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Communities, Climate Change, and Health Equity: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Communities, Climate Change, and Health Equity: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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CLIMATE CHANGE IS A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY Climate scientists, advocates, government officials, and representatives of disproportionately affected communities shared their firsthand knowledge to illustrate the human dimensions of the climate crisis in communities throughout the United States. 1 See https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/environmental-health-matters-initiative (accessed November 12, 2021)
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Climate Change in the Context of Existing Environmental Health Inequities In a syndemic, two or more linked health problems affect a community at the same time and amplify each other's negative effects. Communities of color are experiencing "… there is no more the syndemic of climate change, environmental injustice, and structural racism, said fundamental a right we have Adrienne Hollis (Hollis Environmental Consulting)
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Indigenous communities already face multiple economic, political, and social crises, which climate change exacerbates. For example, of Alaska's 220-plus Indigenous communities, 144 are threatened by climate change as Alaska is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, noted Jackie Qataliña Schaeffer (Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium)
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Impacts of Data and Funding Gaps on Disproportionately Affected Communities Government, foundation, and nonprofit speakers discussed the challenges that small communities and communities of color face in their efforts to be acknowledged in data and funded to address climate impacts and health inequities. The connections between pollution and health impacts have been well-established on a large scale.
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SOME CURRENT STRATEGIES AT WORK Advocates, government officials, funders, and representatives of disproportionately affected communities described the strategies they are implementing to advance health equity and to equitably respond to the climate crisis. 12 See http://frontierus.org/what-is-frontier/ (accessed November 29, 2021)
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Coalitions serve these populations by sharing resources to aid with data analysis, funding, and policymaking; training community members to advocate for their particular adaptation needs; and pursuing long-term goals. Bishop Marcia Dinkins leads the Black Appalachian Coalition (BLAC)
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Collecting Actionable Data to Support Climate Equity Initiatives Collecting useful data that can inform policy and action is central to all of these efforts. Officials from state, local, and federal governments and one advocacy organization described the types of data that have been most useful for identifying interventions to promote climate and health equity.
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Department of Health and Human Services.32 Third, states can require the involvement of disproportionately affected populations in climate change decision-making. To guide this last effort, the California Office of Health Equity created a checklist of questions to elicit a detailed picture of the impact of policies on vulnerable populations.33 Closing Gaps in Data and Funding Although equity in funding is crucial for achieving racial equity, communities must have the capacity to apply, receive, and use the dollars, noted Sacoby Wilson (University of Maryland)
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Speakers discussed examples of the types of change needed to move toward an authentically inclusive process, in which disproportionately affected communities can actively engage in addressing the climate crisis in ways that benefit them directly. Suzi Ruhl (Yale School of Medicine)
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Noting that "the climate field is not very diverse," the Barr Foundation is exploring ways to build the leadership and capacity of equity-centered climate organizations and career pathways for people of color to enter the climate field, said Mariella Puerto. Institutional funders should stop bifurcating climate adaptation from disaster recovery, said Jeanne Herb, adding that the communities most affected by the pollution that drives climate change are also disproportionately affected by climate disasters, and funders must find solutions that address both.
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NOTES: This table lists potential actions attributed to individual workshop participants in the text above, grouped by similarity, because topics were discussed from different angles at different points during the workshop. This table does not include all actions mentioned by participants.
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, Rutgers University Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy; Ana V Diez Roux, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health; Jamie Donatuto, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community; Adrienne L
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