Event Description
Extreme heat, flooding, and other climate impacts affect everyone, but many are especially vulnerable due to their livelihoods, location, poverty, and other factors. Climate change is expected to increase migration between countries, and displacement within countries, in the coming decades. Better data and understanding of patterns of vulnerability, and the ability to forecast impacts, are critical to efforts to adapt to a changing climate, increase societal resilience, and strengthen environmental justice, leaving no one behind. This event highlights recent work on mapping extreme heat in urban areas, assessing social vulnerability to flooding, and modeling climate-induced population displacement. These efforts aim to provide decision-makers and other stakeholders around the world with the data and tools needed to improve and accelerate adaptation to climate change.
Event Speakers
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Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration required via the event webpage.
Hosted by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University as part of Climate Week NYC.
