of meaningful dialogue and collaboration, here’s a quick preview of what we plan to highlight in New York City.
- Celebrating Student Energy’s 15-year anniversary and launch of our ambitious 2030 vision.
- Building new partnerships with public and private sector organizations to support Student Energy’s next phase of growth through 2030 and beyond.
- Connecting with new and existing partnerships to learn and seek mentorship on priority areas for Student Energy, including scaling to meet demand for our programs.
- Establishing and fostering regional and global relationships to support future global Student Energy on-location programming.
Clean Energy Career Pathways for Youth in the Global South
Student Energy’s 2030 vision centres around four key pillars the organization will prioritize over the coming years. One of those pillars, which is expanding career pathways for young people in clean energy, will be the focus of Student Energy’s conversations and objectives at Climate Week NYC, with an emphasis on the need for a just, people-centred transition.
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Net-Zero Emissions (NZE) Scenario predicts that by 2030, as many as 14 million jobs will be created in the energy sector with five million lost in the fossil fuel industry as the world transitions towards a cleaner global energy system. With more than half of the global population under the age of 30, young people must be trained and supported now to access opportunities and accelerate growth in the renewables sectors, if these millions of green jobs are to be filled. This will support global and local sectors to avoid serious talent shortages and communities to access inclusive economic growth through the transition.
Despite this, Student Energy’s research through the Energy Skills Transition Project has revealed a significant gap in young people’s understanding of career opportunities in the clean energy space, availability of entry-level positions, and access to relevant skills training. The clean energy sector moreover remains largely inaccessible to and exclusionary of youth, particularly Indigenous communities and other underrepresented groups.
On Thursday, September 26, from 14:00 to 16:00 ET, Student Energy, alongside leaders from New Energy Nexus and LinkedIn, will be hosting a panel discussion and networking session centred around responding to this challenge and providing tangible pathways to equipping youth with the green skills, tools, and training to drive an inclusive and equitable clean energy transition, particularly in the Global South. We’d love to have you there! Please feel free to register for the event via Eventbrite here and share the opportunity with your networks.
Other Events We’re Excited to Attend!
Student Energy will be attending a number of gatherings in New York. Here’s a small selection of events you can find us at, or ones we recommend you check out more generally!
- Summit of the Future (September 22-23) is a high-level event, bringing world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how we deliver a better present and safeguard the future.
- Global Renewables Summit (September 23-24) is the first-ever high-level public-private summit to discuss the progress, opportunities, and challenges of tripling renewable energy globally by 2030.
- EnergyNowSDG7 Action Forum (September 25-27) convenes leaders from government, business, civil society, and other sectors and aims at “constructively reviewing, discussing, and progressing matters pertaining to expediting action on Sustainable Development Goal 7.