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Sustain What? Teaching Climate Change Education in Schools of Education

One path to boosting students’ capacity to understand climate change and climate choices emerges through improving climate change education in schools of education.

Join Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School in a brainstorm with two professors testing fresh approaches, along with some of their students. His guests are Jing Lin, Harold R. W. Benjamin Professor of International Education, University of Maryland College of Education, and Oren Pizmony-Levy, Associate Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, director of the Teachers College Initiative for Sustainable Futures, and Co-Director of the New York City Partnership for Sustainability Education.

Oren Pizmony-Levy
https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/op2183/
Jing Lin
https://education.umd.edu/directory/jing-lin

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LEAP Spring'23 Lecture in Climate Data Science: ROSE YU (UCSD)

Title: "Physics-Guided Deep Learning for Climate Dynamics"

Thursday, Mar. 30, 2023

3:30 - 5:00 pm (EST)

In-person @ The Innovation Hub + via Zoom

Registration

In this April virtual Film Club event, join fellow alumni from the MIT Club of Boston for a panel discussion of the 2004 film “Ike: Countdown to D-day”. This is the story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. The film recounts many of the trials and tribulation Ike had to face, including the many prima donnas surrounding him (Patton, Montgomery and especially de Gaulle) and the need for tact and diplomacy to bring all sides together. This is not a film about war but, rather, about a man who has the courage to take on the role of supreme commander and negotiate layer upon layer of complexities in preparation for an unprecedented invasion. This is a study about the balance of power and responsibility and making good and difficult decisions, again and again. Below is the link to a free version of the film on youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1SM7xWQ30I Our discussion leaders will be: Andrew Silver Film director/producer, MIT and Sloan Alum, doctorate from HBS author of A Film Directors Approach to Managing Creativity for the HBR. Chris Boebel Media Development Director, Office of Open Learning, MIT. Chris co-directed Life After Three Mile Island, a 2004 film which examines the legacy of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident through the lens of the nearby community of Middletown, Pennsylvania. The film explores the political, environmental, and psychological effects of the accident on area residents. David M. Gute is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University where he leads the Environmental Health Faculty group.

It has been more than six years since COP 21 was held in Paris in December 2015. We’re now able to take a step back, take stock, and ask some important questions about the Paris process: How can very ambitious emissions reduction goals be met by voluntary national commitments? Do commitments translate into transformative policies? What are the most promising mechanisms, initiatives, and developments that could enable developing countries to deliver on ambitious emissions reduction targets? How does the formal regime (post-Paris process) interact with initiatives, actions and commitments from the industrial and financial sectors? How will the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine impact international climate policy? The Center on Global Energy Policy and the Columbia Global Centers | Paris will host a panel of experts to address these questions, and more.

Moderator:

Pierre Noël, Global Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA


Panelists:

Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Columbia University; Alliance (Visiting) Professor, Sciences Po; and Centennial (Visiting) Professor, London School of Economics Amy Dahan, Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS (Paris, France) Paul Watkinson, Counsellor to Director for European and International Action, Ministry for Ecological Transition, France – former chief negotiator, former chair of Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice of UNFCCC

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This webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with access details. The event will be recorded and the video recording will be added to our website following the event.

This event is open to press, and registration is required to attend. For media inquiries or requests for interviews, please contact Natalie Volk ([email protected]).

For more information about the event, please contact [email protected].

Visions of The Future: Using Art and Storytelling to Confront Climate Anxiety [formerly "Climate Doom and Eco-Anxiety"]

This will be a Q&A panel event with four panelists working on climate change and the way it shapes mental health, media, art, and activism. Climate anxiety is the feelings of grief, despair, angst, and doom surrounding the deterioration of the climate. Climate anxiety is on the rise, 2/3rds of young Americans and over half of all Americans are anxious about its effect on their mental health. As young people witness slow action to address climate change, this feeling of anxiety continues to grow. The panelists will delve into how various forms of art and activism can foster hope and engagement as we work through climate anxiety. The audience will learn more about resources and opportunities to address mental health while staying active in pushing for change. This conversation will be hosted over Zoom and will be moderated by Columbia undergraduate student and Columbia Climate Conversations creator, Lauren Ritchie. The event will be open to anyone who RSVPs, not limited to only Columbia students.

Climate LIVE K12: An Introduction to Green Spaces- Build Your Own!

Climate LIVE K12 (formerly EI LIVE K12) is dedicated to bringing the science of sustainability to K12 students, educators, and parents.

About this Event

Target Audience: Grades 9-12, Undergraduates, Educators, the Public

There is a important connection between green spaces and environmental justice. Join this session to learn about the many benefits of green spaces and how you can build your own with houseplants!

A link to join the session will be provided to all registered participants 24 hours in advance.

If you would like to submit any questions before the event, please send them to Laurel Zaima-Sheehy ([email protected])

Climate LIVE K12: Everything You Wanted to Know About Climate Mobility But Were Afraid to Ask

Climate LIVE K12 (formerly EI LIVE K12) is dedicated to bringing the science of sustainability to K12 students, educators, and parents.

About this Event

Presenter: Alex de Sherbinin, Senior Research Scientist and Associate Director for Science Applications, Center for International Earth Science Information Network

Target Audience: Grades 9-12, Undergraduate, Educators, the Public

Climate change is slowly reshaping settlement patterns as humans respond to increasing variability and extremes. People may move voluntarily, they may be forced or encouraged to move through incentives, or they may be displaced and either stay in their new location or return. We will explore these topics as they related to climate mobility in both high and low income settings throughout the world, including the implications for climate justice.

A link to join the session will be provided to all registered participants 24 hours in advance.

If you would like to submit any questions before the event, please send them to Laurel Zaima-Sheehy ([email protected])

Sustain What? A Lawyer and a Photographer Explore Climate Resilience and its Absence

Join longtime climate journalist Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School with Loyola University New Orleans environmental law professor and author Rob Verchick and the artist and photographer Virginia Hanusik.

Verchick’s new book, "The Octopus in the Parking Garage" (Columbia University Press) cuts deep behind the overused word resilience to reveal the traits and capacities necessary to live with climate and coastal change.
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-octopus-in-the-parking-garage/9780231555104

Hanusik, long based in south Louisiana, explores the interplay of landscape, culture and the built environment in images, writing and presentations.

Her website: http://www.virginiahanusik.com
Hanusik's work is currently in an exhibition and event series called Periphery, at the MAS Context Reading Room in Chicago:
https://mascontext.com/events/periphery

Please click here for more information and viewing options; https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/a-lawyer-and-a-photographer-explore-climate-resilience-and-its-absence

Registration is free but required. Please register here. (You will automatically receive a Zoom link to join the event upon registration).

