Tag: Midwest Climate Collaborative

Registration open for 2025 Midwest Climate Summit

The Midwest Climate Summit—a three-day gathering of climate leaders, researchers, and professionals focused on expanding knowledge, accelerating climate action, and catalyzing new partnerships for an equitable Midwestern response to the climate crisis—is coming to Madison from April 30-May 2, 2025 at the Memorial Union. The Summit will bring together bright minds working in government, education, …

Midwest Climate Collaborative seeks input on research agenda

The Midwest Climate Collaborative (MCC), which launched in January 2022 with UW–Madison as a founding member, is a cross-sector organization that aims to advance climate action in the region. The MCC seeks to develop a Midwest-wide Research Agenda to identify knowledge gaps between research and practice in the climate change research space. Organizers are seeking …

“Collective support and solidarity”: Student Systems Conference unites midwestern universities for climate action

Last year, Natalie Tinsen represented UW–Madison at the Midwest Climate Summit, a collaboration amongst “higher education, non-profit, corporate, and government leaders” to find ways to hasten climate action in the region. At the virtual event, Tinsen, who was then the Sustainability Chair for Associated Students of Madison, met Maddie Miller, who held the same position …

UW–Madison partners with regional leaders to launch Midwest Climate Collaborative

The University of Wisconsin–Madison, in joint leadership with more than 15 partners across the region, will launch the Midwest Climate Collaborative (MCC) at a virtual gathering on January 28, 2022. The MCC is a cross-sector network of organizations committed to accelerating climate action in the Midwest by leveraging science and research, shaping public understanding and …