Climate Action: Health, Resilience & Innovation
Date: 04-04-2024
Time: 07:00 PM
Location: Dolan School of Business Event Hall
“The biggest threat to our future is thinking that someone else will lead,
that someone else will solve the climate crisis.”
The Waide Center for Applied Ethics is sponsoring a campus-wide and community event. Guest speakers will share their work towards a transition to a net zero, just and sustainable world. Topics will cover climate science, greenhouse gas emissions and our warming planet, health disparities and inequities, environmental justice and racism, climate resilience and adaptation (living shorelines, critical infrastructure, sea level rise and flooding, policy and planning).
Our panelists are:
- Dr. Kirsten Ek, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCONN Health
- Dr. James O’Donnell, PhD, Professor of Marine Sciences at UCONN and Executive Director of the Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation
- Ms. Celine King, Fairfield University ‘23, and Founder and CEO of GreenIRR Inc., a technology business that measures and tracks emissions for the trucking industry.
This will be Fairfield’s second year participating in a larger, Worldwide Climate and Justice Education Week, led by Bard College, www.worldwideteachin.org. 2023’s event reached 58,000 people in 61 countries.
If we all take action, we can better deal with climate change, mitigate the impact, and take measures to prevent it in the future.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Related Web Site : https://fairfield.campuslabs.com/engage/event/9985186
For more information, contact Cyndi Palaia / 3987 / cpalaia@fairfield.edu