The Energy Club at the Ross School of Business proudly presents the 2017 Michigan Ross Energy Conference. The Energy Conference is a premier annual energy event, which brings together leading experts from around the world and University of Michigan students to address some of the biggest challenges faced by the energy industry today. The conference has been specifically designed to optimize collaboration between students, speakers and sponsors, through group discussions and breakout sessions in order to promote networking and learning.
The 2017 Wege Lecture will feature renowned author, environmentalist, and activist, Bill McKibben, who will be delivering a talk titled Down to the Wire: A Hot Fight in a Hot World.
Monday, December 04, 2017 to Friday, December 08, 2017
8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
2017 Theme: Energy + Emissions Contest
Student Challenge: Create a tangible visualization of the amount of carbon emissions created by the University of Michigan in the year 2016: 641,000 metric tons, or 1,413,161,420 pounds, of carbon dioxide. This represents approximately 30% of Ann Arbor’s total emissions footprint. (For more detail about U-M’s GHG emissions, see this report.)
