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SUMMARY:5th Global Oral Health & Climate Action Conference
DESCRIPTION:The University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine will host the 5th Global Oral Health and Climate Action Conference (5th GOHCA) during official COP31 UN Climate Conference Antalya\, Turkey\, from November 9th -20th\, 2026. The 5th GOHCA conference will run over 10 days with over 30+ sessions planned with over 150 international experts\, policymakers\, researchers and industry leaders from around the world. It builds on the 4th GOHCA program (view COP30 session recordings) with a focus on sustainable dentistry\, human and health security\, and oral and planetary health. \nThe program will include: \n\nInterdisciplinary scientific sessions\nPolicy roundtables\nIndustry-academic collaboration panels\nInnovation showcases and digital health solutions\nWorkshops on sustainability and climate-resilient healthcare
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/5th-global-oral-health-climate-action-conference/
LOCATION:official COP31 UN Climate Conference Antalya\, Turkey\, Turkey
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Perry World House at 10: Inaugural Annual Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join Perry World House on Monday\, November 9\, 2026\, for its Inaugural Annual Conference\, marking a decade as the University of Pennsylvania’s home for global policy engagement. Across a full day of keynote conversations\, leaders from government\, defense\, humanitarian organizations\, and journalism will take on four of the most urgent challenges facing the world today: climate change\, human rights and global justice\, democracy\, and security. \nSee the day’s schedule and register for keynote conversations below. \n\n9:00 a.m. Breakfast and Registration \n9:45 a.m. Introduction by John L. Jackson\, Jr.\, Penn Provost and Richard Perry University Professor \n10:00–11:00 am Keynote Conversation I on Climate Change \n\nIntroduction: Zeke Emanuel\, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives\nKeynote Speaker: Margot Wallström\, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden\nModerator: Amna Nawaz\, Co-anchor of PBS NewsHour\, Penn Alumna\n\n11:00–11:30 am Coffee Break \n11:30–12:30 pm Keynote Conversation II on Human Rights and Global Justice \n\nIntroduction: Mark Trodden\, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences\nKeynote Speaker: Tirana Hassan\, CEO\, Doctors Without Borders-USA\nKeynote Speaker: Jeremy Konyndyk\, President\, Refugees International\nModerator: Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein\, Perry World House Professor of Practice of Law and Human Rights\n\n12:30–2:00 pm Lunch \n2:30–3:30 pm Keynote Conversation III on Democracy \n\nIntroduction: Erika James\, Dean of the Wharton School\nKeynote Speaker: Bill Kristol\, Director\, Defending Democracy Together\, and Editor-at-Large\, The Bulwark\nModerator: Ashley Parker\, Staff Writer at The Atlantic\, Penn Alumna\n\n3:30–4:00 pm Coffee Break \n4:00-5:00 pm Keynote Conversation IV on Security \n\nIntroduction: Vijay Kumar\, Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering\nKeynote Speaker: Kenneth J. Braithwaite\, 77th Secretary of the U.S. Navy\nKeynote Speaker: Kathleen Hicks\, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense\nModerator: Andrea Mitchell\, Chief Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News\, Penn Alumna\n\n5:30–8:00 pm Reception
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/perry-world-house-at-10-inaugural-annual-conference/
LOCATION:Perry World House\, 3803 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, 19104
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T120000
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SUMMARY:Melting Ice in a Warming Climate: Why Polar Observations Become Critical Infrastructure
