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Climate Change and Coastal Cities

April 23, 2020 | 2:55 p.m. - 3:35 p.m.

Political and business leaders join scientists in a discussion of how we are restoring and building resiliency and sustainability into our port cities, where most of our people live and the majority of our economy is based.
Bill Weir, Moderator – CNN Anchor & Chief Climate Correspondent
Thad Allen – Commandant, United States Coast Guard; Former Director Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina
Libby Schaaf – Mayor, Oakland California
Emily Pidgeon – Vice President of Ocean Science and Innovation, Conservation International
Gregory M. Ruiz – Director of Marine Invasions Research, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Phil Ryan – Chairman, Swiss Re Americas
Anson “Tuck” Hines, Organizer – Director, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center