Prioritizing your health, safety, and wellbeing, the 9th annual American Climate Leadership Summit 2020 will now be a 100% virtual live event! Join ACLS each Thursday during the month of August for a series of live webcasts featuring thought-and-action-provoking topics and speakers in an engaging and interactive online experience. You’ll hear from our great speakers (plus a few new ones) focusing on the prescient climate topics updated to reflect our modern times. Each 3-hour webcast will include engaging conversation, Q+A with you the participants, and a few additional ways for you to engage, all the while we individually and collectively avoid air travel and reduce our carbon footprint.
If there was ever a time to make a difference on climate change, that time is now. Join ACLS to connect on climate, with speakers and each other, and to move climate action in America forward during these unprecedented times.
Their usual two day in-person event will now be a series of three-hour webcasts each Thursday afternoon in August starting at at 2 pm ET/11 am PT. We will expand and diversify participation, making ACLS2020 accessible with a pay-what-you-can model.
The topics couldn’t be more relevant, and the very best climate leaders are assembled, including Christiana Figueres, Katharine Hayhoe, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Seth Goldman, Naomi Oreskes, Senator Brian Schatz, Bill McKibben, Chris Anderson (TED), and a number of our own renowned Leadership Circle members and directors.
AGENDA
August 6, 2020
Times listed are Eastern Time (ET)
Grounding Ourselves: Our Times, Our Call to Action, 2:00 PM-2:20 PM
Session I: Setting the Stage: Where We’re At, Where We Need to Go on Climate, 2:20 PM-2:50 PM
Session II: Start with People: Americans and Climate Culture, Ambition, Politics, Ethics, 2:50 PM-3:30 PM
Session III: Uncharted Waters: Climate Justice Amidst Compound Crises Today, 3:35 PM-4:15 PM
Session IV: Climate Scholars: Reporting From The Front Lines, 4:20 PM-5:00 PM
August 13, 2020
Honoring the Land, 2:00 PM-2:05 PM
Session V: Multi-Solving: Pandemic, Economy, Racism, Climate Change, 2:05 PM-2:20 PM
Session VI: Driving Change: Health, 2:20 PM-3:00 PM
Session VII: Driving Change: Our Resilience and Faith, 3:00 PM-3:40 PM
Session VIII: Driving Change: Communities, 3:40 PM-4:20 PM
Session IX: Driving Change: Youth, 4:20 PM-5:00 PM
August 20, 2020
Session X: Getting to Global Restoration, Challenging the Assumptions, 2:00 PM-2:35 PM
Session XI: Manifesting Ambitious Vision, 2:35 PM-3:15 PM
Session XII: Restoring Our Urban, Oceans, Forests, Farms, 3:20 PM-4:10 PM
Session XIII: Getting to a Just Future: Addressing Climate Disparities, 4:15 PM-5:00 PM
August 27, 2020
Opening Remarks, 2:00 PM-2:05 PM
Session XIV: The Politics of Climate Change, 2:05 PM-2:35 PM
Session XV: Climate as a Voting Issue (Polls, Motivations), 2:40 PM-3:10 PM
Session XVI: Advocacy in Action: ACLA Celebration, 3:15 PM-3:45 PM
Session XVII: The Next 60 Days, 3:50 PM-4:35 PM
Summit Closing, 4:35 PM-5:00 PM
ACLS 2020 Speakers, Agenda and Registration available at this link