An Adaptable World Environment
Wildfire Recovery and Resilience: Working Across Silos to Drive Solutions
For over six decades, DRI has tirelessly tackled scientific challenges related to global climate. DRI is unwavering in its commitment to continue this intensive research. But fortifying communities against future devastation requires more than science. It demands the collective resolve of communities: agency staff, elected officials, policymakers, first responders, researchers and scientists, industry leaders, environmentalists and residents working together on measures to advance resilience and adaptability. This is where AWE+ comes into play.
AWE+ President’s Dinner
DRI, together with its Foundation, presents a celebratory dinner in support of its new AWE+ global initiative.
Join AWE+ 2024 summit speakers and sponsors for an evening supporting DRI’s commitment to serve as a catalyst for creating an Adaptable World Environment of strong, resilient communities in a climate shifting world and honoring DRI’s tireless, decades-long commitment to science-driven solutions.
In addition to the opportunity to meet some of the nation’s foremost experts on wildfire, the evening will feature a forward-looking conversation with Dr. Michael Wara, an esteemed scholar and policy expert in climate and energy policy.
Dr. Wara is Director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program and a senior research scholar at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and Senior Director for Policy at the Sustainability Accelerator within the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
As wildfire and other climatic events and conditions increasingly upend communities at enormous societal and economic costs, Dr. Wara advises policymakers across the nation on proven risk reduction methodologies, safety net strategies, and needed statutory change.
Wara’s recent work includes a focus on sustaining safe, affordable, reliable energy service to consumers through the management of risks to utility providers. As primary architect of a Federal Utility Mitigation Wildfire Playbook, he and his colleagues have sparked a national conversation on a proposal to strengthen U.S. climate strategy through insurance-related incentives for electric utilities that in turn support essential national interests including a stable housing market and home insurance availability.
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Vivaldi/Encore Ballroom 5
President’s Reception: 6:30 pm
Dinner: 7 pm
Dress: Business attire
Tables of 10 are $3,500
Individual tickets are $375
About AWE+ 2024
The escalating intensity and scope of wildfires and subsequent debris flows, flooding, water contamination, and smoke pose acute human threats and enormous societal costs.
AWE+ 2024 will focus on the devastating impacts of wildfires, the barriers to changes that would vastly improve community resilience, and proven pathways to better preparation.
“Our town will never be the same.
Everything we knew, everything we loved, gone in an instant.
It’s heartbreaking.”
– Mark Johnson, survivor of the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, CA
(Source: NPR)
Thanks to our valued partners and sponsors for supporting AWE+ 2024:
AWE+ is synonymous with SYNERGY
AWE+ will harness the potential of collective energy to drive changes in policies, practices, technologies, and behaviors.
It is an immersive experience where DRI will assemble and convene a carefully curated cross-section of people committed to breaking out of existing paradigms, engaging in candid conversations, and collaborating in new ways.
This diverse delegation will share ideas and knowledge, and take decisive actions aimed at building communities better prepared for the inevitable effects of global climate events.
