These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global version of the local listings I did for about a decade (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html) until September 2020 and earlier for a few years in the 1990s (https://theworld.com/~gmoke/AList.index.html).
A more comprehensive global listing service could be developed if there were enough people interested in doing it, if it hasn’t already been done.
If anyone knows of such a global listing of open energy, climate, and other events is available, please put me in contact.
Thanks for reading,
Solar IS Civil Defense,
George Mokray
gmoke@world.std.com
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Index
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Economic Challenges to Rapid Energy and Deforestation Transitions
Monday, November 27
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB, 1 Eliot Street, Cambridge
And online
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-economic-challenges-rapid-energy-and-deforestation-transitions
Climate Solutions, Justice, and the Rise of a Trillion-Dollar Industry
Tuesday, November 28
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The Forum at Columbia University, 601 W. 125th St., New York, NY 10027 315
And online
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FNxCYHikTd64a2Yo3KfzfA#/registration
Conversations about an Abundant Future
Tuesday, November 28
6 - 8pm EST
MASS (Model of Architecture Serving Society), 1 Chandler Street Boston, MA 02116
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversations-about-an-abundant-future-tickets-742498913237
Does democracy imply majority rule? Insights from the US and around the world
Wednesday, November 29
4:30pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building E15, Bartos Theater, E15-070. 20 AMES ST, Cambridge, MA 02142
Conference on AI & Democracy
Thursday, November 30 - Saturday, December 2
Thursday: Harvard, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South
Friday: Loeb House
Saturday: Malkin Penthouse, HKS
RSVP at https://airtable.com/appdEhGPi9PSUJeLr/shr3VnhhuYgiCTbgc
RMI [Rocky Mountain Institute] at COP28
November 30–December 12, 2023 (Hybrid; Dubai, UAE)
More information https://rmi.org/events/
Crisis as Catalyst: Meeting the Moment with Transformational Investments
Thursday, November 30
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP, Louis D. Brandeis Conference Center, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA
And online
RSVP at https://climateadaptationforum.org/event/crisis-as-catalyst-meeting-the-moment-with-transformational-investment/
Cost $15 - $45
Lies in Your Grocery Cart: How Misinformation and Disinformation Impact Food Choice
Thursday, November 30
12:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Harvard Law School, WCC; 2036 Milstein East B, 1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
Learning from Indigenous Voices: Adaptation Futures 2023 Conference
Thursday, November 30
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/99038829904?pwd=bnk5VU0zQVdwRUxWYTE2czAvNEd2UT09&from=addon
Arctic Methane Emissions: Uncertainty and the Value of Better Information; Plus: COP28 preview
Thursday, November 30
1:15 – 2:30 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F Kennedy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://web.cvent.com/event/8c2f4383-ea75-4153-a9ac-a88dede9d1bd/regProcessStep1?RefId=Gazette&rp=2174ca8b-9157-48d8-b0d2-7ce64606e847
Circular Economy in the Buildings Sector
Thursday, November 30
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, MA 02143
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/event/circular-economy-buildings-sector/
Engineering Ecosystems with AI
Thursday, November 30
6:00pm to 9:00pm
MIT, Building 32, 32-449, 32 VASSAR ST, Cambridge, MA 02139
And online
RSVP at https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/9116977451705/WN_4z6KkwZbRxq_WpTR6RrEBA
Please register in advance for this seminar even if you plan to attend in person
COP28 Climate Hub
Daily live broadcasts from COP28 in Dubai. December 1–11, 2023
https://www.wedonthavetime.org/events/cop28
Twelve Tomorrows: How Science Fiction uses Today’s Technology to Envision the Future
Saturday, December 2
1:00pm to 2:30pm
MIT Museum, 314 Main Street, Gambrill Center, Cambridge MA 02142
Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place
Tuesday, December 5
12:00 PM EST — 1:00 PM EST
Online
RSVP at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QY0ccXcwSlm6AhZ2qzf_aQ#/registration
Artificial Intelligence for Energy: AI and the Oil and Gas Sector
Tuesday, December 5
12:00-1:00 p.m. EST
Online
RSVP at energypolicyevents@columbia.edu
Cop28 and the green transition, with Christiana Figueres and others
Tuesday, December 5
3:00 EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cop28-and-the-green-transition-with-christiana-figueres-and-others-tickets-734770015897
Cost: £10.88
A Changing Planet Seminar: Climate impacts on water and sanitation: trying to build resilience in small systems in LMICs [Low and Middle Income Countries]
Wednesday, December 6
11am EST [16.00 - 17.30 UTC]
Grantham Institute Boardroom , Sherfield Building, South Kensington Campus, London UK
Speakers:
Dr Guy Howard, Director of the Cabot Institute for the Environment
The Global Carbon Project
Wednesday, December 6
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Boston College, 245 Beacon Street, 5th Floor, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Exploring the ocean multiverse with Tara Oceans
Wednesday, December 6
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm EST
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW, Washington, DC 20001
And online
RSVP at https://carnegiescience.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0Q0PjlxET1yBpbBq4nha-g#/registration
Power Puzzle: "Solving Complex Problems" (12.000) Final Presentation
Wednesday, December 6
7:00pm to 10:00pm
MIT, Huntington Hal, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
And Online
RSVP at https://web.mit.edu/webcast/terrascope2027/
Investor Advocacy and Business Working to Address Climate Change
Thursday, December 7
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And Online
RSVP (only needed for virtual attendants) at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uVGWH9xjS-qu2viTREbqPA#/registration
Climate Change Denial, Uncertainty and Science
Thursday, December 7
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Boston College, 300 Hammond Pond Parkway, Newton, MA, Seminar Room (First room on your right.)
War, Ambitions, and Actualities in the Energy Theater of the Middle East and Beyond
Thursday, December 7
4:30 – 6 p.m.