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, in line with the Paris Agreement, requires significant reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHG) by 2030 and net-zero GHG emissions by mid-century, and ultimately depends on a rapid shift away from fossil fuels.

As we take measures to decarbonize the global energy system, we also need to consider the distributional equity impacts of the energy transition on workers, communities, states, and foreign and domestic investors, and to reflect on the role that international and domestic legal frameworks play and should play in addressing those impacts.

The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law - joint centers of the Earth Institute / Columbia Climate School and Columbia Law School at Columbia University - will co-host a 90-minute webinar on April 14 at 9am EST / 3pm CEST, focusing on legal approaches to compensation for a just energy transition.

Webinar discussions will cover, among others, the following topics:

A critique of the issue of compensation under investment treaties, including the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), from a climate change perspective A review of arbitral tribunals’ approaches to the valuation of fossil fuel assets in selected investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) cases A case study of Germany's compensation scheme for lignite producers, as an example of a compensation scheme under domestic law A discussion of possible principles or criteria on compensation for a just energy transition under domestic and international law, taking into account the impact of the transition on workers, communities, states, and companies

Moderator:

Michael Burger, Executive Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Panelists:

Martin Dietrich Brauch, Senior Legal and Economics Researcher, CCSI Kyla Tienhaara, Canada Research Chair in Economy and Environment, School of Environmental Studies and the Department of Global Development Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Blanca Gómez de la Torre, Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution: Litigation and Arbitration, ECIJA GPA; former National Director for International Affairs and Arbitration at the Office of the Attorney-General Office of Ecuador Sarah Brown, Senior Energy & Climate Analyst, Ember
Sustain What? Can Congress Get Beyond Posturing as Energy and Climate Crises Collide?

Join host Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School and Bulletin journalists Antonio Mora and Nina Ignaczak (Michigan Climate News) in a live look at paths to congressional action on climate-safe energy policy after years of partisan paralysis.

Our special guest is Representative Sean Casten of the 6th District of Illinois - a member of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis - and we’re still working on getting a member of the Republican House Conservative Climate Caucus.

Mora's "A View from the Center" column: https://aviewfromthecenter.bulletin.com/
Ignaczak's Michigan Climate News: https://planetmichigan.bulletin.com/

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House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis
https://climatecrisis.house.gov/

House Conservative Climate Caucus:
https://curtis.house.gov/conservative-climate-caucus/

Please click here for more information and viewing options. https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/can-congress-get-beyond-posturing-as-energy-and-climate-crises-collidequestion

Building upon the past 12 Columbia Climate Conversations focused on climate and social justice, the Environmental Justice Summit event invites individuals to learn more about representation and inclusivity from keynote Leah Thomas, founder of Intersectional Environmentalist.

This registration is for virtual viewing of the keynote address. If you would like to attend the Summit in-person, please register here: https://events.columbia.edu/go/enviro_justice_summit

Leah Thomas is an eco-communicator, aka an environmentalist with a love for writing and creativity, based in Ventura, CA. She’s passionate about advocating for and exploring the relationship between social justice and environmentalism. She is the founder of the eco-lifestyle blog @greengirlleah and The Intersectional Environmentalist Platform, which is a resource and media hub that aims to advocate for environmental justice + inclusivity within environmental education + movements. Her articles have appeared in Vogue, Elle, The Good Trade, and Youth to the People and she has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, W Magazine, Domino, GOOP and numerous podcasts. She has a B.S. in Environmental Science and Policy from Chapman University and worked for the National Park Service and Patagonia HQ before pursuing environmentalism full time. Learn more about Leah and her mission.

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) presents its climate forecast briefing. The IRI's seasonal, sub-seasonal and ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) forecasts are discussed in this monthly briefing by IRI climate scientists Azhar Ehsan and Bohar Singh. For more information, please visit: https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/

Recordings of the briefing are posted at https://iri.columbia.edu/enso

Join fellow MIT alumni for a virtual discussion of the book Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar on Thursday, April 18, at 7PM.An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life - the humble parking spot. Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow citizens over parking spots. But even when we don’t resort to violence, we routinely do ridiculous things for parking, contorting our professional, social, and financial lives to get a spot. Indeed, in the century since the advent of the car, we have deformed - and in some cases demolished - our homes and our cities in a Sisyphean quest for cheap and convenient car storage. As a result, much of the nation’s most valuable real estate is now devoted exclusively to empty and idle vehicles, even as so many Americans struggle to find affordable housing. Parking determines the design of new buildings and the fate of old ones, patterns of traffic and the viability of transit, neighborhood politics and municipal finance, the quality of public space, and even the course of floodwaters. Can this really be the best use of our finite resources and space? Why have we done this to the places we love? Is parking really more important than anything else? These are the questions Slate staff writer Henry Grabar sets out to answer, telling a mesmerizing story about the strange and wonderful superorganism that is the modern American city. In a beguiling and often absurdly hilarious mix of history, politics, and reportage, Grabar brilliantly surveys the pain points of the nation’s parking crisis, from Los Angeles to Disney World to New York, stopping at every major American city in between. He reveals how the pathological compulsion for car storage has exacerbated some of our most acute problems - from housing affordability to the accelerating global climate disaster - ultimately, lighting the way for us to free our cities from parking’s cruel yoke. **Please read this book in advance of the discussion** A link to the Zoom call will be provided by e-mail to those registered. ----------------------- For those of you who live in the Boston area, the Lexington, MA League of Women Voters will be having a conversation with the author of "Paved Paradise," Henry Grabar, on April 25, 2035 at 6:30 pm at Estabrook Hall in the Cary Memorial Building, 1605 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA 02420. Further information is available in the League of Women Voters February 2024 Bulletin, listed here.

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) presents its climate forecast briefing. The IRI's seasonal, sub-seasonal and ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) forecasts are discussed in this monthly briefing by IRI climate scientists Azhar Ehsan and Bohar Singh. For more information, please visit: https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/

Recordings of the briefing are posted at https://iri.columbia.edu/enso

In the face of the climate crisis, cities across the world are emerging as integral problem-solvers in the development of an effective, multi-layered response. This webinar aims to discuss some of the most impactful and sustainable urban food safety and security actions. It will take the form of an online dialogue between city officials from New York City, Rio de Janeiro, and Milan and center on how cities design and manage their food policies. The discussion will be moderated by City Diplomacy Lab Director Lorenzo Kihlgren Grandi.

The webinar is the second in a series of three entitled "Cities and Climate Solutions." The series celebrates the leadership of cities and provides inspiration for the thousands of cities and local governments around the world committed to shaping the global response to climate change.

Cities and Climate Solutions is a collaboration between the City Diplomacy Lab and Columbia Global Centers | Paris. This event is also co-sponsored by Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro.

