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The event, the by climate change.1 second in a series, built on the October 2021 workshop Communities, Climate Change, and Health Equity -- A Given that much of the authority for addressing issues at New Vision, which provided an overview of how changing the intersection of climate change, health inequity, and climate conditions exacerbate health inequities in environmental justice rests at the state level, the two- communities across the United States.2 day virtual workshop Communities, Climate Change, and Health Equity -- State-Level Implementation was Workshop planning committee chair Jeanne Herb held on May 24 and 26, 2022. It brought together (Rutgers University)
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equitable climate action, in the words The workshop's first day focused on community-driven of one of our workshop presenters, it is not enough climate and health equity action at state and local to bounce back from one crisis to another -- we also levels. It included panel presentations from leaders need to address the root causes to be able to bounce who described work in their states as well as interactive forward," Herb said.
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Focusing on building up community-based organizations described how partnerships between researchers and can help communities to identify key goals, reduce communities can help to advance local action that is reliance on external organizations, and foster the next 5 Environmental Justice Bill SB232 § Title 13 (2020) . https://pub.njleg.
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To better incorporate climate into health When actors not from frontline communities -- such as equity policy implementation, build agencies' capacity to state agencies, academics, or many nongovernmental engage communities, and build communities' capacity organizations -- build trust with communities through to speak with their own voice, a number of participants transparency, honesty, and practical measures such suggested that the Centers for Disease Control and as language interpretation, it can help to facilitate Prevention (CDC) could play a lead role at the federal level community-driven action.
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Several participants pointed strongly influence both future emissions and how climate to a need to identify and partner with trusted messengers change impacts will be felt in communities. For example, within communities and to incorporate health equity, an opportunity remains for weatherization and other environmental justice, and climate impacts into approaches to improve energy efficiency in buildings, educational curricula -- from pre-K to medical school -- especially in low-income housing; agencies such as the to lay the groundwork for community engagement and Department of Housing and Urban Development and behavioral change.
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Several of this, states are updating statewide emissions and participants suggested that federal funders could require clean energy targets from early laws to reflect the latest community engagement as part of federal grants in science. For example, Herb noted that Massachusetts order to make community-driven approaches an integral has made updates to emissions limits for electric power, feature of federal investments in climate research and industrial processes, and natural gas distribution.
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discussed the Recent state climate actions are also increasingly Maryland Climate Solutions Now Act,10 which calls centered on health. In Massachusetts, a 2050 roadmap for a 60 percent reduction of emissions by 2031 and that informed the state's adoption of its most recent for the Maryland economy to generate zero emissions climate law found that achieving net-zero emissions by 2045.
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Climate and Equitable Jobs Act.12 Many participants pointed to community engagement as Looking at these various efforts across states, panelists a crucial component of collaborative climate action, and highlighted the importance of identifying ways to some suggested that funders of climate initiatives could 11 Future Energy Jobs Act SB2814 § Public Act 99-0906 (2016)
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Pointing to the COVID-19 pandemic deliver 40 percent of benefits from federal investments in response as an illustrative example of the value of climate and clean energy to disadvantaged communities, building partnerships to bridge gaps across agencies and and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,16 which sectors, a number of participants suggested that state provides funding to increase infrastructure resilience in and county public health departments and community- the face of climate impacts and encourage the shift to based organizations could learn from the COVID-19 cleaner energy sources, among other goals. While such experience to form partnerships for a "health in all developments are welcome news, some participants policies" approach to addressing climate change.
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One participant noted that even well-intended climate actions, such as Looking ahead, participants discussed how states state mandates to shift to electric vehicles, can result and community-based organizations can leverage in unintended harms to communities already suffering partnerships in new and creative ways to get more disproportionate environmental burdens, such as mileage out of investments in public health infrastructure increased local air pollution in areas near power plants and climate initiatives. As one example, states could as plants increase energy generation to meet growing prioritize contracts benefitting overburdened or electricity demand.
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Federal agencies, state health departments, and of health inequities and their relationships with community groups could leverage these skills to improve environmental burdens and climate impacts, strategic climate communication strategies in order to help people actions to address those inequities and advance a just better understand the health impacts of climate change. transition, and measurement of relevant health outcomes to assess impacts.
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This means that issues across many facets opportunities to advance action in ways that prioritize the of society -- from housing and transportation, to systemic needs of overburdened and disadvantaged communities. To racism and disenfranchisement, to education and job inform future efforts and investments, it may be useful to opportunities -- will likely be involved in advancing have increased exchange of knowledge and lessons learned, environmental justice and health equity in the face of a both from the perspective of traditional decision makers changing climate, with a goal of achieving meaningful and frontline communities.
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