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Steve, Wendy, welcome. Steve to
you, first.

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Tell me more, if you would,
about the New York Climate

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Exchange: how you started, the
work you do, your ambitions.

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Brand new, day six on the job.

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So, cut me a little slack. The
Exchange was really created over

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the last two years.

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It was the vision of the of the
city of New York to create a

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climate campus that would focus
attention around the city.

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It's going to be part think
tank, part do tank, part

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incubator for climate
technology, part academic

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institution. We'll actually host
students on the island.

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So we're going to cover a lot of
territory.

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We're going to focus both on New
York, but what New York does or

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focuses on, is relevant to the
rest of the world.

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So we have both a local and a
global scope.

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In the short term,

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let's just look at the year
ahead.

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What are your priorities there?

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It's a city with 520 miles of
coastline.

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That means I'm relevant to other
coastal cities in the US, around

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the world.

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Some of the conversations I've
been having here at COP, there

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are folks who are saying, "if
you're going to focus on coastal

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resilience, we want to be a part
of that conversation."

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They're coming from island
communities, not just big

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cities, so that'll be one thing.

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Technology incubation is going
to be another key area for us,

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but one of the things I'm really
excited about: climate literacy,

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helping to train middle school
students, high school students

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to think about the future.

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This is relevant to their
college choice, relevant to

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their job choices in the future.

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We want to build that knowledge
base.

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Wendy, why should the private
sector be partnering with

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organizations like the NYCE, in
your mind?

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Well, corporations are our route
to scaling and commercializing

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the technologies we need for net
zero.

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They are frankly our only route
for getting the magnitude of the

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technology in place that we
need.

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And so, what the New York
Climate Exchange offers is a

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very dynamic ecosystem where we
are bringing business,

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philanthropy, government,
communities all together to

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accelerate the pace at which we
can scale the technologies that

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we need.

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It's a place where you've got
access to those technologies.

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You can facilitate access to the
IP rights.

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You've got access to the
financing that's needed in the

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right places at the right time.

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And so it's a really unique
ecosystem that can accelerate

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everything we're trying to do
for net zero.

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Wendy, Steve, thank you so much.