Past Events

On February 13, 2025, the Regenstein Library hosted Clear Skies, Clear Minds: Harnessing Open Research to Find Climate Solutions, a symposium examining the state of climate science, potential climate interventions, and the role of open research in informing policy and...

Workshop Motivation: A common and reasonable concern about solar geoengineering is the chance of low-probability high-consequence harmful outcomes. Some of these concerns relate to socio-political uncertainties such as reduced effort to cut emissions; others relate to physical science uncertainties. This meeting...

Workshop Motivation: The IPCC AR6 projects that sea level will rise by 0.5 to 1.0 m by 2100, with a low-likelihood, high-impact possibility of 2.0 m. Furthermore, sea level will not stop rising after 2100, even if emissions reduce. Sea-level...