Fighting Climate Change with Dialogue

As the frequency of natural disasters such as floods, droughts, and heatwaves increase, the impact of climate change is becoming ever more apparent. Climate change will likely continue to threaten energy systems, augmenting the need to accelerate the green transition and position global energy systems to meet the risks posed by a changed climate. In her address to the IIEA, Katherine Hayhoe, author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, discusses how we can fight climate change together through dialogue, talking, and honesty. Her remarks reflect on how using these tools to build consensus may provide a pathway towards tackling the mounting challenges which climate change poses to the world. This event is part of the IIEA’s ReThink Energy lecture series which is supported by the ESB. About the Speaker: Katherine Hayhoe is the Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy and a Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor and the Political Science Endowed Chair in Public Policy and Public Law at Texas Tech University. She also serves as a principal investigator for the US Department of Interior’s South-Central Climate Adaptation Science Center. In 1997, she founded ATMOS Research, an institution bridging the gap between scientists and stakeholders on the effects of climate change on human populations. She is the Author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientists Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World which was published by Simon & Schuster in 2021.