Climate Cocktails
Join the Climate Adaptation Forum community for Climate Cocktails! Get to know and connect with like-minded people over a drink or two and stir up some climate action! Climate Cocktails will be held using the virtual platform Zoom. Breakout rooms allow the organizers to randomly create small groups and facilitate better, more engaging conversation. Participants…
Read MoreHow We Decide to Get Serious about Climate Solutions: Politics, Communication, and Framing
Climate change has evolved into a hot-button, politically charged issue whether you are on the right or left. Communicating messages across audiences is challenging not only because the threat has been politicized but because climate change is often not seen as the emergency it is. Join the Climate Adaptation Forum and our panel of national…
Read MoreBuilding Resilience: Linking Covid-19 and Climate Change
Collaborating Partner John Snow, Inc. The Covid-19 pandemic is disrupting life unlike anything most of the world has ever seen. While there is little evidence that the pandemic is spreading more quickly because of climate change there are clear parallels between the two crises. Join the Environmental Business Council, the Sustainable Solutions Lab at the…
Read MoreJune 5, 2020: Building Resilience: Linking Covid-19 and Climate Change
View the Final Agenda Keynote Dialogue: Covid-19, Climate Change, and the Challenges of a Slow Roll Crisis Click to View the Presentation – Juliette Kayyem – Climate Adaptation Forum 06-05-2020 Juliette Kayyem Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security, Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Director, Homeland Security Project, Harvard University Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative, Harvard University…
Read MoreFebruary 28, 2020: Underwater Underwriting: Flood Insurance in the Age of Climate Change
View the Final Agenda National Flood Insurance Program: Lynchpin or Liability to Climate Resilience? Click to View the Presentation – Moore – February 28, 2020 Robert Moore, Director, Water & Climate Team National Resources Defense Council LinkedIn Reducing Losses from Flood Risks: The Role of a Behavioral Risk Audit Click to View the Presentation –…
Read MoreUnderwater Underwriting: Flood Insurance in the Age of Climate Change
More than 50 million people in the U.S. are at risk from flooding either along rivers and streams or in coastal areas. This number is only rising as climate change causes more extreme precipitation, hurricanes and nor’easters, sea level rise, and more. However, current publicly available flood risk assessment tools are not sufficient to quantify…
Read MoreBuilding Climate Resilience into Infrastructure
The undeniable reality of climate change has forced planners of infrastructure projects to design for increased temperatures, wind and water in the near future and farther on. This forum presents speakers grappling with how to incorporate climate resilience into planning, financing and maintaining infrastructure systems. Keynote Speaker Jesse Keenan is a social scientist and a…
Read MoreNovember 22, 2019: Building Climate Resilience into Infrastructure
View the Final Agenda Keynote Presentation: Evaluating Investments in the Name of Resilience Presentation Not Available Jesse M. Keenan, Ph.D., J.D., LL.M. Faculty of Architecture Graduate School of Design Harvard University Preparing Boston’s Water and Sewer Systems for Future Design Storms Click to View the Presentation – Sullivan – November 22 2019 John Sullivan, Chief…
Read MoreSeptember 20, 2019: Changing Climate, Changing Health
View the Final Agenda Keynote Presentation: Climate Change, Health and the Global Environment Gina McCarthy Former U.S. EPA Administrator Director, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Emergency Preparedness & Resilience for Climate Health Click to View the Presentation – Smith – September 20 2019 Nancy…
Read MoreChanging Climate, Changing Health: Strategies for Addressing Public Health in the Age of Climate Change
The public health field is rapidly shifting to incorporate the new realities of climate impacts. From extreme heat waves to the growing prevalence of diseases, issues with water quality, trauma from storms and allergy and asthma triggers, there are many challenges to address. While we are all vulnerable to this changes, low income communities and…
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