Genevieve Guenther

Speaking

Dr. Guenther speaks regularly on climate change to wide audiences, including at Fortune 500 companies, the United Nations, climate NGOs and clean-energy industry associations, and US and UK universities including Duke, Columbia, and Harvard.

She has particular expertise in solutions for climate disinformation, the future of climate politics and clean-energy development, the myths of climate economics, climate policy in China, and building new support for effective climate policy.

For inquiries please contact United Talent Agency.

The Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, University of Copenhagen

The Language of Climate Politics

2025

University of Lund

The Language of Climate Politics

2025

Climate Week NYC / The Climate Group / Kite Insights

The 21st-Century Leader is Disobedient (Debate)

2025

Climate Week NYC / SLR / Penguin Random House

The Power of Content (Panel)

2025

Google

The Language of Climate Action: Disinformation and its Solutions

2025

Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter (UK)

The Language of Climate Politics

2025

Exeter Climate Conference, Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter (UK)

What is the Role of Scientists in the 1.5C, ‘Post Truth’ Era? (Panel)

2025

Global Tipping Points, University of Exeter (UK)

Emotions as Tipping Points in a ‘Net Zero’ Transition (panel)

2025

Climatebase

Climate Disinformation Now (Keynote)

2025

Climate Week NYC / The Climate Group / Kite Insights

The 21st-Century Leader is Disobedient (Debate)

2025

Climate Week NYC / SLR / Penguin Random House

The Power of Content (Panel)

2025

Extinction Rebellion NYC

PR, Greenwashing, and Telling the Truth

2025

Terra.do

Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It (keynote)

2024

BSR / Kite Insights: Climate Week NYC

Debate: Climate Action Needs American Political Leadership

2024

Swissnex: Climate Week NYC

Climate Ring: What Words Can Save the World?

2024

The Institute of Art and Ideas (UK)

The Age of Emergency (debate)

2024

George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication

Polling for The Language of Climate Politics

2024

350NYC

How to Talk about the “Cost” of Net Zero

2024

Columbia University

Why You Need to Talk about Climate Change (keynote)

2024 (withdrawn)

Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University

Toxic Discourses: Hope and Hazards in Environmental Storytelling (moderator)

2023

Harvard Kennedy School

Narratives for Social Impact (panel)

2023

The New School

Robert Solow and the Theory of Perpetual Growth

2022

The Dalton School

Talking About the Climate Crisis to Wake Adults Up

2022

United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network

Lessons from Covid-19 for Climate Change (panel)

2022

Duke University

‘Don’t Look Up’ and the Climate Crisis (panel)

2022

Carleton University Climate Commons Working Group

Social Media and Climate Communication (panel)

2022

Responsible Media Forum, London UK (virtual)

Communicating Climate

2021

Google

How to Talk about the ‘Cost’ of Climate Action

2021

The Climate School, Columbia University

Guest Lecture, Applications in Climate and Society

2021

Project Drawdown

Climate Communication

2021

NYC Sierra Club

Seeing Vs. Believing: The Public Perception of Climate (panel)

2021

Global Council for Science and the Environment and Project Drawdown Annual Conference

End Climate Silence: Climate Communication in the Media and Beyond

2021

Earth Institute, Columbia University

A New Climate News Team Aims to Cut Through the Clean-Energy Fog (panel)

2021

The Climate Reality Project, New York State Chapter Coalition

Communicating the Climate Emergency

2021

The Brooklyn Public Library

Covering Climate: What Is the Media Missing? (panel)

2021

Rochester Youth Climate Summit

Courage, Faith, and Climate Action (keynote)

2021

The Climate Reality Project, New York State Chapter Coalition

Communicating the Climate Emergency

2020

University of St. Andrews

Media, Mayhem, and Mass Movements (panel)

2020

Earth Institute, Columbia University

What’s Next for the Media Covering Climate Change

2020

Saint John’s University

Renaissance Literary Theory and Eco-Storytelling

2020

New York Society for Ethical Culture

Keywords for a New Climate

2019

The New School

The New Republic and The New School Present: Covering Climate Change (panel)

2019

Saint Ann’s School

The Climate Emergency

2019

The New School

The Climate Crisis and the 2020 Election: Let’s Unpack This (panel)

2019

Commons Series Speakers, Rochester NY

The Language of Climate Change

2019

The New School

The Racism of Climate Denial

2018

AASHE National Meeting

Disrupting Climate Injustice: Curriculum Disruption at The New School

2018

The People’s Hearing on the EPA’s Repeal of the Clean Power Plan

Dear Mr. Pruitt

2018

The New School

Keywords for a New Climate Lecture

2018

American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting

What Renaissance Literary Theory Tells Us about Climate Communication

2017

Hamilton College

The Language of Climate Politics

2024

Global Wind Energy Council, Ocean Energy Pathway, and Invenergy: Climate Week NYC

Climate Disinformation and Clean Energy Development (panel)

2024

Women In Clean Tech and Sustainability

Perspectives on COP-29 (panel)

2024

Middlebury College

The Language of Climate Politics

2025

Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter (UK)

The Language of Climate Politics

2025

Barnard College, Columbia University

Why You Need to Talk about Climate Change

2025

Google

The Language of Climate Action: Disinformation and its Solutions

2025

Climatebase

Climate Disinformation Now (Keynote)

2025

NYU Law / The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice / MOTH

The Many Lives of James Lovelock (panel)

2025

University of Rhode Island Metcalf Institute

The Language of Climate Politics (Keynote)

2025

Global Tipping Points, University of Exeter (UK)

Emotions as Tipping Points in a ‘Net Zero’ Transition (panel)

2025

Exeter Climate Conference, Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter (UK)

What is the Role of Scientists in the 1.5C, ‘Post Truth’ Era? (Panel)

2025

The Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, University of Copenhagen

The Language of Climate Politics

2025

University of Lund

The Language of Climate Politics

2025