DESCRIPTION:In 2005\, Helheim Glacier in East Greenland retreated 5 kilometers and thinned by 100 meters in just two years\, a pace few glaciologists thought possible. Several other large Greenland glaciers sped up at the same time\, prompting targeted research into why some glaciers accelerate and others don’t. The key processes occur where we can’t easily see them: at the glacier bed and at the ice-ocean boundary. This talk outlines one approach to this understanding problem\, using GPS and seismic records\, a laser scanner that has imaged the glacier front every six hours for nearly a decade\, ocean measurements\, and machine learning applied to a flood of new satellite data. Each of these approaches depends on sustained observing systems: satellites\, field stations\, and long-term monitoring. I’ll conclude by arguing that as polar regions change faster and matter more for ecosystems\, shipping\, coastal risk\, and security\, those observations are becoming critical infrastructure.  \nDr. Leigh A. Stearns is a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environmental Science\, where her research focuses on how glaciers and climate interact across a range of timescales. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maine\, her M.S. from The Ohio State University\, and her B.A. from Carleton College. Before joining Penn in 2024\, she spent fifteen years on the faculty at the University of Kansas and served as a Faculty Fellow with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency from 2022 to 2025. Her research uses satellite remote sensing\, field observations\, and numerical modeling to understand glacier dynamics\, iceberg calving\, and ice-ocean interactions\, with three decades of near-continuous fieldwork in either Antarctica or Greenland. She has authored more than 75 peer-reviewed publications and led or co-led over $20 million in research funding from NSF\, NASA\, ONR\, NOAA\, and private foundations\, including current projects on sea ice and iceberg remote sensing\, glacier flow sensitivity\, and machine learning applications for glacier dynamics.  \nStearns’s contributions have been recognized with a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellowship\, an NSF CAREER Award\, the University of Kansas Scholarly Achievement Award\, and selection as an Ivy Plus Provost Leadership Fellow and Endowed Chair at Penn. Beyond her research\, she is deeply engaged in community building and developing applied tools for Arctic security and policy efforts. She is currently a Perry World House Faculty Fellow and co-leads: a leadership training program for climate scientists\, the ISMIP7 Data Working Group\, and the Polar Remote Sensing Working Group for the DoD’s ICE-PPR program. She has advised numerous graduate students and postdocs who have gone on to careers in academia\, industry\, and government.  \n 
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/penn-climate-seminar-leigh-stearns/
LOCATION:Class of 1978 Orrery Pavillion\, Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts 6th Floor\, Van Pelt Library\, Philadelphia\, 19104
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Taking Stock: Documenting the Economic Record of BIL\, IRA\, and CHIPS
DESCRIPTION:The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law\, the Inflation Reduction Act\, and the CHIPS and Science Act launched a new era of U.S. industrial policy\, investing hundreds of billions of dollars in manufacturing\, clean energy\, infrastructure\, and domestic supply chains. But what have these investments actually accomplished? While government agencies\, researchers\, and advocacy groups have produced a flood of reports\, the evidence is scattered and often difficult to compare. \nThis seminar brings that evidence together to assess what we know and what we still don’t about private investment\, job creation\, wages\, and regional economic growth. We will discuss how consistent\, transparent metrics can separate evidence from narrative and provide a clearer picture of what these policies have achieved. We will also explore new research methods that can better identify their causal impacts\, helping policymakers understand what worked\, what didn’t\, and where U.S. industrial policy should go next. \nThe EconClimate Lab advances forward looking economic policy ideas that make energy policy benefit workers\, communities\, and the American economy. \nThe conversation will be moderated by Heather Boushey\, professor of practice at the Kleinman Center and former member of the Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist to President Biden’s Investing in America Cabinet.
