Climate Forward Live Event: Bloomberg, Gates, Gore - The New York Times

Climate Forward Live Event: Bloomberg, Gates, Gore - The New York Times

Climate Forward Live EventLive: The Climate Forward Event

Newsmakers are sharing ideas, working through problems and answering tough questions about the threats presented by a rapidly warming planet.

At today’s Climate Forward live event, we’re bringing together some of climate’s most vital newsmakers — including Bill Gates, Al Gore, Michael Bloomberg and Ajay Banga — to share ideas, work through problems and answer tough questions about the threats presented by a rapidly warming planet.

Onstage now at The Times Center in Manhattan is Al Gore, the former vice president of the United States, discussing the obstacles to climate progress.

Expert journalists from across The Times’s newsroom will provide critical analysis of the remarks by these headliners, who are being joined by world leaders, activists, scientists and corporate executives. We’ll also be highlighting the latest on-the-ground reporting.

Here is the day’s schedule for the events. And these are a few of today’s speakers:

Bill Gates

Bill Gates is a technologist, business leader and philanthropist. In 1975, he co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen and today he is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He also founded Breakthrough Energy, an effort to commercialize clean energy and other climate-related technologies.

Al Gore

Former Vice President Al Gore is the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis, and the author of “An Inconvenient Truth.” In 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.”

Michael Bloomberg

The former three-term mayor of New York City, Michael R. Bloomberg currently serves as the U.N. secretary general’s special envoy on climate ambition and solutions. He has worked with environmental organizations to successfully retire more than 70 percent of all U.S. coal plants since 2011, and has since expanded the effort to target petrochemical plants, as The Times’s David Gelles reported this week.

Ajay Banga

Ajay Banga, the 14th president of the World Bank, has urged the bank’s staff to join him in developing a “new playbook” for a global institution whose relevance has come into question in recent years. His predecessor, David Malpass, left the job a year early after failing to sufficiently demonstrate his commitment to combating global warming. Banga is a former chief executive of Mastercard.

Below is a schedule for the Climate Forward event. Note that times are subject to change.

9 a.m. Eastern

A Billion-Dollar War Against the Petrochemicals Industry
Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies
Gina McCarthy, former national White House climate adviser and administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., president and C.E.O. of the Hip Hop Caucus

9:30 a.m.

What’s Standing in the Way of Climate Progress?
Al Gore, former vice president of the United States

10 a.m.

Living in the Age of Extreme Heat
Eleni Myrivili, global chief heat officer, UN-Habitat and Arsht-Rock Resilience Center
Reema Nanavaty, director of rural organizing and economic development at the Self-Employed Women’s Association

10:35 a.m.

Green Growth v. Conservation
Jason Grumet, C.E.O. of the American Clean Power Association
Ebony Twilley Martin, executive director of Greenpeace USA

11 a.m.

Food in a Time of Crisis
José Andrés, chef and humanitarian

11:25 a.m.

Norway’s Paradox
Jonas Gahr Store, prime minister of Norway

11:50 A.m.: Break

1:20 p.m.

Opinion: Paddling Against the Wind
Robin Wall Kimmerer, author and scientist

1:35 p.m.

Greening the Grid
Calvin Butler, president and C.E.O., Exelon
Pedro J. Pizarro, president and C.E.O., Edison International

2 p.m.

A New Recipe for Food Systems
Jim Andrew, executive vice president and chief sustainability officer of PepsiCo
Anthony Myint, executive director, Zero Foodprint and co-founder, Mission Chinese Food

2:25 p.m.

New Technology and Smarter Policy
Bill Gates, founder of Breakthrough Energy and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

2:55 p.m.

Carnivores and Climate Change
Gilberto Tomazoni, global C.E.O. of JBS

3:35 p.m.

Can a Tidy House Save the World?
Marie Kondo, tidying expert and founder of KonMari Media Inc.

4:15 p.m.

Financing a Just Transition
Ajay Banga, 14th president of the World Bank Group
Mia Mottley, prime minister of Barbados

4:45 p.m.

Africa’s Climate Potential
William Ruto, president of Kenya

R.S.V.P. for the livestream.