Climate Change

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The climate crisis is making us sick. Doctors need better training to treat it.

Editor's note: This is an excerpt from an original article in the Grist Fix Solutions Lab by Sarah Hsu and Gaurab Basu. Read the full article here.
July 13, 2021
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Smith gives testimony to EPA listening session on regulating methane emissions

Sarah Smith gave the following testimony at the June 15th EPA listening session on regulating methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas sector.
June 17, 2021
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Stabinsky quoted on joint UN report on tackling climate change and biodiversity loss

"The report unequivocally concludes that land- and ocean-based actions that capture carbon must be in addition to, and not in lieu of, ambitious reductions of emissions from fossil fuels," said Doreen Stabinsky.
June 17, 2021
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Skikne quoted on assisted migration for Ethiopian birds

“Translocations beyond the historic range will be an increasingly important conservation option, in Africa and globally,” says Sarah Skikne.
June 8, 2021
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Mulvaney quoted in New York Times on wind and solar expansion

Dustin Mulvaney, a professor of environmental studies at San Jose State University and a 2004 Switzer Fellow, was quoted in a recent New York Times article "Where Wind and Solar Power Need to Grow for America to Meet Its Goals". Below is an excerpt from the article. Read the full story including maps of existing and needed wind and solar here.
June 7, 2021
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Policy options to address climate induced displacement from the Northern Triangle

Camila Bustos is part of an expert group from Harvard, Yale, and the University Network for Human Rights calling on Biden administration to revise immigration and climate policy to afford protections to those fleeing devastating climate change impacts in Central America.
April 29, 2021
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Scientists need to become better communicators, but it’s hard to measure whether training works

Editor's note: This piece, written by Switzer Fellow Margaret Rubega, Robert Wyss and Robert Capers was originally published in The Conversation.
April 28, 2021
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McClure co-directs Indigenous Nations & Climate Change Summit April 21-23, 2021

The Indigenous Nations & Climate Change Summit ​(INCCS) ​will convene distinguished experts, leaders, practitioners, and ​Indigenous ​nations ​to discuss critical climate change topics from April 21-23, 2021. The Summit is co-directed by Switzer Fellow Kelly McClure.
April 20, 2021
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Biden's world climate summit must include a pledge to tackle methane emissions

Sarah Smith's op-ed in The Hill urges the Biden administration to adopt strong methane standards in the United States' new Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement.
April 15, 2021
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Wheeler co-authors study on unequal burden of rising temperatures in Southwestern cities

Acres of asphalt parking lots, unshaded roads, dense apartment complexes and neighborhoods with few parks have taken their toll on the poor. As climate change accelerates, low-income districts in the Southwestern United States are 4 to 7 degrees hotter in Fahrenheit — on average — than wealthy neighborhoods in the same metro regions, University of California, Davis, researchers have found in a new analysis.
April 12, 2021