Upcoming Events
October 16, 2026 | 9:00 AM
Climate Literacy Requirement Success Stories: Frontline Lessons and Legacies Panel
Three universities. Three paths toward making climate education part of every student’s degree. Join this CJUU–North America Flash Panel to explore how UC San Diego, UC Davis, and San Francisco State secured climate literacy and climate justice requirements—and the lessons other campuses can take forward.
October 27, 2026 | 3:30 PM
US Higher Education and the Future of Society: A Panel Discussion
Join the UCSC Earth Futures Institute for US Higher Education and the Future of Society: A Panel Discussion on October 27, 2026, at 3:30 p.m. in the Dougherty Reading Room, Science & Engineering Library. The University Futures Challenge will present its findings on threats facing society in the 21st century and how universities need to restructure and reprioritize their work to address them. Everyone on campus is invited, especially students, and audience reactions and comments are welcome. In person only.
CAN Event Archive
September 1, 2026: California’s Fifth Climate Change Assessment: Central Coast Report Webinar
July 17, 2026: CJUU Flash Talk – Building Knowledge, Power, and Solidarity Through Faculty Learning Communities
June 19, 2026: CJUU Flash Talk: Resisting Colonial AI
June 12th, 2026: UCSC CAN Photo Contest (Win $50)
May 29, 2026 Insurance, Risk, and Resilience in a Changing World Panel Discussion
April 30th, 2026: Fighting for the World We Deserve with Naomi Klein
April 30th, 2026: Planetary Health & Innovation Panel
April 28th, 2026: Climate Salon #6 – Climate Science Meets the Insurance Industry
May 29, 2025 – March 8th, 2026: Weather and the Whale
February 26, 2026: Energy and material constraints on society in a fossil-fuel free world
January 22, 2026: Progress and peril in a rapidly warming world
5:30 PM December 3, 2025: Sensing the Unseen: Drones, Sensors & Air Quality
2:00 PM Nov 18, 2025:Corporations in a 3-Degree World — Panel featuring Lily Hsueh and UCSC experts
5:00 PM Nov 18, 2025:Corporations at Climate Crossroads — Book Talk with Lily Hsueh
October 4, 2025: Campo-Sano Climate Action Conference
September 21, 2025: Sun Day in Santa Cruz
September 15-17, 2025: Communicating Climate Solutions Symposium
July 17 & 26, 2025: Younger Lagoon Reserve Tours
May 21th, 2025: Sustainability Soiree
May 22, 2025: What Could be More Innocent than Planting Trees?
April 10, 2025: Indian and Energy Transition: Green New Deal
April 21-24, 2025: In-Person: Baskin Climate Week
April 4, 2025: In-Person: Symposium 2025 – Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (SERI)
January 20, 2025 – Challenges to a Renewable Future
November 9, 2024 – CAN’s second Climate Salon featured Patrick Huang, who discussed what is achievable in a fossil fuel free world.
October 22, 2024 – Sandy Faber hosted CAN’s third Climate Salon on the critical role of cheap energy in modern society.
August 22, 2024 – Dan Friedman led a discussion of economists Bilal and Känzig’s Macroeconomic Impacts of Climate Change
July 23, 2024 – Richard Nolthenius lead a discussion of Jim Hansen’s Global Warming in the Pipeline
We’re Looking for Speakers!
Interested in speaking at a future event? We’d love to hear from you!