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![Climate of Hope](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/7a778d45-9072-483d-bc15-ec7c61ffac34/53817220503_5fae6aa65a_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1413%2C0%2C3101%2C3101&w=290)
Amid the stark realities of our planet's degradation, there are bright glimmers of hope in conservation efforts around the world. Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier use masterful storytelling and breathtaking imagery to show audiences a future in which humanity works in harmony with nature to preserve our planet for coming generations.
![Climate Change and You](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/dd182fc3-96aa-4494-8315-199e1ffffc0e/52178749159_42e6923fa8_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1376%2C0%2C5504%2C5504&w=290)
How do you impact climate change? How does climate change — and the fraught conversation about it — impact you? Are feelings of climate doom even justified? What are the best ways to combat hopelessness? In this panel, the country’s leading climate-anxiety psychologist joins a popular TikTok science communicator to explore our personal relationship with the crisis.
![Climate Litigation 101: The Courts as a Climate Solution](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/db9f273a-1ef9-4576-a2cb-bb64ac65b7a7/53584775408_811157bd2a_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=0%2C576%2C5504%2C5510&w=290)
In 2023, a group of youth plaintiffs won a historic victory against the state of Montana, which they sued for violating their right to a clean environment. The attorney who represented that case and other legal experts weigh in on where climate litigation stands today, and how and when the law can be used as a tool to protect people and advance solutions
![Climate Doctors: Frontline Medical Care for Climate Change](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/d5e38f35-e94e-4111-b7bc-96cbbf65e46d/53807763449_13fb8f0222_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=25%2C0%2C1067%2C1067&w=290)
Extreme heat waves, storms, and wildfires; disease outbreaks, water shortages, and crop loss; tick-borne illnesses and asthma—these are just some visible signs of a changing climate. Few physicians have been trained to recognize the potent health consequences—allergies that are no longer just seasonal, athletes suddenly finding it hard to breathe, patients who can’t get ne...
![Climate Risks, Health Risks](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null43b6b5df-fd2d-4da9-8b57-6e97af90b8f4/35395060531_493b31d7c6_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=272%2C0%2C1056%2C1056&w=290)
As climate change increasingly becomes a fact of daily life, the health hazards of rising sea levels, catastrophic storms, water and food shortages, respiratory and vector-borne diseases, and temperature extremes are coming into sharper focus. Military leaders are warning that climate change could result in a refugee crisis of “unimaginable scale,” and some experts believe...
![The Ocean is a Climate Superhero](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/4ec3224d-5df5-4865-98ff-cda7ef485dc0/MichaelConathan%2CColinFoord%2CSwatiThiyagarajanFoster%2CBartonSeaverspeaking16.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=928%2C0%2C3712%2C3712&w=290)
Though the ocean covers more than two-thirds of our planet, produces roughly half of the oxygen we breathe, and has sequestered over 40% of the carbon dioxide emitted since the dawn of the industrial revolution, its contributions to ameliorating the global climate crisis are regularly overlooked; the full text of the Paris Climate Accord includes the word “ocean” exactly o...
![On Climate Policy, Cities Lead the Way](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null414a1554-4430-49b5-b33d-f12c575e71b4/48145267816_31d66da870_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=832%2C0%2C3335%2C3335&w=290)
Cities are responsible for 70 percent of global carbon emissions, and by 2050, two out of every three people will live in one. Fortunately, cities are getting serious about environmental footprint — New York announced its own Green New Deal, Melbourne aims to be carbon neutral by 2020, and Los Angeles will use 100 percent renewable energy by 2045. Mayors are often more nim...
![Schooling the Climate Crisis](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/0c56230d-7eb9-4998-ac32-48741d1b4adf/52735712209_f615d9dd07_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1808%2C0%2C4640%2C4640&w=290)
In 2021, over a million K-12 students missed school because of extreme weather events—and yet their schools are largely silent on the realities of climate change. This can change if we activate the next generation of climate leaders while we transform their schools with electric buses, renewable energy, and sustainable lunchrooms.
![Living a Climate-smart Life: What Can I Do?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/ed351f71-e6ff-4ae0-832c-8e4cd6f02ffc/viewpoints.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C2000%2C2000&w=290)
We all have a role to play in addressing the climate crisis, and small individual actions can add up to big impacts. In this session we’ll explore the variety of steps that individuals can take to make a difference. We’ll look at better-known tools like carbon offsets for flights and home energy efficiency changes, as well as the growing opportunities around your financial...
![Closing the Climate Gap for Girls and Women](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/7c58f9e1-944f-43e1-91a6-70ea591b4afe/53811270499_6a024c72b2_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=464%2C0%2C3374%2C3372&w=290)
Climate change is a threat multiplier with a disproportionate impact on vulnerable populations. Girls and women, who are denied equitable access to education and economic opportunity in many parts of the world, are most likely to experience the far-reaching effects of a warming planet. Advocates are trying to level the playing field with projects designed to empower the fe...