Harvard, CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/war-ambitions-and-actualities-energy-theater-middle-east-and-beyond
Transition from Gas; New Technologies; and Keynote from FERC Commissioner
Friday, December 8
9:00 am-12:30 pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Blvd 17th Floor Boston, MA 02210
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/12-8-23-roundtable-new-technologies-transition-from-gas-and-ferc-keynote-tickets-735216360927
Cost: $0 -$100
Putting People at the Center of Just Transition: How can we achieve a people-focused approach to a just transition?
Friday, December 8
[9.30–10.15 (UTC+4)]
Online
RSVP at https://pub.norden.org/cop28/-december-8-equality-just-transition.html#id03386
Artists + Climate Change Solutions
Friday, December 8
2 - 3:30pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artists-climate-change-solutions-tickets-758413062887?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Will Digital Intelligence Replace Biological Intelligence?" 2023-24 Arthur Miller Science and Ethics speaker
Monday, December 11
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Tabwz5zvSR-f3FTZamTj1g#/registration
How is the Environment Protected During Armed Conflict?
Tuesday, December 12
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM EST [14:30 - 16:00 CET]
Online
RSVP at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3802352436801451605
Rising Tides: Integrating Situated Visualization, Augmented Reality, and Public-Participation Technology to Create an Accessible Platform for Localized Climate Change Visualization and Discourse
Wednesday, December 13
12 – 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lXXTqumRRwKeOPggiqGmAA#/registration
Moving toward an endgame in Ukraine?
Wednesday, December 13
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Online
Livestream at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5ooD8Ydk4vd83Ac8VNEoQ
Putting Science to Work for Communities Facing Climate Threats
Wednesday, December 13
3pm EST [12:00 PM PST]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://commonwealthclub.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F8Z00000lUl78UAC
Cost: $5 - $20
TEDxMIT 2023: Tech for Good
Saturday, December 16
MIT Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA, 02139
RSVP at https://tedx.mit.edu/
Charting Progress: Regulator Actions on Climate Financial Risks
Dec 18
3:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BiD6G1gcQvK8esnofihhXw#/registration
Online dialogue: COP28 post-match analysis
December 19
7:30 - 9am EST [13:30 - 15:00 CET]
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.se/e/online-dialogue-cop28-post-match-analysis-tickets-757617994817
Announcing the 37th Annual NOFA/Mass Winter Conference: "Growing Connections & Collaborations”
January 13, 2024
8 AM - 6 PM
Worcester State University, In-person Only,
https://www.nofamass.org/home/nofa-events/winter-conference/
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Events
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Economic Challenges to Rapid Energy and Deforestation Transitions
Monday, November 27
12 – 1:15 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB, 1 Eliot Street, Cambridge
And online
RSVP at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/energy-policy-seminar-economic-challenges-rapid-energy-and-deforestation-transitions
SPEAKER(S) Leon Clarke, Director, Decarbonization Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund
Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Leon Clarke, Director of Decarbonization Pathways at the Bezos Earth Fund. In a talk entitled "Economic Challenges to Rapid Energy and Deforestation Transitions," Clarke will discuss the work necessary to analyze and implement large-scale decarbonization from a philanthropic perspective. Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.
CONTACT INFO Elizabeth Hanlon - ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu
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Climate Solutions, Justice, and the Rise of a Trillion-Dollar Industry
Tuesday, November 28
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The Forum at Columbia University, 601 W. 125th St., New York, NY 10027 315
And online
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FNxCYHikTd64a2Yo3KfzfA#/registration
Dr. Jane Zelikova is an ecologist who works at the intersection of climate science and policy. Her work focuses on advancing the science of carbon removal and she is currently the executive director of the Soil Carbon Solutions Center at Colorado State University, where she works with leading scientists to build the tools and approaches needed to acceleratethe deployment of credible soil-based climate solutions, measure their impacts, and bring them to scale. Her recent TED talk on the topic of soils and climate change can be found here.
In addition to her scientific and policy expertise, Dr. Zelikova is the co-founder of 500 Women Scientists, a global grassroots nonprofit organization with the mission to serve society by making science open, inclusive, and accessible and fighting racism, patriarchy and oppressive societal norms. She is also the founder of Hey Girl Productions, co-producing and starring in the film End of Snow, which has been featured in National Geographic and Outside magazine.
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Conversations about an Abundant Future
Tuesday, November 28
6 - 8pm EST
MASS (Model of Architecture Serving Society), 1 Chandler Street Boston, MA 02116
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversations-about-an-abundant-future-tickets-742498913237
Join us for an inaugural convening exploring collective approaches to ensuring a climate positive future.
Our experience has taught us that it is possible to design for a flourishing people and planet. Join us for the launch of our Abundant Futures Design Lab with reflections on the past 15 years of our work and a panel discussion exploring collective approaches to ensuring a climate positive future, moderated by Sierra Bainbridge, Senior Principal of our Landscape Studio. Light refreshments will be served.
This event has limited capacity - please RSVP via Eventbrite by November 22. If you have questions, please contact hblanchette@mass-group.org.
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Does democracy imply majority rule? Insights from the US and around the world
Wednesday, November 29
4:30pm to 6:00pm
MIT, Building E15, Bartos Theater, E15-070. 20 AMES ST, Cambridge, MA 02142
This will be an in-person event on MIT campus. Registration is not required.
Speakers: Steven Levitsky is the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and professor of government at Harvard University. He is also director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. He is co-author (with Daniel Ziblatt) most recently of “Tyranny of the Minority," and will discuss highlights from the book.
Daniel Ziblatt is the Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University and director of the Transformations of Democracy group at Berlin's Social Science Center (WZB Berlin Social Science Center). He is co-author most recently of “Tyranny of the Minority," and will discuss highlights from the book.
