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On Fridays, join hosts Andy Revkin or Dale Willman of the Columbia Climate School in a look at realities and trends behind the week’s environmental headlines with top journalists and experts.

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Climate LIVE K12 (formerly EI LIVE K12) is dedicated to bringing the science of sustainability to K12 students, educators, and parents.

Presenter: Paul Gallay, Senior Staff Associate and Resilient Coastal Communities Project Leader, Center for Sustainable Urban Development

Target Audience: Grades 9-12, Undergraduate, Educators, and the Public

Climate-driven flooding is worsening due to sea level rise and rapidly intensifying storms, with many of the most serious impacts being felt in disadvantaged communities already reeling from decades of underinvestment in water quality and ecosystem health. To protect our most vulnerable communities, government planners must find new ways to respect and center the wisdom that only those communities possess. Can we build the just and equitable partnerships we'll need to survive climate change?

A link to join the session will be provided to all registered participants 24 hours in advance.

If you would like to submit any questions before the event, please send them to Laurel Zaima-Sheehy ([email protected])

In this special Sustain What conversation, join several young climate doers and host Andy Revkin in a conversation with Britt Wray, the author of "Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis."

Wray is a Human and Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
More: http://brittwray.com

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**Please note: This webinar will be hosted in English. Simultaneous interpretation to Portuguese will be provided.**

Brazil’s energy sector offers a valuable perspective, where the growth of the oil and gas sector is coming alongside the deployment of clean energy technologies in a country that displays one of the largest shares in the world of renewables in its electricity generation mix.

The Center on Global Energy Policy, in partnership with Women in Energy Brasil and Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro, will host a discussion to provide insights into Brazil’s pragmatic pathway to a clean energy transition from the perspective of an oil and gas producing country. A stellar panel of women leaders in the energy sector will discuss the future of the country’s energy system in the context of global high energy prices, the country's policy approach towards low carbon fuels, the lessons learned from the deployment of clean technologies, and integration of renewables in the power grid, all while at the same time working towards lowering the carbon footprint of its oil and gas production.

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This webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with access details. The event will be recorded and the video recording will be added to our website following the event.

This event is open to press, and registration is required to attend. For media inquiries or requests for interviews, please contact Natalie Volk ([email protected]).

For more information about the event, please contact [email protected].

The UN Secretary General’s High-Level Expert Group on the Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of non-State Entities (HLEG) welcomes you to join the live launch event of the portal for written submissions from the public.

Building on the Terms of Reference and the Workplan of the group, this global public session, hosted by the United Nations Foundation, will present the portal for written inputs and address questions from interested stakeholders about the HLEG’s work and the timeline for it to develop recommendations for the UN Secretary-General.

The HLEG wants to hear from a broad audience as they prepare recommendations on stronger and clearer standards for net-zero emissions pledges by non-State entities – including businesses, investors, cities and regions.

Please Register Here to join the session on Wednesday 29 June at 10 am EDT.

We look forward to your engagement!

The Iraq Kurdistan Region (IKR) is one of the few potential pipeline exporters to Europe that could increase natural gas supplies substantially in the next 2-3 years. In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and continuing sanctions on Iran, the IKR could potentially boost supply quantity and diversity.

The IKR holds most of Iraq’s discovered non-associated gas reserves. Production has advanced recently but there is further scope for major gains in output, technically up to 40 billion cubic meters (BCM) per year by the mid-2030s, as well as from capturing currently flared gas associated with oil production. This potential additional gas could be used to support more reliable power and industrial energy to the people of the IKR. It could also be used to replace polluting oil-based fuels, save more than 10 million tons per year of CO2 emissions, and potentially allow supplies to non-IKR Iraq, Turkey and Europe. Development of these resources could also support economic and social development.

The Center on Global Energy Policy will host a webinar to present the results of a recent U.S. Department of Energy-supported study which aims to assist the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in developing a commercially-robust and environmentally-sound gas market. The panel will discuss the commercial and political attractions and challenges to realizing these aims.

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This webinar will be hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with access details. The event will be recorded and the video recording will be added to our website following the event.

This event is open to press, and registration is required to attend. For media inquiries or requests for interviews, please contact Natalie Volk ([email protected]).

For more information about the event, please contact [email protected]u.

On Fridays, join Andy Revkin and/or Dale Willman of the Columbia Climate School’s Initiative on Communication & Sustainability for a brisk review of the week’s hot climate and sustainability news and a look at brewing issues that hide behind sound bites and tweets.

This week, more on, yes, heat, a study pointing to a long decline in tropical cyclones, an attribution update and more.

Send us links to the stories that caught your eye, or that are MISSING!
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Please click here for more information and viewing options: https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/beyond-hot-headlines-columbia-climate-school-friday-news-review

On Friday, join host Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School in a look at realities and trends behind this week’s headlines, with a focus on building for wildfire and lessons from Italy’s devastating avalanche. One featured guest is Jeremy Moore of Colorado PBS, who’ll discuss the new film “Building Back Better After the Marshall Fire.”

Read Revkin’s post on the shocking avalanche in the Italian Dolomites last Sunday: bit.ly/italyicefall

Explore the Climate School:
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The Columbia Climate School presents an online information session on the MA in Climate and Society.

