Featured image of an empty Waikiki Beach by local photographer Tommy Pierucki (@tommypierucki)
The Pacific RISA team continues to work remotely, and team members can best be reached by email (see contacts listed HERE ). We continue to collaborate with our partners in Hawai’i and the USAPI to provide locally relevant climate information, manage climate risks, build resilience, and facilitate adaptation to a changing climate throughout the Pacific.
The Pacific RISA team staying connected through weekly Zoom meetings. The coronavirus pandemic has us all thinking about the parallels between the current pandemic and current and future effects of climate change. While we want to be sensitive to the critical nature and present danger of the pandemic, we also believe that global climate change is at a critical stage. With this in mind, we have provided a list of relevant “climate and coronavirus” resources below, including webinars, podcasts, related scientific studies, and news articles. We will continue to update the page as we find new resources, and we hope you are all staying home, staying healthy, and staying engaged in the climate fight!
For important updates and information, please visit:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
University of Hawaii at Manoa
State of Hawaii Department of Health
Grounded Hawaiian Airlines planes line the runway at Honolulu International Airport. Photo used with permission by Miguel Castrence (@migs_maps)
Climate and Coronavirus Links and Resources
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Teerachai Amnuaylojaroen and Nichapa Parasin. The Association Between COVID-19, Air Pollution, and Climate Change. Front. Public Health, 06 July 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.662499
Robert M. Beyer, Andrea Manica, Camilo Mora. Shifts in global bat diversity suggest a possible role of climate change in the emergence of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 . Science of The Total Environment, Volume 767, 2021, 145413, ISSN 0048-9697,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145413 .
Estimating the Health‐Related Costs of 10 Climate‐ Sensitive U.S. Events During 2012
Exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States (Updated April 5, 2020)New Research Links Air Pollution to Higher Coronavirus Death Rates
Climate and Coronavirus in the News
G7 should invest $10 trillion to stoke climate-friendly recovery – PM Johnson told
Revealed: Covid recovery plans threaten global climate hopes
OPINION: Drowning in debt – Island states like mine are banking on an international lifeline
2020: The Year of the Converging Crises
Over 50 Million People Dually Affected by COVID-19 and Climate Disasters: The Asia-Pacific region has been worse hit. By Madeleine Keck, Sept 28, 2020
Leaders to UN: If coronavirus doesn’t kill us, climate change will
Law and Disorder: The EPA cut back enforcement during COVID. These researchers are assessing the damage.
GRIST Climate in the Time of Coronavirus Series
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Pacific’s fight against Covid-19 hamstrung by lack of clean water
COVID-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse.
How Covid-19 Made it Easier to Talk About Climate Change By Emma Goldberg, July 24, 2020
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2020 Is Our Last, Best Chance to Save the Planet
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The scariest thing about global warming (and Covid-19)
Extreme Heat During the COVID-19 Pandemic Amplifies Racial and Economic Inequities
A prescription for a post-COVID economy: A national climate bank By Maria Gallucci on Jun 23, 2020
Pacific leaders fear climate change campaign will ‘lose momentum’ amid COVID-19 pandemic
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Tear Gas, Pollution, Wildfire Smoke: A Triple Threat to Your Lungs
How battling climate change helped the Marshall Islands fight Covid-19 By Republic of the Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Casten Nemra and Environment Minister Christopher Loeak, June 9, 2020
Earth’s carbon dioxide levels hit record high, despite coronavirus-related emissions drop By Andrew Freedman and Chris Mooney, June 4, 2020
What a Week’s Disasters Tell Us About Climate and the Pandemic
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A moment of reckoning – when coronavirus meets climate change
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It Took A Pandemic To Prove Individual Actions Alone Won’t Solve The Climate Crisis By Amy Westervelt , May 7, 2020
How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease
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Climate Change Won’t Stop for the Coronavirus Pandemic
Island nations struggle to manage deadly Cyclone Harold while trying to stave off pandemic
Pandemic hurts ability of nations to face natural disasters
Climate stress and coronavirus gang up on world’s vulnerable
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Webinars/Podcasts/Other
ThinkTech Hawaii: Evolving Crisis: The Escalating Threat of COVID and Climate Change Spiraling Crisis: The Alarming Convergence of Climate Change and Pandemics – A Postcard from the Future
Sussmann, R.; Rettinger, M. Can We Measure a COVID-19-Related Slowdown in Atmospheric CO2 Growth? Sensitivity of Total Carbon Column Observations . Remote Sens. 2020 , 12 , 2387.
