The Center for Public Scholarship (http://www.newschool.edu/cps) is pleased to present the 31st Social Research conference, "Climate Change Demands We Change. Why Aren't We?," at The New School (http://www.newschool.edu) in New York City.

How to Unleash Climate Action: Values, Politics, and the Inevitability of the Clean Energy Future - Keynote address by Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, moderated by Daniel R. Tishman, Chairman and CEO of Tishman Construction, Vice Chairman of AECOM and Chairman of the Board at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

There is no issue more urgent than climate change, yet government, corporations, and the public are reluctant to change. This Center for Public Scholarship conference examines the psychological factors, money and politics, and infrastructures that impede change as well as the difficult choices that must be made to foster urban resilience in the face of climate change.

This conference also publicly launches C6, the Coalition to Confront Climate Change Challenges in Cities (http://www.newschool.edu/climate-change), a collaboration between New School faculty and students of all divisions and departments to initiate cross-disciplinary activities that support climate change mitigation and urban resilience. C6 will continue the work of the conference by focusing its efforts on the areas of research identified by the conference as requiring further exploration. This work will involve both students and faculty and The New School.

The conference has been made possible with generous support from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation.

Location: John L. Tishman Auditorium, University Center
Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm