Webinar: Finding Common Ground for Climate Adaptation and Sustainability

Climate change both complicates efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and offers areas of opportunity. Climate change adaptation efforts – actions taken to prepare for and address the effects of climate change -- interact with all 17 SDGs, which makes it important for both adaptation and sustainability professionals to understand their common ground. 

This talk will explore what climate adaptation entails, how adaptation connects to the SDGs, why sustainability professionals should think about climate adaptation, and key areas of emerging research in climate adaptation that could shape sustainability efforts. 

A.R. Siders is director of the Mangone Climate Change Science and Policy Hub. She is an associate professor in the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, the department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, and the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware. She holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a PhD from Stanford's Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation policy and evaluation: how communities and governments decide when and how to adapt to the effects of climate change, how values shape those decisions, and how adaptation affects risk reduction and social justice. She believes we should be audacious and creative in building our future. Originally from Duluth, Minnesota, she misses the cold.