September 4, 2022
MEERTALK September 2022
FACING OUR CLIMATE ANXIETY HEALTH CRISIS: Human responses to the global climate crisis and the earth’s current ecological state tend to span a wide range, including shock, grief denial numbness and rage. Embedded within the catastrophic risk of the climate crisis or issues of social justice, economic inequality, and cultural bias. Britt Wray shares how we can create personal practices and collaborative activities to strengthen ourselves and our communities? As requested by the speaker, this meeting was not recorded.

Other Resources

Fighting Extreme Heat: Eleni Myrivili / Global Chief Heat Officer
Stressing the need for awareness, Global Chief Heat Officer Eleni Myrivili leads the response to extreme heat that threatens lives and livelihoods worldwide. She outlines ideal countermeasures.
February 6, 2024
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Let's Restore a Healthy Climate
The world continues to experience a relentless increase in average and extreme temperatures every year - much beyond what scientists and scientific models projected or expected. We now have to use previously unfamiliar terms to describe today’s new world - atmospheric rivers, sunny day flooding, rain bombs, derechos, flash droughts and many more. No place, no time of year and no person is immune from the severe direct and indirect impacts of a scorching planet.
February 6, 2024
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MEERTALK February 2024
The Emperor's New Climate Scenarios
Sandy Trust explains why commonly used models in financial services are underestimating climate risk, presenting the findings of a collaborative research paper between actuaries and leading climate scientists ‘The Emperor’s New Climate Scenarios’, in a talk that will be in turns absurd, scary and hopeful.
February 4, 2024
MEERTALK