Alex Co

Research roadmap towards justice in climate change adaptation planning

Climate change presents an unequal threat to the most marginalized groups of society, which current urban adaptation plans have not adequately addressed. Researchers have proposed a research roadmap toward an adaptation planning framework that is more equitable and sustainable.

Thursday, October 20, 2016
Alex Co

Climate change: Plan locally, think globally

When planning for climate change at the local level, it may seem irrelevant to consider events that occur far away. Two researches give examples and provide a framework that explain why we must think globally to plan locally.

Monday, August 1, 2016
Alex Co

'Negative' carbon emissions needed to meet 2-degree warming targets

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has increasingly emphasized the 2 degree C global warming target as a benchmark for future policies and strategies. Through modeling of future scenarios, researchers justify the physical need for negative emissions if this temperature target goal is to be remotely achievable.

Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Alex Co

The influence of corporate funding on the climate change debate

It has been widely thought that money wields power, and that corporate funding fuels climate change deniers. A recent study finds who these corporate funders are and just how much power they have.

Thursday, May 26, 2016
Alex Co

Reframing greenhouse gas removal technologies as a viable climate solution

Greenhouse gas removal technologies provide a valuable option to decrease emissions beyond mitigation. While climate policy to this point has not included these important technologies, researchers in the United Kingdom have developed four pillars upon which to reframe the policy approach.

Monday, February 29, 2016
Alex Co

Study evaluates health impacts of 2010 oil spill on Vietnamese American shrimp consumers

Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, concerns about potential seafood contamination prompted closures of commercial fisheries as federal regulators screened the safety of the fishery. Their population assumptions, while likely protective of the vast majority of Americans, excluded vulnerable Vietnamese Americans in the coastal region.

Monday, February 15, 2016
Alex Co
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