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Event Series Event Series: Sustainability Speaker Series

Climate Change: A Story of Opportunities and Possibilities to Reverse Global Warming, presented by Dr. Jonathan Foley

March 18 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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Please join us for our Spring 2024 Sustainability Speaker Series: – Climate Change: A Story of Opportunities and Possibilities to Reverse Global Warming with Dr. Jonathan Foley. 

Jonathan Foley, Ph.D., Executive Director of Project Drawdown, is a world-renowned environmental scientist, sustainability expert, author, and public speaker. His work focuses on understanding our changing planet and finding new solutions to sustain the climate, ecosystems, and natural resources we all depend on. 

Dr. Foley will present on the innovative initiative Project Drawdown, whose mission is to help the world stop climate change as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.  Project Drawdown identifies solutions and strategies for stopping climate change, engages all sectors of society to bring climate solutions to scale, and works to shift the conversation from doom and gloom to possibility and opportunity.  Almost every solution identified by Project Drawdown is regenerative development that has the potential to create millions of jobs.  Project Drawdown proves we can stop global warming and draw down greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to form a more sustainable world. 

Dr. Foley’s presents on Monday, March 18th, 2024, in the Langdon Hall Auditorium at Auburn University starting at 7:00 PM. There will be time for questions and answers before wrapping up at 8:30 PM. Free parking is available downtown after 6:00 PM.