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SUMMARY:A Tribute to Gary Snyder
DESCRIPTION:by Library of America \n\n\nA starry tribute to Beat legend\, Buddhist monk\, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet laureate of deep ecology Gary Snyder\, to celebrate publication of his Collected Poems in the Library of America series. Join Governor Jerry Brown\, actor Peter Coyote\, novelist Kim Stanley Robinson\, poets Wang Ping and Robert Hass\, and other friends of Gary and special guests for an hour of poetry and personal anecdotes. Special appearance by Gary Snyder.\n \n\nWed\, Jul 20\, 2022\, 6:00 PM EDT \nOnline event \nEvent page
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/a-tribute-to-gary-snyder/
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SUMMARY:British International Studies Association
DESCRIPTION:BISA 2022 \n\n\nWe are excited to announce that renowned science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson will give the keynote address at the 2022 BISA conference. \nThis year’s annual conference takes place from 15 to 17 June 2022 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. \n \n\nAnnouncement \nKeynote Address from Kim Stanley Robinson – Dodging the Mass Extinction Event: SPONSORED BY BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC \n15 Jun 2022\, 16:45 \n1h 30m \nCouncil Chamber\, Civic Centre () \nEvent page
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/british-international-studies-association/
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SUMMARY:ETH Zurich in WEF Davos
DESCRIPTION:ETH Zurich Events in Davos \nDuring the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2022\, ETH Zurich hosts several exclusive events (by invitation only as well as public) in its RETHINKING LIVING Pavilion in Davos.  \nMinistry for the Future. Isn’t it about time? \n23 May\, 15.30-​16.30 \n\n\nKim Stanley Robinson is a world renown\, best-selling author whose descriptions of our future are at times quite chilling; at other times intensely inspiring; and always challenging. Join the RETHINKING LIVING fireside chat with him and Chris Luebkeman as they explore the potential of a Carbon Coin and the practicality of geoengineering to quite literally preserve our presence on our planet.\n \n\nEvent page
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/eth-zurich-in-wef-davos/
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SUMMARY:The High Sierra publication
DESCRIPTION:Publication for the non-fiction book The High Sierra: A Love Story.
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/the-high-sierra-publication/
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:The High Sierra: A Love Story (A Journey with Kim Stanley Robinson) \nSaturday\, May 7 2022 | 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM \nFreight & Salvage \nEvent page
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/bay-area-book-festival/
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SUMMARY:Richard Powers in Davis CA
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with Richard Powers \nPresented by The Avid Reader at Richard Brunelle Performance Hall\, Davis CA \nTuesday\, April 26 2022 7:00 PM\nRichard Brunelle Performance Hall\n315 W 14th St\nDavis\, CA 95616 \nEnjoy an evening of conversation with Richard Powers and Kim Stanley Robinson. \nBewilderment by Richard Powers is one of Oprah’s Book Club Selections. It is a New York Times bestseller and a Notable Book of 2021. Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize and longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction\, Bewilderment was also listed as a Best Book/Best Novel of 2021 by NPR\, Newsweek\, The Boston Globe\, Audible\, Goodreads\, Christian Science Monitor\, Library Journal\, Garden and Gun Magazine\, and many more. \nRichard Powers is the author of thirteen novels\, including The Overstory and Orfeo\, and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship\, the Pulitzer Prize\, and the National Book Award. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. \nKim Stanley Robinson is an American writer of science fiction. He has published twenty-two novels and numerous short stories\, but is best known for his Mars trilogy. His most recent work\, The Ministry for the Future\, was on the list of President Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2020. His upcoming book\, The High Sierra\, will be released on May 20\, 2022. \nEvent page \nEvent page 2
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/richard-powers-in-davis-ca/
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SUMMARY:Dialogue For Our Future\, Dharamsala
DESCRIPTION:Dialogue For Our Future\, Dharamsala 2022 \n\n\nIn his October 2020 book\, Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World\, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama made an impassioned plea\, calling on leaders everywhere to work together to save Earth from runaway climate change. Dialogue for Our Future will be an opportunity to evaluate global progress toward this goal\, and to inspire individual and collective action. \nComing five months after the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow\, Dialogue for Our Future will be an opportunity to highlight the urgency of action\, examine the role individuals can play in transitioning away from carbon fuels\, put a spotlight on the importance of climate-ethical behaviours\, and chart a sustainable path toward solving one of the biggest challenges that humanity has ever faced.\n \n\nSaturday April 23\, 2022 \nClosing Keynote \n17.00-18.00 IST\nA conversation about the future\, the trends\, and the cost curves toward a carbon-free future\, with best-selling author and climate science visionary Kim Stanley Robinson. \nWebsite \nKeynote video \nPreceded on Earth Day (April 22) by a meeting with the 14th Dalai Lama: article 1\, article 2. 