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/taking-stock-documenting-the-economic-record-of-bil-ira-and-chips/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261112T170000
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SUMMARY:Civic Learning and Urban Problem Solving in Risky Times: A Youth Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Civic Learning and Urban Problem Solving in Risky Times: A Youth Perspective About the Seminar Youth have been seen as vital to delivering India’s demographic dividend\, but today\, face a compounding crisis of rising unemployment\, climate risk and democratic decline. India’s cities\, far from being spaces of emancipation for caste- and gender-marginalized youth\, exacerbate this sense of crisis by failing to deliver quality employment and infrastructure. Through testimonies of youth from disadvantaged social and spatial locations\, Mukta Naik narrates cities as laboratories where youth learn to articulate\, cope with\, and repair problems through everyday encounters with people\, spaces\, institutions and networks. Youth do not merely read the city to fit into precast roles like the beneficiary\, entrepreneur\, or future leader. In practice\, everyday acts of risk-taking\, negotiation\, and repair allow youth to generate important civic knowledge that is missing from prevalent urban planning and governance debates. In this seminar\, she explores how these youth-generated knowledges and practices of civic learning could inform our ideas of urban resilience.\nSpeaker Mukta Naik is an architect and urban planner with longstanding research interests in urban informality\, housing and internal migration in India. As Fellow\, Sustainable Futures Collaborative\, New Delhi\, she works at the intersections of labor\, urban planning\, and climate adaption. She is currently based at the University of Minnesota\, Minneapolis as an Urban Studies Foundation International Fellow\, working on a manuscript on the role of cities in shaping youth resilience\, aspirations\, and transformational pathways. Naik has previously worked at reputed Indian policy think tanks like the Centre for Policy Research and the National Institute of Urban Affairs lectured at SPA Delhi\, TISS Hyderabad\, and Ambedkar University Delhi. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban Development and Governance from the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam.\nhttps://penniur.upenn.edu/events/civic-learning-and-urban-problem-solving-in-risky-times-a-youth-perspective
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/civic-learning-and-urban-problem-solving-in-risky-times-a-youth-perspective/
LOCATION:Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics\, 133 South 36th Street (Suite 230)\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kate Kennen - Scaling Up: Landscapes of Productive Planting Exploration
DESCRIPTION:Kate Kennen is founder of Offshoots\, Inc.\, a Boston\, MA landscape architecture and horticultural installation practice and full-time professor at Northeastern University. She grew-up on her family’s garden center in central Massachusetts and her current research and teaching concentrates on productive planting design\, mycofiltration (using fungi to clean stormwater)\, and pollinator landscapes for the Northeast. Her book\, co-authored with Niall Kirkwood\, PHYTO: Principles and Resources for Site Remediation and Landscape Design\, translates the science of phytoremediation into an easy-to-understand guide for design professionals.
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/kate-kennen/
LOCATION:Kleinman Energy Forum\, Fisher Fine Arts Building\, 4th Floor\, Philadelphia\, 19104
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Geoscience Colloquium: Rebecca Jackson
DESCRIPTION:The Geoscience Colloquium is hosted by the Department of Earth and Environmental Science each Friday. \nRebecca Jackson\, PhD\, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth & Climate Sciences (with a secondary appointment in Civil & Environmental Engineering) at Tufts University. Prior to Tufts\, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine & Coastal Sciences at Rutgers\, and before that a NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoc fellow at Oregon State University. \nHer research focuses on ocean-glacier interactions\, coastal dynamics\, and polar processes. Broadly\, she is interested in how heat and freshwater are exchanged between the ocean and cryosphere\, and her lab explore these dynamics across a range of scales\, from the ocean-ice boundary layer to the continental shelf ocean. \nThe Polar Coastal Dynamics Lab at Tufts focuses on interactions between the ocean and cryosphere\, coastal dynamics\, and polar processes. The shrinking ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are a significant and growing contributor to sea level rise\, yet our ability to predict sea level is hampered by a limited understanding of ocean-glacier interactions. Ocean warming has been implicated as a driver of glacier acceleration and retreat\, with enhanced submarine melting as the presumed connection. However\, we have almost no direct measurements of this melting and only a nascent understanding of ocean dynamics near glaciers. Both directions of ocean-glacier interactions are of interest: how does the ocean drive submarine melting and glacier retreat\, and how does freshwater discharge from glaciers and ice sheets affect ocean circulation? The Jackson Group explores these questions across a range of scales – from the ocean-ice boundary layer to the regional circulation around Greenland – through the integration of observations\, theory\, and modeling.
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/geoscience-colloquium-rebecca-jackson/
LOCATION:Hayden Hall\, Room 358\, 240 S 33rd St\, Philadelphia\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Penn Climate Seminar: Jason Evans of SilverShark
DESCRIPTION:Penn Climate is partnering with the Penn Center for Science\, Sustainability\, and the Media to welcome Jason Evans\, founder and producer of SilverShark\, to Penn. \nEvans is an Emmy-winning nature documentarian and multimedia producer whose work spans television\, documentaries\, and podcasts\, including the nature and science series Xploration Awesome Planet. During this seminar\, Evans will discuss environmental storytelling and how researchers can communicate their work to audiences beyond academia. He’ll draw on his experience making stories about the natural world that people want to watch and share. \nLocation TBD\, lunch will be served!
