Events

Upcoming Events

Two smiling men pictured over a coastal ocean scene, with an orange fish in the lower left, green kelp in the lower right, and the La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science logo in the upper right.

Conserving California’s Coastal Waters

The 2026 La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science Public Lecture

Join us for a public discussion of recent advances in ocean conservation and a chance to interact with current UCLA conservation researchers, Zach and Mark Gold.

A man standing in a review using nets to fish.

The Snail Darter, Sturgeons, and the Politics of Taxonomy

The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability's Fall 2026 Lecture, presented by Yale Professor Thomas Near

The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability invites you to our Fall 2026 lecture with Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University Thomas Near

Michael Kimmelman

How to Tell the Story of a City

Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic, The New York Times

Michael Kimmelman is the architecture critic at The New York Times and founder of Headway. He has written from more than 40 countries and was for some years a columnist…

A book hovering over a cityscape in the background. The book is titled Myth of Sustainable Cities: Losing the Holocene

Book Talk | The Myth of Sustainable Cities: Losing the Holocene

Professor Stephanie Pincetl discusses her new book with Professor of Anthropology Monica L. Smith

Join us for a conversation with IoES Professor and Founding Director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA Stephanie Pincetl about her new book, "The Myth of Sustainable Cities: Losing the Holocene"

On Campus

UCLA-wide sustainability events calendar

For those interested in more campus events on the environment and sustainability, follow our friends at UCLA Sustainability.

Past Events

Energy Policy Panel

The panel will be moderated by UCLA’s Chief Sustainability Officer, who is modernizing the university’s energy infrastructure to be more environmentally sustainable, and will feature experts in California state policy…

Holding Fossil Fuel Companies Liable for Climate Change Harms in California

Union of Concerned Scientists and the UCLA School of Law Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment invite you to a stimulating conversation exploring whether and how the fossil fuel industry can…

A Local Burden of Disease Study Due to Outdoor Air Pollution

Richard Thomas Burnett Senior Research Scientist, Population Studies Division Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch , Health Canada Recent estimates of the global burden of disease due to outdoor air…

A Climate Series for the Ages

This fall, the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, in collaboration with UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, has designed a new kind of climate series: a four-night conversation…