• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Chris Field

Stanford University

Melvin and Joan Lane Professor of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Director, Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor of Earth System Science, of Biology and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and at Woods

Chris Field is the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies.  His research focuses on climate change solutions that work for everyone, now and in the future.  Field’s ongoing projects emphasize improving the integrity of natural climate solutions, limiting impacts from coastal flooding and wildfires, and decreasing the risks from climate overshoot.  Field has a long history of work on climate change assessments, including leadership roles in reports from the IPCC, the US National Academies, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His widely cited work has earned many recognitions, including the 2022 Japan Prize.

Sessions With Chris Field

Monday, 18 March

  • 02:00pm - 02:30pm (CST) / 18/mar/2024 07:00 pm - 18/mar/2024 07:30 pm

    Measuring Tomorrow's Risks: Quantifying physical risks in a warmer world
    Policy & Regulatory

    As climate change intensifies, understanding and measuring the physical risks associated with changing climate are paramount. With 2023 being the hottest year on record, and the U.S. experiencing extreme weather events costing over $150 billion annually, managing and adapting to physical climate risks is becoming increasingly critical. We have already seen power and other energy infrastructure suffering serious damage due to extreme events such as wildfires and floods. Companies will experience significant financial costs over the coming decades due to physical climate risks, driving the application of new technologies and methodologies to more accurately quantify these risks. How can we start to apply these new technologies and methods to manage physical risk in a warming world?

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 07:15am - 08:20am (CST) / 19/mar/2024 12:15 pm - 19/mar/2024 01:20 pm

    Forging Climate Solutions: How to accelerate action across America
    Climate & Sustainability

    As the United States becomes even more politically polarized, what happens to climate policy? This panel will consider the key findings from a large, bipartisan consensus report Forging Climate Solutions: How to Accelerate Action Across America by the Commission on Accelerating Climate Action of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The report, which reflects views from the arts and sciences, faith communities, environmental justice, youth activism, indigenous communities and public health, outlines a strategy for building and enhancing action on climate change even as American politics grow more fractious. Central to this action is a fair bargain to deploy green infrastructure equitably. How can siting and investment in infrastructure be improved? How can needed funding for innovation and deployment of new technologies be sustained? 

  • 10:30am - 11:10am (CST) / 19/mar/2024 03:30 pm - 19/mar/2024 04:10 pm

    Voices of Innovation: Chris Field

    Join a conversation with a renowned expert on climate science on the impacts of climate overshoot, accelerating climate action and just transition.  What is the current state of world’s climate?  How do you make climate actions sticky? What are the metrics by which we should measure progress on climate action?  And much more…