Climate Change

Protected areas are essential to conserving biodiversity, yet changing climatic conditions challenge their efficacy. For example, novel and disappearing climates within the protected area network indicate that extant species may not have suitable climate in protected areas in the future.

The Adaptive Land Lab aims to reveal how current institutions contribute to unjust and unsustainable adaptation to enable policy reforms that redress underlying causes of societal vulnerability to climate change.

Ashley talks about the importance of understanding the impact of our insufficient environmental systems and structures on real human beings and the disproportionate harm on urban Black communities.

"Inequity is a choice that we make as a global society through the economic systems that we hold up as legitimate," Paloma Henriques argues in her articles for Spire's 2022 issue on minimum and maximum economic thresholds.

“How cool is it that we have all this clean capacity in the queue? ” said Rand. “But this same study shows all these inefficiencies, backlogs, and barriers.”

“Since the kind of science I work on has the potential to change the planet’s trajectory, I am even more dedicated to sharing what I learn.”

Climate X aims to enable global resilience through quantifying the potential physical risks and impacts, and delivering this in a way that is easily actionable to decision-makers.

"I have learned so much about why energy justice is a rising priority we should all be paying close attention to in our justice-centered work," Zully Juarez shared about the opportunity to research the energy system and address energy burden reduction in this report.