Spotlight on Human and Planetary Health

Climate change is already impacting our everyday lives. Record-breaking temperatures, intense wildfires, more frequent coastal flooding, prolonged droughts, and damaging storms are just some of the growing risks we face. These massive changes impact public health and well-being in significant ways - ranging from increased respiratory and cardiovascular diseases due to air pollution, to increased domestic violence because of extreme heat, food and water insecurity, and mental health challenges linked to eco-anxiety and climate-related displacement. These changes are likely to accelerate over the next few decades, with profound implications for the health and welfare of every community around the world and the performance of every sector of the economy. Addressing these challenges requires new research, urgent action, and policy change that can withstand the growing impacts on human and planetary health.

To confront these challenges, Dr. Solomon Hsiang, through the Climate Impact Lab and the Global Policy Laboratory, is working towards developing a first-of-its-kind, evidence-based, data-driven approach that uses detailed historical climate data to quantify the impacts and costs of climate change, sector-by-sector and community by community - to generate actionable insights about the future. Please join us to learn more about Dr. Hsiang's work.

Speaker: Solomon Hsiang, Stanford University