Book Talk | "Sacred Resistance: Eco-Activism and the Rise of New Spiritual Communities"
2025-10-21 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway
Join the Center for Earth Ethics and Union Theological Seminary’s Eco-Justice Caucus at UTS’s Burke Library for a dialogue and discussion with Mark Clatterbuck, editor of a new volume from Orbis Books. With a forward by Winona LaDuke, “Sacred Resistance” weaves together “five deep and rich case studies of spiritually-based eco-activism written by those engaged in the struggle.”

Please enter at the northwest corner of 120th and Broadway.

Fall 2025 Faith Sector Forum: Building Hope & Safety in a Changing Climate
2025-11-05 09:30 - 13:00 | Rebuild By Design
Faith organizations play a central role in supporting New Yorkers during crises, yet many lack access to the tools and training needed to plan for future risks. The NYC Faith Sector Climate Adaptation Working Group, convened by New York Disaster & Interfaith Services (NYDIS) and Rebuild by Design, invites faith leaders and partners to a focused discussion on how the faith sector can work together to prepare for these growing challenges.

This convening will introduce the Faith Sector Climate Adaptation Toolkit, developed through site visits, trainings, and conversations with leaders in all five boroughs. The toolkit offers practical resources to strengthen preparedness, communication, and advocacy. Participants will engage in panels and breakout sessions to share experiences, identify needs, and explore ways to build collective capacity for a safer and more resilient city.

Science and Spirituality: An Ethical Stocktake Dialogue to Inspire COP30
2025-11-05 13:00 - 14:30
Why do we deny or ignore what both science and other ways of knowing teach us about the climate crisis? How can we learn from spiritual traditions and practices to live in balance with nature?

Join the Center for Earth Ethics and Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology online on Wednesday, November 5, at 1 p.m. (ET) for “Science and Spirituality: An Ethical Stocktake Dialogue to Inspire COP30.” Part of the Global Ethical Stocktake—an initiative of the COP30 presidency led by Minister of the Environment and Climate of Brazil, Marina Silva—this dialogue will inform the GES report for COP30 and amplify the newly released Living Earth Community website.

Key Questions

The Global Ethical Stocktake seeks answers to five strategic questions. Each dialogue must address at least one of them:

Why, even when aware of the risks, do we deny or ignore what science and traditional knowledge tell us about the climate crisis?

Why do we maintain models of production and consumption that harm the most vulnerable and contradict the goals of Mission 1.5°C?

What can be done to ensure that wealthy countries accelerate their transitions and contribute financially to the most vulnerable?

What cultural or spiritual traditions and practices from your community teach how to live in balance with nature?

How can we mobilize more people, leaders, businesses, and nations to support fair and ethical change? What values can inspire this mission?

Host: Karenna Gore | Executive Director of Center for Earth Ethics

Moderator: Mary Evelyn Tucker | Co-Director of Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, Living Earth Community

Participants:

Lyla June Johnston | Musician, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages

Ursula Goodenough | Professor Emerita of biology at Washington University in St. Louis; Author of “Sacred Depths of Nature.”

Melanie Harris | Professor of Black feminist thought and womanist theology at Wake Forest School of Divinity; Director of Food Health and Ecological Well-Being Program

Mirian Vilela | Executive Director of Earth Charter International Secretariat, Executive Director of the Center for Education for Sustainable Development at University for Peace

Steve Kolmes | Editor of Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development; Professor Emeritus of environmental studies at University of Portland

Live Interview | Karenna Gore on the Young Turks
2025-11-06 20:30 - 21:00
CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore joins The Young Turks this evening to discuss the Global Ethical Stocktake, COP30, climate ethics, and more!

Tune in tonight at 8:30 PM ET at TYT.com!

A conversation on the Global Ethical Stocktake with Marina da Silva, Al Gore, Karenna Gore and Wanjira Mathai
2025-11-14 11:00 - 12:30 | TED Countdown House
Join Brazil’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Marina Silva and co-leaders of the Global Ethical Stocktake for a conversation moderated by former US Vice President Al Gore. The conversation will explore the role of ethics and moral leadership at a time of great risk but also great opportunity, as well as ways to engage civil society in creating the world they want to see.

​Host: Center for Earth Ethics and Global Ethical Stocktake

​Speakers:

​Karenna Gore, Founder and Executive Director, Center for Earth Ethics

​Marina da Silva, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change of Brazil

​Al Gore, former US Vice President and Climate Leader, Climate Reality Project & Climate TRACE

​Wanjira Mathai, Managing Director, Africa & Global Partnerships, World Resources Institute

​Note: This event will have booth translation in Portuguese and Spanish

​Please note: Unfortunately, this event is not fully accessible – it’s only accessible by stairs. If you have any accessibility questions, please contact us at countdown@ted.com — we’re happy to provide more information.

Climate Wisdom from COP30 | Empowering Communities, Protecting the Planet
2025-11-14 17:00 - 19:00
On November 14 at 5 p.m. ET, CEE’s Karenna Gore will join a live COP30 panel discussion in the Climate Wisdom series, hosted by the Brahma Kumaris Environment Initiative. This session will feature insights and experiences from global leaders, including Maureen Goodman, Kumi Naidoo and Golo Pilz. Panelists will share practical examples of innovation, collaboration and policy progress emerging in the COP—and first-hand accounts of the transformative wisdom needed to tackle the most pressing challenge of our time.• Maureen Goodman, Director Brahma Kumaris, UK • Kumi Naidoo, President, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty • Karenna Gore, Director, Centre for Earth Ethics • Moderator: Golo Pilz, Adviser Renewable Energy Brahma Kumaris

The climate crisis is a spiritual crisis: A multifaith Global Ethical Stocktake event
2025-11-15 14:00 - 15:30 | TED Countdown House
This session explores how faith, spirituality, and moral imagination can drive courageous climate action. We will examine how people of all faiths—and none—can act meaningfully together even in a tough political landscape. Together, speakers and audience, will help shape a Global Ethical Stocktake submission on the role of faith in building a just and regenerative future.

