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Wishing you and your loved ones a Happy Holiday season and better times in 2023 for those in peril across the globe.
From this email, you can watch SSF's entire 2022 season of security and sustainability webinar videos and a few favorites from late 2021. Educators across the globe use our free programming for class enrichment, and professionals use us to stay current in the field.
On the SSF website, 300 webinar videos are organized into ten tracks.
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Forbes calls Henrik Stiesdal the "godfather of the Danish wind industry." With more than only wind on his mind, Henrik takes you on a compelling journey to accelerate the green transition. Do you agree with his vision? Click here to let Henrik know what you think.
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The accuracy of emissions data reporting is the elephant in the carbon accounting room. Learn how Floodlight uses big data to determine accurate emissions data, and validate reporting. You will also get a better understanding of blockchain.
More on this topic in the Science-Based Decisions and Education Track
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GWU's Leadership in Our Time Webinar Series host András Simonyi, former Hungarian Minister to the United States and NATO, sits down with Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 's shadow minister for energy, Jens Spahn. They discuss Germany's energy future in the face of the war in Ukraine, the Russian energy crisis, climate change, and the implications for the European Union and the Western Alliance.
More on this topic in the Policy and Equity Track.
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Thirteen agriculture producers convened at GWU to provide insights on the status of Ukrainian food production. These people are on the front lines of the war.
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Smita combines architectural and building material principles in her talk on reducing building emissions. She is an instructor in the GWU Energy Resilience Certificate program.
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Based on new metrics, learn how firms affected by Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Harvey avoided an average of $4.57 in business interruption for every dollar spent on resilience. Moderated by joseph Fiksel, a resilience pioneer and author of the seminal book on the topic, Resilient by Design.
More on this topic in the Resilience Track.
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Join LightWorks at Arizona State University and the Security and Sustainability Forum in a 90-minute discussion of challenges and strategies for federal and state infrastructure spending. Combined with private finance, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for long-term, sustainable progress toward rural community utility and public welfare goals.
More like this in the Finance & Risk Track.
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Tony Agotha is the Senior Diplomatic Advisor to the Executive Vice President of the European Commission and lead for the European Green Deal, Mr. Frans Timmermans. He joins the GWU Leadership in Our Time series to discuss EU- US cooperation on climate issues and EC's global climate efforts, the current and upcoming EU climate policies in the context of the Ukraine war, and how it relates to transatlantic security.
More on this topic in the Policy and Equity Track.
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Drawn from the book "Collaborating for Climate Resilience" (Routledge, 2021), this webinar will spark your' thinking on how to deal with one of the most challenging climate adaptation issues, collaborating better with partners from disparate fields and walks of life.
More on this topic in the Resilience Track.
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Dr. Karim Ahmed has been at the forefront of planetary health science and policy for over five decades. In this 90-minute lecture, Dr. Ahmed presents the data and insights on how we arrived at this unprecedented moment in human history in an accessible educational format. This is one of SSF's best educational webinars. Viewers will be better-informed advocates for climate action.
More on this topic in the Science-Based Decisions and Education Track
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Several GWU Ukrainian friends made time to talk about their experiences during the war and answer audience questions about the state of the Ukrainian people and the damage to infrastructure and the environment in their homeland. Listen to Ukrainians who have evacuated, lived in bomb shelters, and endured constant shelling.
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European Commission DG Gallina covers the major health issues - Ukrainian refugees, covid, and food systems in a changing climate in another of the GWU Leadership in Our Time discussions with Hungarian diplomat Andras Simonyi.
More on this topic in the Policy and Equity Track.
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Director-General Daniel Calleja sits at the right hand of the President of the European Commission. He leads the drafting of every regulation and legal action to protect the integrity of the EU programs. In this GWU Leadership in our Time session, the DG delves into the Green Deal, the importance of the rule of law for the welfare of the European Union, legal frameworks for AI, and other issues.
More on this topic in the Policy and Equity Track.
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Join Atlantic Council Senior Fellow and GWU colleague András Simonyi in a discussion with Jean-Eric Paquet, European Commission Director-General of Research and Innovation. They cover European investment in green technology, dealing with anti-science and fake news, rising security threats, technological approaches to China, and transatlantic coordination, among other topics.
More on this topic in the Policy and Equity Track.
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One of the unique opportunities from decarbonization is to reorganize the energy system to empower, support, and benefit communities. How can we achieve that goal? How do we create space for communities to imagine and contribute to debates about energy futures and find ways to diversify ownership of energy? How can we scale programs for national impact? This recording with Lightworks at Arizona State University and SSF addresses these questions.
More on this topic in the Policy and Equity Track.
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András Simonyi, in another GWU Leadership webinar, hosts Norway's Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion, Hadia Tajik. Norway is a global leader in providing its citizens with an effective social safety net. But it also has a robust free market economy while leading the world in democracy, freedom, and corruption-free government.
More on this topic in the Policy and Equity Track.
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Take advantage of every opportunity to hear from Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow and Energy Analyst at the Post Carbon Institute. He will transform your thinking about energy and how it entwines humanity's social structures. He joins Ed Saltberg from SSF in a compelling discussion about the urgent need to transition to a different energy regime and a different basis for human habitation on the planet. The conversation features Richard's recent book, Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival.
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While agriculture contributes significantly to GHG emissions, it also presents the potential to sequester carbon, manage water and other process inputs and help remove carbon from the atmosphere. Making climate-smart decisions competitive along the ag supply chain requires access to data that define and quantify their financial benefits to the farmer and mechanisms for better consumer price signals. Learn from the experts how farmers can profitably employ low emissions practices in this LightWorks at ASU webinar recording.
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I had the unique privilege of producing a dozen webinars with iconic futurist and climate activist Hazel Henderson over the past few years. Her seminal work on ecological economics and solar deployment place her among the most important environmental leaders of the last fifty years. This recording is one of Hazel's last events before she "went virtual" in May 2022. We discuss some of Hazel's groundbreaking economic concepts about the nature of money and her brilliant layer cake pictograph of the inequities of the GDP-based economy.
More videos on this topic in the Finance & Risk Track
including the other sessions with Hazel
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As the shift to renewable power sources accelerates, supportive state policies that respond to stakeholder demands for clean energy solutions can attract business to a state. However, renewable energy is not a standalone issue. It impacts employment and job quality variably in different communities and industry sectors, requiring place-based economic solutions. SW leaders join SSF and LightWorks at ASU to discuss how their states’ journeys to equitable, clean energy policies, even in a changing climate, can chart a path for legislators, government officials, business leaders, and advisors.
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