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Inside Climate Capital Summit: Networking with Legends, Founders, and $1T+ of Climate Firepower · Climate Cowboys

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  SPEAKER_00: Hey everyone, Silas Maynard here with Climate Cowboys.
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  SPEAKER_00: As you know, New York Climate Week is right around the corner.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you've been to New York Climate Week before,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know that all of the top investors and founders meet in one room for
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  SPEAKER_00: an entire day during that week,
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  SPEAKER_00: and that is the Climate Capital Summit hosted I've actually had the privilege
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  SPEAKER_00: to be there every single year that they've hosted it,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it's always been an absolute highlight of the week.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's over $1 trillion of climate capital represented in the attendees,
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  SPEAKER_00: and there's also,
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  SPEAKER_00: on top of that, $300 billion worth of federal funding represented as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Speakers this year include legends like Sophie Perdom,
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  SPEAKER_00: the queen of climate capital with Planeteer Capital,
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  SPEAKER_00: Letitia Webster,
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  SPEAKER_00: managing director and chief sustainability officer at Goldman Sachs,
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  SPEAKER_00: Jonathan Silver,
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  SPEAKER_00: the chair of the Global Sustainability Platform at Apollo,
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  SPEAKER_00: Jim Coulter,
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  SPEAKER_00: founding partner and executive chairman of TPG, among many, many others.
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  SPEAKER_00: As I've mentioned before, I've been there all three years.
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  SPEAKER_00: They've hosted it so far,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it's always been one of the most densely populated rooms with the top founders,
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  SPEAKER_00: some of the best investors out there,
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  SPEAKER_00: and also not to mention The government officials and policymakers that show up.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're going to be in town, it's happening the 24th of September.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's Thursday of Climate Week.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it goes throughout kind of the core business hours of the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you can still get to some other events in the evening.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the whole day is full of great content,
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  SPEAKER_00: amazing conversations and opportunities to network as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep in mind, this is invite only.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you'd like to request an invite, go to climatecapitalsummit.com to do so.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please know that there is only room for about 400 people, give or take.
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  SPEAKER_00: And last year,
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  SPEAKER_00: there was something like,
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  SPEAKER_00: I forget the exact number,
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  SPEAKER_00: like 3,000 people left over sitting on the waiting If you do make it there,
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  SPEAKER_00: come to see me as I will be doing content all day.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll be recording some podcasts as well as doing some man on the street type of interviews.
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  SPEAKER_00: So come see me while you're there.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you make it in again,
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  SPEAKER_00: register today by going to climatecapitalsummit.com to request your invite.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we'll see you at the summit.