Carla Roncoli, CRED PI, will be participating in a round table discussion entitled “Brewing for Change” on Wednesday, November 11th at 7PM at Emory University. The panel will include Byron Corrales, a coffee producer for Finca Los Pinos who is also a strong advocate for sustainable agricultural practices. To attend, please RSVP here: http://bit.ly/1PUG7pI. http://bit.ly/1PUG7pI/.

CRED co-director, Elke Weber, was recently an invited panel member at the Wharton Risk Center’s 30’s Anniversary Symposium in Philadelphia. Weber provided insights on the future of risk management based on her own experiences and research.

CRED’s Carla Roncoli, will be a panelist at the France-Atlanta event, Climate Change and Humanitarian Aid – Local and Global Stakes in COP 21, on October 28th in Atlanta, GA. For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.france-atlanta.org/?p=1197/.

Courtney St. John, associate director for outreach, will speak as one of three panelists at the “Bringing the Arctic Home” dance performance on June 20 in New York, NY. For more information and tickets for the event, see below. June 20-21, 2015 The JCC Manhattan | Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Auditorium 334 Amsterdam Avenue (@76th Street) Saturday, June… read more

CRED’s Elke Weber will provide a keynote speech at the first annual Behavioral Science & Policy Conference on June 18 in New York, NY. Elke will speak on Energy and the Environment. For more information and to register, please visit: http://behavioralpolicy.org/events/.

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