Program
The 2023 Midwest Climate Resilience Conference program was designed to:
Support the broader purpose of the conference to advance adaptation and resilience for communities and ecosystems in the Midwest
Promote critical reflection, dialogue, and discussion of key climate issues in the Midwest
Encourage active participation in the conference
Reflect innovation and diversity among the various session topics and speakers
Reflect a balance between research, practice, professional issues, and education
Conference Program
The links provide an overview of the schedule for each day of the 2023 conference.
Shared presentations, slides and posters are available in the conference program pages.
Cross Cutting Conference Themes
The conference program was organized around several cross-cutting conference themes:
Actionable Climate Science
Integrating traditional ecological knowledge, community science, and new climate research, models, and tools to support climate adaptation and resilience
Cascading Climate Impacts
Adaptation solutions that address climate change in the context of multiple societal challenges and drivers of risk and vulnerability
Collaborative Climate Action
Examples of multi-sector, multi-jurisdictional, and multi-disciplinary collaboratives, initiatives, and partnership approaches to adaptation and resilience
Creative Communications and Engagement
Increasing capacity by effectively communicating risk, opportunity, and resilience for community empowerment
Equitable Adaptation
Integrating climate resilience with parallel social movements and grappling with profound questions of ethics, equity, and justice
Financial Solutions
Funding climate adaptation and resilience through public, private, philanthropic, and community-led finance mechanisms
Policy, Governance and Law
Building towards transformative change through effective and inclusive governance and decision-making processes