Bridging the Political Divide on Climate

PAST EVENT VIDEO

Panel

Katharine Hayhoe and Rachel Bronson argue that we need to find shared values in order to achieve collective action on climate change.

Crowd of people at COP27 in front of a screen with earth's curve and writing saying "together for implementation."

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Speakers

Katharine Hayhoe
Rachel Bronson

Event Date

October 22, 2021

About This Event

The 27th UN Climate Conference, COP27, is tasked with implementing a global agenda for tackling climate change. Despite growing political pressure for action, climate change is subject to persistent ideological divisions, with a lack of consensus around the causes, scale, or existence of the threat, and resistance to proposed solutions. Climate scientist and communicator Katharine Hayhoe joins Rachel Bronson of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to explain how science, faith, and human psychology fit into the narrative around climate change and why it is still possible to mobilize collective action despite our differences.

Copies of Katharine Hayhoe’s 2021 book Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World are available to purchase from The Book Cellar.

About the Speakers

Katharine Hayhoe

Chief Scientist, The Nature Conservancy

Katharine Hayhoe is the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, as well as a Paul Whitfield Horn distinguished professor and the Political Science Endowed Chair in Public Policy and Public Law in the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University, where she also serves as an associate in the Public Health program of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Rachel Bronson

Lester Crown Senior Nonresident Fellow, Energy and Geopolitics

Rachel Bronson is a senior advisor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, having previously served as president and CEO, overseeing programming, communications, and the iconic Doomsday Clock. Before that, Bronson served as vice president of studies at the Council and as a senior fellow and director of Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, among other roles.