the Creating a Climate for Change Conference organized by New Alpha CDC, where UCS Senior Climate Scientist for Community Resilience Astrid Caldas participated on the panel “Implementing the Change,” highlighting UCS’s partnerships with communities and most important accomplishments on climate justice, as well as challenges and resources needed for successful scaling of solutions at the community level. Impacted Communities: a Conversation With Local Leaders On The Frontlines of Climate Impacts;” and (New Alpha CDC in SC, the United Houma Nation in LA, Taller Salud in PR, Phoenix Revitalization Corporation in AZ, and Community In-Power and Development Association, Inc. in TX) for a session titled “Creating Broader Understanding of Challenges and Opportunities For Increasing Adaptation In Climate- At the federal and international level, UCS has been ramping up our efforts to increase visibility of EJ and climate justice issues. Most recently, we helped elevate the messages of EJ allies at the United Nations’ annual climate summit (COP27), in Egypt, by co-sponsoring the “Climate Justice Pavilion.”
This dedicated space, in the same area of the conference where delegations from almost every country in the world were meeting, provided a platform for groups to showcase equitable policies and solutions that decision makers should enact as part of their plans to address climate change. Also at COP27 UCS President Johanna Chao Kreilick was invited to host a conversation about how combining community knowledge, including Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), with Western science and law can make climate solutions stronger and more sustainable. Johanna also moderated a panel on the need to increase marginalized communities’ access to climate data and climate science to strengthen their resilience to climate change. The panel highlighted that decades and sometimes centuries of disinvestment, racist policies, and exploitative business practices have left marginalized communities not only more vulnerable to climate change, but without the necessary means to become more climate resilient.
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