It’s Thursday and time for my weekly roundup of Climate-related news.
Universities may have divested from fossil fuels – but board members still have industry ties, new analysis finds
At least 20 board members at California public universities have direct ties to the fossil fuel industry, a new analysis has found, sparking criticism from climate advocates on and off campus.
Of the state’s 32 public universities, board members at one-third of them either work or have worked for oil and gas companies, as do two board members at the California State University’s foundation.
The University of California became the
largest educational system in the US to divest from fossil fuels in May 2020, and the following year, California State University
followed suit.
How does climate change threaten your neighborhood? A new map has the details.
All 10 of the country’s most at-risk counties are in the South, according to the Climate Vulnerability Index, and half of them are in Louisiana.
2023 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: H2 Green Steel and its steel made with renewable energy
H2 Green Steel is building a large steel plant in northern Sweden that will rely on green hydrogen and renewables to substantially cut climate pollution. The startup is helping to clean up one of the world’s most important building materials, which is also one of the biggest sources of industrial pollution.
Dr. Vanessa Kerry Prescribes Climate Solutions to Save Lives as New World Health Envoy
Dr. Vanessa Kerry, who has worked on global health issues for two decades, recently took a more prominent role as the World Health Organization's first Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health.
Kerry also directs the Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and she has a family tie to climate action. Her father, John Kerry, is President Joe Biden's Special Envoy for Climate. With the WHO appointment in June Vanessa Kerry is now a climate envoy as well, a position she said can bring broader awareness of the climate connection to health.
"We're really discovering all the ways that we're being impacted by the increasing acceleration of climate change," Kerry told Newsweek in a recent extended interview. "The climate crisis is a health crisis."
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