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NOTE: Registration is REQUIRED.
Join Pratt Institute's Sustainable Environmental Systems program for our third annual just energy transition event during NYC Climate Week. Global & local experts will join in conversation across just energy challenges, solutions, & perspectives with a particular focus on the rapid expansion of energy-hungry datacenters powering artificial intelligence (AI).
Experts working on local & global energy issues will come together to discuss new policy dynamics, systemic & historic barriers in realizing a true Just Transition, & how these new datacenters could get us off track. This timely discussion will happen during the UN General Assembly & NYC Climate Week 2026, where key climate & energy transition issues will be at the center of next steps for the sustainable development goals & the broader theme of this year's Climate Week.
Key themes of the conversation will include: decarbonization, climate finance, climate diplomacy, infrastructure, the path to net zero, water, tech & AI, incentives for transition, green economy, & the SDGs.
The panel will be feature local & global perspectives in a conversation moderated by a recent Pratt SES alumna, Jen Hung:
Panelists:
Martha Molfetas | Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute; Senior Policy Consultant & Writer: Martha Molfetas is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute's Graduate Center for Planning & the Environment, where she teaches Environmental Economics. Martha is a senior climate & energy policy consultant, writer, & strategist with over 17-years of experience helping NGOs, think tanks, & businesses unpack climate, environmental justice, resource conflict, sustainable development, & global policy issues with organizations ranging from Dalberg Research to Transparency International, NRGI & Oil Change International to name a few. She was formerly a Senior Fellow working on just energy transition at New America. Her work has been published in: Current Affairs, The World Politics Review, The Global Policy Journal, Policy Mic, Common Dreams, & others.
Summer Sandoval | Academic Coordinator, Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute & Community Investment & Implementation Director, USDN: Summer Sandoval is the Community Investment & Implementation Director at Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN), where she supports local governments & communities in navigating funding opportunities & realizing their projects to advance equitable climate action. Summer is also the Academic Coordinator & a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute's Graduate Center for Planning & the Environment, where she teaches Urban Energy Management. Summer has worked at the intersection of climate, environmental, & energy justice in community-based organizations & city government.
Rami Dinnawi | Program Director, North Star Fund: Rami Dinnawi is a Lebanese/Palestinian grassroots activist based in New York City. Informed by generational knowledge of people's struggle for self-determination, Rami strives to ground his work within these historical legacies. He is currently serving as the NYC Program Director at North Star Fund. Prior to joining North Star Fund, Rami worked extensively in the New York environmental justice movement space, as the environmental justice campaign & policy manager at El Puente. Rami is currently serving on the Advisory Committee of the Tishman Environment & Design Center at The New School. With over a decade of organizing experience, Rami's commitment extends beyond borders, as he actively engages with activism & movements on a global scale.
Pierre Canet | Global Head of Public Affairs & Policy, Client Earth: Pierre leads ClientEarth's Global Public Affairs & Policy team, overseeing the organisation's influence on decision-makers to achieve the systems change pursued in its strategy across the world. Before joining ClientEarth, Pierre was the Executive Director of Advocacy at WWF in France where he worked for a decade leading campaigns & programs on a diversity of environmental issues, from climate & energy to nature & plastics, collaborating at multiple levels throughout the WWF's global network. Prior to this, Pierre worked with the United Nations in New York on the preparation of the Rio+20 Summit & corporate climate engagement. He engaged significantly with activities around the Climate COP21 to influence the establishment of the Paris Agreement, & has substantial experience in building & developing high-impact activities from newly-established teams.
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