This event was hosted by Harvard University's CGA in May 2022. Details can be found here.
While a changing climate impacts everyone’s ability to feed and support themselves, these impacts are not experienced equally. The uneven geography of climate change is revealed as grassroots movements and industrialized nations around the world take action. Farmers in India demonstrated in late 2021 that radical and inclusive democratic mobilization can be a force for foundational change in agricultural policies. Their protests and legislative victories came as COP26 concluded with a new resolve to address greenhouse gas emissions, driven by the now obvious and urgent impacts of a warming climate on the globe’s most vulnerable populations and places. Whether borne of these movements or top-down directives, actions to address climate change must react to and target the unevenness of its effects. What is the geography of climate change? How is this unevenness shaping and distorting attitudes and responses? How might the tools of geography lead to a better understanding?
In this virtual forum, invited speakers and registered attendees will explore the uneven geography of climate change while surveying data and technology that can advance our understanding of these various inequities. We look to examine geographic perspectives on policies, conflicts, disasters, population movements, predictions, models, and other spatially modulated climate effects. We plan to highlight tools that provide insights on geographic changes in climate parameters as well as changes in attitudes and perceptions. We will consider opportunities provided by high performance computing and the use of big data. Discussions will target methods to measure impacts at the human scale, and analytical approaches attuned to questions of climate equity within and between nations, whether social or economic, across racial and ethnic divides, or along dimensions of personal, family, and community health.
Recording of this event is available upon request, via https://gis.harvard.edu/contactus.
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