Melissa Schwartzberg is a professor of politics at New York University. Her research focuses on democratic theory and constitutionalism, history of political thought.
Moderator: Evan Lieberman is the Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa at MIT and the director of the Center for International Studies (CIS). Tyranny of the Minority will be signed and sold at a discount at the event!
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Conference on AI & Democracy
Thursday, November 30 - Saturday, December 2
Thursday: Harvard, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South
Friday: Loeb House
Saturday: Malkin Penthouse, HKS
RSVP at https://airtable.com/appdEhGPi9PSUJeLr/shr3VnhhuYgiCTbgc
This event calls for a people’s movement to bring A.I. development under democratic control and steer it in the service of a progressive human future. The program brings together leading voices on A.I. and related policy issues and feature prominent figures from government, civil society, academia, and the private sector. MIT professor Sherry Turkle will deliver a keynote lecture on the evening of November 30th. Targeted workshops on December 1st and 2nd will assess promising fields of action ranging from federal oversight to labor activism, with panels focusing on Labor and Workers, Competition and Security, Regulation and Government, Transparency and Democracy, and Social Movements and NGOs. On the final day, smaller committees will produce working reports that can be widely circulated to stimulate forward movement in the effort to control A.I. before it controls us. Use the following link to view the complete program: https://bit.ly/harvard-ai-democracy
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RMI [Rocky Mountain Institute] at COP28
November 30–December 12, 2023 (Hybrid; Dubai, UAE)
More information https://rmi.org/events/
RMI [Rocky Mountain Institute] is presenting a series of webinars on many different aspects of climate and the energy transition from the COP28 in Dubai.
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Crisis as Catalyst: Meeting the Moment with Transformational Investments
Thursday, November 30
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP, Louis D. Brandeis Conference Center, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, MA
And online
RSVP at https://climateadaptationforum.org/event/crisis-as-catalyst-meeting-the-moment-with-transformational-investment/
Cost $15 - $45
In the wake of a crisis, be it an extreme weather event, a pandemic, or something else, political dynamics shift that catalyze innovation and usher in possibilities previously deemed unimaginable. Join the Climate Adaptation Forum on November 30th to learn about these critical junctures in history when opportunities to do the impossible became reality.
We’ll explore these moments to glean lessons that will help us prepare for our current climate crisis. What conditions allowed these changes to take place? Did planning happen beforehand? What pitfalls should we watch out for? During this discussion, we’ll have the opportunity to learn from speakers exploring big infrastructure investments, safety innovations, and re-designing the urban landscape.
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Lies in Your Grocery Cart: How Misinformation and Disinformation Impact Food Choice
Thursday, November 30
12:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Harvard Law School, WCC; 2036 Milstein East B, 1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
Join Harvard’s Food Law and Policy Clinic to learn about misinformation and disinformation in the food system, and the impact it has on consumer food choices.
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Learning from Indigenous Voices: Adaptation Futures 2023 Conference
Thursday, November 30
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
RSVP at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/99038829904?pwd=bnk5VU0zQVdwRUxWYTE2czAvNEd2UT09&from=addon
Join us in discussion with Johanna Lovecchio, Director of Program Design for Climate Action, who will share learnings, dilemmas, and opportunities from the recent Adaptation Futures Conference in Montreal (Oct). The conference brought together adaptation practitioners, academics, funders, and stakeholders from over 120 countries, including more than 2,000 members of the climate change adaptation community. Primary objectives of the conference were to learn from Indigenous, local knowledge and voices in climate change adaptation research, policies, practices as well as bring marginalized voices, especially those from the Global South, to the forefront in pursue of climate justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. Johanna will share some of the layered learnings from her time at the conference and offer space for discussion on the implications for the Climate School and Columbia particularly as they relate to indigenous practice both in North America and in island contexts. The discussion will also include intersection of gender and adaptation and sharing of the current state of international climate justice as it relates to adaptation and loss and damage.
Contact Information
Stacey Bellamy
347-325--0725
sk5163@columbia.edu
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Arctic Methane Emissions: Uncertainty and the Value of Better Information; Plus: COP28 preview
Thursday, November 30
1:15 – 2:30 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F Kennedy Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://web.cvent.com/event/8c2f4383-ea75-4153-a9ac-a88dede9d1bd/regProcessStep1?RefId=Gazette&rp=2174ca8b-9157-48d8-b0d2-7ce64606e847
SPEAKER(S) James Hammitt, Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Robert Stavins, A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy and Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School
The Salata Institute’s Climate Research Workshops bring Harvard University faculty together to present and discuss recent climate-related research papers and scholarly publications. Faculty will learn about current research taking place across Harvard, engage in interdisciplinary dialogues, and forge connections and research collaborations. The Fall 2023 Workshops will primarily focus on methane emissions and mitigation, led by the Salata Institute’s Climate Research Cluster on Reducing Global Methane Emissions.
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Circular Economy in the Buildings Sector
Thursday, November 30
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Greentown Labs, 444 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, MA 02143
RSVP at https://greentownlabs.com/event/circular-economy-buildings-sector/
Join Greentown Labs to celebrate the kickoff of Go Build 2023, a Greentown Go startup-corporate partnerships accelerator program focused on advancing circularity and decarbonization in the built environment, in partnership with Saint-Gobain.
At this event, attendees will hear lightning pitches from startup finalists in the buildings industry with innovations that extend product life cycles, further develop raw materials, revalorize waste, or act as other enabling technologies.
Innovation in the buildings sector is critical to achieving decarbonization. Buildings are responsible for 39 percent of CO2 emissions globally, with a staggering 11 percent of global emissions coming from the construction of buildings and manufacturing of building materials. To change this, we need innovations that reinvent how buildings and their materials are planned, built, sourced, and managed.
