Agenda

8:30 – 9:15 AM | Breakfast and Coffee

9:15 – 9:20 AM | Welcome: Bob Kopp, Co-Director, University Office of Climate Action; Director, Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub; Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

9:20 – 9:25 AM | Introduction: Francine Conway, Chancellor-Provost, Rutgers-NewBrunswick

9:25 – 9:30 AM | Opening Remarks: Jonathan Holloway, University President and Professor

9:30 – 10:25 AM | Roundtable I: Mobilizing University Climate Action

This theme focuses on the overarching vision of Rutgers’ Climate Action Plan: mobilizing our academic, operational, and economic capacities to advance just, equitable climate solutions and help achieve national net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. This panel invites key leaders of the University to address: How can we integrate the University’s academic, operational, and economic capacities to accelerate climate action?

• Moderator: Jonathan Holloway, University President and Professor
• Speaker: Antonio Calcado, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
• Speaker: Nancy Cantor, Chancellor, Rutgers-Newark
• Speaker: Francine Conway, Chancellor-Provost, Rutgers-New Brunswick
• Speaker: Brian Strom, Chancellor, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
• Speaker: Antonio Tillis, Chancellor, Rutgers-Camden

10:30 – 11:25 AM | Roundtable II: Laboratories of Climate Citizenship

The climate crisis already is and will continue to be an unavoidable aspect of our lives. Over the next several decades, we will feel the impacts of climate change, and many of us will participate in and help lead climate action around the world and across sectors. Rutgers’ role as a laboratory for climate citizenship will be our most enduring contributing to climate transformation. This theme asks: How do we use our campus and environs as laboratories to prepare Rutgers community members as whole people to leverage their distinctive talents and interests to be active and resilient climate citizens?

• Moderator: Prabhas Moghe, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
• Speaker: Rebecca Cypess, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Mason Gross School of the Arts
• Speaker: Holly Nelson, Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Landscape Architecture
• Speaker: Amanda O’Lear, Member, New Jersey Climate Change Resource Center Climate Corps; Graduate Student, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
• Speaker: Kendall Soto, Chair, Rutgers University Student Assembly Sustainability Committee; Member, Office of Climate Action Student Advisory Board; New Brunswick undergraduate student
• Speaker: Jack Tchen, Director, Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture & the Modern Experience

11:30 AM – 12:25 PM | Roundtable III: Partnering for Climate Action

This theme focuses on academic, planning, and operational partnerships to help New Jersey communities and businesses to decarbonize and to adapt to the impacts of climate change, and on research, teaching, and engagement initiatives that integrate these efforts. It asks: how can Rutgers partner with New Jersey communities and businesses to accelerate community climate transformation across our state?

• Moderator: Kevin Lyons, Co-director, Office of Climate Action; Member, New Jersey Council on the Green Economy; Associate Professor of Practice, Rutgers Business School
• Speaker: Larodge Johnson, Camden undergraduate student; Member, Office of Climate Action Student Advisory Board; community activist and photographer
• Speaker: Marjorie Kaplan, Co-Director, New Jersey Climate Change Resource Center; Co- Facilitator, New Jersey Climate Change Alliance; Associate Director, Rutgers Climate Institute
• Speaker: Steven Keleman, Executive Director, Emergency Management Services
• Speaker: Robert Laumbach, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute
• Speaker: Jeana Wirtenberg, Associate Director for Corporate Social Innovation Education, Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation

12:25 – 12:28 PM | Closing of Morning Session: Suah Yekeh, Member, Office of Climate Action Student Advisory Board

12:30 – 1:30 PM | LUNCH BREAK and SHOWCASE

1:30 – 2:20 PM | Climate Action Group Workshop 1: Chancellor-led Units (concurrent)

• Camden Climate Action Group, RWH Room 208
• Newark Climate Action Group, RWH, Room 102
• New Brunswick Climate Action Group, RWH Room 105
• RBHS Climate Action Group, RWH Room 206

2:30 – 3:20 PM | Climate Action Group Workshop 2: Operational (concurrent)

• Building and Energy Climate Action Group, RWH Room 105
• Transportation Climate Action Group, RWH, Room 102
• Procurement and Waste Management Climate Action Group, RWH Room 208
• Dining Services and Food Vendor Climate Action Group, RWH Room 206
• Land Use and Building Design Action Group, BME Room 102

3:30 – 4:20 PM | Climate Action Group Workshop 3: Operational (concurrent)

• Building and Energy Climate Action Group, RWH Room 105
• Transportation Climate Action Group, RWH, Room 102
• Procurement and Waste Management Climate Action Group, RWH Room 208
• Dining Services and Food Vendor Climate Action Group, RWH Room 206
• Land Use and Building Design Climate Action Group, BME Room 102

4:30 – 5:30 PM | Reception