Connect, learn, and engage with Penn’s climate community
Monthly seminars, workshops, and a week-long celebration of climate action at Penn.
Penn Climate convenes faculty, students, postdocs, and partners across the university to share research, build interdisciplinary connections, and advance climate solutions. Here you’ll find a comprehensive list of climate-related programming happening across Penn. Explore events hosted by Penn Climate and the broader community to find programming aligned with your interests and expertise.
Events
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Special Briefing on Data Centers: Will they power the US economy or bog it down in a swamp of controversy?
Special Briefing on Data Centers: Will they power the US economy or bog down in a swamp of controversy? The artificial intelligence (AI) boom and the industry’s seemingly insatiable need […]
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Pitchfest: Transportation
Widener Lecture Hall, Penn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesConnecting UPenn Student, Faculty, and Staff with leading public sector transportation agencies to solve the sector's toughest challenges. Pitchfest: Transportationis an inaugural event hosted by the Transportation Initiative at Penn (TRIP), a […]
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Thomas Woltz
Kleinman Energy Forum Fisher Fine Arts Building, 4th Floor, PhiladelphiaThis fall's lecture series “The Expanded Field” is hosted and organized by Professor Karen M'Closkey. Karen has invited Thomas Woltz, Senior Principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW), to […]
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Wharton Energy & Climate Club Annual Conference 2026
Convene 30 South 17th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesConference Overview The Wharton Energy & Climate Club is excited to invite you to the 2026 Energy & Climate Conference at Convene in Philadelphia on Friday, October 30th, 2026. Join […]
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Utility Insecurity as a Public Health Issue
The Quorum 3675 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesJoin the Penn’s Center for Public Health, the Penn Center for Food and Nutrition Policy, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (Penn […]
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Geoscience Colloquium: Katherine Barnhart
Hayden Hall, Room 358 240 S 33rd St, Philadelphia, United StatesThe Geoscience Colloquium is hosted each Friday by the Department of Earth and Environmental Science. Katy Barnhart, PhD, is a Research Civil Engineer in the Landslide Hazards program of the United States […]
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Jonathan Elliott: Critical Minerals, Geopolitics, and the Green Transition
Kleinman Center Classroom Fisher Fine Arts Building Room 306, PhiladelphiaThe seminar series in Energy Economics & Finance (EEF) is jointly organized by Wharton’s Business Economics and Public Policy Department, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, and Wharton’s Business, Climate […]
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The Anne Whiston Spirn Lecture: Kotchakorn Voraakhom
Kleinman Energy Forum Fisher Fine Arts Building, 4th Floor, PhiladelphiaSinking deltas and extreme climate shifts have exposed the critical limits of rigid gray infrastructure—concrete walls can no longer hold back the compounding threats of flooding and drought. Thus, landscape […]
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The Abend Family Lecture: Amale Andraos and Dan Wood
Meyerson Hall, Plaza Gallery 210 S 34th St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThe Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology welcome Amale Andraos and Dan Wood for the Abend Family Lecture, "Housing Public." This lecture presents WORKac's […]
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Should Companies Write Their Own Climate Rules?
Kleinman Energy Forum Fisher Fine Arts Building, 4th Floor, PhiladelphiaCorporate climate pledges gained worldwide attention in the early 2020s as a wave of companies set net-zero targets that were aligned, at least on paper, with the long-term goals of […]
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CASI Seminar featuring Teevrat Garg: Tackling Air Pollution in South Asia
Center for the Advanced Study of IndiaTeevrat Garg is an Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on decarbonization, energy transitions, air […]
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Polymer Chemistry Lecture Series
VLEST, Room 121 3200 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesProfessor E. Bryan Coughlin Department of Polymer Science and Engineering University of Massachusetts, Amherst Prof. E. Bryan Coughlin earned his B.A. in Chemistry from Grinnell College and completed his Ph.D. […]