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Engineering Ecosystems with AI
Thursday, November 30
6:00pm to 9:00pm
MIT, Building 32, 32-449, 32 VASSAR ST, Cambridge, MA 02139
And online
RSVP at https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/9116977451705/WN_4z6KkwZbRxq_WpTR6RrEBA
Please register in advance for this seminar even if you plan to attend in person
Sandy Pentland
Abstract: Our society is having difficulties engineering heterogeneous systems of people and technology. For instance, our systems for dealing with pandemics, climate change, and financial stress have been less than completely successful, in significant part because of unanticipated human behaviors. This talk will cover new approaches to engineering ecosystems that better integrate human behavior and discuss how new technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs) can help.
Bio: Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland directs MIT Connection Science, an MIT-wide initiative, and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. He is one of the most-cited computational scientists in the world. Forbes declared him one of the "7 most powerful data scientists in the world" along with Google founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the United States. He is on the Board of the UN Foundations' Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, co-led the World Economic Forum discussion in Davos that led to the EU privacy regulation GDPR, and was one of the UN Secretary General's "Data Revolutionaries" helping to forge the transparency and accountability mechanisms in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. He has received numerous awards and prizes such as the McKinsey Award from Harvard Business Review, the 40th Anniversary of the Internet from DARPA, and the Brandeis Award for work in privacy. Recent invited keynotes include annual meetings of OECD, G20, World Bank, and JP Morgan.
He is a member of advisory boards for the UN Secretary General, the UN Foundation, Consumers Union, and OECD, and formerly the American Bar Association, Google, AT&T, and Nissan. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and council member within the World Economic Forum.
Over the years Sandy has advised more than 80 PhD students. Together Sandy and his students have pioneered computational social science, organizational engineering, wearable computing (Google Glass), image understanding, and modern biometrics. His most recent books are Building the New Economy and Trusted Data, both published by MIT Press, Social Physics, published by Penguin Press, and Honest Signals, published by MIT Press.
This meeting of the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society will be hybrid (in person and online), part of getting back to normal after the COVID-19 lockdown.
Up-to-date information about this and other talks is available online at https://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/. You can sign up to receive updated status information about this talk and informational emails about future talks at https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieee-cs, our self-administered mailing list.
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COP28 Climate Hub
Daily live broadcasts from COP28 in Dubai. December 1–11, 2023
https://www.wedonthavetime.org/events/cop28
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Twelve Tomorrows: How Science Fiction uses Today’s Technology to Envision the Future
Saturday, December 2
1:00pm to 2:30pm
MIT Museum, 314 Main Street, Gambrill Center, Cambridge MA 02142
The MIT Museum and MIT Press welcome a panel of Hugo Award-winning authors -- including local favorites and Twelve Tomorrows contributors Elizabeth Bear, Ken Liu, Suzanne Palmer, William Alexander, James Patrick Kelly -- for a discussion about the value and utility of using science fiction and cutting-edge research to imagine the future and interrogate the present.
Free with museum admission
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Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place
Tuesday, December 5
12:00 PM EST — 1:00 PM EST
Online
RSVP at https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QY0ccXcwSlm6AhZ2qzf_aQ#/registration
Speakers
Brooks Lamb, Land Protection & Access Specialist at American Farmland Trust, MESc 2021, Alumni
Vincent Stanley, Director of Philosophy at Patagonia
Love for the Land is a moving exploration of presence and place told through the stories of small and midsized farmers who tend their land in the face of overwhelming adversity. These farmers refuse to “get big,” and they won’t “get out.” Why? And what can they teach us?
Join us as the book’s author, Brooks Lamb (YSE ‘21), sits in conversation with Vincent Stanley(CBEY resident fellow and Director of Philosophy at Patagonia) to explore the power and potential of people-place relationships. Drawing on his own farming roots and the writings of Wendell Berry, Lamb cultivated honest, trusting connections with the farmers he interviewed for the book, yielding raw and powerful insights. Time and again, their stories and experiences reveal that connections to and affection for place encourage people to live and act as devoted caretakers, despite the difficult and complex issues they struggle with…including farmland loss from suburban sprawl, rampant agricultural consolidation, and, for farmers of color, racial injustice. Love for the Land reckons with the harsh realities that these farmers face—and then shows us how the virtues of love and fidelity sustain their stewardship. Whether we live on farms or in small towns, suburbs, or big cities, Love for the Land shows us a path toward better care for people, places, and the planet.
Indy Burke, Dean at the Yale School of the Environment, will open this important and dynamic conversation.
This event is part of our Author Talk series - check it out and watch past webinars!
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Artificial Intelligence for Energy: AI and the Oil and Gas Sector
Tuesday, December 5
12:00-1:00 p.m. EST
Online
RSVP at energypolicyevents@columbia.edu
Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs for this discussion series on how the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the energy sector can advance the discovery of new technologies, aid in the prediction of successful energy-related systems, and optimize operations.
Most people are now familiar with one type of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), ChatGPT, that produces writings from existing data on the internet. GenAI is a very topical area of AI. It uses neural networks to identify patterns and structures within existing data to generate new and original content.
GenAI for energy operations is a vast opportunity for the energy sector. Collecting data from various types of energy operations– wind turbine fleets, power storm and outage management, and supply chains–while processing them with AI is beginning to make significant operational improvements. AI drives performance and reduces developmental technical risks, emissions, and costs.
This second session of the Artificial Intelligence for Energy series will cover the oil and gas sector. AI analysis of 3D seismic data, recommendations for development planning, and monitoring and optimizing operations, is a vast area of potential applicability for AI.
Moderator: Paul M. Dabbar, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Former Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA; Former Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
Speaker: Andy Flowers, Director, Advanced Analytics, ConocoPhillips
This webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with access details. The event will be recorded and the video recording will be added to our website following the event.
This event is open to the press, and registration is required to attend. For media inquiries or requests for interviews, please contact Natalie Volk (nv2388@columbia.edu).
