🥵 Climate migrants and my experience in New York for Climate Week + Bonus photos of our family office event!🗽

Last week, I was at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, while 12,000 climate migrants on boats sowed chaos between European countries. Welcome to the Climate Tech Week.

My takeaways of history’s biggest Climate Action gathering:

I was there for the biggest Climate Conference in history. Here are my takeaways:

1. Migrants vs. climate cocktails

Before going any further I wanted to put things in perspective and mention a dichotomia that can’t get out of my mind:

While many cocktails and parties were happening in New York for UNGA/Climate Week; Europe was seeing an historical record of migrants with more than 12,000 people flooding within a week, into the small island of Lampedusa in Italy.

A few numbers on the topic of climate migrants:

• By 2020, that number had risen to 30.7 million migrants per year—three times more than the number displaced by war and violence.

• The number of people living in coastal areas at high risk of flooding has risen from 160 million to 260 million in the past 30 years.

• By 2050, the total number of displaced people could rise to as many as 1.2 billion.

• 95% Climate and conflict displacement often dovetail: according to the UNHCR, 95 pe…