Climate Change

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Shi speaks to America Adapts podcast on climate refugees, adaptation, NOAA & more

Doug Parsons hosts Dr. Linda Shi, an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University on a wide range of climate adaptation issues.
September 28, 2023
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Bustos interviewed on finding your “voice” to create positive change

Camila speaks about what led her to be one of the co-founders at Yale Law School of the LSCA initiative, now active across the whole US.
September 27, 2023
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Illustrated results of Diezmartínez’s study on justice in cities' climate plans

Claudia Diezmartínez studied whether and how cities have integrated justice into climate mitigation planning in a 2022 study. Boston University’s Visualizing Energy summarized the results in a series of engaging visualizations this August...
September 27, 2023
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David Gonzalez: uncovering the health effects of wildfire smoke

“Wildfires are a special flavor of pollution that we don't totally understand,” David says. “We don’t understand its chemistry, health effects, or how it’s different from urban air pollution. I didn’t realize there was such a gap in that knowledge when I started. The more I dove into it, the more I was motivated to fill that gap.”
September 27, 2023
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Rand quoted on federal vote to streamline clean energy grid connection

Joseph Rand, an energy policy researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who leads the annual study on interconnection queues for the national lab, told CNBC the “rules are an incremental step in the right direction.”
August 23, 2023
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Bustos applies human rights approach to climate-induced displacement

Camila Bustos’ recent article, A Human Rights Approach To Climate Induced Displacement: A Case Study In Central America And Colombia, draws from two case studies to highlight the human rights obligations of nations and the international...
August 23, 2023
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Fraga featured in New York Times on finding and saving rare wildflowers

Editor’s note: The following content is excerpted from a full story in the New York Times , by Jill Cowan. The white Toyota Tacoma bumped along the dirt path, up and down hills, brush scratching the sides of the truck with a high-pitched...
August 23, 2023
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Grumet on getting green hydrogen incentives ‘just right’

A critical decision currently facing the Biden Administration is determining the rules incentivizing the production of clean – or “green” – hydrogen (H2) for use in decarbonizing heavy industry, freight transport, and aviation.
August 23, 2023
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Lund op-ed: spearheading sustainable industries in Bangladesh garment industry

Bangladesh’s ready-made garment industry is championing the nation’s green transition
August 23, 2023
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Hsu presents Harnessing Machine Learning for Climate Policy

In her August 31 webinar for Climate Change AI, Angel Hsu explores applications of machine learning in the realm of climate policy, with a specific focus on evaluating the actions of subnational and non-state actors such as cities, regions...
August 23, 2023