For more information about the event, please contact energypolicyevents@columbia.edu
Center on Global Energy Policy
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Cop28 and the green transition, with Christiana Figueres and others
Tuesday, December 5
3:00 EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cop28-and-the-green-transition-with-christiana-figueres-and-others-tickets-734770015897
Cost: £10.88
The world currently runs on fossil fuels but must phase them out to end the climate crisis. Achieving that commitment is a crucial goal for Cop28. The summit is being hosted by the United Arab Emirates, a major oil and gas producer, and will be run by Sultan Al Jaber, the head of the UAE’s state oil company, as well as chair of its renewable company Masdar.
Al Jaber argues getting the fossil fuel companies on board is vital to making the green transition but others say the industry has long blocked progress towards a safer world. The Guardian’s environment editor, Damian Carrington, will chair a panel including Tessa Khan, founder and executive director, Uplift; Christiana Figueres, Global Optimism; and Mike Coffin, Carbon Tracker. Together, they will explore what fossil fuels companies and countries are doing to drive - or block - the transition, and what society, organisations and governments can do to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.
This event will be hosted on a third-party live streaming platform Zoom, please refer to their privacy policy and terms and conditions before purchasing a ticket to the event. After registering, please refer to your confirmation email for access to the event.
Closed captions will be available for this event. 8pm GMT | 9pm CET | 12pm PDT | 3pm EST
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A Changing Planet Seminar: Climate impacts on water and sanitation: trying to build resilience in small systems in LMICs [Low and Middle Income Countries]
Wednesday, December 6
11am EST [16.00 - 17.30 UTC]
Grantham Institute Boardroom , Sherfield Building, South Kensington Campus, London UK
Speakers:
Dr Guy Howard, Director of the Cabot Institute for the Environment
In this seminar Dr Guy Howard, the Director of the Cabot Institute for the Environment at the University of Bristol, will present his research.
Water and sanitation services are a foundation of good public health with the lack of access leading to 1.4 million avoidable deaths every year. Climate change presents a new and additional threat to water and sanitation services with the potential to reverse progress in access made over recent decades. Floods and droughts are the most commonly considered climate threats as they damage infrastructure, interrupt services and reduce the availability of water. However, climate threats to water and sanitation extend beyond these as wildfires affect catchments, sea-level rise and storm surges degrade water quality, and increasing temperature affects water demand and quality.
Using examples drawn primarily from small-towns and rural communities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), this presentation will discuss how we can start to improve resilience. It will set out why resilience is different to sustainability and the importance of understanding resilience as multi-dimensional. It will describe how interventions addressing environmental, management and economic issues are often more important than changes in technology or upgrading of infrastructure. The need for greater integration of preparedness and disaster response into WASH programming will be outlined. The presentation will discuss how measurement of resilience is a critical challenge in LMICs and how poor measurement leads of poor understanding of current system deficits, undermining efforts to build resilience. Recent years has seen substantial efforts to improve resilience measurement and the presentation will reflect on experience with developing and testing metrics in a number of LMICs and where challenges remain.
Joining the event
This will be a hybrid event, with the opportunity for Imperial staff and students and external guests to attend in person at South Kensingtom Campus, Silwood Park Campus, or join us online.
Online
Guests can join the seminar remotely via Zoom. Details to be sent to those who register.
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The Global Carbon Project
Wednesday, December 6
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Boston College, 245 Beacon Street, 5th Floor, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Together with the Schiller Institute, the EESC department welcomes Pep Canadell, Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO & Executive Director of Global Carbon Project.
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Exploring the ocean multiverse with Tara Oceans
Wednesday, December 6
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm EST
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW, Washington, DC 20001
And online
RSVP at https://carnegiescience.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0Q0PjlxET1yBpbBq4nha-g#/registration
he ocean is the Earth's largest ecosystem, but we know very little about it. This is particularly true for plankton, even though they form the base of marine food webs and are key players in Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Ocean plankton are at least as important for the Earth system as the forests on land, but most of them are invisible to the naked eye and thus are largely uncharacterized. To increase our understanding of this underexplored world, a multidisciplinary consortium, Tara Oceans, was formed around the research sailboat Tara, which sampled plankton in all the major oceanic regions during expeditions between 2009 and 2013. This program will summarize the Tara Ocean project's efforts to the largest DNA sequencing effort for the oceans. It provides unique resources for several scientific disciplines that are foundational for mapping ocean biodiversity of a wide range of organisms that are rarely studied together, exploring their interactions, and integrating biology into our physical and chemical understanding of the ocean. The project's efforts are also vital to identifying new organisms and genes of biotechnological interest. Tara Ocean's resources are critical for developing baseline information for tracking the impact of climate change on the ocean.
Speakers: Romain Troublé - Executive Director, Tara Ocean Foundation
Chris Bowler - Director, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Section of the Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure
Matthew Sullivan - Director, Center of Microbiome Science at Ohio State University
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Power Puzzle: "Solving Complex Problems" (12.000) Final Presentation
Wednesday, December 6
7:00pm to 10:00pm
MIT, Huntington Hal, Building 10-250, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
And Online
RSVP at https://web.mit.edu/webcast/terrascope2027/
Come see this year's Terrascope students present proposals to foster resilient energy at the community scale in Puerto Rico. Questions welcome from the audience as well as the expert panel.
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
Can’t make it? Watch our live streamed webcast.
The class "Solving Complex Problems" (12.000) is part of MIT's Terrascope program.
