GH002
Bringing Health to the Room Where it Happens: Incorporating Health and Equity into Climate Policies and Planning.

Session ID#: 158870

Session Description:
The negative health implications of climate inaction and their inequitable distribution are apparent. Today, climate change negatively impacts global health from increasing excessive heat exposure to intensifying western US wildfires. Unchecked greenhouse gas emissions will continue to exacerbate these, and other, environmental threats to public health. The paths we take to mitigate climate change have the potential to address environmental injustices, protect the health of future generations, and provide health co-benefits today through improved air quality, increased greenspace access, active transportation, and other avenues. The potential health and equity benefits of climate mitigation are often left unincorporated in climate policies and planning. Leaving health and equity considerations out of climate action planning underestimates benefits of climate action for present and future generations. This session invites works quantifying the environmental, equity, and health impacts of climate mitigation and methods for incorporating these impacts into climate action planning.
Index Terms:

0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
6349 General or miscellaneous [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]

Primary Convener:  Katelyn O'Dell, George Washington University, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Susan Anenberg, George Washington University, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Washington, DC, United States and Kelsey Bilsback, PSE Healthy Energy, Oakland, United States
 
Quantifying Natural Space and Associated Health Benefits in Urban Areas (1058219)
Greta Martin1, Susan Anenberg2, Katelyn O'Dell2, Patrick Kinney3 and Marcia Pescador Jimenez3, (1)George Washington University, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Washington, United States, (2)George Washington University, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, United States
 
Enhanced Integration of Health, Climate, and Air Quality Management Planning at the Urban Scale (1068261)
Gary Kleiman1, Susan Anenberg2, Zoe Chafe3, Desmond Appiah3, Tibebu Assefa3, Andrea Bizberg3, Toby Coombes3, Doroti Cuestas4, Daven K Henze5, Alexander Kessler6, Iyad Kheirbek7, Patrick L Kinney8, Musa Mahlatji9, Julian Marshall10, Seneca Naidoo11, Nwabisa Potwana3, Adriana Rodriguez12, Christopher Tessum13 and Culley Thomas7, (1)Orbis Air, Concord, United States, (2)George Washington University, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Washington, DC, United States, (3)C40 Cities Leadership Group, New York, United States, (4)Metropolitan Municipality of Lima, Environmental Management Department, Lima, Peru, (5)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (6)Middlebury College, Middlebury, United States, (7)C40 Cities, New York, United States, (8)Boston University, School of Public Health, Boston, United States, (9)Environment Infrastructure and Services Department, City of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, (10)University of Washington, Seattle, United States, (11)C40, Johannesburg, South Africa, (12)Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara Planning and Management Institute, Zapopan, Mexico, (13)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
 
Avoided health-related costs from improved air quality under net-zero energy system pathways in the United States (Invited) (1074912)
Nicholas Mailloux, University of Wisconsin Madison, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, Madison, United States, Erin Mayfield, Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States, Pengfei Wang, Penn State University, State College, United States, Wei Peng, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States and Jonathan A. Patz, University of Wisconsin Madison, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies / Center for Sustainability & the Global Environment / Population Health Sciences, Madison, United States
 
Advancing GeoHealth Through Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science: Recommendations for Future Work (1078902)
Malcolm Barnard, Baylor University, Biology, Center for Reservoir and Aquatic Systems Research, Waco, TX, United States, Sujata Emani, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Washington, DC, United States, Sarah K Fortner, Carleton College, Science Education Resource Center, Northfield, MN, United States, Lauren Haygood, University of Tulsa, Geosciences, Tulsa, OK, United States, Qingqing Sun, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, Jalonne L. White-Newsome, Kresge Foundation, Troy, MI, United States and Benjamin F Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, United States
 
Health as a Motivator for City Action on Air Quality and Climate Emission Reductions (Invited) (1084065)
Zoe Chafe1, Susan Anenberg2, Desmond Appiah3, Tibebu Assefa3, Andrea Bizberg3, Toby Coombes3, Iyad Kheirbek4, Gary Kleiman5, Julian Marshall6, Seneca Naidoo7, Simon Sambou8 and Christopher Tessum9, (1)C40 Cities, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)George Washington University, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Washington, DC, United States, (3)C40 Cities Leadership Group, New York, United States, (4)C40 Cities, New York, United States, (5)Orbis Air, Concord, United States, (6)University of Washington, Seattle, United States, (7)C40, Johannesburg, South Africa, (8)C40 Cities, Dakar, Senegal, (9)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
 
Leveraging satellite-derived data and air quality modeling to characterize source profiles of climate co-benefits at the urban- and country- scale (1093265)
Muhammad Omar Nawaz1, Daven K Henze2, Susan Anenberg3, Colin Harkins4, Laura Gallardo5 and Kevin Basoa Barraza5, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (3)George Washington University, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Colorado and NOAA ESRL/CSL, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
 
Distributional effects in health damages from air pollution from using fossil fuel and electrified vehicles in the United States (1101178)
Madalsa Singh, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Christopher Tessum, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Julian Marshall, University of Washington, Seattle, United States and Ines Azevedo, Stanford University, Energy Resource Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Quantifying the Climate Change Driven Air Quality Health Impacts on Indigenous Communities in the United States (1119535)
Argen Smith, Littleton, CO, UNITED STATES, Marcus C Sarofim, U.S. EPA - Climate Change Division, Washington, DC, United States and Corinne Hartin, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States
 
CoBE Projection: A Tool to Project Health and Climate Co-Benefits of Energy Conservation in Built Environment (1140726)
Parichehr Salimifard1, Marissa VanRy Rainbolt2, Jonathan Buonocore3, Mahala Lahvis2, Brian Sousa2 and Joseph G Allen2, (1)Oregon State University, College of Engineering, Corvallis, United States, (2)Harvard University, Environmental Health, Cambridge, United States, (3)Boston University, School of Public Health, Environmental Health, Boston, United States
 
Solluble Dust Emissions from Salt Efflorescence Crusted Soil Surfaces (1154318)
Robert S Van Pelt, USDA-ARS, Wind Erosion and Water Conservation, Big Spring, TX, United States, Guoming Zhang, Beijing Normal University, Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Beijing, China and John E Strack, USDA-ARS, Wind Erosion and Water Conservation, Big Spring, Texas USA, United States
 
Pricing carbon emissions reduces health inequities from air pollution exposure (1167755)
Wei Peng1, Xinyuan Huang1, Vivek Srikrishnan1, Jonathan Lamontagne2 and Klaus Keller3, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States, (2)Tufts University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Medford, MA, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Thayer College of Engineering, Hanover, United States
 
An Analysis of the Climate and Health Impacts of Harvard University’s Building Portfolio: A Case-Study (1196316)
Mahala Lahvis1, Parichehr Salimifard2, Jonathan Buonocore3 and Joseph G Allen1, (1)Harvard University, Environmental Health, Cambridge, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Engineering, Corvallis, United States, (3)Boston University, School of Public Health, Environmental Health, Boston, United States
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