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/.
Ben Orlove, CRED co-director, will speak at the American Museum of Natural History on December 18th as part of the Distinguished Lecture in Anthropology. All are welcome to attend.
Visiting Scholar, CRED kg2606@columbia.edu Karoline Gamma is a graduate student from the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland and affiliated with CRED for a 15 month research visit which is founded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In her PhD, Karoline investigates how to increase the customer acceptance of smart… read more
CRED representatives will speak at the Annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco December 15-19. See below and check out http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2014/ for more information! Tanya O’Garra, CRED postdoctoral research scientist and Earth Institute Fellow, will present a poster titled “Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Goods and Services in a Melting Arctic” on December… read more
CRED is pleased to announce the launch of our latest climate change communication guide on December 11th! Connecting on Climate: A Guide to Effective Climate Change Communication leads to a better understanding of American responses to climate change and explains how anyone, from religious leaders, to healthcare professionals, community leaders, journalists, scientists, educators, policymakers, and other… read more
CRED is pleased to announce that our popular 2009 climate change communication guide is now available in Mandarin. Many thanks to China Center for Climate Change Communication (China4C) for undertaking this translation. Special thanks to Professor Zheng Baowei, Director of the China Center for Climate Change Communication; Wang Binbin for facilitating the partnership between CRED and… read more