For more information, contact:
Michelle Contos (617-253-4074) – terrascope-office@mit.edu
Editorial Comment: I proposed a project on rebuilding the energy infrastructure of Puerto Rico at the 2017 MIT Energy Hackathon. My project was accepted, the only project presented by an individual instead of a corporation. Three teams took up the challenge. Two of them made it to the final nine. I never heard from the MIT Energy Hackathon people again.
https://solarray.blogspot.com/2017/10/mit-energy-hackathon-rebuilding-energy.html
https://solarray.blogspot.com/2017/11/energy-hackathon-puerto-rico-caribbean.html
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Investor Advocacy and Business Working to Address Climate Change
Thursday, December 7
12 – 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And Online
RSVP (only needed for virtual attendants) at https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uVGWH9xjS-qu2viTREbqPA#/registration
In 1989, after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, a group of investors asked if they could use their influence to protect the planet—Ceres was born. Today, it is more important than ever that investors, companies, and policymakers work together to address climate-related economic situations. In this lecture, Tyler McCullough will discuss how investors and companies are working together to mitigate their effect on climate change. Join McCullough and ENVS in this edition of the HoCu Lecture Series.
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Climate Change Denial, Uncertainty and Science
Thursday, December 7
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Boston College, 300 Hammond Pond Parkway, Newton, MA, Seminar Room (First room on your right.)
Patrick Byrne
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War, Ambitions, and Actualities in the Energy Theater of the Middle East and Beyond
Thursday, December 7
4:30 – 6 p.m.
Harvard, CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
RSVP at https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/war-ambitions-and-actualities-energy-theater-middle-east-and-beyond
SPEAKER(S) Paul F. Saba, Esq., International Energy Lawyer
Paul F. Saba is a lawyer in Massachusetts with an independent private practice. He devotes his practice primarily to dispute resolution. He has served as arbitrator, counsel, and legal consultant in arbitration and mediation proceedings governed by ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA and AAARules, and by ad-hoc protocols. He has special experience in transactions involving state and private energy companies in the United States, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East.
He is admitted to practice before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, is a member the North American Users Council of the London Court of International Arbitration, and is on the panel of Arbitrators of the International Center For Dispute Resolution of the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Saba is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude, and of Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied economic history as an American Rhodes Scholar.
CONTACT INFO elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu
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Transition from Gas; New Technologies; and Keynote from FERC Commissioner
Friday, December 8
9:00 am-12:30 pm
Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Blvd 17th Floor Boston, MA 02210
And online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/12-8-23-roundtable-new-technologies-transition-from-gas-and-ferc-keynote-tickets-735216360927
Cost: $0 -$100
This Roundtable will feature a Keynote by Commissioner Allison Clements of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, followed by panels on The Transition from Gas and New Technologies, both integral to the region’s efforts to achieve its clean energy and decarbonization goals.
Keynote on Transmission (and other topics of interest to New England)Commissioner Allison Clements
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is currently addressing a broad range of issues that will shape New England’s path to a decarbonized energy future. In particular, FERC is involved in series of transmission-related rulemakings and has convened a Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission. Recently, FERC issued final interconnection rules that will affect the ability of clean energy resources to connect to the grid in a timely and cost-effective manner. FERC also has proposed rules on transmission planning that will influence how clean energy resources (both on- and offshore) are delivered to customers and is considering requiring increased interregional ties to enable greater sharing of more resources among New England and its regional neighbors.
Commissioner Allison Clements is taking the lead on a myriad of issues, which -in addition to transmission - are part of this transition. These include: the appropriate role of gas; the incorporation of intermittent renewable resources; how to consider greenhouse gas emissions in gas/electric planning and decision-making, and how to address historic inequities and move forward in a way that brings more stakeholder voices into the process.
She will share her experience and perspectives in conversation with Dr. Jonathan Raab, Convener of these Roundtables and Moderator of the Federal-State Transmission Task Force. They will explore what these challenges and opportunities mean for New England and the broader Northeast.
Transition from Gas
Achieving states’ ambitious economy-wide carbon reduction requirements will necessitate reducing consumption of fossil fuels across all sectors. Policymakers have established electrification goals and utilities are implementing programs to reduce end-use customers’ consumption of natural gas in their homes and businesses. At the same time, public policy, economics, technology advances and customer expectations are driving increases in clean and renewable resources and reductions in natural gas-fired generation. A consequence of these trends is reduced utilization of the aging New England natural gas system at the very time when increased investment is needed to replace leak-prone pipe. How can we reconcile the two and align our electricity and natural gas planning and policies to achieve our carbon reduction goals while also maintaining safe, affordable and reliable energy service? How do we transition from natural gas for the future, and what, if any, residual role should gas play?
Jamie Van Nostrand, the new Chair of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, is overseeing proceedings that address the role of gas and the modernization of the electricity system for a decarbonizing future, while continuing to ensure safety, reliability, and affordability.
Mike Henchen is a Principal at RMI, which has been making the case for natural gas transition planning that “acknowledges the complexities of the current system and addresses the needs of the workers and residents who rely on it.” Mike will elaborate on how states can frame gas transition proceedings and the elements that are important to include.
Zeyneb Magavi, the Co-Executive Director of HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team), has been leading efforts on (or under) the ground to transition customers from gas to electricity using networked geothermal. She will discuss the Framingham and other networked geothermal pilots as well as the concept of “tactical thermal planning” to identify opportunities to install heat pumps as an alternative to replacing leak prone pipe.
Nikki Bruno, Vice President of Clean Technologies at Eversource, will continue the theme of joint electricity and gas planning, emphasizing how critical this coordination is for both the gas transition and grid modernization. She will also touch on the need to align policy, regulation and planning.
New Technologies Enabling Decarbonization
In order to achieve our decarbonization objectives, we will need new and improved technologies to heat and cool buildings, deliver electricity, integrate intermittent renewable resources, provide transportation, and manage a larger and more complex electricity system. As our energy system transitions from traditional natural gas uses, changes in technology will be required at both the end-use and system levels.
