Climate & Health

Climate and Health

CEE tracks the many areas of relationship between climate and human health as well as considering what defines planetary health. From exposing connections between air pollution and asthma to innovations in exposomic research, CEE examines both the root causes and pathways to meaningfully address the health impacts of environmental injustice. The health of one is the health of all. We must learn to respect planetary boundaries and value all non-human life including supporting a holistic approach to healthy ecosystems and abundant biodiversity. 


June 2023 Events

Conference | The Right to a Healthy Environment: Looking Ahead

June 6 | 9:30 am – 12:00 pm ET

A Program in Observance of World Environment Day

A Pre-Parliament Event of the August 2023 Convening of The Parliament of the World’s Religions

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Clinical Climate Change 2023: Clinical Care for Workers in the Climate Crisis

June 6 | 8:30 am – 5:00 pm ET

This fifth Clinical Climate Change conference, organized by the Institute for Exposomic Research of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, will explore the intersection of climate change and health. This hybrid conference, which will be held at Mount Sinai and online, is aimed at a broad audience of allied health professionals and researchers seeking to understand the impacts of climate change on human health and improve patient outcomes. 

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Media - Past Events including the 2020 Clinical Climate Change Keynote with CEE Director, Karenna Gore

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Conference | The Right to a Healthy Environment: Looking Ahead

A Program in Observance of World Environment Day A Pre-Parliament Event of the August 2023 Convening of The Parliament of the World’s Religions The Right to a Healthy Environment was approved overwhelmingly as a basic human right by the UN General Assembly in July 2023, the first recognition of a new basic human right since The Right to Water and Sanitation in 2010. This was a historic step forward for human rights and protection of

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May 24, 2023

Virtual Event | Freedom to Be: The role of Indigenous spiritualities in averting climate catastrophe and safeguarding planetary health

This virtual panel will explore how this Indigenous spiritualities intersect with the climate crisis. Panelists will explore at how global Indigenous communities are affected by the same extractionist industries and land removal policies that drive climate change. They will investigate how Indigenous spiritualities’ intrinsic connection to the environment and Earth can support an ecologically focused future. The panel will address the recommendations offered by the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief’s 2022 report

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April 18, 2023

Conference | Clinical Climate Change 2023: Clinical Care for Workers in the Climate Crisis

This fifth Clinical Climate Change conference, organized by the Institute for Exposomic Research of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, will explore the intersection of climate change and health. This hybrid conference, which will be held at Mount Sinai and online, is aimed at a broad audience of allied health professionals and researchers seeking to understand the impacts of climate change on human health and improve patient outcomes. 

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April 1, 2023

Values, Culture and Spirituality: A Consultation on Air

A Consultation on Air: St. James Parish Tuesday, April 26, 2022 8 a.m. San Francisco | 11 a.m. New York | 5 p.m. Paris REGISTER TODAY! On Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at 11 a.m. Eastern Time, the Center for Earth Ethics for “A Consultation on Air: St James Parrish.” You’ll hear from four incredible women working in and around St. James Parish who utilize their traditions, culture and values to stop plastic pollution at its

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October 24, 2022

Clinical Climate Change Conference: Mental Health and Well-being for Patients and Clinicians

The Center for Earth Ethics is honored to be a sponsor for the fourth annual Clinical Climate Conference organized by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai on Friday, January 7, 2022. This year’s conference, which runs from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern Time, will be held virtually and will address the theme of Mental Health and Well-being for Patients and Clinicians. CEE Executive Director Karenna Gore will address a workshop on “Taking Action as

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October 24, 2022

‘Faith and Food: Reflections for WHO Health Week’

  The Faith + Food Coalition: ‘Faith and Food: Reflections for WHO Health Week’Thursday, June 10th, 11 am ET       To contribute to the UN Food Systems Summit, the Faith + Food Coalition hosted five separate interfaith, multi-stakeholder dialogues corresponding to each of the five Action Tracks. The objective of the dialogues was to explore how faith communities – including Indigenous communities – can support the transformation of global food systems to being sustainable,

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October 24, 2022

Reclaiming Indigenous Paths to Health in Times of Planetary Crises: From Colonialism to Climate Injustice and COVID-19

      We live in unsettling times of converging environmental and health crises. Globally, from climate change and mass species extinction to the spread of both chronic and communicable diseases—now including COVID-19, we face catastrophes that compel us to rethink life and health as a whole. As ‘modern’ societies grapple with a seemingly ‘unprecedented’ planetary chaos, now preceded by an indefinite suspension of the ‘normal’ way of life (given COVID-19), Indigenous Peoples locate these

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October 24, 2022

Pathways to Planetary Health Symposium: Ethics in the Age of the Anthropocene

Members of the CEE team will share from the Earth Ethics lens at the Garrison Institute’s 2nd Pathways to Planetary Health Symposium, March 4-6, 2020. March 4-6, the Garrison Institute is pleased to hold the second convening of the Pathways to Planetary Health Symposium. Building on discussions from the 2018 Symposium, we will explore necessary steps in creating a foundational shift toward an altruistic society. We are living in the Age of the Anthropocene, named

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October 24, 2022

Advancing Rural Health: An Interdisciplinary Conversation on Childhood Obesity, Water Safety and Health Teleconsulting

FALL RESEARCH FORUM Sponsored by the Black Faculty and Staff Association of The University of Alabama   Keynote: Catherine Coleman Flowers, MA Founder, Alabama Rural Initiative of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprises and Director of Environmental Justice & Civic Engagement at the Center for Earth Ethics America’s Dirty Shame: Parasites and Raw Sewage in Rural Alabama   Dr. Doris Morgan-Bloom Higginbottom, Prairie View A&M University Investigating Parental Perceptions, Attitudes and Beliefs about Healthy Lifestyles and

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October 24, 2022

World Environment Day 2020 – Karenna Gore

Today is World Environment Day. Our nation is going through a painful reckoning with systemic racism and worsening economic inequity, so the “environment” can seem to be a lesser concern. But as many Native American and Black voices have pointed out, ecological, racial and economic issues have always been intertwined. Consider Donald Trump’s current favorite word: domination. The presence of “white” people in this land began with a theological claim, based on an interpretation of

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June 5, 2020

Health Care in the Time of Climate Crisis: An Earth Ethics Perspective – 2nd Annual Clinical Climate Change Conference

The Center for Earth Ethics joined the Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research to convene the Institute’s 2nd Annual Clinical Climate Change Conference. Additional partners included the American Lung Association and the American Public Health Association. CEE Director Karenna Gore was honored to give the opening Keynote address on Health Care in the Time of Climate Crisis. About our partner: The Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research is the nucleus of the Icahn School of Medicine’s work on

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January 28, 2020

Allensworth

Not many people know where Allensworth, CA is. Of all the people I asked in Fresno only one had heard of it. Allensworth is a small town about 30 miles north of Bakersfield that according to the last census is home to 471 people. The town leadership says its closer to 800 because of seasonal farm workers but the census didn’t bother or care to count them. There are two Allensworths. The first can be

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November 22, 2018