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/penn-climate-seminar-jason-evans-of-silvershark/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261118T170000
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Urban Research Colloqium (UURC) Info Session
DESCRIPTION:The Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium (UURC) course instructors invite all interested mentors and mentees to attend to learn more about the course\, pitch their projects\, and meet potential mentors/mentees. Light lunch will be served\, and you are welcome to bring your own lunches.\nThe Penn IUR Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium (UURC) facilitates undergraduate research on cities and urban issues through a semester-long\, credit-bearing seminar (CPLN 5280/URBS 4280) combined with mentorship from faculty\, professors\, or doctoral students on a grant-supported\, joint research project. The course is cross-listed between the Weitzman School of Design’s Department of City and Regional Planning and the School of Arts and Science’s Urban Studies program.\nIn the past\, research projects have ranged from ethnographic studies of Philadelphia nightlife\, to identifying barriers to walking in disadvantaged neighborhoods\, to analyzing urban mass transit. UURC mentor-mentee collaborations have yielded publications in refereed journals\, leveraged other research funding\, and prepared undergraduates to pursue original research as an extension of the UURC project or in other areas.\nJoin us Wednesday\, November 18 at the Penn IUR Conference Room (Meyerson Hall\, G-12). The info session runs from 12:00 – 1:15 PM. Come learn more about the program and how to get involved as a mentee or a mentor.\nhttps://penniur.upenn.edu/events/undergraduate-urban-research-colloqium-uurc-info-session
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/undergraduate-urban-research-colloqium-uurc-info-session/
LOCATION:210 S 34th Street \, Meyerson Hall\, Suite G12 Philadelphia 19104
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261120T113000
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SUMMARY:Monthly Energy Research Discussion: Yifan Quan
DESCRIPTION:Penn faculty\, graduate students and postdocs with an interest in energy research are invited to join us for the monthly VIEST energy research discussion. A light lunch will be served beginning at 11:30am\, presentations and discussions will begin at noon. \nSpeaker: Yifan Quan (Assistant Professor of Chemistry) will give a presentation about his research program.
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/monthly-energy-research-discussion-yifan-quan/
LOCATION:VLEST\, Room 121\, 3200 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261120T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261120T140000
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SUMMARY:DOE Critical Materials Innovation Hub Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Tom Lograsso\, Director of the Critical Materials Innovation Hub joins Penn’s Critical Materials Journal Hub for this discussion.
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/doe-critical-materials-innovation-hub-discussion/
LOCATION:Ames National Laboratory\, 3200 Walnut Street\, Room 121\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261120T150000
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SUMMARY:Geoscience Colloquium: Robert Sherrell
DESCRIPTION:The Geoscience Colloquium is hosted each Friday by the Department of Earth and Environmental Science. \nRobert Sherrell\, PhD\, is a Professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University. \nThe Sherrell Lab studies the biogeochemistry of trace metals in the modern ocean and uses this understanding to develop new geochemical paleo-records of past ocean conditions. They are helping to increase the general knowledge of the distribution and dynamics of trace metals and isotopes in the ocean through the international GEOTRACES program. \nThey are very interested in metals that act as micro-nutrients for phytoplankton\, and have active research programs exploring the mechanisms of natural Fe fertilization of ocean productivity in two shelf regions off west Antarctica. In addition\, Dr. Sherrell’s group is developing new geochemical paleo-proxies in tropical and deep-sea corals and are using these to develop histories of nutrients and the carbonate system of the past ocean. Part of this work involves long-term culturing studies with slow-growing deep corals to determine coral skeleton chemistry as a function of tightly controlled seawater chemistry; this work is being carried out in Barcelona. \nThe Sherrell Lab is also pursuing high-resolution paleo-climate results by determining minor elements and isotopes in an 83\,000 year old stalagmite from a cave on the SW Pacific island of Niue\, with the goal of reconstructing rainfall at this site and unraveling its relationship to polar and global climate variations. Periodically\, they make measurements of iridium and other platinum group metals in sediment sections that cross major extinction events in earth’s history\, as part of an effort to determine the role of major extraterrestrial impacts.