This panel will explore a sample of these key technologies (heat pumps, grid enhancing technologies (GETs), and multi-day storage (MDS)), addressing emerging developments, successes in practical implementation, and analytic tools.
Michael Stoddard is the Executive Director of Efficiency Maine, the statewide energy efficiency utility. Maine is consistently recognized as the leading state in heat pump adoption. Michael will offer insights into programs and processes that other states can adopt and will discuss how heat pump programs can be used to address equity issues by improving heating and cooling in mobile and manufactured homes.
Hudson Gilmer, the CEO of LineVision, Inc., will describe how GETS can be used to cost-effectively increase the capacity and efficiency of existing transmission lines, reducing or delaying the need to construct new grid infrastructure. He will discuss the pilots of his company’s Dynamic Line Rating (DLR) product, as well as other technologies.
Sarah Jackson, Policy Manager (Eastern Region), at Form Energy, will discuss the company’s recent analysis providing, “insight into the role that energy storage technologies, including MDS can play in reducing the cost and resource requirements for achieving New England’s decarbonization goals.”
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Putting People at the Center of Just Transition: How can we achieve a people-focused approach to a just transition?
Friday, December 8
[9.30–10.15 (UTC+4)]
Online
RSVP at https://pub.norden.org/cop28/-december-8-equality-just-transition.html#id03386
The only way to guarantee a just transition is by ensuring that land and environmental defenders, activists and impacted communities, including Indigenous Peoples, have safe access to civic space and meaningfully participate in climate decision-making. We must ensure the world does not switch from one model of extraction and exploitation to another.
During this event speakers and audience members will share experiences, discuss solutions and explore opportunities for collaboration.
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Artists + Climate Change Solutions
Friday, December 8
2 - 3:30pm EST
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artists-climate-change-solutions-tickets-758413062887?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Join us for a cross-sector discussion of how public artists are collaborating to help address climate change and work towards climate justice.
This panel discussion, hosted by Forecast Public Art, will feature the following speakers:
Emma Robbins (Diné), an artist, activist, and community organizer, Managing Director of Planet Women and the founder of The Chapter House.
Travis Sheridan, Chief Community Officer at Wexford Science + Technology, where he forges strong ties with university partners, civic leaders, and community groups.
Dr. Galen Treuer, head of Climate Tech and Economic Innovation for Miami-Dade County.
This is part of our conversation series for our new digital publication, FORWARD. FORWARD issue #6 focuses on climate. Forecast Public Art offers this program free of cost, but donations are appreciated. Forecast Public Art is a nonprofit organization.
Read the FORWARD publications:
Read FORWARD issue #5: Housing
Read FORWARD issue #4: Redefining Sustainable Design in Indian Country
Read FORWARD issue #3: Community Safety
Read FORWARD issue # 2: Transportation
Read FORWARD issue #1: Public Health
This event is hosted by Forecast Public Art.
Forecast Public Art is a non-profit arts organization founded in 1978 by and for artists working in public space. Forecast activates, inspires, and advocates for public art that advances justice, health, and human dignity.
www.forecastpublicart.org
Follow Forecast on social media:
Instagram: @forecastpublicart
Twitter: @4castpublicart
Facebook: Forecast Public Art
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Will Digital Intelligence Replace Biological Intelligence?" 2023-24 Arthur Miller Science and Ethics speaker
Monday, December 11
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Online
RSVP at https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Tabwz5zvSR-f3FTZamTj1g#/registration
Geoffrey Hinton
“Humanity is at a turning point with AI,” says Geoffrey Hinton, known as the Godfather of Artificial Intelligence. The cognitive scientist and computer scientist who designed machine learning algorithms at Google for 10 years recently quit over concerns about deep learning and AI's potential impact on the future of humanity. AI is reshaping everything from how we write to how we engage with the world. While computers were first designed for humans to tell them what to do, they’re now learning to “think” for themselves. Join Geoffrey Hinton, AI pioneer and co-founder of deep learning, November 6th at 4 pm for a webinar, “Will Digital Intelligence Replace Biological Intelligence?” a discussion of AI and humanity’s future.
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How is the Environment Protected During Armed Conflict?
Tuesday, December 12
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM EST [14:30 - 16:00 CET]
Online
RSVP at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3802352436801451605
In 2021, the UN International Law Commission (ILC) finalized its Principles on the protection of the environment in armed conflict. Two years earlier, the ICRC released its own Guidelines on the Protection of the Natural Environment in Armed Conflict. These two significant legal initiatives are part and parcel to a flurry of interest in the topic. In response to these initiatives and in reaction to this vibrant interest, the International Review of the Red Cross has compiled a special edition on the protection of the environment in armed conflict, featuring more than two dozen articles exploring the topic from a variety of angles. At this event, authors whose work is featured in that edition will engage in a lively conversation, followed by closing remarks by former ILC Special Rapporteur Marja Lehto.
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Ben Santer: 2023 Stephen Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication
Tuesday, December 12
6:00 pm pst
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://commonwealthclub.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F8Z00000lUjvXUAS
Cost: $5 - $20
Climate One is delighted to present the 2023 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication to atmospheric scientist Ben Santer.
Santer has spent decades researching and identifying the human fingerprints on the climate system changes we’re now all seeing. He was lead author on the historic 1995 conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which proclaimed that “the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.” That was the first time the IPCC authoritatively stated humans are causing climate change. At the time, climate scientist Stephen Schneider told Santer that the sentence he wrote would change the world. Santer’s foundational work also laid the groundwork for the expanding field of attribution science, which enables activists and lawyers to ascribe proportionate blame to specific polluters in lawsuits demanding damages for climate-disrupting emissions.
Join us for this special in-person conversation with Ben Santer, atmospheric scientist, MacArthur “Genius” and Fowler Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and Kassie Siegel, director of the Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity.