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/dialogue-for-our-future-dharamsala/
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SUMMARY:Sustainable Packaging Coalition
DESCRIPTION:Sustainable Packaging Coalition Impact 2022 \nHilton San Francisco Union Square \nApr 04-06 2022 \n\n\n2:15 – 2:45 pm  Opening Keynote | The Ministry for the Future \nIn this opening keynote\, Science Fiction Writer Kim Stanley Robinson will share his perspective on the impact of climate change on our near future\, and what global society needs to do\, to manage averting total cataclysm. What will it take to turn that growing realization of existential danger into effective change? It’s not a question with one answer. Some will experience climate trauma\, and change. But many more will have to change in response to their own awareness and foreknowledge. \nIn this talk and interview\, the concepts of Planetary Culture and Climate Restoration will be discussed\, as well as the role of urgency and hope. \nKim Stanley Robinson\, Science Fiction Writer and Author of “The Ministry for the Future”\n \n\nEvent page \nReport \n 
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/sustainable-packaging-coalition/
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SUMMARY:Financial Times: Climate Capital Live
DESCRIPTION:Financial Times: Climate Capital Live \nKeynote interview: Should Central Banks Be the Ones to Solve the Climate Crisis? \nWed Mar 09\, 9:45 AM – 10:15 AM GMT +0\nOnline \nSpeakers \nMs. Pilita Clark\nAssociate Editor\, Financial Times\nModerator \nKim Stanley Robinson\nAuthor\, The Ministry For The Future \n#FTClimateCapital \nEvent page \nClip on Twitter
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/financial-times-climate-capital-live/
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SUMMARY:USC: California Dystopia
DESCRIPTION:University of Southern California \nCalifornia Dystopia: Understanding Climate Change and Social Collapse through Science Fiction \nDATE:Wednesday\, March 9\, 2022 at 5 p.m. \nLOCATION:Virtual Event \n\n\nIn the fall of 2020\, when wildfires turned the once-blue skies of California into a glowing orange hellscape—all amid a viral pandemic marked by severe racial and social disparities and protests over police violence against communities of color—some of the darkest fiction about California’s future seemed especially prescient. \nModerated by Los Angeles Times culture columnist Carolina A. Miranda\, a wide-ranging panel including climate resiliency expert John Bwarie\, Octavia Butler scholar Ayana A. H. Jamieson\, science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson\, and climate scientist Daniel Swain will try to make sense of a California that increasingly resembles the dystopia of Butler’s classic novel Parable of the Sower. Were the historic wildfires of 2020 an aberration—or the new normal? How do social and environmental distress amplify each other? Do fictional depictions of California’s future inform\, encourage\, or hinder efforts to build a better future? And can utopian visions still play a role? \nPrior to the discussion\, digital artist Erik Loyer of Opertoon and a team of students from the Ahmanson Lab at the USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study will share their speculative vision of California’s future in the form of an immersive digital work\, accompanied by an exhibition of rare and unique materials from the USC Libraries’ collections.\n \n\nEvent page
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/usc-california-dystopia/
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SUMMARY:Jaipur Literature Festival: KSR & Raghu Karnad