Apr 19, 2023, 12:00 PM US Eastern time // 6:00 PM Paris time

Register here: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aBegviUlRrGN8W2YaLxm9Q

Join longtime journalist Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School in a LIVE exploration of "Not Too Late" – a book of essays, teaching guide and wider project aiming at energizing and empowering “newcomers to the climate movement and people who are already engaged but weary.”

Guest include book co-editor, author and activist Rebecca Solnit and contributors Jacquelyn Gill, a University of Maine paleoecologist and masterful writer and online communicator; and Ed Carr, a Clark University geographer and anthropologist and IPCC author focused on climate-resilient development.

Others may join, including Thelma Young Lutunatabua, who is book co-editor and a digital storyteller and activist, currently at The Solutions Project.

Explore the book and project: https://nottoolateclimate.com

Subscribe to Andy's Sustain What project: https://revkin.substack.com/subscribe

Please click here for more information and viewing options; https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/why-there-s-no-too-late-for-climate-action

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) presents its climate forecast briefing. The IRI's seasonal, sub-seasonal and ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) forecasts are discussed in this monthly briefing by IRI climate scientists Azhar Ehsan and Bohar Singh. For more information, please see: https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/
Climate Change and the Future of Our Cities: A Special Earth Day Presentation with Amale Andraos & Andrew Smyth, moderated by Alex Halliday

As the climate threat accelerates, the call for a rapid and sustained reduction in greenhouse gas emissions grows more urgent. Meeting these demands will require profound changes. How will our society make this shift and how will it reshape our lives and communities?

The world’s cities hold tremendous potential and promise.

On April 21, 2022 at 6 pm EDT, join us for a special Earth Day edition of Columba Climate School’s Earth Series, as Climate School Dean Alex Halliday welcomes two of Columbia University’s visionary innovators. Design researcher, Professor and Dean Emerita of Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) Amale Andraos and the Robert A.W and Christine S. Carleton Professor of Civil Engineering, smart cities expert Andrew Smyth will join Alex to talk about their pathbreaking work and their concepts for the future of the built environment.

The Speakers:

Amale Andraos is Professor and Dean Emerita of Columbia GSAPP.

Andrew Smyth is a Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University.

The Moderator:

Alex Halliday is the Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School and Director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute.

For more information and to register for this event please click here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-change-and-the-future-of-our-cities-tickets-305667007247

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (part of the Earth Institute) presents its monthly climate forecast briefing. The IRI's seasonal climate forecasts and ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) forecasts are discussed in this briefing by IRI's chief forecaster, Tony Barnston. In addition, the IRI climate group will present results of its experimental sub seasonal forecasts.
3rd Annual Earth Day Climate Change Symposium: The Current Climate Outlook and the Future of Clean Energy in New York and Beyond

Program Fee:
Free to City Bar and NYSBA members | $15 for non-member attorneys | Free to the public.
Members of the NYSBA and non-lawyers please call Customer Relations at 212.382.6663 to register.

Please Note: A final confirmation containing the Zoom link and Access Code to join the event will be sent to ALL registrants 2 hours prior to the start of the event.

Description:
The 3rd Annual Earth Day Climate Change Symposium will focus on climate change, and how mitigation efforts will require widespread electrification and clean energy. We will hear from a scientist regarding recent findings concerning climate change, and from other speakers about advances toward the goals of New York State’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, the steps taken by New York City with regard to clean energy including Local Law 97, and the challenges ahead on the local, state, and national levels, including work that must be done to achieve equity goals.

Speakers:
Ben Furnas, Executive Director, 2030 Project: A Cornell Climate Initiative
Michael B. Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School; author of Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States, among other works
Noah C. Shaw, Partner, Foley Hoag LLP
Ruth DeFries, University Professor, Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development, and Co-Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School, Columbia University
Rebecca Isacowitz, Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy

Moderator:
Carl Howard, Co-Chair, Global Climate Change Committee, New York State Bar Association Environmental and Energy Law Section; Assistant Regional Counsel, EPA, Region 2

For more information and to register for this event please click https://services.nycbar.org/EventDetail?EventKey=ENV042222&WebsiteKey=f71e12f3-524e-4f8c-a5f7-0d16ce7b3314

Join longtime journalist Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School in an exploration of the latest efforts to use film and TV to engage audiences with human-driven climate change.

Andy’s guests are:

Scott Z. Burns, writer, director and executive producer of the Apple TV+ series “Extrapolations” (Among many other credits, Burns also wrote the screenplay for the prescient 2011 pandemic thriller “Contagion”)

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1994243

Extrapolations is an eight-part limited series interlacing a globe-spanning, time-spanning set of climate stories from the near future. The final segment runs on Friday April 21.
Show info: https://apple.co/3Kwat2s

Anna Jane Joyner, founder of Good Energy, a nonprofit consultancy helping filmmakers tackle climate-related themes.
https://www.goodenergystories.com

Ben Eckersley, an early-career filmmaker focused on telling climate stories that reveal “how our economic needs conflict with environmental and ethical aspirations.”
https://www.animula.net

Please click here for more information and viewing options; https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/telling-climate-stories-on-screen

Advisory Opinions on Climate Change: An Overview of a Quartet of Simultaneous Requests

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This webinar will discuss the “quartet of initiatives” to request advisory opinions on climate change from these judicial bodies in three panels. Panel 1 discusses how we got there through a conversation with the campaigners and government representatives responsible for the mobilization to construct the requests. Panel 2 will invite a comparative analysis from legal experts on the legal questions posed to the judicial bodies. Panel 3 will provide some practical answers into the different legal processes and timelines moving forward.

Full program is listed below:

8.30 am: Welcome and Opening Statement: Maria Antonia Tigre, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School

8.45-9.45 am: Panel 1: How Did We Get Here? A Conversation with the Campaigners and Government Representatives

Moderator: Lea Main-Klingst

Speakers: Vishal Prasad, PISFCC; Payam Akhavan; Lúcia Solano, UN Mission of Colombia

9.45-10.45 am: Panel 2: Where Are We Now? The Legal Questions Posed to the Judicial Bodies

Moderator: Dina Lupin

Speakers: Julian Aguon and Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Blue Ocean Law; Irini Papanicolopulu (Milano Bicocca); Claudia de Windt

10.45-11.00 am: BREAK

11.00-12.00 pm: Panel 3: Where Are We Going? Next Steps and the Legal Processes Moving Forward

Moderator: Armando Rocha

Speakers: Julia Sherman, Three Crowns LLP; Rozemarijn Roland Holst, Durham University; Rodrigo Jose da Costa Sales, Open Society Foundation; Yusra Suedi, LSE

Building a Climate Resistant NYC presented by taste of science NYC!