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Rising Tides: Integrating Situated Visualization, Augmented Reality, and Public-Participation Technology to Create an Accessible Platform for Localized Climate Change Visualization and Discourse
Wednesday, December 13
12 – 1 p.m.
Online
RSVP at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lXXTqumRRwKeOPggiqGmAA#/registration
SPEAKER(S) Narges Mahyar
2023–2024 fellow, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; assistant professor at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Narges Mahyar is an assistant professor at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose research is situated at the intersection of human-computer interaction, information visualization, social computing, applied machine learning, human-centered artificial intelligence, and design. She applies a community-centered design approach to build novel social computing and visualization tools to empower the general public to engage in real-world sociotechnical issues, such as urban planning and climate change, by enabling them to share their ideas and comments for shaping future policies.
In this lecture, Mahyar will investigate innovative techniques to integrate situated visualization, augmented reality, and civic technology to design and build a mobile platform that simulates the localized impact of climate change, thereby providing Boston residents with an immersive experience of climate change visualizations and empowering them to contribute comments and ideas on climate change issues.
CONTACT INFO events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
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Moving toward an endgame in Ukraine?
Wednesday, December 13
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Online
Livestream at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5ooD8Ydk4vd83Ac8VNEoQ
SSP Wednesday Seminar with speaker Samuel Charap, senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. The talk will be broadcast live on the MIT Security Studies Program Youtube channel.
Abstract: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a moment of clarity for the United States and its allies. An urgent mission was before them: to assist Ukraine as it countered Russian aggression and to punish Moscow for its transgressions. While the Western response was clear from the start, the objective—the endgame of this war—has been nebulous.
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Putting Science to Work for Communities Facing Climate Threats
Wednesday, December 13
3pm EST [12:00 PM PST]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RSVP at https://commonwealthclub.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F8Z00000lUl78UAC
Cost: $5 - $20
Angela M. Chalk, Executive Director, Healthy Community Services
Natasha Udu-gama, Director, Thriving Earth Exchange
Daniel Wildcat, Professor, Haskell Indian Nations University; Member, Rising Voices Steering Committee
Greg Dalton, Founder and Host, Climate One
People’s lives and livelihoods depend on science. But when those lives and livelihoods are threatened by impacts of a changing climate, how many of us know a scientist we can turn to who can help us protect our communities?
Community science happens when lay people and scientists do science together to advance community priorities. Natasha Udu-gama is director of AGU’s Thriving Earth Exchange, which connects communities with scientists and supports them as they work together to tackle local challenges related to natural hazards, natural resources and climate change. Thriving Earth Exchange has launched more than 250 projects in more than 15 countries since 2013. Daniel Wildcat is a professor at Haskell Indian Nations University and serves on the steering committee of Rising Voices, a network of tribal and community leaders and earth scientists that brings Indigenous and earth sciences into partnership. Angela Chalk is an AGU Community Science Fellow and executive director of Healthy Community Services in New Orleans.
How can scientists and community leaders work together to solve local and global problems?
Join Climate One Host Greg Dalton in this special, in-person conversation with Udu-gama, Wildcat and Chalk, presented in collaboration with AGU at Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California.
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TEDxMIT 2023: Tech for Good
Saturday, December 16
MIT Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA, 02139
RSVP at https://tedx.mit.edu/
Showcasing the broad MIT community's daily superhero innovations - tech for good.
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Charting Progress: Regulator Actions on Climate Financial Risks
Dec 18
3:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Online
RSVP at https://ceres-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BiD6G1gcQvK8esnofihhXw#/registration
Climate-related financial risk poses significant and growing threats to the stability of financial institutions and markets of all sizes. Ceres’ annual Climate Risk Scorecard assesses the actions that U.S. federal financial regulators have taken within their existing authority to address these systemic impacts. How have these 10 agencies already integrated climate risk into their regulatory activities? And what could they be doing to better protect the U.S. financial system from the impacts of the climate crisis?
In this webinar participants will: - Interpret the assessments in the 2023 Climate Risk Scorecard - Identify the actions financial regulators have taken in the past 18 months to manage climate risk - Define what else is needed from regulators to keep the U.S. competitive, in step with global peers, and our financial institutions safe and sound
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Online dialogue: COP28 post-match analysis
December 19
7:30 - 9am EST [13:30 - 15:00 CET]
Online
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.se/e/online-dialogue-cop28-post-match-analysis-tickets-757617994817
Did the COP 28 fulfil the expectations of political leaders, scientists, civil society, and youth organizations around the globe? What questions were left unsolved? Welcome to an online COP 28 post-match analysis with a high-level panel.
COP28 marks the conclusion of the first global stocktake. Did we come up with a roadmap to accelerate climate action? Was an agreement on operationalising the Loss and Damage Fund achieved? What questions were left unsolved and what issues need to be addressed before the next conference of parties in 2024? We gather a prominent panel to share insights into the COP28 negotiations
Mattias Frumerie, Sweden’s climate ambassador and Head of Delegation to UNFCCC at Swedish Ministry of Climate and Enterprise
Åsa Persson, Research Director and Deputy Director at Stockholm Environment Institute
Ricardo Marshall TBC, Director, Roofs to Reefs Programme (R2RP), Prime Minister’s Office, Barbados
Emma Modéer Wiking, Global Head of International Sustainable Business, Business Sweden
Maria Jernnäs, Post-doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, Linköping University
This event is hosted by Stockholm Environment Institute and Linköping University in collaboration with Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research and the Mistra Geopolitics research programme. The event will be chaired by Professor Björn-Ola Linnér, Linköping University and Programme Director for Mistra Geopolitics.
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Announcing the 37th Annual NOFA/Mass Winter Conference: "Growing Connections & Collaborations”
January 13, 2024
8 AM - 6 PM
Worcester State University, In-person Only,
https://www.nofamass.org/home/nofa-events/winter-conference/
