Keynote Q&A | We Are Still Here: Climate Survival and the Gullah Geechee Nation
In this keynote, we’ll hear from Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine, chieftess of the Gullah Geechee Nation about the lived experience of the Gullah Geechee and the disproportionate impacts of climate change and environmental harm on coastal, Indigenous, and descendant communities. Queen Quet will explore how rising seas, land loss, development pressures, and environmental injustice […]
Innovating the Future: Climate Solutions in Action
A series of short case-study videos showcasing business led or other innovative climate solutions across the Carolinas. Each story highlights how these entities are responding to climate challenges with creativity, resilience, and scalable ideas for the future.
Unequal Burden: How Climate Change Affects Communities Differently
Where you live often affects the climate experience. This panel examines the asymmetrical climate experience and how race, income, geography, age, and health shape vulnerability and resilience. Through data, storytelling, and lived experience, panelists will explore why frontline communities face greater risk and fewer resources and what equity centered solutions must look like moving forward.
Coding the Climate: AI, Technology, and the Next Frontier of Climate Action
From predictive modeling to emergency response, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are reshaping how we understand and address climate risk. This panel explores the promise and the pitfalls of technology in climate solutions including data equity, ethical concerns, and access gaps. Panelists will examine how innovation can accelerate climate action while ensuring communities are not […]
Innovating the Future: Climate Solutions in Action
A series of short case-study videos showcasing business led or other innovative climate solutions across the Carolinas. Each story highlights how these entities are responding to climate challenges with creativity, resilience, and scalable ideas for the future.
Beyond the Storm: Lessons on Community Recovery, Resilience, and Rebuilding
Natural disasters have reshaped communities across the Carolinas. This panel examines shared lessons from hurricanes, flooding, extreme heat, and severe storms to explore what recovery truly requires. Panelists will discuss what has worked, what has fallen short, and how communities can rebuild in ways that strengthen resilience and equity. The conversation looks beyond infrastructure to […]
Innovating the Future: Climate Solutions in Action
A series of short case-study videos showcasing business led or other innovative climate solutions across the Carolinas. Each story highlights how these entities are responding to climate challenges with creativity, resilience, and scalable ideas for the future.
The Future Is Listening: Youth Leadership in a Changing Climate
Young people are not just inheriting the climate crisis. They are shaping the response. This panel features youth leaders, advocates and innovators who are organizing, educating, and driving change in their schools and communities. Panelists will discuss intergenerational responsibility and how young voices are influencing policy, culture and environmental justice movements across the Carolinas.
Innovating the Future: Climate Solutions in Action
A series of short case-study videos showcasing business led or other innovative climate solutions across the Carolinas. Each story highlights how these entities are responding to climate challenges with creativity, resilience, and scalable ideas for the future.
Closing Session | Talkback Session: Reporting the Climate Together.
A moderated, interactive conversation between reporters, panelists, and the audience reflecting on the day’s themes, unanswered questions, and what comes next for climate reporting and community engagement across the Carolinas.
Post-Summit Networking
Meet with other attendees, speakers and WFAE staff at 7th Street Market (224 E. 7th St.) in a casual setting before heading home. The Market is 2 blocks away from the Dubois Center. It’s next to the 7th Street Station on the Lynx Blue Line. Food and beverages are “on your own.”