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/geoscience-colloquium-robert-sherrell/
LOCATION:Hayden Hall\, Room 358\, 240 S 33rd St\, Philadelphia\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261120T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261120T220000
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SUMMARY:LA+ Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Join the LA+ Journal Team in celebrating the launch of their newest issues\, MEDIA and MEMORY.\nLocation:\nUpper Gallery\, Meyerson Hall\, 210 S. 34th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\nJoin the LA+ Journal Team in celebrating the launch of their newest issues\, MEDIA and MEMORY.\nLA+ (Landscape Architecture Plus) is an award-winning interdisciplinary journal founded in 2014 by Dr. Tatum L. Hands and Prof. Richard Weller and produced by the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. LA+ explores landscape architecture’s interdisciplinary potential\, bringing readers a rich collection of contemporary thinkers and designers in two lavishly illustrated issues annually. Within LA+ pages you hear from designers\, historians\, artists\, geographers\, psychologists\, ecologists\, planners\, scientists\, philosophers\, and many more. The journal aims to reveal connections and build collaborations between landscape architecture and other disciplines by exploring each issue’s theme from multiple perspectives. LA+ Journal is committed to content that promotes a global diversity of perspectives and cultures\, and which encourages an expansive understanding of the field of landscape architecture and the role of landscape architect\nIf you require any accessibility accommodation\, such as live captioning\, audio description\, or a sign language interpreter\, please email news@design.upenn.edu . Please note\, we require at least five (5) business days’ notice.
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/la-launch-party/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261201T130000
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SUMMARY:Can China Solve Climate Change? The World's Largest Emitter and The Struggle to Save the Climate without America
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the final installment in our Fall 2026 Seminar Series featuring Scott Moore and co-hosted with the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. \nSummary: This talk will draw on recent research drawing from a unique dataset on China’s climate diplomacy and climate finance to look at how China views and acts on climate change. In particular\, it examines how Chinese leaders employ sophisticated audience segmentation strategies\, using different rhetoric and deploying different financing packages to different diplomatic audiences. This has significant implications both for China\, the US\, and international climate policy. Chinese leaders understand that many of their most strategic partner countries\, including the Pacific Island states\, Pakistan\, and even Russia\, take climate change seriously and expect it to figure prominently in diplomatic engagement.  China accordingly delivers carefully calibrated climate messaging to different interlocutors\, coupled with distinctive financing for climate mitigation\, adaptation\, and energy system development. The US\, by contrast\, has virtually ceded the field of climate diplomacy and finance following its withdrawal from both the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.    \nBio: Originally from Louisville\, Kentucky\, Scott Moore is Managing Director of Global Initiatives\, Research\, and Strategy\, Practice Professor of Political Science\, Director of the Penn Global Climate Security and Geopolitics Project\, Principal Investigator of the Penn International Climate Observatory\, Faculty Fellow of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy\, and Senior Advisor to The Water Center at Penn\, all at the University of Pennsylvania. His primary research interests center on China\, climate change\, and emerging technologies\, especially China’s role in the global biotechnology sector. His latest book\, China’s Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology are Reshaping China’s Rise and the World’s Future (Oxford University Press\, 2022)\, explores China’s role in global public goods provision against the backdrop of geopolitical rivalry and competition and what it means for action on climate change and other shared global challenges. 
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/penn-climate-seminar-scott-moore/
LOCATION:Kleinman Energy Forum\, Fisher Fine Arts Building\, 4th Floor\, Philadelphia\, 19104
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261203T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261203T174500
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SUMMARY:The Future of Utility Regulation 2026: Building State Capacity
DESCRIPTION:Public utility commissions were built to regulate natural monopolies on behalf of the public. But today these commissions face challenges from rising energy bills and surging demand for power with staff\, budgets\, and authority that haven’t kept pace. \nThe symposium will bring regulators\, scholars\, advocates\, and practitioners together to examine what “state capacity” means for the commissions closest to the utility bill\, why it has fallen behind\, and what it will take to rebuild the institutions that regulate America’s energy. \nView the full agenda on the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy website.
