The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources will hold a virtual college town hall on November 9 on Pennsylvania and Climate Change - What Does the Future Hold? from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.

College students and faculty members are invited to join DCNR Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn, Greg Czarnecki, DCNR Director of Applied Climate Science and Jake Newton, Executive Assistant for a conversation about Pennsylvania’s changing climate and your role in helping to shape our future.

The effects of climate change are already being felt across Pennsylvania in the form of more severe weather, flooding, changes in our forests and other ecosystems, and human health impacts.

How we respond over the next decade will determine how severe those impacts become, and a key to our success will be the leaders of tomorrow – today’s college students.

Learn a little about DCNR’s adaptation and mitigation efforts including conservation at a landscape level; retaining and planting forests, urban trees and stream buffers for carbon sequestration and water quality; high performance building and renewable energy use; connecting young people to the outdoors; and adapting to different demands and seasons for recreation.

Students and faculty to come prepared with questions and topics for discussion, or better yet, submit them ahead of time to gczarnecki@pa.gov.

Click Here register for this event being held via WebEx.

To learn more about how DCNR is addressing climate change, visit DCNR’s Climate Change on Public Lands webpage.

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[Posted: November 6, 2020]

11/9/2020