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Join us to hear from two speakers who work at understanding the effect of climate change on NYC and how to increase resiliency through science. We are proud to host two NYC speakers researching climate impact on our economy, livelihood and climate justice.

Our Speakers Include:

Agata Poniatowski (she/her): Billion Oyster Project: Restoration through Education and Education Through Restoration

When Agata learned the definition of endangered in elementary school, the Long Island, New York native immediately knew her answer to that recurring question: what do you want to be when you grow up? From founding a Save the Pandas club at school to taking her passion into adulthood by interning for several companies like WCS Water Quality Lab, World Cares Center Inc. Outreach, and WWF Freshwater in the Living Himalayas, Agata’s professional trajectory was always met with purpose and intention. As Billion Oyster Project’s Outreach and Engagement Manager, the Oyster Research Station Program engaging with schools throughout New York City, providing outdoor education opportunities, community engagement and developing harbor related informal education curriculum, Agata continues to expand on her previous roles of Research Associate Technician, and Education Outreach Coordinator, plus effectively utilizing her degree and studies from CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies in the Sustainable Development and Natural Resource Management department.
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Marco Tedesco (ki/kin): From Greenland to Harlem: impacts of climate change on socially vulnerable populations


Marco is a Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and Adjunct Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). He received his Laurea degree and PhD in Italy, from the University of Naples and the Italian National Research Council. He then spent five years as a postdoc and research scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He moved to CCNY in 2008 as an Assistant Professor where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012. During his time at CCNY, he founded and directed the Cryosphere Processes Laboratory and was a rotating Program Manage at the National Science Foundation between 2013 and 2015. In January 2016, he joined Columbia University. Dr. Tedesco’s research focuses on the dynamics of seasonal snowpack, ice sheet surface properties, high latitude fieldwork, global climate change and its implications on the economy, real estate and climate justice.
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Avoiding catastrophic climate change will require a rapid and sustained reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. While more than 1,000 companies with combined revenue over $10 trillion have already pledged to reduce emissions to net zero, there is no clear path for effectively reaching this goal. The 2022 Climate Business & Investment Conference will hear from leading academics and practitioners on the latest net zero business strategies and the implications for climate change. The event will feature speakers from Beyond Meat, Boston Consulting Group, Carbon Direct, Climeworks, Columbia University, L'Oreal, Lowercarbon Capital, Three Cairns Group, and more. RSVP ? Registration closes at 5 PM on Wednesday, April 27. ----- About the event This conference - a joint effort by the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School and Columbia Climate School - brings together climate academics and business leaders to understand how new advances in research and practice can inform investments in specific sectors of the global economy. The forum explores topics that address the value and opportunity of using a science-based approach to inform and guide business and investment decisions.
Sustain What? Jigar Shah on Sustaining CarbonProgressin an Energy Crisis

Join host Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School in a straight-talking brainstorm on what’s really needed to cut the carbon out of the American energy menu in these turbulent times. His guest is Jigar Shah, the longtime renewable-energy investor who now leads the Department of Energy’s loan program.

For more information and viewing options please click here: https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/jigar-shah-on-sustaining-carbon-progress-in-an-energy-crisis

Shah's bio is here:
https://www.energy.gov/lpo/person/jigar-shah

Explore more then 250 conversations on sustainability and climate challenges:
http://j.mp/sustainwhatlive

Sign up for alerts on Revkin's Sustain What webcasts and his newsletter here:
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Sustain What? Friday News Review - Methane in the Hot Seat

On Fridays, join Andy Revkin and/or Dale Willman of the Columbia Climate School’s Initiative on Communication & Sustainability for a brisk review of the week’s hot climate and sustainability news and a look at brewing issues that hide behind sound bites and tweets.

Guests this week include members of the Environmental Defense Fund team who have spent more than a decade conducting research that has greatly clarified both the extent of the methane problem facing the oil and gas industry and paths to fixing it.

See: http://edf.org/methane-timeline

Subscribe to Sustain What (webcast alerts and newsletter): http://j.mp/revkinbulletin

http://climate.columbia.edu

Please click here for more information and viewing options; https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/friday-news-review-methane-in-the-hot-seat

Lighting the Way: Sharing Our Energy Journeys
February 27 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Organization: Faith Alliance For Climate Solutions
Source: Faith Alliance For Climate Solutions
VACS: A New Approach to Climate Resilience and Food Security
February 27 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
At the inaugural seminar of the Climate School's Food for Humanity Initiative, a group of experts will discuss Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils in Africa (VACS): A New Approach to Climate Resilience and Food Security. VACS aims to shine a light on opportunities that traditional and indigenous crops provide to build climate-resilient food systems. Register For Webinar Here

VACS was launched in February 2023 in partnership with the African Union (AU), The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the Office of theU.S. Special Envoy for Food Security at the State Department, with an initial focus on the African continent.

A team of researchers based at the Climate School and NASA GISS participate in VACS, conducting research to better understand how underutilized crops can be used to address the challenges African food systems face under climate change.

SPEAKERS: Cynthia Rosenzweig- Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and an Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia Climate School Jessica Fanzo-Professor of Climate and Director of the Food for Humanity Initiative, Columbia Climate School Lew Ziska- Associate Professor in the Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University Kevin Karl- Research Associate at the Center for Climate Systems Research
Organization: Columbia

Source: Columbia
Harvard Speaks on Climate Change: Green Building Design in the Age of Renewables
February 28 | 4:30 PM
Zoom Harvard Graduate School of Design Professors Holly Samuelson and Jonathan Grinham will discuss how green building design is adapting and evolving in the context of renewable energy sources. The faculty will explore how renewable energy sources are integrated into building design to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and minimize carbon emissions. ... Read more about Harvard Speaks on Climate Change: Green Building Design in the Age of Renewables
Organization: Harvard
Source: Harvard
Climate Justice Series: Resource Extraction and Energy Equity
March 1 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

At a time when India is increasing both its reliance on renewables and coal mining to meet energy demand, it faces deep challenges in ensuring its transition is equitable and just. On March 1, please join us for “Resource Extraction and Energy Equity,” an event where we will explore the current situation in India, what policies are being proposed, and the future of marginalized coal-communities.

This event is the latest installment of a series examining social and economic justice issues related to climate change and the energy transition in India. It is co-sponsored by the India Program at the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia SIPA, the Ambedkar Initiative at the Institute for Comparative Literature & Society, the SIPA Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Climate & Engagement (DEICE) Committee, Columbia Climate School, and South Asia Institute.

This session will feature two experts whose research and reporting in the coal heartlands of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh bring attention to the importance of bottom-up engagement in shaping just transitions. Scholar Dr. Vasudha Chhotray and award-winning journalist Ankur Paliwal will be in a conversation moderated by Dr. Kaushik Deb, senior research scholar and the lead of the India Program at CGEP.