The MA in Climate and Society is a 12-month interdisciplinary graduate program that trains professionals and academics to understand and address the impacts of climate variability and climate change on society and the environment. Through classes and research, students gain knowledge in both climate and social sciences as they relate to climate. During the online information session, prospective students will have the opportunity to learn about the program and ask questions.

Join this special Sustain What conversation exploring the 40th-anniversary issue of Orion Magazine, for which 40 writers were asked to convey in prose, poetry and other forms what it means to have our species usher in a new geological epoch – by one name the Anthropocene.

The summer of 2022 will see the first public data from the Anthropocene Working Group - the team of geologists searching for the location on Earth that demonstrates the irreversible impact of modern humanity. After two decades of research, that location, and the story told by its sediment core, will be cited as the origin of the Anthropocene, the epoch that severs our connection to our ancestors.

The issue features work by Maira Kalman, Barbara Kingsolver, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ken Liu, Barry Lopez, Meehan Crist, NRDC president Manish Bapna and Maria Popova. It is a chorus of origin stories and a compass that may help all of us navigate the next 40 years and beyond.

Your host is Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School (also an essay contributor). He will be joined by Manish Bapna of NRDC, Meehan Crist, who is writer-in-residence in biology at Columbia, and Orion’s editor-in-chief, Sumanth Prabhaker.

Find Orion here: http://orionmagazine.org
NRDC (which sponsored the magazine issue): http://nrdc.org

Explore the Climate School: http://climate.columbia.edu

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Please click here for more information and viewing options: https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/orion-magazine-at-40-writers-on-environments-past-and-ahead

Virtual Public Outreach Session on EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management’s Environmental Justice (EJ) Action Plan focused on Best Practices for Addressing Environmental Concerns in Underserved

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Land and Emergency Management has developed and is seeking stakeholder input on a draft EJ Action Plan. This public outreach session will focus on best practices for addressing environmental concerns in underserved communities. The session will
facilitate a discussion to identify and address how the EPA’s Superfund program can better respond to the unique environmental justice needs of underserved communities.

The EPA will be hosting five virtual public outreach sessions, each on a different aspect of the draft plan, to provide the public with an opportunity to submit input before the plan is finalized.

If you cannot attend the webinar session that is specific to your timezone, EPA encourages you to register for another session that works for you. Interpretation and disability access support will also be provided.

If you are unable to attend any of the outreach sessions, you will be able to submit written input by email to [email protected] until August 1, 2022.

EPA will use your registration information solely for this event. We will not share your information with any third party.

Note: Do not submit any information considered confidential business information or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.

Indian Country: Recycling Infrastructure grants, Recycling Education and Outreach grants, Battery Recycling efforts, and Underground Storage Tanks (UST) compliance tool.

Registration for Virtual Public Outreach Session on EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management’s Environmental Justice (EJ) Action Plan with a focus on Indian Country: Recycling Infrastructure grants, Recycling Education and Outreach grants, Battery Recycling efforts, and Underground Storage Tanks (UST) compliance tool.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Land and Emergency Management has developed and is seeking stakeholder input on a draft EJ Action Plan. This goal of this public outreach session is to obtain feedback from tribal communities on the new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Recycling related programs and UST Compliance efforts.

The EPA will be hosting five virtual public outreach sessions, each on a different aspect of the draft plan, to provide the public with an opportunity to submit input before the plan is finalized.

If you cannot attend the webinar session that is specific to your time zone, EPA encourages you to register for another session that works for you. Interpretation and disability access support will also be provided.

If you are unable to attend any of the outreach sessions, you will be able to submit written input by email to [email protected] until August 1, 2022.

EPA will use your registration information solely for this event. We will not share your information with any third party.

If you require special accommodations or translation services, please contact Matt Colip at [email protected] or 202-597-1887 by July 8, 2022.

Note: Do not submit any information considered confidential business information or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.

Virtual Public Outreach Session on EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management’s Environmental Justice (EJ) Action Plan focused on Best Practices for Addressing Environmental Justice Concerns in Tri

Registration for Virtual Public Outreach Session on EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management’s Environmental Justice (EJ) Action Plan focused on Best Practices for Addressing Environmental Justice Concerns in Tribal Nations.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Land and Emergency Management has developed and is seeking stakeholder input on a draft EJ Action Plan. This public outreach session will focus on Best Practices for Addressing Environmental Justice Concerns in Tribal Nations.

The EPA will be hosting five virtual public outreach sessions, each on a different aspect of the draft plan, to provide the public with an opportunity to submit input before the plan is finalized. The goal of this session is to facilitate a discussion to identify and address how the EPA’s Superfund program can better respond to the unique environmental justice needs of tribes.

If you cannot attend the webinar session that is specific to your timezone, EPA encourages you to register for another session that works for you. Interpretation and disability access support will also be provided.

If you are unable to attend any of the outreach sessions, you will be able to submit written input by email to [email protected] until August 1, 2022.

EPA will use your registration information solely for this event. We will not share your information with any third party.

Note: Do not submit any information considered confidential business information or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.