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In the fight against climate change, we’ll need to electrify everything we can: cars, stoves, trucks, heat pumps, and buildings. In the process, we’ll lower emissions and energy bills, make homes healthier, and build more resilient communities. But how do we electrify America so that every community reaps the far-reaching benefits?
Part 1: The City of Miami Beach and Oolite Arts present three commissioned short films on climate solutions: The Mango Movie, Ripples, and Before the Flood. The screening will be followed by a short discussion among the filmmakers. Part 2: Screening of The Important Stuff, in which children share concerns, ideas, and solutions related to climate negotiations, followed by...
With playgrounds that reach 150 degrees and “heat days” that force schools to close, it’s no surprise that 75% of teens have moderate to extreme climate anxiety. Young people have the right to thrive on a healthy planet, and adults have a responsibility to preserve this right. Explore how school systems are essential to advancing generational justice and enabling future ge...
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.
Following words from a local poet, a museum creator speaks of storytelling as a tool, and a Columbia professor talks about the geopolitical implications of the energy transition. The Aspen Institute’s Arts Program makes an announcement, an ocean-solutionist shares a new vision for conservation, and we close this year’s event with the Mayor of Miami and the former Mayor of...
NOAA’s chief scientist talks with a conservation expert about ocean biodiversity, we hear a call to ensure the safety of climate tech, and The White House makes an announcement. A biotech innovator shares how CRISPR could make cows better, a Texas environmental justice leader joins us, the Aspen Institute announces the winners of a pitch competition, and two meteorologists...
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.
Low-to-no-emissions advanced air mobility could transform not only air transportation but transportation as a whole, and decision makers must grapple with whether (and how) we open the skies to electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Aviation leaders and elected officials will need to work together to adapt existing aircraft infrastructure and develop polic...
Fossil fuels and renewables dominate mitigation conversations, but other emission reduction opportunities are hiding in plain sight. Decarbonization roadmaps for the built environment are increasingly clear, and solutions for hard-to-abate emissions—biomass, refrigerants, landfills, regenerative agriculture, hydrogen—are coming into view, and all will play a significant r...
The climate crisis is a health crisis. But even as climate change contributes to the global burden of disease, killing roughly 4 million people globally since the turn of the century, the health care sector is responsible for 8.5% of US greenhouse gas emissions. With healing as their mission, health professionals and organizations can use their ethical, economic, and poli...
The U.S. needs a massive deployment of clean energy technologies, and getting there will require projects in the backyards of communities around the country. This session will explore the work of engaging communities—citing both best practices and bad examples—and highlighting innovative new approaches to winning support for clean energy.
In 2023, Miami experienced its worst heat wave on record, with temperatures breaking 100 degrees for 46 consecutive days. Humans need safe spaces during life-threatening temperatures, and this session will explore challenges and solutions for cooling homes, buildings, and public spaces, using Miami-Dade as an example of a much wider problem.
The industrial sector—think steel, cement, chemicals, heat and cooling—accounts for approximately 30% of emissions in the United States, making industry our biggest emissions problem. Learn about how emerging scalable solutions in technology, finance, and policy promise to decarbonize the sector.
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?
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.
Detroit is leaning into the financial opportunities of a net zero economy, setting itself as an example for other cities, from nearby Northeast Florida to further small Asian nations to copy. Hear about these cities successes and the promises of climate-smart economic development for cities everywhere.
Part 1: Reflecting on the complex relationship between the climate crisis, public health, and our collective wellbeing, Miami-based artist Smita Sen’s performance “Breaths of Care” offers a dance-based performance on the ripple effects of our changing natural landscape. Part 2: Alexis Alleyne-Caputo of Afro Diaries presents “Crisis and Echoes,” a visual conversation, per...
Transforming the energy system will involve building new transmission lines and power generating assets on a massive scale, and these projects offer a huge financial opportunity for the communities where they’re built. Hear from leaders who are developing mechanisms for sharing this wealth, offering communities and project developers a shared sense of success, fairness, an...
Bezos Earth Fund's Lauren Sánchez shares how to innovate out of big problems, lllinois Governor JB Pritzker talks with water experts, and a biotech entrepreneur shares a plan to get rid of palm oil. All the Light We Cannot See’s star joins a panel to discuss climate joy, a mayor gives an update on offshore wind, and we'll hear an announcement from Detroit. Then, an energy...
Futurific Studios’ Kathryn Murdoch and Ari Wallach preview their new PBS docuseries, a government leader turned entrepreneur shares her plastic pollution idea, environmental justice leaders expand on solutions, and Invenergy’s CEO tells us how he built more than 200 clean energy projects. Mayors share ideas for rethinking the urban environment, an app designer talks person...