Prof. Melissa Lott, senior director of research at CGEP and a professor of practice at Columbia’s Climate School, will deliver welcome remarks. Deepali Srivastava, editor of CGEP’s Energy Explained, is the convenor of this series that honors the legacy of Columbia University alum and India’s civil rights icon, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891–1956), an economist and an environmental rights leader, whose vision builds a bridge from past to present.

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This webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with access details. The event will be recorded and the video recording will be added to our website following the event.

This event is open to press, and registration is required to attend. For media inquiries or requests for interviews, please contact CGEP Communications ([email protected]). For more information about the event, please contact [email protected].


Organization: Columbia

Source: Columbia
PSFC Seminar: J. Moody
March 5 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Abstract: Having achieved nuclear fusion target gain greater than 1, research on NIF continues to explore implosion designs that increase the fusion yield. ...
Organization: MIT
Source: MIT
Environmental Justice: Taking Stock of Justice40
March 6
A virtual event exploring the implementation of Justice40, the US federal government's largest environmental justice initiative
Organization: Resources for the Future
Source: Resources for the Future
Monthly Hub Meeting - Arlington
March 6 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Organization: Faith Alliance For Climate Solutions
Source: Faith Alliance For Climate Solutions
CJIT Workshop Series Teaching ClimateJustice Across the Curriculum
March 7 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

The Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit (CJIT) was created by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI) to support faculty in integrating climate justice into their courses. In these Zoom workshops, you will hear case studies on teaching climate justice across disciplines, and gain tips and strategies for including climate justice content & strategies in your teaching context.

Paul Gallay, Kytt MacManus, and Gregory Yetman, all affiliated with the Columbia Climate School, specialize in sustainable development, GIS analysis, climate resiliency, and more.

For the Zoom link and to register for this event, please click https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrcO-spjIiE9wSITORiPfXPgGKW9mZzcof#/registration


Organization: Columbia
Source: Columbia
Can Nuclear Power Be On Time and On Budget: A Discussion of Nuclear
March 8 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Historically construction of nuclear power plants has been over budget and over schedule, some materially so, leading to significant financial implications for the companies building them. This challenging nuclear construction history can provide a significant disincentive to companies and countries looking to build new nuclear power plants.

The Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs will host a discussion on how the historical challenges of nuclear power plant construction might be overcome. In particular, we will focus on a recently-completed series of large nuclear industry projects at a wide number of Department of Energy sites across the U.S., including several which were completed ahead of schedule and under budget. The panel includes two leaders of major recent successes, and we will discuss how lessons learned from these projects might provide blueprints for next generation nuclear power construction.

Moderators:

Honorable Paul Dabbar, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA, and former Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy Dr. Matt Bowen, Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA

Panelists:

Valerie McCain, Senior Vice President, Bechtel, and Project Director, Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, Hanford, WA. Former Project Manager Director of the Oak Ridge Uranium Processing Facility. Jim Blackenhorn, Senior Vice President, Head of Technical Services, Amentum, and responsible for the Oak Ridge gaseous diffusion plant nuclear project

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This webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with access details. The event will be recorded, and the video recording will be added to our website following the event.

This event is open to press, and registration is required to attend. For media inquiries or requests for interviews, please contact Natalie Volk ([email protected]).

For more information about the event, please contact [email protected].


Organization: Columbia

Source: Columbia
Climate LIVE K12: The Climate Symphony
March 8 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Climate LIVE K12: The Climate Symphony: How Climate Variability Impacts Global Rainfall Patterns

Climate LIVE K12 (formerly EI LIVE K12) is dedicated to bringing the science of sustainability to K12 students, educators, and parents.

About this Event

Presenter: Laurel Disera, PhD Student of International Research Institute for Climate and Society

Target Audience: Grades 8-12, Undergraduate, Educators, the Public

Climate variability plays an important role in the earth system and impacts rainfall differently from year to year and from decade to decade. This presentation will focus on different modes of climate variability and their impacts on rainfall, the difference between climate variability and climate change, and what happens when different modes of climate variability impact each other. The goal is to think of the climate system as an orchestra playing a symphony!

A link to join the session will be provided to all registered participants 24 hours in advance.

If you would like to submit any questions before the event, please send them to Laurel Zaima-Sheehy ([email protected])


Organization: Columbia

Source: Columbia
[EI LIVE K-12] What was the Little Ice Age Climate Period
March 9 | 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
K-12 Education What was the Little Ice Age Climate Period from the 14th to 19th Centuries and Why Do We Care?

Before the 20th century, from about 1400 AD to 1900 AD, glaciers were larger and climate was much colder than present. This period is known as the Little Ice Age in Europe and North America, and studying it might help us learn about present climate changes.

Presenter: Mike Kaplan, Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Target Audience: Grades 9-12

This event is free but registration is required.


Organization: Columbia
Source: Columbia
A Conversation on Climate Action Leadership with President Sally Kornbluth
March 10 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
MACA and the MIT Alumni Association are proud to announce a Conversation on Climate Action Leadership with MIT President Sally Kornbluth. In her inaugural remarks, President Kornbluth emphasized MIT’s responsibility to “marshal a bold and tenacious response to the climate crisis.” The MACA Roadmap highlights some of the commitments needed for climate action leadership, including an all-hands-on-deck approach and a willingness to collaborate at all levels. We invite you to join us for a virtual conversation with President Kornbluth about an ambitious new effort to focus MIT’s strength on achieving a set of critical missions in the fight against climate change.
Organization: MIT Alumni Association
Source: MIT Alumni Forum
2024 MIT Energy Conference
March 11 - 1:00 PM
2024 MIT Energy Conference, scheduled for March 11-12, 2024, is the largest student-led energy & climate conference in the US for many years since its inception in 2006. This year, under the theme “Short and Long: a Balanced Approach to the Energy Transition,” we aim to delve into both immediate and long-term strategies for an […] The post 2024 MIT Energy Conference first appeared on MIT Club of Northern California.
Organization: Club of Northern California
Source: MIT Alumni Forum
PSFC Semianr: K. Thome
March 12 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Abstract: Negative Triangularity (NT) is a potentially transformative scenario for fusion energy with its high-performance core, L-mode-like edge, and...
Organization: MIT
Source: MIT
Climate LIVE K12: Carbon Removal & Storage in a Just Transition
March 13 | 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Climate LIVE K12: The Role of Carbon Removal & Storage in a Just Energy Transition

Climate LIVE K12 (formerly EI LIVE K12) is dedicated to bringing the science of sustainability to K12 students, educators, and parents.

