An investigation and overview of the inequality in air quality monitoring around the world. This team created a blog post with several maps comparing air quality with the available monitoring technology in certain regions of the world. They also used the Conyers, Georgia lab fire from 2024 as a case study and a way to ground concepts of global inequity in their local community. Lastly, the team explored how to build awareness and provide action steps around the issue by making a set of cards to be posted on social media.

Created as part of the WHO's BreatheLife2030 campaign

An exploration of 4 cities, using images and first hand interviews with locals met at COP29 to demonstrate how lived experiences with their city’s transit portrays different realities with air quality. This project was created for Fall 2024's ENVS 326: Climate Change & Society Final Project, where students were tasked to communicate a research topic on air quality through creative yet effective media.

This work was also submitted to the WHO's BreatheLife2030 campaign

A story that follows an imaginary Georgia State University student named Victoria and uses her day to day life in the city as a vehicle to unpack and visualize more scientific topics in air quality.This project was created for Fall 2024's ENVS 326: Climate Change & Society Final Project, where students were tasked to communicate a research topic on air quality through creative yet effective media.

This work was also submitted to the WHO's BreatheLife2030 campaign

Rising global temperatures due to climate change will disproportionately impact cities, like Atlanta, Georgia, because of an exacerbated urban heat island effect. Increasing heat in cities poses an inequitable burden on the health of vulnerable groups, like low-income populations. City and county stakeholders across the world have developed heat preparedness initiatives to protect the health of their populations, but Atlanta does not have any heat action plan in place. Given the health threat of rising heat in Atlanta, what is the heat action plan that can best protect the health of low-income residents from heat?

The adverse effects of climate change on food security and malnutrition are growing. Millions of individuals could face physical, emotional, and cognitive hardships due to undernutrition, or deficiency of energy, protein, or essential vitamins and minerals. As the effects of climate change become increasingly clear, the search for appropriate methods of mitigation and adaptation is reaching a critical stage.

Although the United Nations created a platform for indigenous peoples and local communities to get involved in climate change negotiation, the UN has had a history of acting slowly on decisions regarding these communities that only have observer status. If the platform is not broadened, climate policy will lag behind indigenous knowledge, and the UN will create culturally irrelevant policies regarding these communities. Indigenous peoples are often the first to be affected by climate change, but they remain excluded within the highest levels of negotiations.

The English language dominates world climate negotiations and creates issues of comfort, fluency and power balance among delegates speaking other languages. Those communicating in a second language may be unable to negotiate effectively or achieve a higher status generally. For those who speak English as a second language, communication in their native languages may find themselves constricted by a limited vocabulary, additional time and effort to write proposals, and frustrations in expressing themselves fully.

Salmon have provided sustenance and played an important role in the cultural identities of Pacific Northwest tribes for millennia.

Domestic, or household-level, open burning of plastic waste is a source of air pollutants and greenhouse gases that are often neglected in emission inventories. Domestic open burning is a considerable concern in Guatemala due to the lack of access to waste collection services, particularly in rural areas. This paper offers the first attempt to estimate emissions from the domestic open burning of waste at the city and departmental levels in Guatemala.

About 78% of global greenhouse gas emissions between 1970 and 2010 were due to fossil fuel combustion, increasing the atmospheric mixing ratio of carbon dioxide to around 419 ppm by June 2021. During a similar period, between 1975 and 2017, 162 countries adopted renewable energy targets – official national commitments to increase the share of renewable energies. What induced the diffusion of these renewable energy targets? What are the patterns of their diffusion?

States have historically been the primary drivers of climate change policy in the US, particularly with regard to emissions from power plants. States have implemented policies designed either to directly curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power plants, or to encourage energy efficiency and renewable energy growth. With the federal government withdrawing from the global climate agreement, understanding which state-level policies have successfully mitigated power-plant emissions is urgent.