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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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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.
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 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...
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...
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
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?
Most people now agree that climate change is real and that humans are causing it. But that’s where the consensus stops. Political pollster and strategist Frank Luntz, known for pioneering political focus groups, believes there is a better way to reach more people, more effectively in order to mobilize real action on climate change. In this highly interactive talk, he’ll sh...
In the 23 years since the final episode of “Bill Nye the Science Guy” aired, natural disasters such as hurricanes, heat waves, and floods have significantly increased in frequency and intensity. Climate science indicates a strong correlation between greenhouse gas emissions and these rapid changes in complex weather systems. Renowned science educator Bill Nye will discuss...
As secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres led the global adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015. But she was not always so hopeful, and recalls a turning point as she consciously shifted her attitude from despair to stubborn optimism. Jeff Goodell, author of The Water Will Come sits down with Figueres to reve...
As the threat of terrorist attacks collides with Europe’s worst migration crisis since WWII, anti-migration sentiments are at an all-time high. With the world closing its doors, the number of migrants is only set to increase. Experts predict upwards of 500 million people will be uprooted as a result of climate change—almost half of them from Sub-Saharan Africa. Invariable...
In this session, Verizon hosts a conversation on their Climate Resilience Prize, then early-stage entrepreneurs pitch their climate solutions to the audience in fast-paced presentations.
With nearly 100,000 public schools across the country, America’s K-12 schools are among the largest consumers of energy in the public sector — and could be a massive driver of climate solutions. They operate the nation’s largest mass transit fleet, occupy over 2 million acres of land, and serve more than 7 billion meals each year. Decarbonizing our schools also creates opp...
In this session, early-stage entrepreneurs pitch their climate solutions to the audience in fast-paced presentations. Renowned investor Orlando Bravo emcees.