About this Event

Target Audience: Grades 9-12, Undergraduates, Educators, the Public

Carbon removal has been highlighted in IPCC reports as a critical pathway to decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors and in limiting global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees C by 2050. In this session, you will learn about various carbon removal solutions and policy perspectives. We will also discuss what it will take to scale up this nascent industry in ensuring a just energy transition.

A link to join the session will be provided to all registered participants 24 hours in advance.

If you would like to submit any questions before the event, please send them to Laurel Zaima-Sheehy ([email protected])


Organization: Columbia

Source: Columbia
MLK Scholar Presentation: Angélica María Mayolo...
March 13 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
"The Afro Inter-American Forum on Climate Change: Highlighting the key role of afro descendants for biodiversity conservation in the Americas" Synopsis:...
Organization: MIT
Source: MIT
Webinar - The Demography of Sustainable Human Wellbeing
March 14 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

PERN’s cyberseminar on “The Demography of Sustainable Human Wellbeing” is taking place from 14-21 March 2022. In collaboration with the Wittgenstein Center of Demography and Human wellbeing, the seminar aims to vet a newly proposed indicator of human wellbeing “Years of Good Life” (counting only years of life above minimum levels of physical and mental health, income, and subjective life satisfaction) by Lutz and others (see PNAS article). This indicator has been designed to have the potential to serve as a widely accepted criterion for sustainable development once feed-backs form environmental change and other possible trends are factored in.

On the first day of the cyberseminar, Monday 14 March at 14:00 UTC (10 am Eastern Time / 15:00 CET), a 1.5 hour webinar will take place with various expert contributions to the topic of human well-being. Some of the panelists will include:

Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge Wolfgang Lutz, Wittgenstein Center of Demography and Human Capital Jeff Sachs, Columbia University David Smith, The University of the West Indies

We look forward to welcoming you and having a fruitful discussion.

Click here to access the Zoom meeting at the time of the webinar.

For more information on how to participate, please visit https://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/cyberseminars#instructions


Organization: Columbia
Source: Columbia
How Biohydrogen Can Help Fight Climate Change
March 15 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Hydrogen, particularly green hydrogen produced from water electrolysis using renewable electricity, has received the lion’s share of attention due to its essential role in helping the world reach net-zero emissions by 2050. By comparison, little attention has been paid to biohydrogen (Bio-H2), a type of hydrogen produced from organic waste streams (e.g., agricultural waste) that can potentially yield a carbon-removing (or climate-positive) fuel when coupled with efficient carbon capture and storage. This carbon-negative hydrogen can offer a solution for decarbonizing energy-intensive industrial processes such as iron and steel production. At present, however, the wide deployment of carbon-negative Bio-H2 still faces considerable obstacles.

Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs to discuss key findings from its latest report on hydrogen, The Potential Role of Biohydrogen in the Net-Zero World: The Production and Applications of Carbon-Negative Hydrogen. The report explores the current state of play for Bio-H2 and its potential contribution to decarbonization efforts by examining its production options, carbon footprint, cost, potential applications, and policy options.


Moderator:

Anne-Sophie Corbeau, Global Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA


Panelists:

Emanuele Bianco, Programme Officer, International Renewable Energy Agency Zhiyuan Fan, Ph.D. student and Research Associate, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA Doris Fujii, Head of Hydrogen and CCUS Analysis, bp Yushan Lou, Research Associate, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA

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This webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will
receive a confirmation email with access details. The event will be recorded, and the video recording will be added to our website following the event.

This event is open to press, and registration is required to attend. For media inquiries or requests for interviews, please contact Natalie Volk ([email protected]).

For more information about the event, please contact [email protected].


Organization: Columbia

Source: Columbia
Monthly overview of IRI's Global Seasonal Climate Forecasts and ENSO status and forecast.
March 16 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) presents its climate forecast briefing. The IRI's seasonal, sub-seasonal and ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) forecasts are discussed in this monthly briefing by IRI climate scientists Azhar Ehsan and Bohar Singh. For more information, please see: https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/
Organization: Columbia
Source: Columbia
Monthly overview of IRI's Global Seasonal Climate Forecasts and ENSO status and forecast.
March 17 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (part of the Earth Institute) presents its monthly climate forecast briefing. The IRI's seasonal climate forecasts and ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) forecasts are discussed in this briefing by IRI's chief forecaster, Tony Barnston. In addition, the IRI climate group will present results of its experimental sub seasonal forecasts.
Organization: Columbia
Source: Columbia
Energy Policy Seminar
March 18 | 12:00 PM
Zoom & David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Room 414AB, Rubenstein Building, 79 JFK St, Cambridge

“Making Climate Policy: Why the Inflation Reduction Act Passed.”... Read more about Energy Policy Seminar
Organization: Harvard
Source: Harvard

Monthly overview of IRI's Global Seasonal Climate Forecasts and ENSO status and forecast.
March 20 | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) presents its climate forecast briefing. The IRI's seasonal, sub-seasonal and ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) forecasts are discussed in this monthly briefing by IRI climate scientists Azhar Ehsan and Bohar Singh. For more information, please visit: https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/

Recordings of the briefing are posted at https://iri.columbia.edu/enso


Organization: Columbia
Source: Columbia
Monthly Hub Meeting - Fairfax
March 21 | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Organization: Faith Alliance For Climate Solutions
Source: Faith Alliance For Climate Solutions
Monthly overview of IRI's Global Seasonal Climate Forecasts and ENSO status and forecast.
March 21 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) presents its climate forecast briefing. The IRI's seasonal, sub-seasonal and ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) forecasts are discussed in this monthly briefing by IRI climate scientists Azhar Ehsan and Bohar Singh. For more information, please visit: https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/

Recordings of the briefing are posted at https://iri.columbia.edu/enso


Organization: Columbia
Source: Columbia
Tree of Life Community Meeting
March 21 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Organization: Faith Alliance For Climate Solutions
Source: Faith Alliance For Climate Solutions
Sustainable Finance CPA Information Session
March 23 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

The Earth Institute and the School of Professional Studies present an online information session on the CPA in Sustainable Finance. The Certification in Sustainable Finance is a 12-credit program that prepares students to meet the growing demand for professionals who understand and can integrate the fundamentals of both corporate sustainability and financial analysis. During the online information session, prospective students will have the opportunity to learn about the program and ask questions. The Zoom link will be sent to registrants the day before the event.


Organization: Columbia
Source: Columbia
Climate School Justice Talk: Practical Environmental Justice Policy
March 24 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Climate School Justice Talk: Practical Environmental Justice Policy: How New York State Pioneered 'Justice40'” with Rachel Patterson, Policy Lead at Evergreen Action

In partnership with the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES), the Climate School is pleased to organize talks featuring leaders and experts in environmental and climate justice, with the goal to cover a broad range of topics and perspectives. Join us on Thursday, March 24, 11am-12pm via Zoom to hear from Rachel Patterson, Policy Lead at Evergreen Action. Patterson's talk, “Practical Environmental Justice Policy: How New York State Pioneered 'Justice40', will dive into New York's role in developing the Biden Administration's Justice40 Initiative. These talks are targeted at Climate School students, but are open to all Columbia affiliates.

