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Earth's climate is changing, and it is changing now. Join us for Aspen Ideas: Climate, March 11–13, 2024 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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 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
Mary Robinson talks about climate change and its humanitarian impacts.
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...
Our favorite books about climate: up-close looks at communities impacted by warming, riveting stories that center the natural world, and bold, comprehensive solutions.
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...
Climber Tommy Caldwell on why athletes should be activists, how outdoor recreation helps bridge partisan polarization, and the trip to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that's stuck with him.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...