Transatlantic Climate Breakfast in NYC w/ Steffi Lemke: NbS for climate

The Transatlantic Climate Breakfast comes to New York Climate Week with special guest Steffi Lemke, current Green Party member of the German Bundestag and former Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection. New York-based practitioners and policy experts, including Elizabeth Stoehr from the Jamaica Bay Rockaway Park Conservancy, will join to discuss how nature-based solutions are reshaping cities’ responses to climate change.

For those wishing to join remotely, we will offer a hybrid dial-in. Please select the appropriate ticket when registering.

Our New York event partner offers a trans-Atlantic platform across society, culture, and ideas to explore the many challenges and opportunities of our time. We are grateful for this opportunity to convene in New York City.

At the Transatlantic Climate Breakfast series, hosted by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany; the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington, DC; the Friedrich Ebert Foundation USA & Canada; and E3G, participants exchange views with experts in the US and Europe on various challenges in the climate and energy field. The goal is to foster a resilient network of transatlantic climate experts.

Special Opportunity: Walking tour and sunset reception at Jamaica Bay

We are happy to partner with JBRPC to offer a guided tour of the nature restoration and living shoreline work on Jamaica Bay, followed by a late-afternoon reception on the roof at The Rockaway Hotel. If you are interested, select the associated ticket on the registration page in addition to your ticket for the breakfast. Spaces are limited.

Participants meet at 12:30pm at the Wall Street/Pier 11 ferry terminal in Manhattan. We'll take the 12:50 Rockaway ferry, arriving at 1:46. A van will drive participants to the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge visitor center for the walking tour which begins at 2pm. At 4pm, the van brings participants to The Rockaway Hotel for an oceanside sunset reception. The 6:22 ferry returns to Wall Street/Pier 11 at 7:19.

There is no cost to participants. The tour and reception are made possible through support from the JBRPC and Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Washington, DC.

With the walking tour sold out so fast:

Another special opportunity: Jamaica Bay Boat Tour, on Friday, September 26Explore Jamaica Bay from the deck of a hybrid boat, R/V CUNY I, owned and operated by Kingsborough Community College. Our tour will start at Kingsborough College and is guided by experts from Jamaica Bay Rockaway Parks Conservancy.

We are happy to partner with the German-American Nature-Based Solutions Exchange, GANBASE and POCACITO on this one.

The German-American Nature-Based Solutions Exchange (GANBASE) offers stakeholders in the field of nature conservation and environmental protection the opportunity to exchange ideas on nature-based solutions (NbS) across the Atlantic.What better way to close-out New York Climate Week?Sign-up here:https://POCACITOatNYCW2025.eventbrite.com

Steffi Lemke is a current member of the German Bundestag for the Green Party and served as Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection in Germany’s previous traffic-light coalition. She was a founding member of the Green Party in the former German Democratic Republic in 1990. Her focus topics are democracy and the environment and how these two interact:

“For me, environmental and consumer policy serve the causes of freedom, justice, and the protection of our natural resources. Preserving democracy in an intact environment is my guiding principle.”

Steffi Lemke

Elizabeth Stoehr is the Deputy Director of the Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy, leading initiatives that integrate Nature-Based Solutions into urban climate resilience, restoration, and community engagement. She oversees projects that connect people to coastal ecosystems through stewardship, workforce development, and innovative partnerships that merge science, technology, and nature.

https://www.jbrpc.org/

Jamaica Bay is New York City’s largest and most ecologically productive open space — an unparalleled oasis of nature covering 44 square miles of open water, tidal wetlands, and coastal parklands altogether twice the size of Manhattan — that directly serves more than 1 million New Yorkers who live in adjacent neighborhoods and more than 3 million who live within its catchment area in southeastern Brooklyn and Queens.https://www.jbrpc.org/

Host or Publisher Max Gruenig