Rachel Patterson is a policy lead at Evergreen Action and has experience working on policy in the areas of climate, energy, clean transportation and environmental justice. Prior to joining Evergreen, she was the Legislative and Climate Associate at Environmental Advocates NY, where she supported policy development, analysis and research and engaged with state legislators and coalitions. Rachel also served as an Excelsior Fellow for NYSERDA and briefly as the Senior Briefer for the Office of Governor Andrew Cuomo. Rachel holds an MPA from Columbia University, and B.A.s in Public Policy and Environmental Science from Mills College. Rachel is currently pursuing a J.D. at Albany Law. She is also active in her community, currently serving on the Albany Community Policing Accountability Committee and is a member of the Albany Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Rachel also serves as an alumni member of Columbia's Environmental Science and Policy Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee.

Register below to receive a Zoom link for the event.


Organization: Columbia

Source: Columbia
Sustain What? Building a Fire-Safe America in a Changing Climate
March 24 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Sustain What? Building a Fire-Safe America in a Changing Climate

Even as the United States grapples with the challenge of slowing global warming, Americans must also address the urgent need to shape more fire-safe communities across regions where human settlements have spread into fire-prone ecosystems and intensifying fires have increasingly, and devastatingly, been jumping from forests and grasslands into urban zones.

In this special Sustain What event, longtime climate journalist Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School explores solutions with Deanne Criswell, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Dr. Lori Moore Merrell, the U.S. Fire Administrator.

More:

Wildfire info: https://www.ready.gov/wildfires
U.S. Fire Administration: https://www.usfa.fema.gov/

One of Revkin's many articles on living with wildfire:

When Wildfire Comes to Town – Amid the Marshall Fire’s Urban Ashes, Hints of a Less Combustible Future: https://j.mp/urbanwildfirerisk

To view event please click https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/building-a-fire-safe-america-in-a-changing-climate#


Organization: Columbia
Source: Columbia
Energy Policy Seminar
March 25 | 12:00 PM
Zoom & David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Room 414AB, Rubenstein Building, 79 JFK St, Cambridge

“The Future of Resource Adequacy in a Decarbonized Grid"... Read more about Energy Policy Seminar
Organization: Harvard
Source: Harvard

Financing the Future: Investors and the Climate Crisis
March 27 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Register here

The consequences of our changing climate are exacting devastating and expensive damage to societies around the world. Decarbonizing our society is necessary and urgent. To get there will demand ingenuity but also investment. What are practical and actionable plans for investors to follow to alter the course of climate change? What are the potential risks and rewards?

Join us on Monday March 27, 2023 at 6 pm ET for our next Earth Series, Financing the Future: Investors and the Climate Crisis. Alex Halliday, Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School will be in conversation with two of Columbia’s most influential investment policy strategists, Caroline Flammer, Professor of International and Public Affairs and of Climate at Columbia University and Bruce Usher, Professor of Professional Practice and the Elizabeth B. Strickler '86 and Mark T. Gallogly '86 Faculty Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. They will present the latest information on the financial implications and opportunities of decarbonizing our world.


Organization: Columbia
Source: Columbia
U.S. C3E Women in clean energy seminar series:...
March 27 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Climate change presents a call to action to transform the energy ecosystem, requiring us to change how we’ve planned, fueled, and operated the grid over the...
Organization: MIT
Source: MIT
Teaching Climate Change Education in Schools of Education
March 28 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Sustain What? Teaching Climate Change Education in Schools of Education

One path to boosting students’ capacity to understand climate change and climate choices emerges through improving climate change education in schools of education.

Join Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School in a brainstorm with two professors testing fresh approaches, along with some of their students. His guests are Jing Lin, Harold R. W. Benjamin Professor of International Education, University of Maryland College of Education, and Oren Pizmony-Levy, Associate Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, director of the Teachers College Initiative for Sustainable Futures, and Co-Director of the New York City Partnership for Sustainability Education.

Oren Pizmony-Levy
https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/op2183/
Jing Lin
https://education.umd.edu/directory/jing-lin

Subscribe to Andy Revkin's Sustain What dispatches and webcasts:
http://j.mp/revkinbulletin

To view event, please click https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/teaching-climate-change-education-in-schools-of-education


Organization: Columbia
Source: Columbia
LEAP Spring'23 Lecture in Climate Data Science: ROSE YU (UCSD)
March 30 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

LEAP Spring'23 Lecture in Climate Data Science: ROSE YU (UCSD)

Title: "Physics-Guided Deep Learning for Climate Dynamics"

Thursday, Mar. 30, 2023

3:30 - 5:00 pm (EST)

In-person @ The Innovation Hub + via Zoom

Registration


Organization: Columbia
Source: Columbia
Panel Discussion of Film "Ike: Countdown to D-Day"
April 1 | 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
In this April virtual Film Club event, join fellow alumni from the MIT Club of Boston for a panel discussion of the 2004 film “Ike: Countdown to D-day”. This is the story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. The film recounts many of the trials and tribulation Ike had to face, including the many prima donnas surrounding him (Patton, Montgomery and especially de Gaulle) and the need for tact and diplomacy to bring all sides together. This is not a film about war but, rather, about a man who has the courage to take on the role of supreme commander and negotiate layer upon layer of complexities in preparation for an unprecedented invasion. This is a study about the balance of power and responsibility and making good and difficult decisions, again and again. Below is the link to a free version of the film on youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1SM7xWQ30I Our discussion leaders will be: Andrew Silver Film director/producer, MIT and Sloan Alum, doctorate from HBS author of A Film Directors Approach to Managing Creativity for the HBR. Chris Boebel Media Development Director, Office of Open Learning, MIT. Chris co-directed Life After Three Mile Island, a 2004 film which examines the legacy of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident through the lens of the nearby community of Middletown, Pennsylvania. The film explores the political, environmental, and psychological effects of the accident on area residents. David M. Gute is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University where he leads the Environmental Health Faculty group.
Organization: Club of Boston
Source: MIT Alumni Forum
Monthly Hub Meeting - Arlington
April 3 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Organization: Faith Alliance For Climate Solutions
Source: Faith Alliance For Climate Solutions
Governing the Climate? The Paris Agreement at Work
April 6 | 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

It has been more than six years since COP 21 was held in Paris in December 2015. We’re now able to take a step back, take stock, and ask some important questions about the Paris process: How can very ambitious emissions reduction goals be met by voluntary national commitments? Do commitments translate into transformative policies? What are the most promising mechanisms, initiatives, and developments that could enable developing countries to deliver on ambitious emissions reduction targets? How does the formal regime (post-Paris process) interact with initiatives, actions and commitments from the industrial and financial sectors? How will the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine impact international climate policy? The Center on Global Energy Policy and the Columbia Global Centers | Paris will host a panel of experts to address these questions, and more.

