The Biden Administration has made climate change a higher priority than any previous administration, and is widely expected to announce new commitments at the Earth Day Summit. This panel will explore those commitments, Biden Administration policy to date, and the Summit, more broadly, through four critical lenses: justice, health, security, and investment.
Healthcare Without Harm, Massachusetts Director, Climate Policy
McKinsey Global Institute, Partner
Groundwork Lawrence and Groundwork USA, Board of Directors, Vice President
Council on Strategic Risks, Center for Climate and Security, Senior Fellow
Visualizing our future is critical to motivating wise choices today. In this endeavor, speculative fiction is a powerful complement to scientific projections.
Can we afford to engineer the climate? Can we afford not to? This conversation breaks the taboo on discussing solar radiation management.
Preventing catastrophic climate change will require not only the elimination of fossil fuel emissions, but also removing significant amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.
Ecosystems that have long absorbed and stored carbon threaten to become emissions sources, and ice sheets may be committed to complete melting long before they've disappeared.
Despite public perceptions, 1.5C degrees of warming has never been “safe,” and current events are raising awareness of the severity of impacts we face.
Join us for a series of events aimed at deepening our relationships with Indigenous communities in the places where we work and amplifying Indigenous voices within our broader community.
