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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.
![Mary Robinson 2018](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/033ba548-58bc-4da6-b77c-6bc78bbec632/45076054885_622d029133_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=400&mono=0a7c51&q=80&rect=1111%2C0%2C3648%2C3648&w=400)
![Mary Robinson 2018](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/033ba548-58bc-4da6-b77c-6bc78bbec632/45076054885_622d029133_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=400&q=80&rect=1111%2C0%2C3648%2C3648&w=400)
Mary Robinson talks about climate change and its humanitarian impacts.
![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...
![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...
![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 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...
![Coming to Grips with Climate Change](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null6c4e693f-aa40-4e0f-8a94-b388f01b9dcf/48153163662_9b20bc7f59_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=752%2C0%2C2495%2C2495&w=290)
A 2018 UN report on climate change urged swift and unprecedented action to curb the rise of the planet’s temperature. Experts argue that avoiding a crisis will require significant breakthroughs in technology, a full stop on fossil fuel projects, fundamental changes to the way we feed the world, and ubiquitous carbon policies. Who will lead the charge towards a multilateral...
![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
![Closing the Knowledge Gap on Climate Change](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/81019561-f125-445f-a743-cb6f76562508/CleanEnergyWindSolar_featured.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=313%2C0%2C667%2C667&w=290)
![Channeling Climate Angst into Action](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/7e0fa5d1-ba88-4dd1-a235-0c57637637c8/AIFSpeakerGuestBlogs6.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=844%2C0%2C2161%2C2160&w=290)
Alaina Wood, aka "The Garbage Queen" on TikTok, shares the importance of imperfect sustainability and her advice for dealing with climate doom.
![29151328438 9b7e174b8d O](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/77654ffb-1544-4d4f-8d5d-e313e116799b/29151328438_9b7e174b8d_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=400&mono=0a80bc&q=80&rect=1715%2C0%2C5504%2C5504&w=400)
![29151328438 9b7e174b8d O](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/77654ffb-1544-4d4f-8d5d-e313e116799b/29151328438_9b7e174b8d_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=400&q=80&rect=1715%2C0%2C5504%2C5504&w=400)
Christiana Figueres says she's stubbornly optimistic about addressing climate change.
![Americans and Climate: Words to Use, Words to Lose](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/bf0b2a49-bbc5-4046-8f98-2e8506283281/aif-2022-words.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=349%2C0%2C901%2C901&w=290)
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...
![Bill Nye on Big Storms: How Much Is Climate Change to Blame?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/c76452ea-1662-4f83-ba58-ad15ca0c770b/52186355481_9144fb517b_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1376%2C0%2C5504%2C5504&w=290)
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...
![Anyone Can Become a Climate Advocate. Here’s How.](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/4ebe1c6d-4bc3-4515-bb17-f3baa424e371/pexels-markus-spiske-2990650.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1098%2C0%2C3840%2C3840&w=290)
Dr. Eliza Nemser, geoscientist and executive director of Climate Changemakers, on how to recognize your own agency in the climate crisis.