2024 Schedule

Museums are typically testaments to the past, but a growing number are using exhibitions to shape our response to the future—specifically to climate change. Museum leaders will share how they see their institutions as mediums for storytelling, and how they balance truth-telling and advocacy.

To achieve the United Nations’ goal of reducing plastic pollution by 80% by 2040, the world needs to collaborate on an unprecedented scale. This session will explore some of the recent and promising innovations in policy, technology, and partnership-building to fight plastic pollution.

One of the most enduring qualities of literary fiction is that it asks what it means to be human, and more and more writers are asking that question as it relates to climate change. Hear from the authors who are crafting this growing genre and offering a view into our speculative—and real—futures.

Every day brings dozens of new climate stories in the media, but substance often falls prey to click-chasing and brevity, and predominantly-white newsrooms often give less coverage to the disproportionate impact that climate change is having on communities of color. Hear from environmental journalists, working within these newsrooms, about how they are striving for greater coverage, reach, and div...

The climate crisis disproportionately affects women and girls globally, exacerbating existing gender inequalities and threatening their livelihoods, health, and safety. In this session, we’ll discuss the burden on women and girls—particularly in securing resources like food and water—and how their innovation and ingenuity can be major contributors to climate solutions.

What’s new in climate tech? Hear from the innovators themselves about deploying artificial intelligence to supercharge solutions and cracking the code on storing clean energy when the sun isn’t shining.