“Anyone who breathes air, drinks water, eats food, has or expects to have children, will be vitally interested in this program,” says award-winning videographer Peter Sinclair.

Sinclair presents Climate Challenges and Solutions 2020 at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29, in the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts. The event, sponsored by Michigan Technological University’s Institute for Policy, Ethics, and Culture (IPEC), is free and everyone is welcome.

“I’ve put together a fast-moving multimedia program, with lots of video,” says the Midland, Michigan-based science communicator. “Over the last dozen years I have interviewed, learned from and traveled with hundreds of the world’s best scientists, and put their words and ideas out front. I believe the science should be front and center — but presented in a way that is interesting, exciting and I hope moving.”

Sinclair is looking forward to connecting with Michigan Tech researchers during his visit.

“Michigan Tech is one of the country’s great engineering and science institutions, and I am working to communicate not only climate change, but the solutions that are emerging and being deployed,” he said. “I hope to be talking to experts on topics of wind and solar energy, energy storage, microgrids, as well as climate impacts on the Great Lakes.”

Sinclair said promoting renewable energy climate solutions is an important part of his work. “Michigan is becoming a hotbed for wind and solar energy, and of course the fossil fuel industry has been pushing back with misinformation.”

During his stay in the Upper Peninsula Sinclair also plans to revisit some places he’s never seen in the winter. “Keweenaw is one of my favorite places on the planet, a place I have come back to many, many times in years past,” he said.