SCIENCE FOR A HEALTHY, JUST, AND MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD

Harvard Chan C-CHANGE makes climate change personal by connecting it to health and highlighting how climate solutions can provide for a healthier and more just world today and a livable future for our children.

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Your monthly dose of good news about climate action

The Climate Optimist brings you helpful tips and good news each month to help you stay focused on our shared mission to improve health by tackling climate change.

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Featured Issues

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Climate, Kids, and Health

Showing how climate solutions and transitioning to clean energy protects children from dangerous pollutants and helps them live healthier lives today and in the future.

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Climate Change and Infectious Disease

Reducing the risks of emerging infectious diseases by catalyzing actions that bring us back into balance with nature.

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Climate MD

Engaging, supporting and empowering medical professionals to help turn awareness of the health threats posed by climate change into actions that improve health today

Featured News

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We need to get fossil gas out of homes, for the climate and our health

Our Health Equity Fellow Dr. Gaurab Basu explains what drove him to electrify his home.

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How Extreme Heat Causes Cascading Crises

Our Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Toolkit and heat alert system can help health clinics around the country prepare for extreme heat.

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Travis McLing, a researcher with the Center for Advanced Energy Studies at INL, works on a number of projects to better understand how to store carbon underground.

Carbon capture isn’t the climate change health benefit the world needs

Kari and our former director Gina McCarthy teamed up for an op-ed in The Boston Globe to argue that carbon capture doesn't address the health impacts of climate change.

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Climate action is one of our greatest opportunities to improve health and equity.

- Aaron Bernstein, Harvard Chan C-CHANGE