Forging Climate Solutions: How to Accelerate Action Across America

October 2023 launch event for the new report from the Commission on Accelerating Climate Action, Forging Climate Solutions: How to Accelerate Action Across America. Featuring Scientific American’s Laura Helmuth in conversation with the Commission cochairs. Learn more at www.amacad.org/climate.
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The American Academy of Arts & Sciences celebrated the launch of the new report from the Commission on Accelerating Climate Action, Forging Climate Solutions: How to Accelerate Action Across America. The report calls for a coordinated, cross-sector effort to combat climate change with five strategies and 21 recommendations rooted in justice, pragmatism, and accountability.
The report was developed over a two-year period by a diverse commission of leaders sharing their expertise and priorities. The Commission’s report recommends how corporations, frontline communities, government, and environmental groups can work together to mobilize investments, build infrastructure, reduce emissions, and prepare for the impacts of climate change.
Led by Mustafa Santiago Ali (National Wildlife Federation), Christopher Field (Stanford), David G. Victor (University of California, San Diego, and the Brookings Institution), and Patricia Vincent-Collawn (PNM Resources), the commission’s expertise spans the arts, faith communities, environmental justice, youth activism, the natural and social sciences, Indigenous people and Indigenous Knowledge, public health, and urban design.
The hybrid event - held in October 2023 - featured Commission cochairs in conversation and Laura Helmuth (Scientific American) as moderator. They reflected on their time working with this diverse group of climate experts and discuss a whole-of-society plan to combat the climate crisis.