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A multi-day event in Miami Beach

Aspen Ideas: Climate

Earth's climate is changing, and it is changing now. Join us for Aspen Ideas: Climate, March 11–13, 2024 in Miami Beach, Florida.

A multi-day event addressing a changing climate

In collaboration with the City of Miami Beach and a diverse group of partner institutions in and beyond South Florida, the Aspen Institute is enlisting global and local policymakers, scientific experts, corporate leaders, inventors and innovators, artists, young leaders, influencers, and engaged members of the public to participate in Aspen Ideas: Climate 2024. This multi-day event will take place March 11–13, 2024, and will feature main stages both in and outdoors, breakout and roundtable sessions, tours of local and historic resilience points of interest, as well as fashion, food, art, and music activities. Aspen Ideas: Climate is designed to offer the public a chance to interact, learn, and collaborate with thinkers and do-ers whose actions are critical to addressing our collective future around the realities of a changing climate.

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Programming

Aspen Ideas: Climate covers a wide range of timely and critical topic areas through panels, presentations, lectures, debates, deep dives, and interviews.

Our programming showcases a variety of solutions to our climate challenge through formats including Main Stage Events, Breakout Sessions, Roundtable Discussions, Excursions, Private Roundtables, and the Arts, focused on mitigating and adapting to climate change. Topics will include solutions from flooding and sea level rise to new renewable energy technologies and from food and agriculture impacts of climate change to the future of mobility.

Why are we doing this?

Earth’s climate is changing, and it is changing now. As the global temperature rises, it brings sea level rise, fire, drought, flooding, extreme weather events, and heatwaves, having subtle and severe long term effects on species of all kinds. What is our path forward? We take the view that to mitigate the worst effects of climate change and adapt our society to these unsettling conditions, we need to develop and deploy climate solutions on a planetary scale, with speed and efficiency, or we risk increasingly destructive outcomes. Importantly, we need the public to embrace ideas.

The problem is solvable

There are a range of potential solutions, including new policies, new and improved technologies, and redesigned market and financial instruments. While each community, company, and country will choose their own path, a comprehensive approach requires us to rethink mobility and architecture, shift priorities in investment and job creation, and change how we produce and consume energy and food. It will also require collaboration and consideration of diverse perspectives for meaningful change to occur.

The problem is urgent, but it is solvable if everyone — individuals, communities, national governments, NGOs, and the private sector — acts now.

Enter Aspen Ideas: Climate, where a number of the world’s most ambitious climate problem solvers from across the U.S. and beyond will participate in a major public event in Miami Beach. This great city is facing the daily effects of sea-level rise, intensifying storms, and weather shifts. It is also a locus of innovation and adaptation in the face of the crisis. Miami Beach is making the necessary changes to enhance its resilience, and city, business, and community leaders have collectively embraced this effort. Participants will be more prepared to engage this formidable challenge with a deeper appreciation for what is necessary — and possible.

Event Sponsorship

Are you interested in sponsoring Aspen Ideas: Climate? Let's get in touch! Email us at aspenideasclimate@aspeninstitute.org to start the conversation.

In the News

2023

At Florida climate change summit, Harris stresses optimism, Washington Post

‘The solutions are at hand’: Kamala Harris delivers an optimistic climate message in Miami, Miami Herald

At global Aspen Ideas conference, tech touted as solution to our climate woes, Refresh Miami

VP Harris joins environmental leaders in Miami Beach for 3rd day of Aspen Ideas: Climate conference, WSVN

Wildfire Resilience Roadmap Charts a Course for Mitigating Wildfire Risk, The Nature Conservancy

Aspen Ideas: Climate set to return to Miami Beach in 2023, Miami Herald

‘Heat, Heat, Heat': Aspen Institute Holds Climate Change Roundtable, NBC 6

City of Miami Beach and Aspen Institute partner up to combat climate change in Miami, WSVN


2022

Miami Beach to become 'center of the climate action world' with 2022 Aspen Ideas conference, Miami Herald

City of Miami Beach, Aspen Institute Team Up for First-Ever Climate Change Conference in March 2022, CBSMiami

Climate-change conference to bring big thinkers, doers to Miami Beach in 2022, Local10.com

'Get to Work': Climate Leaders push solutions and urgency at Miami conference, NBC News

Miami's Three Mayors Bridge Partisan Divide With Climate Stance, Bloomberg

Power Executives See Roadblocks to Decarbonization Efforts, Wall Street Journal

Emilio Estefan debuts new song at a festival in Miami Beach. A climate festival., Miami Herald

‘The Environment Is On The Line’ Miami Beach Climate Conference Seeks Solutions, CBSMiami

NBC's Al Roker Talks Aspen Ideas Climate Change Conference, NBC 6 South Florida

Al Roker Reports Live from Aspen Ideas: Climate in Miami, Today

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