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/the-future-of-utility-regulation-2026-building-state-capacity/
LOCATION:The Study at University City\, 20 S 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, 19104
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261203T120000
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SUMMARY:Lessons Learned from the Climate Venture Space
DESCRIPTION:Students interested in climate entrepreneurship are invited to a small-group lunch with Wharton Impact’s Nazarian Social Innovator in Residence\, Darren Thompson! \nDarren comes to Wharton Impact after a 40-year career in financial services and sustainability entrepreneurship. With roles at Goldman Sachs\, Bowery Farming\, Spruce Finance\, Revolution Money\, and the Board for Physicians for Human Rights\, he is passionate about the intersections of impact and business – and in mentoring the next generation of leaders in this space. He’ll share some lessons learned and give advice for those looking to start or join climate and sustainability ventures. \nReserve your spot now and bring some questions with you – whether that’s questions about Darren’s career or how to forge your own path\, your own climate venture\, or anything else related to climate entrepreneurship! \nThis event is part of the Climate Entrepreneurship Series\, a collaboration between Penn Climate\, Venture Lab\, and Wharton Impact to provide students across Penn the ability to engage with speakers and mentors with climate innovation expertise. All students\, regardless of where they are in their climate or venture journey\, are invited to take part in events and special mentoring opportunities.
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/lessons-learned-from-the-climate-venture-space/
LOCATION:Wharton Impact Hub
CATEGORIES:Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261204T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261204T160000
DTSTAMP:20260825T153347Z
CREATED:20260825T151406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T153347Z
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SUMMARY:Geoscience Colloquium: Marc Hesse
DESCRIPTION:The Geoscience Colloquium is hosted each Friday by the Department of Earth and Environmental Science. \nMarc Hesse\, PhD\, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Jackson School of Geosciences within the University of Texas at Austin.  He has the Dave P. Carlton Centennial Professorship in Geology (Fellow). \nMarc Hesse is a computational geoscientist interested in the dynamics of porous media in geological and environmental processes. Due to his broad training\, his work bridges both the classical solid-earth sciences and the environmental sciences and energy geosciences. Marc believes that porous media provide a unifying theme across the geosciences and he is actively developing and teaching a range of new and innovative courses on porous media from a geoscience perspective
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/geoscience-colloquium-marc-hesse/
LOCATION:Hayden Hall\, Room 358\, 240 S 33rd St\, Philadelphia\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261207T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261207T163000
DTSTAMP:20261019T132436Z
CREATED:20260806T064842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261019T132436Z
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SUMMARY:Pari Sastry (Wharton Finance)
DESCRIPTION:The 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 and Environment Lab. The scope of the seminar includes regulation and policy papers. The scope of the seminar also includes environmental and transportation issues\, as long as there is a connection with energy. Sessions are biweekly on Mondays from 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. \nParinitha Sastry is an assistant professor of finance with a secondary appointment in the Wharton Real Estate Department.
