Hope and Transformative Climate Action
April 14th, 2025
3:00-4:30PM PT/4:00-5:30PM MT/5:00-6:30PM CT/6:00-7:30PM ET
Webinar Description
Speaker: Katharine Hayhoe, Chief Scientist, The Nature Conservancy
Speaker Bio:
Katharine Hayhoe is a Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair in Public Policy and Public Law in the Public Administration program of the Departmentof Political Science at Texas Tech University. She is also the Chief Scientist for the global conservation organization, The Nature Conservancy.
She has a B.Sc. in physics and astronomy from the University of Toronto and an M.S. and Ph.D. in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Colgate University, Trinity College, and Victoria College at the University of Toronto.
Professor Hayhoe's research focuses on developing and applying high-resolution climate projections to evaluate the future impacts of climate change on human society andthe natural environment. She has published over 125 peer-reviewed abstracts and publicationsand co-authored Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections: From Global Change to Local Impacts (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and served as lead author on key reports for the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the National Academy of Sciences, including the Second, Third and Fourth U.S. National Climate Assessments. Her TED talk, The Most Important Thing You Can Do About Climate Change: Talk About It has received over 4 million views and her new book, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World was released in September 2021.
This workshop is designed to increase knowledge of climate literacy and support the open sharing of resources and the adaptations that educators make for their local students. This session will be 90 minutes and include a climate expert guest speaker, climate literacy support, aligned teaching resources collections, and collaborative time to iterate resources for your own context.