DESCRIPTION:05 Mar | 04:30 PM – 05:15 PM IST                       \n  \nDurbar Hall \n16. THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE \nKim Stanley Robinson in conversation with Raghu Karnad\nThe Urgency of Borrowed Time \nKim Stanley Robinson\, Raghu Karnad \n\n\nKim Stanley Robinson is considered as one of the greatest science fiction authors. Beginning with a deadly human-induced heatwave in India\, his recent cli-fi novel\, The Ministry for the Future\, is a roadmap on which life on earth can survive. Written through fictional eye-witness accounts\, despairing yet hopeful in equal measure\, it masterfully lays bare the challenges our planet faces. In conversation with Raghu Karnad\, journalist and author of Farthest Field\, Robinson shares his vision of the not-too-distant future.\n \n\nEvent page \nFacebook ad \nTwitter excerpt \nReport on event \nAnother report on event \nRecording on YouTube \nRecording for radio \n 
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/jaipur-literature-festival-ksr-raghu-karnad/
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SUMMARY:U Colorado Climate & Heath
DESCRIPTION:University of Colorado Climate & Heath Program \n\n\nClimate Medicine Rounds \nFriday\, March 4\, 12-1pm MST \nKim Stanley Robinson \nmoderated by Jay Lemery\, Co-Director\, Climate and Health Program\n \n\nTwitter announcement \nReport on event
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/u-colorado-climate-heath/
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SUMMARY:Long Now: Climate Futures: Beyond 02022
DESCRIPTION:Long Now talks \nClimate Futures: Beyond 02022 \nMar 2\, 02022 7pm Pacific \n\n\nLong Now continues our dialogue with the acclaimed writer Kim Stanley Robinson around climate futures\, his attendance of COP26 and his most recent book The Ministry for the Future. Clean energy advocate & author Ramez Naam will join Robinson on stage after the talk for a further discussion. \nTackling topics from carbon quantitative easing\, to political action\, to planetary-level engineering\, Robinson describes our current situation as “all-hands-on-deck” where every possible mitigation strategy should be tried.\n \n\n  \nEvent page + YouTube video
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/long-now-climate-futures-beyond-02022/
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SUMMARY:One Book Steamboat Author Event: KSR
DESCRIPTION:One Book Steamboat Author Event: Kim Stanley Robinson \nBy Bud Werner Library \n\n\nBud Werner Memorial Library in Steamboat Springs\, Colorado invites you to spend an evening with Kim Stanley Robinson talking about The Ministry for the Future\,  his cli-fi novel that has been selected as this year’s One Book Steamboat community read.\n \n\nEvent announcement \nOne Book Steamboat page \nEvent registration page \n 
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/one-book-steamboat-author-event-ksr/
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SUMMARY:Praxis Peace Institute: A look at ‘The Ministry of the Future’
DESCRIPTION:Kim Stanley Robinson: The Ministry for the Future \nFriday\, February 25\, 4pm \nRegistration fee: $20  ($15 for Praxis members). Link sent upon registration. www.praxispeace.org/events \nEvent page \nEvent article
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/praxis-peace-institute-a-look-at-the-ministry-of-the-future/
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SUMMARY:Sierra Writers Conference: Writing a Good Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:Sierra Writers Conference 2022 \nKeynote Address – Writing a Good Anthropocene\nSaturday\, February 12th | 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. \nEvent page
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/sierra-writers-conference-writing-a-good-anthropocene/
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SUMMARY:CSU Sacramento: KSR on "The Ministry for the Future"
DESCRIPTION:Charles Martell Author Lecture: Kim Stanley Robinson \n\n\nThe Friends of the Library invites you to join us for a presentation by famed sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson.\n \n\nFeb 3\, 2022 01:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nZoom \nEvent page \n 
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/csu-sacramento-ksr-on-the-ministry-for-the-future/
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SUMMARY:Climate Crisis Advisory Group: What needs to be achieved in 2022?
