AP News: EcoBlock co-PI and UC Berkeley professor Dan Kammen discussed the disproportionate impacts of climate change as noted in a recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
“[The] poor, ethnic minorities, and women are very clearly the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change that we are already seeing today: heat waves; displacement and smoke due to fires; and price shocks due to supply chain interruptions, higher energy prices,” said Kammen, who was a lead coordinating author on the IPCC reports. “A natural start is to develop policies to target these underserved communities with enhanced attention and support.”