Climate Science Engagement Program
Climate science to empower leaders & transform decision-making.
Addressing climate change requires rapid, large-scale knowledge-for-action. With the Earth’s temperature already reaching +1.5°C above preindustrial in 2024, climate impacts are here now but will also progress in ways that may be surprising to non-scientists. Unfortunately, lacking a climate science background, many leaders are tasked with critical decisions about the near and long-term trajectory of policies and organizations without an adequate understanding of the best available science, making it almost impossible to identify and amplify areas of agency. This understanding gap limits the efficacy of planning and increases future risks, from uninformed business projections to poor community planning. Climate science insights are no longer merely advantageous, but rather essential for successful organizational, financial, and community decision making.
The Climate Science Engagement Program is designed to address this gap by providing a suite of activities including small-cohort workshops, customized trainings and seminars, media and press outreach, and presentations at decision maker forums.
The Climate Science Engagement Program is focused on providing foundational climate science and frameworks for planning and evaluating actions and impact that are applicable for leaders and decision makers, and those who communicate with them.
Who is this program for?
The Climate Science Engagement Program is for professionals, leaders, and decision makers across the business, finance, philanthropy, policy, and media communities.
Contact us to find out more and bring engagement programs to your organization, board, or strategy group. Contact: twila.moon@colorado.edu.
Meet the Instructor
Dr. Twila Moon is Deputy Lead Scientist at the CIRES National Snow and Ice Data Center and lead for the CEEE Climate Science Engagement Program. Dr. Moon’s pioneering Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic systems science research has been published on the cover of Science and Nature, to which she’s also contributed invited perspectives, and received global media attention such as the BBC and Associated Press. She has testified for the U.S. Congress; is a lead editor for the Arctic Report Card, NOAA’s highest impact annual report; and serves on the U.S. National Academies Polar Research Board. Dr. Moon has developed and delivered climate engagement activities to a wide range of audiences, including leaders across business, finance, policy, philanthropy, and media, within the U.S. and internationally. Participants in Dr. Moon’s workshops have started new media campaigns, re-written corporate strategies to integrate climate awareness and action, established new climate-focused investments and giving programs, continued engagement through follow-up training, and more. After completing degrees at Stanford and University of Washington, she received NSF and CIRES Postdoctoral Fellowships for work at the University of Oregon and University of Colorado and held a Lectureship at the University of Bristol (UK) before returning to NSIDC in 2017.
Find out more at Twila Moon's website, LinkedIn, or Instagram.
Understanding climate realities and tools for effective action and planning is critical for every leader today. Twila’s ability to make complex, cutting-edge science insights clear and actionable is phenomenal. Expect to be informed, grounded, and inspired. This is training that every decision maker needs.
- Lisa Witter, Co-Founder of Apolitical & CEO, Apolitical Foundation
