COP31: free climate talks and events

Beyond crisis: Reimagining “education and international development” for climate and debt justice

University College London · Room 777, UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL, United Kingdom

Join us for the first “Contemporary Global Challenges in Education and Justice” seminar series at the Centre for Education and International Development.

Book Talk - North: The Future of Post-Climate America

Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation · 1155 E. 60th Street, Room 101, Chicago IL

Climate change is already influencing how and where people live.

Climate Change and Rural Livelihoods in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan

Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

Dr. Azamat Azarov (University of Central Asia) explores how climate change is reshaping natural resources and agrarian life in Kyrgyzstan’s Naryn region, combining environmental analysis with…

Forum - Understanding the Complexities of Canadian Climate Policy

University of Calgary · 906 8th Avenue S.W. 5th Floor Calgary, Alberta T2P 1H9

Join the School of Public Policy (https://spp.ucalgary.ca/) for our Forum 2026/27 Series. This session features Dr. Jennifer Winter, Interim Director, Canadian Governance Policy and Principal…

Grantham Institute Annual Lecture 2026 with Anne Hidalgo

Grantham Institute, Undaunted · City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Progress in the face of pushback

Sustainable Systems Seminar Lunch Series - From Reliability to Resilience: Risk-Informed Asset Management for the Energy Transition

StorageX Initiative · Press Building, 106, 425 Santa Teresa St, Stanford, CA 94305

This week's speaker is:

BFI Public Event: Europe’s Energy and Industrial Transformation in a Changing Geopolitical Environment

Becker Friedman Institute · CHICAGO BOOTH HARPER CENTER | ROOM C25

Geopolitical shifts, the transition to climate neutrality, and rapid technological change are reshaping Europe’s energy systems and industrial economy.

GRiEG Seminar: African Indigenous Ontologies for Decolonial Climate Change Education and Resilience

University of Manchester · A5.5, Ellen Wilkinson Building, Manchester

The presentation will argue that resilience requires epistemic plurality, to which African Indigenous ontologies and decolonial climate change education make vital contributions.

Climate Frontiers

Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth · David Rubenstein Forum

Climate Frontiers: Energy and Climate at UChicago is an annual day-long program of special events demonstrating the scale and breadth of the University’s activities on energy and climate change.

Educating for a Climate Changed Future: How Schools, Universities and Civil Society Can Turn Education into a Force for Resilience and Transformation

The American University in Cairo

The session will explore how climate change disrupts education and how education systems can help young people build the knowledge, skills, and resilience needed to address climate challenges.

Energy Transition Hot Takes

General · The Underground Cafe

Join the Student Initiative for Sustainable Energy at the underground cafe to discuss the challenges within the energy transition. Stay for just a few minutes or the full hour to learn about the…

Resourcing Appalachian Resilience After Helene: An SSIR Conversation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Appalachia’s history, culture, and struggles are unique. But Appalachia’s experience with Hurricane Helene offers a vision of the future, for anywhere in the world where underdeveloped infrastructure…

Has Climate policy reached its limit? Europe's path to climate neutrality

London School of Economics and Political Science · Marshall 2.08, Marshall Building

The CU Retired Faculty Association at Boulder Presents: The Climate and Habitability of Planets around other Stars w/ Bruce Jakoksy

University of Colorado Boulder · Frasier Meadows Retirement Community, The Canyons Center Movie Theatre, 350 Ponca Place, Boulder, CO 80303

The Climate and Habitability of Planets around other Stars w/ Bruce Jakoksy

Challenging International Far-Right Agendas on Climate Policy

University of British Columbia · Franklin Lew Forum at Allard Hall

In the last five years, actors in the far-right have been shaping contemporary climate agendas worldwide to the detriment of progress towards a just transition.

Talking Turtles and Singing Ice: Listening to the More-than-Human World in an Age of Distraction

University of Colorado Boulder · Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE), Auditorium

Listening has always been central to human survival. We’ve evolved to tune in to each other, but also the sounds of our places, the voices of other animals, rhythms of seasons and weather.

Applying realist and COM-B methods to the UK’s Boiler Upgrade Scheme

University College London · C3.13, UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H0AL, United Kingdom

Join this event to hear Carol Vigurs explore how social science can support household uptake of low-carbon heating through Britain’s Boiler Upgrade Scheme.

Fostering opportunities for eco-hope

University of Leeds · Shine, Harehills Road, Harehills, LS8 5HS

Join Nifty Sustainability and researchers and students at the University of Leeds in this 2-hour workshop to explore how working with organisations in the voluntary, community and social…

The good, the bad and the ugly of battery recycling

Life Cycle Approaches Network

The good, the bad and the ugly of battery recycling

From Crystals to Climate: Reconstructing the Geologic and Environmental Histories of Jezero and Gale Craters on Mars

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies · Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories

Speaker: Eleanor Moreland