Climate Week at Penn will take place October 14-18. Now in its fifth year, Climate Week is organized by a committed group of faculty, staff, and students, with broad engagement from across the University.

The wide array of events serves to elevate the urgency of addressing climate change and showcase how the Penn community is playing a role in confronting it.

This year, schools, centers, departments, and groups around campus have organized nearly 40 events with a wide range of topics and formats.

Highlights include:

• October 14 and 16: Faculty and students will deliver 1.5* Minute Climate Lectures to share their perspectives on climate change and its impacts and call for large-scale climate action.
• October 15: Two youth activists at the forefront of the climate movement in Germany will visit campus to discuss their experiences organizing grassroots campaigns, influencing policy, and mobilizing communities to create a sustainable and just future.
• October 15: A “Bat Bonanza” will highlight the important role of these pollinators and insect-eaters and provide opportunities to get hands-on in activities to protect them.
• October 17: Penn’s Climate Solutions Showcase: Faculty and researchers from the School of Engineering & Applied Science and the Weitzman School of Design will share the technologies and designs they are innovating to create a safer, more resilient, and more sustainable future.
• October 18: A  “fireside chat” between Ramanan Raghavendran, chair of the Penn Board of Trustees, and Michael Weisberg, the Bess W. Heyman President’s Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and deputy director of Perry World House, on the role of universities in addressing climate change.

See the full Climate Week calendar for additional events and the latest details.
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*1.5 degrees Celsius=The maximum amount the average temperature can rise in order to avoid the worst consequences of global warming. We’re already past 1 degree Celsius.