The $440M Bet to Reinvent Climate Innovation | NY Climate Exchange

<p>Climate change may be one of the biggest forces reshaping the global economy, yet we still treat climate collaboration like a pop-up event. </p><p>The New York Climate Exchange wants to change that with a $440M first phase on Governors Island that brings business, universities, government, and innovators together year-round.</p><p>Guest bio:</p><p>Sanjayan Muttulingam is CEO of the New York Climate Exchange and former CEO of Conservation International. A scientist, conservation leader, and former CBS News contributor, he has spent his career connecting climate science, capital, business, and public engagement.</p><p>Company summary:</p><p>The New York Climate Exchange is building a global climate hub on Governors Island, minutes from Wall Street. Its planned mass-timber, geothermal, and solar-powered campus will combine research, education, workforce development, business collaboration, and convening space, with ambitions to eventually inspire similar exchanges in cities worldwide.—</p><p>Seven things you’ll learn in this episode:</p><p>1. Build for permanent problems. Don’t treat enduring challenges like pop-ups.</p><p>2. Sell opportunity, not fear. Customers need a reason to want the future.</p><p>3. Make the economics work. Impact without profitability won’t scale.</p><p>4. Execution beats commitments. Ambition is easy; delivery is hard.</p><p>5. Ask for help. Do your homework first, then make the ask.</p><p>6. Protect your top three. Let lesser priorities fall off the list.</p><p>7. Think in decades. Build around forces that outlast short-term cycles.</p><p><br></p><p>—</p><p><br></p><p>Four more things:</p><p><br></p><p>Join our private CEO peer group in energy, infrastructure, industrial tech, and climate tech: </p><p>→<a href="http://entrepreneursforimpact.com"> <u>⁠entrepreneursforimpact.com⁠</u></a></p><p><br></p><p>Join 40,000+ and read our free Climate CEOs newsletter:</p><p>→<a href="https://entrepreneursforimpact.substack.com/"> <u>⁠entrepreneursforimpact.substack.com</u></a></p><p><a href="https://entrepreneursforimpact.substack.com/"><u>⁠</u></a></p><p>Help our podcast guests and leave a rating or review on Apple or Spotify.</p><p>→ Thanks in advance!</p><p><br></p><p>Join 97,000+ and take my course, Renewable Energy &amp; Green Building Entrepreneurship:</p><p>→<a href="http://www.coursera.org/learn/renewable-energy-entrepreneurship"> <u>⁠coursera.org/learn/renewable-energy-entrepreneurship</u></a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>