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/pari-sastry-wharton-finance/
LOCATION:Kleinman Center Classroom\, Fisher Fine Arts Building Room 306\, Philadelphia\, 19104
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261211T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261211T130000
DTSTAMP:20260825T153327Z
CREATED:20260825T152952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T153327Z
UID:10000170-1796988600-1796994000@climate.upenn.edu
SUMMARY:Monthly Energy Research Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Penn faculty\, graduate students and postdocs with an interest in energy research are invited to join us for the monthly VIEST energy research discussion. A light lunch will be served beginning at 11:30am\, presentations and discussions will begin at noon. \nSpeaker/Topic: TBA
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/monthly-energy-research-discussion/
LOCATION:VLEST\, Room 121\, 3200 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261216T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261216T130000
DTSTAMP:20260825T153322Z
CREATED:20260825T144159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T153322Z
UID:10000151-1797422400-1797426000@climate.upenn.edu
SUMMARY:Priced Out of Coverage: Home Insurance and the Squeeze on Household Budgets
DESCRIPTION:Home insurance is becoming harder to afford and\, in some places\, harder to get at all. As wildfires\, floods\, and hurricanes grow more destructive\, premiums are rising sharply\, insurers are refusing to renew policies\, and some homeowners can no longer find coverage at any price. For many families\, that puts more than their insurance policy at risk: without affordable coverage\, a home can become difficult to finance\, sell\, or rebuild after a disaster.This seminar examines why insurance markets are changing\, who is being hit hardest\, and what policymakers can do to keep coverage within reach. We will explore options such as stronger rate review\, incentives for home hardening\, clearer risk information\, and state-backed insurance programs\, while asking how to balance affordability with the growing realities of climate risk. We will also examine new data on premiums\, non-renewals\, and insurance gaps to identify where families are most vulnerable and which policies are most effective at protecting them.The EconClimate Lab advances forward looking economic policy ideas that make energy policy benefit workers\, communities\, and the American economy.The conversation will be moderated by Heather Boushey\, professor of practice at the Kleinman Center and former member of the Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist to President Biden’s Investing in America Cabinet.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants: \nFrances Moore\nAssociate Professor\, UC DavisFrances Moore is a professor of environmental science and policy at UC Davis\, working at the intersection of environmental economics and climate science. She also serves as the Hurlston Presidential Chair in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and a UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow. \n\n\n\nJohn Voorheis\n\nPrincipal Economist\, Center for Economic Studies\, US Census BureauJohn Voorheis is a principal economist in the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Census Bureau. His research focuses on using administrative records to improve survey measurement and to answer questions at the intersection of environmental\, labor\, and public economics. \n\n\n\n\nHeather Boushey (Moderator)\nProfessor of PracticeHeather Boushey is a professor of practice at the Kleinman Center. Boushey served in the Biden administration as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist to the President’s Investing in America cabinet.
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/priced-out-of-coverage-home-insurance-and-the-squeeze-on-household-budgets/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270212T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270212T180000
DTSTAMP:20261102T204725Z
CREATED:20261102T204725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261102T204725Z
UID:10000217-1802419200-1802455200@climate.upenn.edu
SUMMARY:Wharton-Weitzman Future of Cities Forum
DESCRIPTION:The Wharton-Weitzman Future of Cities Forum is an annual convening at the University of Pennsylvania for the people remaking the built environment. Organized by graduate students across the Wharton School and the Weitzman School of Design\, the Forum exists on a simple premise: the future of cities gets decided where capital and design meet. Each year\, we gather practitioners at the frontier of housing\, mobility\, climate\, and finance to show what they’re building and compare notes on what’s next. \nOver seven years\, the Forum has brought together more than 180 speakers\, including four mayors and governors\, planning directors and transit chiefs\, city halls from New York to Quito — alongside the CEO of Related Companies and leaders from Goldman Sachs\, McKinsey\, CBRE\, Hines\, Google\, and Fifth Wall. The Forum has also featured urbanists Richard Florida\, Matthew Yglesias\, Vishaan Chakrabarti\, and Majora Carter.
