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Climate 101

What you need to know about climate change.

Would you like to be more informed about climate change? The Environmental Innovations Initiative's Climate 101 series provides "what you need to know" from some of Penn's leading experts. In an accessible format, both in person and online, these talks delve into how climate is interwoven with a variety of disciplines, helping to raise our climate literacy and prepare us to tackle one of the planet's greatest challenges. View recordings from Climate 101 below.

Climate 101 for Fall 2024

Join us for our Fall 2024 Climate 101 lineup! Hear from Environmental Innovations Initiative Faculty Fellows Jon Hawkings, Julie Ellis, and Farah Hussain speaking about how their discipline is thinking about climate change. We are offering these events in an in-person and virtual format in partnership with the Annenberg School for Communication.

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April 2024: Beyond Despair: A Q&A with Michael Mann

Michael Mann, a member of EII's Internal Advisory Committee. In conversation with moderators from the Initiative—faculty director Kathy Morrison and staff director Katie Unger Baillie—he shared how to combat doomerism and despair when it comes to climate change and explained why he remains optimistic about our future.