DESCRIPTION:Climate Crisis Advisory Group public meetings \n27 January 2022\, 12pm GMT \n\n\nWhat needs to be achieved in 2022 to ensure a manageable future for humanity?\n \n\nEvent page \nYouTube video
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/climate-crisis-advisory-group-what-needs-to-be-achieved-in-2022/
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SUMMARY:Fossil Free California: From COP26 to the Ministry for the Future
DESCRIPTION:Fossil Free California: From COP26 to the Ministry for the Future \n20 Jan 6.00 – 7.30 PM \n\n\nWe are honored to present our Zoom webinar and Q&A with best-selling “cli-fi” author Kim Stanley Robinson\, thanks to one of our long-time volunteers and major donors.\n \n\nEvent page \nEvent recording (YouTube) \nEvent review
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/fossil-free-california-from-cop26-to-the-ministry-for-the-future/
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SUMMARY:& Utopia: Ecology and Utopia
DESCRIPTION:& Utopia \nOnline public lecture series about utopian thinking and practices in a contemporary world characterized by multiple crises \nDecember 8th 8-9.30 PM CET\nKim Stanley Robinson\nEcology and Utopia\nQ&A moderated by Lara Monticelli \nZoom lecture \nEvent site \n 
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/utopia-ecology-and-utopia/
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SUMMARY:Berggruen Institute: Possible Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Possible Worlds: Optopia: From Fiction to Action on Climate Change \nNOVEMBER 30\, 2021 \n6:30pm — UCLA | Fowler Museum’s Lenart Auditorium – Los Angeles\, CA \nPossible Worlds: The UCLA – Berggruen Institute Speaker Series is a new partnership between the UCLA Division of Humanities and the Berggruen Institute. \nEvent page \nAnnouncement \nEvent video (YouTube)
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/berggruen-institute-possible-worlds/
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SUMMARY:Climate Cultures Festival Berlin
DESCRIPTION:Climate Cultures Festival Berlin. Planet Writes Back! \n27.-29.11.2021 @ Roter Salon / Volksbühne / BABYLON \n\n\nMontag 29. November \nCLIMATE FICTION – SCIENCE FICTION \n18:00-19:30\nPanel 12: Kim Stanley Robinson \n(hybrid event) mit Kim Stanley Robinson\, Elisabeth Bösl\, Thekla Dannenberg \nKSR will speak about the “positive Anthropocene” described in his latest novel and whether it has realistic potential.\n \n\nEvent page \nTwitter video clips
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/climate-cultures-festival-berlin/
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SUMMARY:U Sydney: Dodging a Mass Extinction Event
DESCRIPTION:University of Sydney / Progress in Political Economy \n14th Annual Wheelwright Lecture: Kim Stanley Robinson \nHosted by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney\, together with the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) and the Political Economy Student Society (ECOPSoc). \n\n\nDodging a Mass Extinction Event: Climate Change and Necessity  \nSpeaker: Kim Stanley Robinson \nWhen: 25 November 2021\, 2-3:30pm (Sydney time/AEDT) \nWhere: Online via Zoom.\n \n\nEvent page \nEvent recording + YouTube video
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/u-sydney-dodging-a-mass-extinction-event/
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SUMMARY:Weather Reports: The Climate of the Future
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Divinity School: Weather Reports \nMonday\, November 22\, 2021\, 7:00pm to 8:30pm \n\n\nKim Stanley Robinson\, novelist\, will present “The Climate of the Future.”\n \n\n\n\nKim Stanley Robinson’s thriller The Ministry for the Future (2020) is science fiction that reads as hard-edged journalism. With short chapters and a myriad of characters\, Robinson creates a kaleidoscope of perspectives on a global climate collapse coming in 2025. Bill McKibben writes “In Kim Stanley Robinson’s anti-dystopian novel\, climate change is the crisis that finally forces mankind to deal with global inequality.” At heart an optimist\, Robinson lays out a possible path to move forward with faith in what we can create together in a post-capitalist world. \nRespondent: Sarah Dimick\, Assistant Professor of English\, Harvard University \nBrian Kirbis of Theasophia will open the conversation with a tea pouring. Each conversation will be conducted online by Terry Tempest Williams\, writer-in-residence at Harvard Divinity School. \nThis series is a Constellation Project in partnership with the Center of the Study of World Religions\, Religion and Public Life\, and the Planetary Health Alliance. \nFor more information\, visit the event page. Registration is required. \n \n\nEvent page \n 
