Dr. Tiefenthaler discussed how the National Geographic Society draws on its legacy to shape its future, driving impactful initiatives — from international conservation projects to historic scientific expeditions — to illuminate and protect the wonder of our world.
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Meeting the Moment: Embracing Change at the National Geographic Society
Jill Tiefenthaler, CEO of the National Geographic Society
The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice
Dr. Robert D. Bullard
Professor Bullard’s presentation will focus primarily on the U.S. and the need for empowering vulnerable populations, identifying environmental justice and climate change “hot-spot” zones and designing fair, just and effective adaptation, mitigation, emergency management and community resilience and disaster recovery strategies.
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The Insect Crisis is a Human Crisis
Oliver Milman
Insects can seem to be everywhere, all at once, sometimes to an annoying extent. Three out of four every four known animal species on Earth are insects, after all. But these dazzlingly adept creatures, which pre-date the dinosaurs, are suffering a silent yet hugely consequential crisis, with their numbers plummeting around the world. Oliver Milman, environment correspondent for Guardian US, has outlined the ramifications of this loss in his book The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World.
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How We Can Live with Fire: Lessons Learned from California’s Investments in Wildfire Resilience
Jessica Morse
California is investing $2.8 Billion in wildfire resilience over three years – one of the largest investments to prevent catastrophic wildfire ever. Deputy Secretary Morse discusses the current State of California’s wildfire crisis and how this novel investment in wildfire resilience is helping both communities and ecosystems better withstand fire and lay the ground work to restore natural fire regimes throughout the State.
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Ecologies of Segregation: Empirical Insights from Baltimore and Experience from Louisville
Steward T.A. Pickett
Steward T.A. Pickett is an Ecologist and Distinguished Senior Scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, in Millbrook, New York who specializes in urban and landscape ecology.
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Climate Justice and the Question of Reparations
Panel featuring: Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò, Naomi Klein, Sabrina Fernandes, and Jackie Fielder, moderated by Daniel Aldana Cohen. Organized by UC Berkeley’s Climate Equity and Environmental Justice Roundtable, co-sponsored by the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2.
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ERG Annual Lecture: Damilola Ogunbiyi
Ogunbiyi is CEO of Sustainable Energy for All and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All.
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In Conversation with Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert
Pulitzer Prize-winning Science Writer Elizabeth Kolbert in Conversation with Dean David Ackerly, Rausser College & Dean Geeta Anand, Graduate School of Journalism.
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30x30: The New Conservation
A virtual panel event on the 30x30 initiative—the pledge to conserve 30 percent of the country’s land and water by 2030.
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Social Cost of Carbon
The social cost of carbon—an estimate of the economic harm caused by each additional ton of carbon dioxide—allows policy makers to evaluate the economic consequences of emissions and make informed decisions about climate change. Join this discussion between Energy and Resources Group professor David Anthoff, Agricultural and Resources Economics professor Maximilian Auffhammer, and ERG PhD candidate Lisa Rennels to learn more about the most important number you’ve never heard of.
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