“The climate crisis has roots in fossil fuels, but at the same time, fossil fuels fund this Russian inversion to Ukraine. So it means this is a fossil fuel war. If we will actually fight against our overall actually dependency on fossil fuels in the same way we will fight against climate change.”

Svitlana Krakovska, Ph.D. on Electric Ladies Podcast

With so much geopolitical chaos and dangerous heat waves and other extreme weather, we have vivid reminders that climate change is a security “threat multiplier,” as former Defense Undersecretary Sherri Goodman says. How?

Listen to this live recording of a “Fireside Chat on Climate Security” at The Earth Day Women’s Summit at Earthx2025 with two extraordinary Experts and Electric Ladies Podcast’s Joan Michelson about the issues at the intersection of climate change, security and sustainability.

You’ll hear from:

· Svitlana Krakovska, Ph.D., the top climate scientist in Ukraine

· Mirian Vilela, Executive Director of Earth Charter International Secretariat & Center for Education for Sustainable Development

· Joan Michelson, Executive Producer of The Earth Day Women’s Summit and host of Electric Ladies Podcast.

“We are looking at business and (the) Economy and make bigger decisions without looking at it through a lens that sees the interconnectedness of all these social and environmental challenges. [We have] to expand our planetary Consciousness and deepen our ethical responsibility with the wellbeing of humans across cultures and nations.”

Mirian Vilela on Electric Ladies Podcast

You’ll also like:

· Critical Minerals, A.I. & Climate Change – with Liv Carroll, Critical Minerals Expert and former Managing Director, EMEA Mining Lead and Global Natural Resources Lead for Data and A.I. at Accenture

· Sherri Goodman, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, on climate change as a security threat.

· Can Cities Thrive in a World of Polycrises? _ with Lauren Sorkin, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Resilient Cities Network

· Food, Fashion & Ag vs. Climate Change – from The Earth Day Women’s Summit 2025, with top scientists and innovators in these fields

· What’s The Role Of Business Today In Addressing The Climate Crisis? – from The Earth Day Women’s Summit 2025, with top business leaders

· Joan Michelson’s Forbes article on How Climate Change Is Reshaping Global Security And The Military.

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Joan Michelson, MBA is a highly accomplished business leader and award-winning strategic social impact and ESG – environment, social, governance – leader, who drove breakthrough results at Chrysler (in EVs), American Express and Deloitte, small businesses, and government agencies. She is an instructor on ESG issues to professionals, leaders and board members across industries. Her specialties include leveraging ESG solutions and partnerships strategically for maximum benefit, helping organizations recruit innovative, diverse women, and helping these women thrive in their careers. She is based in the Washington D.C. area.

Joan is also an accomplished journalist who has worked with top media organizations and hosts and produces the acclaimed Electric Ladies podcast (formerly known as Green Connections Radio), about innovation and leadership in energy-, climate- and sustainability-related issues across industries, featuring women experts.

She writes regularly for Forbes on these issues and has also been in the Harvard Business Review, HuffPost, TheAtlantic.com, Greenbiz, The New Economy magazine (distributed at the World Economic Forum), New Thinking magazine, regional business journals; and various other media. She coproduced segments with CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” ABC News, and “The Crusaders,” and television specials on NBC.

Joan has spent her career working in energy-sustainability-climate-ESG issues and in marketing communications, including as head of communications and co-leader of the sales and marketing team of Chrysler’s Global Electric Motorcars (GEM), driving “best year ever” growth and significantly accelerated the adoption of electric vehicles. Prior to GEM, she led marketing communications efforts to high-net-worth and high-visibility clients in management consulting-financial services companies Deloitte and American Express. She's a native of NYC and has a BA from UCLA, an MBA from Baruch College at City University of NY, and post-graduate studies at Harvard Business School, The New School and The Aspen Institute, among others. She has a Sustainability and ESG certification from Competent Boards.