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/weather-reports-the-climate-of-the-future/
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SUMMARY:Paris Peace Forum: needed governance of Solar Radiation Modification
DESCRIPTION:Paris Peace Forum 4th edition \nEngineered climate: The needed governance of Solar Radiation Modification  \nSaturday 13 november 2021 15:30 – 16:30 \n\n\nSolar Radiation Modification (SRM)\, a technology still untested but within human reach\, consists of increasing the reflection of incoming sunlight back to space to lower the earth’s temperature. By doing so\, SRM could help reduce major climate hazards\, with the greatest benefits going to the most vulnerable regions. Yet SRM involves serious uncertainties\, risks\, and governance challenges\, including the possibility of undermining critical emissions cuts. This panel will explore the needed conditions for a rigorous\, legitimate\, inclusive\, and balanced discussion on the global governance of SRM. \nSpeakers: Janos Pasztor\, Executive Director\, Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G); Andrew Parker\, CEO\, The Degrees Initiative (Formerly SRMGI); Kim Stanley Robinson\, Author; Brice Lalonde\, Former Minister of the Ecological Transition\, France\n \n\nEvent page \nYouTube video
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/paris-peace-forum-needed-governance-of-solar-radiation-modification/
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SUMMARY:5x15 at COP26 - Arts and the Imagination Hosted by Brian Eno
DESCRIPTION:5×15 at COP26 – Arts and the Imagination Hosted by Brian Eno \n\nJust as we need climate scientists to present the facts\, we need the arts and culture to help us think and feel and talk about the climate crisis at all levels. The conversation needs scientists – but it urgently needs artists too. Science discovers\, Art digests. Art and culture tell us stories about other possible worlds\, lives\, and ways of being. A novel or a film invites us to experience an imaginary world and see how we feel about it. Culture is where our minds go to experiment\, to try out new feelings. \nThis special event on the final day of COP26 features story-tellers\, artists and performers brought together by 5×15 and Brian Eno\, EarthPercent and the Jaipur Literature Festival to explore the role of artists and the arts in responding to climate change. As COP26 draws to a close\, we're looking forward to the road ahead and exploring the power of imagination to drive change – for humans\, for animals\, for flora and fauna\, for soil\, for oceans. \nFeaturing Rosie Boycott\, Brian Eno\, Carolina Caycedo\, Amitav Ghosh\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, Ben Okri\, Charlotte Jarvis\, Mirabella Okri\, Olafur Eliasson\, Emtithal Mahmoud\, Wilson Oryema\, Neil Gaiman and more. Supported by Rathbone Investment Management and Rathbones Folio Prize. \n\n\n\n12 November 2021 \n12pm in Cinema Auditorium \nEvent page at 5×15 \nEvent page at COP26 \nVideo on YouTube
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/5x15-at-cop26-arts-and-the-imagination-hosted-by-brian-eno/
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SUMMARY:Bloomberg Green at COP26: The Power of Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Bloomberg Green at COP26 \nTue Nov 09\, 8:10 PM – 8:35 PM GMT (25 Min) \nThe Power of Storytelling \nFrom science fiction prose depicting a climate-change ravaged future to the devastation of forest fires captured by a filmmaker’s lens\, different creative mediums play a powerful role in climate change awareness. We’ll hear how these storytellers are harnessing their craft to draw attention to the issues surrounding the environment\, technology\, and society. \n\nEva Orner\, Director and Executive Producer\, Burning\nKim Stanley Robinson\, Science Fiction Writer\nModerator: Aaron Rutkoff\, Executive Editor\, Bloomberg Green\n\nYou can view the transcript of the event here \nEvent page \nEvent video (on Facebook\, from 44:00)
