#  2022 CGA Virtual Forum: The Uneven Geography of Climate Change 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 20, 2022** 

 10:30AM - 12:30PM EDT 

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 **Online via Zoom**  



 

 



 

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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.

 **Forum Agenda:**

Sort    **Begin**

 

  **End**

 

  **Duration**

 

  **Topic**

 

  **Speaker**

 

  **Organization**

 

    10:30 AM

 

  10:35 AM

 

  0:05

 

  Welcome & Introduction

 

  S V Subramanian

 

  Harvard CGA & HSPH

 

    10:35 AM

 

  10:50 AM

 

  0:15

 

  Spatial Inequalities in Climate-Sensitive Hazard Impacts

 

  Susan Cutter

 

  University of South Carolina

 

    10:50 AM

 

  11:05 AM

 

  0:15

 

  The Extreme - Weather Climate Gap: Implications at the intersection of risk and vulnerability

 

  Marshall Shepherd

 

  University of Georgia

 

    11:05 AM

 

  11:20 AM

 

  0:15

 

  What is known about the geography of solar geoengineering’s risks and benefits

 

  David Keith

 

  Harvard HKS & SEAS

 

    11:20 AM

 

  11:35 AM

 

  0:15

 

  Climate Change and Global Sentiment

 

  Siqi Zheng

 

  MIT

 

    11:35 AM

 

  11:40 AM

 

  0:05

 

  Unlocking Geospatial Big Data for Climate Change Research using High-Performance Computing

 

  Devika Kakkar

 

  Harvard CGA

 

    11:40 AM

 

  11:45 AM

 

  0:05

 

  Climate Mapping for Cultural Heritage

 

  Pam Hatchfield

 

  Held in Trust

 

    11:45 AM

 

  11:50 AM

 

  0:05

 

  International Public Opinion on Climate Change

 

  Kelsey Mulcahy

 

  Meta

 

    11:50 AM

 

  11:55 AM

 

  0:05

 

  Tracking human responses to climate impacts with NASA’s Black Marble

 

  Eleanor (Kellie) Stokes

 

  Earth from Space Institute

 

    11:55 AM

 

  12:25 PM

 

  0:30

 

  Panel Discussion

 

  Matt Wilson & Doug Richardson (Moderators)

 

  UKY & Harvard CGA

 

    12:25 PM

 

  12:30 PM

 

  0:05

 

  Closing remarks

 

  Doug Richardson

 

  Harvard CGA

 

 



 [**Event program**](https://hu.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/HarvardCGA/ER6WvLoxaKtCuJYlPCKKCOoB6QgaeTMYvVZH8Y2IgPW2GA?e=272aLk) (with speakers' bio and abstracts)

 This event is free and open to the public. To attend, please register **[here](https://harvard.zoom.us/j/93276080996).**

 Recording of this event is available upon request, via [https://gis.harvard.edu/contactus](/contactus).



 

 



 

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