![Climate Solutions Showcase](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/6fe9f593-bd2c-4785-a9f2-ba798ff6deef/53589999265_33f4c54606_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=2490%2C0%2C5301%2C5304&w=290)
The Climate Solutions Showcase will highlight a diverse set of early stage entrepreneurs sharing their climate solutions. They'll do so with fast paced pitches targeted at investors, potential clients, colleagues and anyone interested in climate tech.
![Climate Change in the American Mind](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null9a4c41ff-3612-4850-9c1d-22c50fc1f017/48145691417_80e62078ef_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=266%2C0%2C1067%2C1067&w=290)
Experts believe climate change is not a technological problem, it’s a social problem. Americans have diverse and opposing views about global warming, which fundamentally shape the politics of climate change. What are the recent, and often surprising, trends in American knowledge, attitudes, and behavior on the issue? Where do liberals and conservatives across age and regio...
![The Climate Solutions in Stories](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/caeeac7a-1560-4a37-ad51-e0f44626303a/52735727204_179dbe4dd8_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1376%2C0%2C5504%2C5504&w=290)
The biggest story of our time is unfolding and there is no right way to tell it. Each of these storytellers is telling it differently—using journalism, photography, television, or tiktok to change hearts and minds and drive climate action.
![The Emotional Toll of Climate Change](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nulla68cce37-9a04-45ce-b7a4-f828146e3fb6/48120992331_2a9af3a5a7_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=715%2C0%2C2569%2C2569&w=290)
Aspen Ideas: Health Engaging Local Issues Series: In Roaring Fork Valley, the realities of climate change are never far from our lives. Pests and invasive plants are altering our ecology, warming trends are likely to ignite ever-larger fires, and an economy built around outdoor activities could be transformed. The term “climate anxiety” has been coined to suggest the inten...
![Health Systems and Climate Change](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/d4c89528-116f-4aca-8aa8-bd8aa3f74dc4/43004252071_b63d2330f3_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1376%2C0%2C5504%2C5504&w=290)
Health systems contribute significantly to the forces driving climate change, given the vast quantities of energy they consume and the enormous volumes of waste they generate. In the US, the health sector produces eight percent of the nation’s total emissions, while Brazilian hospitals account for 10 percent of that country’s energy use. Health systems can reduce their car...
![Health Equity through a Climate Lens](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/21f37547-fcd7-40a3-9e7d-5606b7a4e818/53809458196_a39e326257_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=399%2C0%2C4641%2C4640&w=290)
Climate change, with its global threats to health, could destroy low-lying nations and push as many as 135 million people into poverty by 2030, according to the World Bank. But these catastrophic consequences are not inevitable. Acknowledging that the burdens of climate change have been distributed inequitably, and targeting aggressive action specifically to vulnerable pop...
![Investing in Climate Innovation](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/8550ff67-2c54-4382-a1a6-78f1e2208e1e/aif-2022-climateinnovation.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=297%2C0%2C767%2C767&w=290)
As the climate crisis deepens, so too must global investment and action on sustainable climate solutions. As RISE Climate turns one, join financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin and TPG’s Jim Coulter for a conversation on lessons learned about financing and scaling companies dedicated to climate innovation. While ESG comes under fire from critics like Elon Musk and Mike Pe...
![Inclusive Climate Resilience](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/f98f6980-868f-4d9a-a5cf-b3b624fe2026/230627_climate_resilence_012.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=0%2C666%2C2667%2C2667&w=290)
Join Deloitte, University of Colorado Boulder, and Aspen Institute experts for a conversation at the intersection of cutting-edge research and inclusive innovation on climate resilience. As severe weather and climate-driven natural disasters become the new norm, find out how to reduce climate-related risks across geographies and demographics. Presented by Deloitte
![State Approaches to Climate Action](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/71d5e376-a1ca-4b3d-8888-4470a2bf27fd/52735497201_247bfc31cc_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1376%2C0%2C5504%2C5504&w=290)
California, Illinois, and Florida are very different states, and each experiences climate change in its own way. How have they used policy as a shield to defend the environment, as a sword to compel climate-friendly behavior, and as patron to encourage innovation? How can the federal government do better to work with the private sector and address climate impacts?
![The Global Promise of the US Climate Agenda](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/7ddc8226-a560-4974-a42b-4a0a2cc0f6ed/53583690962_5e7f7dbfa2_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=3626%2C0%2C4630%2C4629&w=290)
The IRA’s $369 billion for climate measures has impacts beyond its domestic agenda, but its delivery globally has been met with criticism of protectionism. What can the IRA really do for global decarbonization, and how can the US better support efforts in Africa, India, and the Global South?