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/bloomberg-green-at-cop26-the-power-of-storytelling/
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SUMMARY:Climateworks Foundation at COP26
DESCRIPTION:COP26 event: Reimagining climate governance \nNovember 8\, 5-7 pm GMT — online and in-person \n\n\nCOP26 is intended to close a chapter on international climate negotiations as Paris Agreement rules are finalized. At the same time\, with the climate crisis deepening and calls for justice and equity increasing\, many initiatives are bringing new thinking to arrangements that complement the Agreement. For example\, with the Global Stocktake kicking off\, it is a moment for reflection about how the UNFCCC and implementation of the Paris Agreement are evolving.  \nTaking the long view\, there is a gap between where we are headed and where we need to be in 50 or 100 years. Those time spans can be modeled but are hard to contemplate at ground level. Now is the time to understand and plan for what climate politics may look like over the coming decades and how the drive for a just transition could play out against the backdrop of shifting geopolitics and more severe climate impacts.  \nTo help unpack some of these topics\, we invite you to hear from two speakers applying their considerable skills at organizing for action and reimagining the potential of governance to address the climate emergency. Nigel Topping\, COP26 Climate Champion\, is leading efforts to get influential players in the real economy to shift to net zero and complement government action. Kim Stanley Robinson is a bestselling author of speculative fiction whose books have probed the realities of a future living with climate change\, as well as exploring the ways in which society may tackle emissions and adapt.\n \n\nEvent page
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/climateworks-foundation-at-cop26/
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SUMMARY:COP26 TED Countdown
DESCRIPTION:KSR at the UNFCCC COP at Glasgow\, UK \n\n\nThe third session of Countdown at COP26 features: Jane Zelikova (Ecosystem scientist\, on soil as carbon sink)\, Gabrielle Walker (Carbon removal thinker)\, Lucas Joppa (Chief Sustainability Officer at Microsoft\, on carbon markets) Hongqiao Liu (Journalist and policy expert\, on China and climate)\, Kim Stanley Robinson (Author of “The Ministry for the Future”)\, Nemonte Nenquimo (Indigenous leader from Ecuador) and Naima Penniman (Multidimensional artist).\n \n\n\n\nTED Countdown climate initiative: https://countdown.ted.com\nTED Countdown talks: https://www.ted.com/series/countdown\n \n\nLivestream on YouTube \nNovember 6\, 2021 (6:30-8pm GMT) \nTED Countdown at COP26 \n 
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/cop26-ted-countdown/
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SUMMARY:New York Times ClimateHub: Storytelling and Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:The New York Times ClimateHub \nHearts and Minds: Storytelling and Climate Change \nSat.\, Nov. 6 3–3:45 p.m. G.M.T. \n\n\nStories hold a power that science does not: The power to move hearts and minds\, and connect people to a problem. A fact can be devastating\, but when placed in the context of a story that people can relate to\, that fact becomes part of a reality we can better comprehend\, react to and address. How can scientists tell better stories to bring their research to life? What can the world’s best storytellers do for those who want to tell the truth about climate change\, and how can we use stories to help people move beyond the state of despair that facts alone can instill?\n \n\nWith: \n\nOliver Jeffers\, Artist and Author\nDoug Gurr\, Director\, Natural History Museum\, London\nSlater Jewell-Kemker\, Filmmaker\nAlice Aedy\, Filmmaker; Co-Founder\, Earthrise\nMatt Anderson\, European Culture Editor\, The New York Times\nEmtithal Mahmoud\, Poet and Goodwill Ambassador\, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees\nKim Stanley Robinson\, Author\n\nEvent page \nVideo on YouTube \n​ \n\n\n	 \n	\n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/event/new-york-times-climatehub-storytelling-and-climate-change/
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