ThinkTechHawaii with Pacific RISA’s Dr. Victoria Keener
Climate change and COVID-19: Can this crisis shift the paradigm? (webinar)
Upcoming events from Project Drawdownhttps://drawdown.org/events
The Coronavirus and Climate Change, the Great Crises of Our Time, New Yorker Radio Hour, with David Remnick (podcast)https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/the-coronavirus-and-climate-change-the-great-crises-of-our-time
Union of Concerned Scientists podcast: When floods and coronavirus collide – Dealing with a disaster during a pandemic, featuring Dr. Kristy Dahl from NOAA (April 14, 2020)https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/dealing-disaster-during-pandemic
NYT digital event series about climate changehttps://timesevents.nytimes.com/greenhouse
HEATED podcast: Episode 3: COVID-19 and climate justicehttps://heated.world/p/episode-3-covid-19-and-climate-justice
Statewide webinar for teachers on climate policy and change in the ‘age of COVID’https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/03/31/climate-change-teachers-webinar/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrd-o2qbWzI
American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP) Network Meeting on COVID 19https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ieRIY9pLQ&t=1s
Webinar about how climate & equity solutions can be pandemic preventative tools/how we can confront the current pandemic via nature-based and social justice solutions.https://www.climateandcoronavirus.com/
Planetary Health Alliance March 2020 Newsletterhttps://mailchi.mp/harvard/planetary-health-newsletter-march-2020?e=975bfefed0
EWC Research Related to Pandemics/Coronavirus
Hawaii Lags Behind Other States In Release Of COVID-19 Data
Tim Brown’s testimony to the Hawaii State House Select Committee on Covid-19 Economic and Financial Preparedness (April 13, 2020)
http://olelo.granicus.com/player/clip/76695
Researchers offer draft plan for coronavirus recovery (Tim Brown)https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/04/07/hawaii-news/researchers-offer-draft-plan-for-covid-19-recovery/
Voice of America – VOA examines the EWC study on the origins and spread of #avianflu in #Vietnam in 2003 and its relevance to the #coronavirus pandemic today.https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/rural-urban-transition-may-explain-viral-outbreaks-vietnam
In an update to their March 25 policy brief, economist Sumner La Croix, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and epidemic tracking expert Tim Brown. EWC, detail how increased testing, comprehensive contact tracing, and isolation of exposed individuals can lead to a rapid reduction in Hawai’i’s new infections and restart the state’s economy.https://uhero.hawaii.edu/how-to-control-hawaiis-coronavirus-epidemic-and-bring-back-the-economy-the-next-steps/
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Posted on April 10, 2020 by pacrisa
Featured image of an empty Waikiki Beach by local photographer Tommy Pierucki (@tommypierucki)
The Pacific RISA team continues to work remotely, and team members can best be reached by email (see contacts listed HERE). We continue to collaborate with our partners in Hawai’i and the USAPI to provide locally relevant climate information, manage climate risks, build resilience, and facilitate adaptation to a changing climate throughout the Pacific.
The coronavirus pandemic has us all thinking about the parallels between the current pandemic and current and future effects of climate change. While we want to be sensitive to the critical nature and present danger of the pandemic, we also believe that global climate change is at a critical stage. With this in mind, we have provided a list of relevant “climate and coronavirus” resources below, including webinars, podcasts, related scientific studies, and news articles. We will continue to update the page as we find new resources, and we hope you are all staying home, staying healthy, and staying engaged in the climate fight!
For important updates and information, please visit:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
University of Hawaii at Manoa
State of Hawaii Department of Health
Climate and Coronavirus Links and Resources
Related Scientific Articles
Teerachai Amnuaylojaroen and Nichapa Parasin. The Association Between COVID-19, Air Pollution, and Climate Change. Front. Public Health, 06 July 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.662499
Robert M. Beyer, Andrea Manica, Camilo Mora. Shifts in global bat diversity suggest a possible role of climate change in the emergence of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2. Science of The Total Environment, Volume 767, 2021, 145413, ISSN 0048-9697,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145413.
