We are convening changemakers from Stanford and beyond with practitioners, academics, policymakers, and others who share our ambition and sense of urgency.
Featured Event Briefings
Upcoming Events
Thursday, May 09, 2024 – Friday, May 10, 2024
On Campus
This two-day conference will convene scholars, researchers, and practitioners whose work focuses on the convergence of climate change, environmental disasters, and human mobility.
Friday, May 17, 2024
12:00am – 11:59pm
On Campus
This conference seeks to bring together leading academic scholars, sustainability-focused entrepreneurs [aka ecopreneurs] and business leaders working on and interested in scaling sustainability innovation to share their perspectives and experiences.
Monday, May 20, 2024 – Tuesday, May 21, 2024
On Campus
Current models of industrialization and consumption are degrading the environment and polluting the world, causing 9 million premature deaths per year. In this conference, we challenge the Stanford community and external partners to brainstorm solutions for three major sources of pollution while emphasizing their effects on human health: coal-fired industry, wildfires, and plastic. Jumping off from successful interdisciplinary work underway in each area, we will put forward a solutions-oriented interdisciplinary research agenda to foster a healthier and more sustainable future.
Monday, June 03, 2024 – Wednesday, June 05, 2024
On Campus
Solving the world’s greatest sustainability challenges depends on active engagement by civil society actors. Nonprofits, philanthropies, and advocacy groups play an important role in shaping the sustainable development agenda and contributing to innovative solutions to address problems like climate change.
Past Events
Friday, October 14, 2022 – Saturday, October 15, 2022
On Campus
This conference showcased research at the intersection of politics and the environment because progress on environmental sustainability requires understanding politics. Passing laws that lower emissions, creating incentives for technological innovation, and striking alliances and treaties across countries all require political agreements. Through empirical and theoretical research, we sought to understand political institutions and political actors, and how issues of sustainability evolve within political systems.
Friday, November 11, 2022 – Saturday, November 12, 2022
On Campus
We will explore the roles that corporations, financial markets, and innovations in finance might play in meeting sustainability challenges.
Friday, November 18, 2022 – Saturday, November 19, 2022
On Campus
The first Stanford Oceans conference will discuss technologies that can transform management by governments and communities, engage business, and help catalyze sustainability and accountability at scale.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 – Thursday, December 15, 2022
On Campus
We will focus on the emerging practice of global corporations to disclose their current and/or intended future greenhouse gas emissions.
Saturday, January 07, 2023 – Sunday, January 08, 2023
On Campus
We will highlight the role of marketing in encouraging behavioral change to better align with sustainability goals.
Friday, January 20, 2023 – Saturday, January 21, 2023
On Campus
We will feature research on organizations, and their role in bringing about a more sustainable future.
Monday, February 13, 2023 – Tuesday, February 14, 2023
On Campus
We will celebrate Hau Lee’s seminal contributions to bringing the triple bottom line of profit, people, and the planet to the forefront of the operations management research agenda.
Friday, February 24, 2023 – Saturday, February 25, 2023
On Campus
We will focus on the design and management of new climate-smart and climate-adaptive infrastructure systems and how to accelerate their adoption.
Wednesday, March 08, 2023
12:00am – 11:59pm
On Campus
In partnership with the Laudato Si Challenge, the purpose of this conference is to create meaningful change in the real world — sustained, broad climate impact that would not have happened otherwise.
Friday, March 10, 2023 – Saturday, March 11, 2023
On Campus
We will highlight research on the topic of “Sustainability Reporting and Control.”
Friday, April 07, 2023 – Saturday, April 08, 2023
On Campus
We explore how environmental justice scholarship is needed to create just, ethical, and resilient solutions for sustainability for the world’s most challenging social-environmental problems.
Friday, April 14, 2023 – Saturday, April 15, 2023
On Campus
This conference will bring together climate scientists and engineers from academia, government, and the private sector, as well as scholars who use climate science to inform policy and decision-making.
Friday, April 28, 2023 – Saturday, April 29, 2023
On Campus
This conference seeks to bring together leading academic scholars working on climate science.
Saturday, April 29, 2023 – Sunday, April 30, 2023
On Campus
This conference will summarize the state-of-the-art in exploring Earth’s seafloor, examine the most promising future directions of these technologies, and highlight applications for understanding hazards and increasing sustainability.
Friday, May 19, 2023 – Saturday, May 20, 2023
On Campus
We designed this conference to facilitate dialogue, knowledge exchange, and collaboration to create a sustainable toolkit to cultivate positive habits for our future and a sense of shared prosperity.
Thursday, May 25, 2023 – Friday, May 26, 2023
On Campus
This conference will investigate the roles of civil society actors, such as nonprofits, activists, community organizations, and philanthropists, in sustainability.
Friday, June 02, 2023 – Saturday, June 03, 2023
On Campus
We will explore innovations that have the potential to significantly advance both groundwater science and the emerging field of adaptive groundwater management.
Monday, October 23, 2023 – Tuesday, October 24, 2023
On Campus
This conference will focus on the politics and the economics of environmental problems and regulation.
Thursday, November 02, 2023
4:30pm – 6:00pm
On Campus
This event is co-hosted by Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
Monday, November 13, 2023 – Tuesday, November 14, 2023
On Campus
At this conference, we will convene sessions to address carbon capture and storage challenges and solutions.
Thursday, November 16, 2023
12:00pm – 1:00pm
On Campus
This hybrid event is co-hosted by Stanford Graduate School of Business and the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.
Thursday, November 30, 2023 – Friday, December 01, 2023
On Campus
As society struggles to better align behavior with sustainability goals, there is an increased role for marketing to encourage behavioral change. This can be accomplished by influencing both public perceptions of sustainability and promoting the development and marketability of products and services that work toward social goals but reduce strong consumer preference tradeoffs that might come with some sustainability solutions.
Monday, December 11, 2023
12:30pm – 7:30pm
On Campus
The Watershed Restoration Conference will showcase cutting-edge research associated with watershed restoration, presented by some of the leading researchers on restoration in California, but with global relevance. The conference will aim to synthesize biological, geological, hydrological, and most importantly, Indigenous sciences on watershed restoration toward a socially and environmentally sustainable future.
Thursday, February 08, 2024 – Friday, February 09, 2024
On Campus
We will feature research on organizations, and their role in bringing about a more sustainable future.