​Hosts: Project Dandelion, Laudato Si’ Movement, Center for Earth Ethics, Women, Faith and Climate Network, Baha’i International Community, The Brahma Kumaris

​Speakers:

​Moderator: Nika Sinai, Baha’i artist and the Office of External Affairs Director for the Baha’ community in Australia

​Dr. Lorna Gold, Executive Director, Laudato Sì Movement

​Samira Siddique, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Center for Earth Ethics

​Maureen Goodman, Programme Director for the Brahma Kumaris UK, Brahma Kumaris representative at the UN, Vienna

​Thaynah Gutierrez, Geledés Black Women’s Institute

​Note: This event will have booth translation in Portuguese and Spanish

​Please note: Unfortunately, this event is not fully accessible – it’s only accessible by stairs. If you have any accessibility questions, please contact us at countdown@ted.com — we’re happy to provide more information.

Reflections from Belém: Columbia at COP30
2025-12-01 16:30 - 17:30 | The Forum at Columbia University, 601 West 125th St., New York, NY 10027
As the world turns from negotiation to implementation following COP30 in Belém, the Columbia Climate School invites you to join the final installment of the Countdown to COP30 series: Reflections from Belém: Columbia at COP30.

This closing session will feature firsthand insights from Columbia faculty and student delegates who attended COP30, highlighting key takeaways, breakthrough moments, and the road ahead. The discussion will explore what was achieved in Belém, how Columbia contributed, and how the university will continue to support global climate implementation and accountability efforts moving forward.

Moderated by Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, associate professor of professional practice in the Faculty of Climate, Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), director of executive education and non-degree programs, Executive Education

Panelist

Sheila Foster– Professor of Climate, Columbia Climate School

Amy Campbell – Executive Office of the UN Secretary General (Adaptation Workstream), Former UK Climate Negotiator and Climate School Alumna

Karenna Gore– Executive Director, Center for Earth Ethics, & Teaching Professor of Practice of Earth Ethics, Union Theological Seminary

Reception to follow from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM next door in Room 316

Round Table | "Climate Justice Now" Book Launch
2026-03-05 16:15 - 18:15 | The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University, 74 Morningside Dr, New York, New York, 10027, United States
On Thursday, March 5, CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore will join a roundtable discussion marking the launch of “Climate Justice Now: Crossing Disciplines to Combat our Planetary Crisis”—a new “multidisciplinary book that offers a critical exploration of debates on climate justice across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities.” Karenna will join Jennifer Hadden and Emily H. G. Cooperdock of Brown University, and Michael Brownstein of CUNY to discuss the new volume and challenges currently facing the climate justice movement.

A livestream link is available for those unable to attend the in-person event.

Book Description: Climate change is not only an environmental crisis but also a catalyst for worsening socioeconomic inequalities, leading to widespread calls for “climate justice.” This multidisciplinary book offers a comprehensive exploration of debates on climate justice across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Synthesizing these divergent approaches, it develops a new conceptual framework that transcends disciplinary divides, providing a deeper and richer understanding of climate justice. Contributors make an urgent case that climate justice must be centered within and across disciplines, creating a roadmap for multidisciplinary research and pedagogy on the climate crisis. Featuring a wide range of voices and actionable recommendations, this timely book illuminates how scholarship on climate change can become a call to action.

Seasons of Reckoning: The Practice of Moral Accounting
2026-03-09 13:00 - 14:15
This spring, CEE is participating in Seasons of Responsibility: Interreligious Conversations on Environmental Justice and Repair, an online learning series hosted by Jewish Theological Seminary that explores responsibility, agency and repair in the face of urgent ecological challenges. On February 9, CEE Strategic Advisor Roberto Múkaro Borrero took part in the session “Indigenous Leadership and Ecological Responsibility,” in conversation with Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay, associate dean of The Rabbinical School and executive director of the JTS Hendel Center for Ethics and Justice.

On March 9, CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore will be a featured speaker in “Seasons of Reckoning: The Practice of Moral Accounting” alongside Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky, JTS Professor Emeritus and CEE Advisory Board member.All seven sessions in this series will consider how spiritual, religious and wisdom traditions can inspire ethical action and cultivate collective hope.

Women, Ethics, and Climate Futures: Reflections on the Global Ethical Stocktake Dialogues
2026-03-11 12:00 - 13:15
Join us for an official parallel event happening alongside the seventieth session of theUN Commission on the Status of Women. This interactive online session will reflect on the Global Ethical Stocktake, a COP30-linked dialogue process that explores the moral, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of collective decision-making on climate. The event, which CEE is co-hosting with Parliament of the World’s Religions, the Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement at Seattle University, the Green Hope Foundation and the Green Tent Circle, will feature panel reflections and facilitated small-group dialogue on responsibility, care and climate action.

Book Talk | "Unmoored Yet Unbroken: Ecopsychology for a Changing World"
2026-04-28 17:30 - 19:30
Join the Center for Earth Ethics at UTS’s Burke Library for a dialogue and discussion co-moderated by CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore and Susan Bodnar, editor of “Unmoored Yet Unbroken.” This new volume presents “a rich tapestry of global narratives highlighting the psychological impact of environmental changes.” Contributing authors will join the conversation to explore the intricate relationship between humans and the natural world—and how protecting this relationship is vital for mental health and essential in fighting climate change.

Please enter at 120th and Broadway.
