Climate Action Rhode Island's 2023 Community Meeting series kicks off Wednesday evening, February 1, with an event featuring climate scholar Alexander Gard-Murray. Gard-Murray's analysis has appeared in publications from the New York Times to Bloomberg and The Hill, on topics including heat pumps, natural disasters, and Russia's war on Ukraine.

Wednesday's event will be in-person in Providence as well as virtual on Zoom. Please come in person if you can, but note that you'll need to go down a flight of stairs.

• Topic: Producing Certainty: How Climate Coalitions are Built and Broken
  
  Building strong coalitions for climate action is hard. Even when policy creates economic benefits, the intended winners often sit on the sidelines. Experiences in Massachusetts, Washington, and West Virginia show the importance of not only creating winners, but making sure they know they're going to win.
• Who? Alexander Gard-Murray is a political economist studying climate change, the energy transition, and distributive justice. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Climate Solutions Lab and the Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance at Brown.
• When? 7:00–8:15pm, Wednesday, February 1, 2023
• Where? Plant City, "Cellar" meeting space. Free parking is available. Note: stairs required.
  
  — OR — join us virtually on Zoom.

Registrants will receive instructions for both in-person and Zoom attendance.