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Minnesota is experiencing some of the fastest changes to our climate in the contiguous United States, and our top ten combined warmest and wettest years have all occurred since 1998.* These changes come with costs. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed 62 weather/climate disaster events* in our state since 1980, estimating each one cost Minnesota more than $1 billion in damages.
These increasing events include extreme heat, hailstorms, droughts, flash floods, and wildfires, all of which have wide-ranging effects on our state and people. They impact public health, safety, our economy, infrastructure, and the ways our cities and state will need to ready our communities to be more climate resilient in the future.
We all know the biggest contributor to climate change is the fossil fuel industry, but it’s not paying anywhere close to its fair share. There are strategies to change that. Minnesota filed a lawsuit against Big Oil in 2020 to hold them accountable for their deception, and other states have passed legislation that will make polluters pay for needed climate adaptations.
Join us for a conversation with legal and policy experts about how we can work together to shift more of the cost of climate change where it belongs.
*CLE credit will be available.
With panelists: Leigh Currie, Chief Legal Officer, MCEA Aurora Vautrin, Legislative and Political Director, 100 Percent And moderated by Aaron Klemz, Chief Strategy Officer, MCEA