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/wharton-weitzman-future-of-cities-forum/
LOCATION:The Bok Building\, 1901 S 9th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19148\, United States
CATEGORIES:Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270217T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270217T163000
DTSTAMP:20261020T164551Z
CREATED:20261020T164551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T164551Z
UID:10000206-1802878200-1802881800@climate.upenn.edu
SUMMARY:Wei Peng ( Princeton University)
DESCRIPTION:Wei Peng  \nPrinceton University
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/wei-peng-princeton-university/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270303T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270303T163000
DTSTAMP:20261020T164551Z
CREATED:20261020T164551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T164551Z
UID:10000207-1804087800-1804091400@climate.upenn.edu
SUMMARY:Jonathan Colmer (UVA)
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Colmer  \nUVA
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/jonathan-colmer-uva/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270317T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270317T163000
DTSTAMP:20261020T164551Z
CREATED:20261020T164551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T164551Z
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SUMMARY:Anna Russo (Harvard University)
DESCRIPTION:Anna Russo  \nHarvard University
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/anna-russo-harvard-university/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270407T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270407T163000
DTSTAMP:20261020T164552Z
CREATED:20261020T164552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T164552Z
UID:10000209-1807111800-1807115400@climate.upenn.edu
SUMMARY:Karl Aspelund (Yale University)
DESCRIPTION:Karl Aspelund  \nYale University
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/karl-aspelund-yale-university/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270409T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270409T133000
DTSTAMP:20260825T153316Z
CREATED:20260825T152426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T153316Z
UID:10000167-1807272000-1807277400@climate.upenn.edu
SUMMARY:Polymer Chemistry Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:Professor E. Bryan Coughlin\nDepartment of Polymer Science and Engineering\nUniversity of Massachusetts\, Amherst \nProf. E. Bryan Coughlin earned his B.A. in Chemistry from Grinnell College and completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Before launching his academic career in 1999\, he worked in the industry and is credited as a co-inventor of DuPont’s Versipol polyolefin technology platform. Bryan’s research focuses on synthesizing novel macromolecular structures to solve global societal challenges\, including designing advanced chemical processes to reduce plastic waste\, developing advanced materials for electrochemical devices\, and synthesizing fire-safe polymers and composites. During this academic year\, Bryan is on sabbatical\, and we are delighted to host him at Penn! \nFour Fridays: October 9\, 2025; November 6\, 2026; March 5\, 2027; April 9\, 2027
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/polymer-chemistry-lecture-series-2/
LOCATION:VLEST\, Room 121\, 3200 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270421T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270421T163000
DTSTAMP:20261020T164552Z
CREATED:20261020T164552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T164552Z
UID:10000210-1808321400-1808325000@climate.upenn.edu
SUMMARY:Augusto Ospital (LMU\, Munich)
DESCRIPTION:Augusto Ospital  \nLMU\, Munich
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/augusto-ospital-lmu-munich/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270430T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270430T160000
DTSTAMP:20260825T153308Z
CREATED:20260825T151520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T153308Z
UID:10000161-1809090000-1809100800@climate.upenn.edu
SUMMARY:Earth and Environmental Science Senior Thesis Conference 2027
DESCRIPTION:Join the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at our annual Senior Thesis Conference. Penn seniors will display posters and give presentations on their thesis project. \n\n1:30-3\, poster session\, Hayden Lobby & Hayden 358\n3-4pm-Final Four Encore Presentations\, Hayden 360\n\n 
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/earth-and-environmental-science-senior-thesis-conference-2027/
LOCATION:Hayden Hall\, Room 358\, 240 S 33rd St\, Philadelphia\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Showcase
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270505T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270505T133000
DTSTAMP:20260825T153248Z
CREATED:20260825T152853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T153248Z
UID:10000169-1809518400-1809523800@climate.upenn.edu
SUMMARY:Polymer Chemistry Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:Professor E. Bryan Coughlin\nDepartment of Polymer Science and Engineering\nUniversity of Massachusetts\, Amherst \nProf. E. Bryan Coughlin earned his B.A. in Chemistry from Grinnell College and completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Before launching his academic career in 1999\, he worked in the industry and is credited as a co-inventor of DuPont’s Versipol polyolefin technology platform. Bryan’s research focuses on synthesizing novel macromolecular structures to solve global societal challenges\, including designing advanced chemical processes to reduce plastic waste\, developing advanced materials for electrochemical devices\, and synthesizing fire-safe polymers and composites. During this academic year\, Bryan is on sabbatical\, and we are delighted to host him at Penn! \nFour Fridays: October 9\, 2025; November 6\, 2026; March 5\, 2027; April 9\, 2027
URL:https://climate.upenn.edu/event/polymer-chemistry-lecture-series-3/
LOCATION:VLEST\, Room 121\, 3200 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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