VIRTUAL Climate Change and the North Shore

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Event Details

What does climate change mean for our area—what can we expect, and what can we do about it? Please join international climate scientist and University of Illinois professor emeritus Dr. Don Wuebbles for a discussion of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2021 Report and its implications for the North Shore. Co-sponsored by the Glencoe Sustainability Task Force, the Friends of Green Bay Trail, and Go Green Wilmette and in coordination with Greenleaf Communities, the Glenview-Glencoe League of Women Voters, Chillicothe Public Library, Downers Grove Public Library, Highland Park Public Library, Lake Villa District Library, Morton Grove Public Library, Northbrook Public Library, Wheaton Public Library, and Winnetka Public Library.

Dr. Wuebbles led a 2019 assessment of climate change on the Great Lakes and co-led a 2021 special assessment of the impacts of climate change on the state of Illinois. He was a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. 

He'll be joined in conversation by Francine van den Brandeler, who leads climate and water research and policy analysis at Greenleaf Communities. She is also a post-doctoral researcher at the Swiss Institute for Aquatic Research and Technology. Currently based in Switzerland, she completed her dissertation for the University of Amsterdam on metropolitan water governance and was part of an interdisciplinary research team with the University of California, Davis on the state of water resources research in Latin America. 

REGISTER HERE for this Zoom-based program. It will be recorded and the video will be placed on the library's YouTube channel a few days after the event. PLEASE NOTE that the program time, originally scheduled for 7 pm, has been changed to 1 pm to accommodate the Europe-based moderator.

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Event Type(s): Lecture
Age Group(s): Adult, Teen/YA