Estimating the Health‐Related Costs of 10 Climate‐ Sensitive U.S. Events During 2012
Exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States (Updated April 5, 2020)
Related NYT article: New Research Links Air Pollution to Higher Coronavirus Death Rates
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G7 should invest $10 trillion to stoke climate-friendly recovery – PM Johnson told
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Webinars/Podcasts/Other
ThinkTech Hawaii: Evolving Crisis: The Escalating Threat of COVID and Climate Change
Jan 14, 2022
The panel builds upon ThinkTech Hawai’i’s recent documentary film Spiraling Crisis: The Alarming Convergence of Climate Change and Pandemics – A Postcard from the Future, which featured Zoom interviews of eight scientists and officials in Hawai’i and on the mainland. It is an official selection of the Colorado Environmental Film Festival, which takes place February 24-March 6, 2022 in Golden, Colorado.
Sussmann, R.; Rettinger, M. Can We Measure a COVID-19-Related Slowdown in Atmospheric CO2 Growth? Sensitivity of Total Carbon Column Observations. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 2387.
ThinkTechHawaii with Pacific RISA’s Dr. Victoria Keener
April 28, 2020
Pacific RISA and East-West Center climate policy expert Dr. Victoria Keener appeared on ThinkTech Hawaii this week, where she addressed pressing questions and shared insights about the impact and implications of the coronavirus pandemic on the climate crisis in the Pacific and beyond.
Climate change and COVID-19: Can this crisis shift the paradigm? (webinar)
By Roqua Montez, April 27, 2020
Upcoming events from Project Drawdown
https://drawdown.org/events
The Coronavirus and Climate Change, the Great Crises of Our Time, New Yorker Radio Hour, with David Remnick (podcast)
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/the-coronavirus-and-climate-change-the-great-crises-of-our-time
Union of Concerned Scientists podcast: When floods and coronavirus collide – Dealing with a disaster during a pandemic, featuring Dr. Kristy Dahl from NOAA (April 14, 2020)
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/dealing-disaster-during-pandemic
NYT digital event series about climate change
https://timesevents.nytimes.com/greenhouse
HEATED podcast: Episode 3: COVID-19 and climate justice
https://heated.world/p/episode-3-covid-19-and-climate-justice
Statewide webinar for teachers on climate policy and change in the ‘age of COVID’
Webinar: April 7, 2020
https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/03/31/climate-change-teachers-webinar/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrd-o2qbWzI
American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP) Network Meeting on COVID 19
April 3, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ieRIY9pLQ&t=1s
Webinar about how climate & equity solutions can be pandemic preventative tools/how we can confront the current pandemic via nature-based and social justice solutions.
https://www.climateandcoronavirus.com/
Planetary Health Alliance March 2020 Newsletter
https://mailchi.mp/harvard/planetary-health-newsletter-march-2020?e=975bfefed0
EWC Research Related to Pandemics/Coronavirus
Hawaii Lags Behind Other States In Release Of COVID-19 Data
Tim Brown (contributor), April 15, 2020
Tim Brown’s testimony to the Hawaii State House Select Committee on Covid-19 Economic and Financial Preparedness (April 13, 2020)
http://olelo.granicus.com/player/clip/76695
Researchers offer draft plan for coronavirus recovery (Tim Brown)
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/04/07/hawaii-news/researchers-offer-draft-plan-for-covid-19-recovery/
Voice of America – VOA examines the EWC study on the origins and spread of #avianflu in #Vietnam in 2003 and its relevance to the #coronavirus pandemic today.
James Spencer, Sumeet Saksena and Jefferson Fox (EWC)
April 6, 2020
https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/rural-urban-transition-may-explain-viral-outbreaks-vietnam
In an update to their March 25 policy brief, economist Sumner La Croix, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and epidemic tracking expert Tim Brown. EWC, detail how increased testing, comprehensive contact tracing, and isolation of exposed individuals can lead to a rapid reduction in Hawai’i’s new infections and restart the state’s economy.
Tim Brown (EWC) and Sumner La Croix (UHM)
April 3, 2020
https://uhero.hawaii.edu/how-to-control-hawaiis-coronavirus-epidemic-and-bring-back-the-economy-the-next-steps/
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