Moderator:

Pierre Noël, Global Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA


Panelists:

Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Columbia University; Alliance (Visiting) Professor, Sciences Po; and Centennial (Visiting) Professor, London School of Economics Amy Dahan, Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS (Paris, France) Paul Watkinson, Counsellor to Director for European and International Action, Ministry for Ecological Transition, France – former chief negotiator, former chair of Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice of UNFCCC

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This webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with access details. The event will be recorded and the video recording will be added to our website following the event.

This event is open to press, and registration is required to attend. For media inquiries or requests for interviews, please contact Natalie Volk ([email protected]).

For more information about the event, please contact [email protected].


Organization: Columbia

Source: Columbia

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In this April virtual Film Club event, join fellow alumni from the MIT Club of Boston for a panel discussion of the 2004 film “Ike: Countdown to D-day”. This is the story of the senior-level preparati ...
Organization: Club of Boston
Source: MIT Alumni Forum
April 3 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
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Organization: Faith Alliance For Climate Solutions
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It has been more than six years since COP 21 was held in Paris in December 2015. We’re now able to take a step back, take stock, and ask some important questions about the Paris process: How can very ...
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Organization: Columbia
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Climate LIVE K12: An Introduction to Green Spaces
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Organization: Columbia
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Organization: Columbia
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A Lawyer and a Photographer Explore Climate Resilience & its Absence
Sustain What? A Lawyer and a Photographer Explore Climate Resilience and its Absence

Join longtime climate journalist Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School with Loyola University New Or ...

Organization: Columbia
April 14 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Compensation for a Just Energy Transition to a Zero-Carbon World
Registration is free but required. Please register here. (You will automatically receive a Zoom link to join the event upon registration).
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Organization: Columbia
April 15 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Can Congress Get Beyond Posturing as Energy and Climate Crises...
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Join host Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School and Bulletin journalists Antonio Mora and Nina Igna ...

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April 15 | 1:00 PM
Environmental Justice Summit Keynote Webcast: Leah Thomas
Building upon the past 12 Columbia Climate Conversations focused on climate and social justice, the Environmental Justice Summit event invites individuals to learn more about representation and inclus ...
Organization: Columbia
April 17 | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Monthly overview of IRI's Global Seasonal Climate Forecasts and ENSO status and forecast.
The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) presents its climate forecast briefing. The IRI's seasonal, sub-seasonal and ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) forecasts are discus ...
Organization: Columbia
April 18 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Book Club: Paved Paradise
Join fellow MIT alumni for a virtual discussion of the book Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar on Thursday, April 18, at 7PM.An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly orig ...
Organization: Club of Boston
Source: MIT Alumni Forum
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Monthly Hub Meeting - Fairfax

Organization: Faith Alliance For Climate Solutions
April 18 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monthly overview of IRI's Global Seasonal Climate Forecasts and ENSO status and forecast.
The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) presents its climate forecast briefing. The IRI's seasonal, sub-seasonal and ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) forecasts are discus ...
Organization: Columbia
April 18 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Tree of Life Community Meeting

Organization: Faith Alliance For Climate Solutions
April 19 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Cities and Climate Solutions: Food
In the face of the climate crisis, cities across the world are emerging as integral problem-solvers in the development of an effective, multi-layered response. This webinar aims to discuss some of the ...
Organization: Columbia
April 19 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Sustain What? Why There’s No “Too Late” for Climate Action
Join longtime journalist Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School in a LIVE exploration of "Not Too Late" – a book of essays, teaching guide and wider project aiming at energizing and empowering “ne ...
Organization: Columbia
April 20 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monthly overview of IRI's Global Seasonal Climate Forecasts and ENSO status and forecast.
The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) presents its climate forecast briefing. The IRI's seasonal, sub-seasonal and ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) forecasts are discus ...
Organization: Columbia
April 21 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Climate Change and the Future of Our Cities
Climate Change and the Future of Our Cities: A Special Earth Day Presentation with Amale Andraos & Andrew Smyth, moderated by Alex Halliday

As the climate threat accelerates, the call fo ...

Organization: Columbia
April 21 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Monthly overview of IRI's Global Seasonal Climate Forecasts and ENSO status and forecast.
The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (part of the Earth Institute) presents its monthly climate forecast briefing. The IRI's seasonal climate forecasts and ENSO (El Niño Southe ...
Organization: Columbia
April 22
3rd Annual Earth Day Climate Change Symposium: The Current Climate..
3rd Annual Earth Day Climate Change Symposium: The Current Climate Outlook and the Future of Clean Energy in New York and Beyond

Program Fee: Free to City Bar and NYSBA members | $15 for non ...

Organization: Columbia
April 25 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sustain What? Telling Climate Stories on Screen
Join longtime journalist Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School in an exploration of the latest efforts to use film and TV to engage audiences with human-driven climate change. Andy’s guests are: ...
Organization: Columbia
April 27 | 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Advisory Opinions on Climate Change: An Overview
Advisory Opinions on Climate Change: An Overview of a Quartet of Simultaneous Requests
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This webinar will discuss the “quartet of initiatives” to request advisory opinions o ...

Organization: Columbia
April 27 | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Building a Climate Resistant NYC
Building a Climate Resistant NYC presented by taste of science NYC! Click Here To Register
Join us to hear from two speakers who work at understanding the effect of climate change on NYC and how ...

Organization: Columbia
April 29 | 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
2022 Climate Business and Investment Conference
Avoiding catastrophic climate change will require a rapid and sustained reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. While more than 1,000 companies with combined revenue over $10 trillion have already pled ...
Organization: Columbia
May 1 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Monthly Hub Meeting - Arlington

Organization: Faith Alliance For Climate Solutions
May 4 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Jigar Shah on Sustaining CarbonProgressin an Energy Crisis
Sustain What? Jigar Shah on Sustaining CarbonProgressin an Energy Crisis

Join host Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School in a straight-talking brainstorm on what’s really needed to cut ...

Organization: Columbia
May 6 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sustain What? Friday News Review - Methane in the Hot Seat
Sustain What? Friday News Review - Methane in the Hot Seat

On Fridays, join Andy Revkin and/or Dale Willman of the Columbia Climate School’s Initiative on Communication & Sustainability ...

Organization: Columbia
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