Program

Preliminary Conference Program Now Available!

We are pleased to announce our preliminary conference program for the 2025 Midwest Climate Resilience Conference!

The program includes oral and poster presentations, lightning talks, workshops, working sessions and symposia covering a wide range of engaging topics, including:

Forging creative partnerships to advance community climate resilience
Working towards climate-smart food systems
Embracing a whole-of-community approach to public health through climate resilience hubs
Developing funding models for effective climate adaptation and resilience implementation
Integrating Indigenous values and perspectives in climate adaptation
Exploring green and gray adaptation options for the built environment
Facilitating listening sessions to explore the emotional, intellectual, and ethical dimensions of climate resilience work

and more!

View a PDF version of the preliminary program here.

FAQ for speaker and session organizers.

Preliminary Conference Program

Conference Speakers

Cross Cutting Conference Themes

The conference program covers several cross-cutting themes including:

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 impacts in the context of multiple societal, environmental and economic challenges and drivers of risk and vulnerability

Collaborative Climate Action

Examples of new and evolving multi-sector, multi-jurisdictional, and multi-disciplinary collaboratives, initiatives, and partnership approaches to adaptation and resilience

Effective Climate Communications and Engagement

Increasing capacity by effectively communicating risks, opportunity, resources, and best practices for community engagement and empowerment

Equitable Adaptation

Integrating climate resilience with parallel social movements to advance community capacity and grapple with profound questions of place, 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

Financial Support for Conference Speakers

Confirmed conference speakers will receive a $50 registration discount. The discount code was emailed directly to confirmed speakers.

We will offer a limited number of travel scholarships to provide support for individuals who otherwise would not be able to attend the conference. Scholarships will be open to local government staff and elected officials, nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, Tribal representatives and other community leaders. Additional information and a link to the travel support application is available on the Attend page.

The total available funding for scholarships and the number of scholarships we are able to provide will be, to some extent, dependent upon sponsorships from conference supporters. If you are interested in providing sponsorship to support conference participation, please see our Sponsors page for additional information about levels and benefits.

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