Join CRED’s Sabine Marx and Courtney St. John for a special event honoring climate “sHeros” on June 17. Don’t know how you can make a difference on climate change? Get inspired by the launch of the Human Impact Stories “Climate sHeros” series of personal stories of diverse New York women who are leading the way… read more

CRED will present a symposium titled “Psychological Responses to Climate Change” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science on May 24th in New York. The symposium will take place from 8:30 AM ­– 9:50 AM EST. For more information and to register please visit http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/announcements/2015-aps-annual-convention.html. Description Climate change is one of the most… read more

Nudging Our Way towards Energy Efficiency: Psychology, Behavior and the Environment April 23, 2015 // 12:30pm — 2:00pm Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC  For more information and to RSVP visit: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/nudging-our-way-towards-energy-efficiency-psychology-behavior-and-the-environment Even as society seeks to improve overall energy efficiency, we make individual decisions every day that have a wasteful effect on our energy use, from… read more

April 15, 2015 at the World Bank Headquarters hosted by Connect4Climate, World Bank Group and the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) at the Earth Institute, Columbia University. We are bringing together a unique, multi-disciplinary group of scholars and multi-sector leaders who are experts in communicating climate change to a broad audience. Program Topics… read more

Book Talk If Global Warming is So Urgent, Why is There So Little Action?  Tuesday, April 21, 2015 2:30 to 4:00 PMUris Hall, Room 301 3022 Broadway New York, NY 10027 Please join the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions for an event with psychologist and economist Per Espen Stoknes, featuring his new book, What… read more

Kenny Broad, CRED co-director and Director of the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy will host an American Associate for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Workshop on Communicating Climate Science on March 6th in Miami, FL. The deadline to apply is February 25th. You are invited to apply to the American Association for the… read more

Elke Weber, CRED co-director, will give the Girard Lecture in Psychology at Scripps College in Claremont, CA on February 16th. The lecture is titled “It’s not Easy Being Green: Understanding How and Why We Make Decisions that Impact the Environment” and will take place 7:30-9:00 PM in Balch Auditorium. More information is below and available… read more

Elke Weber, CRED co-director, will moderate a panel at the World Bank’s Third Annual Green Growth Knowledge Platform on January 30th at the University of Venice in Venice, Italy. The theme of the conference is “Fiscal Policies and the Green Economy Transition: Generating Knowledge – Creating Impact.” Elke will moderate a panel titled “Effectiveness of… read more

Elke Weber, CRED co-director, and Eric Johnson, CRED principle investigator, will teach at the 3rd Annual Winter School on Behavioral Decision Making at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland January 18-23, 2015. The winter school will start on Monday, January 19th (arrival on Sunday evening) and will end on Friday, January 23rd. For more information visit… read more

Elke Weber, CRED co-director, will speak at the 2014 Behavior Energy and Climate Conference on December 10th in Washington, D.C. Elke is an invited speaker on the closing panel at 10:30 AM. For more information please visit http://beccconference.org/.