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A conversation with Mr. Abdulhadi Achakzai, Founder and the Chief Executive of Afghanistan’s largest UN-accredited climate change and environmental specialized NGO, the Environmental Protection Trainings and Development Organization (EPTDO), Moderated by Gloria Karekezi, tUrn alum, and director of tUrn, Kristin Kusanovich. A look at Afghanistan’s landscape of climate action and the climatic action of the landscape. Topics will include climate science, urgency, partnerships, and applying concepts of zero waste to the perilous heat, pollution, food, & water crises in Kabul and the region.

for Afghanistan Special Session.

Enter the dance studio and enjoy screenings of various climate dances from around the world, then spectate or jump in to a series of movement exercises that engage some contemporary climate texts and create a dance on the spot.

for Eco-Dance

Withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. Erasing EPA climate pollution regulations. Rolling back clean energy incentives. Blocking renewable energy project permits. America has been rapidly moving in the wrong direction on climate change over the past year. But there's one policy with bipartisan support that could restore those lost climate pollution reductions: permitting reform. Join Dana Nuccitelli, Research Manager for Citizens' Climate Lobby and journalist for Yale Climate Connections, for an in-depth overview of the challenging landscape that permitting reform negotiations must navigate, including ensuring that community engagement in the permitting process is strengthened, that environmental reviews are streamlined but not undermined, and that climate pollution is ultimately curbed.

for Dana Nuccitelli's Climate Policy and Business Headliner

A panel presentation of various activist practices in climate, ecology, social, racial, and investment justice. Created by ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Student/Alumni Leaders from multiple campus groups and student government. RSVP to reserve a seat and enjoy veggie pizza served at 5:45

ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Benson Parlors B/C

for student-led Climate Activism panel