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MI Healthy Climate Conference

Governor Whitmer stands at a podium speaking to attendees at the MI Healthy Climate Conference
Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy

MI Healthy Climate Conference

The state of Michigan’s first statewide climate conference took place in 2023. This conference aims to bring together stakeholders from across the state and nation to help implement key actions in the MI Healthy Climate Plan.

Registration now open for the 2025 MI Healthy Climate Conference

Join EGLE on the “Road to 2030” at the 2025 MI Healthy Climate Conference on April 22-23 in Detroit! We are hosting this 1.5-day event to report on the progress of the MI Healthy Climate Plan, build connections and empower collaboration, mobilize opportunities, and prioritize our next steps towards reaching the goals of the Plan. This conference is expected to draw more than 800 attendees from local, state, federal, and tribal governments, universities, nonprofits, community groups, and businesses.

Conference information - Register by April 13!

Past conferences

EGLE Director Phil Roos addresses the 2024 MI Healthy Climate Conference in Lansing.

Accelerating Action (2024)

More than 900 participants attended the two-day MI Healthy Climate Conference in Lansing, May 16-17, 2024.

A speaker stands at a podium next to a presentation, speaking to a room full of conference attendees

To change everything, we need everyone (2023)

Nearly 600 participants gathered on April 11-12 in Detroit for the first annual 2023 conference.  

About the Office of Climate and Energy

The Office of Climate and Energy coordinates Michigan's response to climate change across state departments and agencies, and provide recommendations, guidance and assistance on climate change mitigation, adaptation and resiliency strategies. It supports the state's move to increased clean energy production and works with stakeholders to educate the public on the benefits of renewable energy sources as well as energy efficiency practices.

Led by EGLE's Chief Climate Officer Cory Connolly, the Office coordinates the state’s efforts to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 through development and implementation of the Mi Healthy Climate Plan as ordered in Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Executive Order 2020-182 and Executive Directive 2020-10. It will serve as Michigan’s action plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and transitioning toward carbon neutrality throughout the economy. 

Learn more about the Office