Climate Forward Conference 2025

In celebration of Earth Month, the USC Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability and the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future are hosting a series of conversations around advancing climate change issues. Please join us for the sixth annual Climate Forward conference on Thursday, April 3 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Town & Gown Ballroom. This conference focuses on finding practical solutions to climate change and identifying the political obstacles to implementing those changes.

Featured speakers include:

• Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Former U.S. Secretary of Energy and First Female Governor of Michigan, One of Time’s Most Influential People 2024
• Former California U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer
• Former Lousiana U.S. Representative Garret Graves

ZOOM REGISTRATION: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4cnbzo6JRtCBXkYRT3fXPw

The conference is FREE. You can participate in person, via Zoom, or via livestream. Lunch is provided. Space is limited. Registration is required.

The mission at the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future is to advance civil dialogue and research that transcends partisan divisions and finds solutions to pressing national and global challenges. The mission at the USC Dornsife Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies and Sustainability is to work toward sparking meaningful, nonpartisan change to save our planet.

This event is held in partnership with USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, USC Political Union (a Bridge USA Chapter), USC Political Student Assembly, Trojan Democrats, USC College Republicans, and Bridge Cultural Exchange Academy.

ZOOM REGISTRATION: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4cnbzo6JRtCBXkYRT3fXPw