The Our Climate Futures and Midwest Climate Resilience conferences will bring together thought leaders and participants from a broad range of specialties and locations to discuss how to prepare for and prevent climate change impacts across the Midwest region.
An overview of each conference, with links to more details, can be found below.
Our Climate Futures Conference
- Our Climate Futures Conference Website
- October 23-24 at the UMD Kirby Student Center, Kirby Rafters
- Cost: Free
- Availability: Open, public
- Focus: Our Climate Futures is focused on vulnerable populations and the disproportionate impact from climate change. The conference aims to invite conversations among Duluth community members, UMD faculty, and students to identify and discuss solutions to the adverse social, economic, public health, and environmental issues related to climate change, while centering those who are and will be most impacted.
- Media contact: Louise Curnow, [email protected]
Midwest Climate Resilience Conference
- Midwest Climate Resilience Conference Website
- October 25-27 at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center
- Sold out, but media welcome to attend
- Focus: Spanning science to solutions, this gathering is focused primarily on climate change adaptation and resilience. The conference, hosted annually since 2014 by the University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership, brings together hundreds of community leaders, policy makers, resource managers, researchers, and elected officials from across the Midwest working to prepare for the impacts of climate change across human and natural systems.
- Notable speakers: Duluth Mayor Emily Larson; Fond du Lac Tribal Chairman Kevin DuPuis Sr.; Julian Reyes, Assistant Director for Climate Services with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Beatrice Miringu, Sustainability Coordinator with the City of Toledo, Ohio
- Media contact: Britta Greene, University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership (MCAP), [email protected]