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Sheldon hosting discussion related to climate change Sept. 14

Sheldon Museum of Art will host a discussion of climate change and climate anxiety with Nebraska State Climatologist Martha Durr; Simanti Banerjee, associate professor of agricultural economics; and photographer Marion Belanger at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 14.

Admission is free to the museum and this event.

Belanger has two images in the Sheldon exhibition, “From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez.” With the support of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, she photographed the contested landscape of the Everglades, focusing on both protected national park wetlands and historic swamplands that have been drained and replaced by housing developments, sugar cane fields, and water control structures.

Durr is director of the Nebraska State Climate Office and a professor in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Banerjee is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, specializing in behavioral, environmental, natural resource economics.

Dana Fritz, Hixson-Lied Professor of Art, will moderate the conversation.

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Related Knowledge Center: Climate diplomacy

State of Play

Talks are well underway in preparation for the next major international meeting on climate change, 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28), scheduled to begin Nov. 30 in the United Arab Emirates. 

Much like last year’s COP27, finances — specifically, aid to developing nations — will be at the center of conference deliberations.

The conference faces an even greater sense of urgency brought on by the Sept. 8, 2023, release of the first global stocktake, which calls for accelerated action to meet the goals set in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement (COP21). 

Climate diplomacy: COP 27 | Climate diplomacy: COP 28 | Climate diplomacy: COP 29

 

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