This week, the Climate Adaptation in the Gulf of Guinea Cluster held a workshop entitled, "Resilient Coasts: Sustainable Frameworks for Climate Adaptation in the Gulf of Guinea." The Cluster is considering climate adaptation strategies to coastal erosion in Abidjan, Accra, and Lagos that would be technically feasible, that could be implemented, and that would garner political support. The strategies include coastal defense to protect high value stretches of the coast; livelihood protection in situ, examining how to make coastal communities floodable but functional; and livelihood protection ex situ, the option of voluntary non-temporary resettlement of vulnerable coastal populations, either with or without compensation. An analysis of past and future sea level rise across the Gulf of Guinea and probabilistic projections of sea level change to 2100 CE will inform the Cluster’s understanding of the social and economic risks of erosion and flooding on six different vulnerable communities in these cities.

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Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Chair Peter Huybers describes how changes to seasonal rainfall patterns hurt people facing food shortages.

Satchit Balsari, Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Co-Director of CrisisReady, speaks to the impacts of hurricanes on human health and displacement and what can be expected as the recovery progresses.

The Park Fire in California has become the 5th largest wildfire in the state's history. The path and trajectory of smoke from wildfires like this one can have serious and lasting impacts on human health. We asked Harvard wildfire expert Loretta Mickley to tell us more about how scientists predict where wildfire smoke is going to end up.

Satchit Balsari, Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Co-Director of CrisisReady, speaks to the impacts of hurricanes on human health and displacement and what can be expected as the recovery progresses.

Stephen Ansolabehere explains why electricity transport projects take so long to build, the subject of his expansive new study.

Health professionals are on the frontlines of climate change. A global leader in medical education describes how to ensure they are prepared.

Apply by May 31 for the Burke Climate and Health Fellowship, offered by the Harvard Global Health Initiative and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University.

Harvard workshop discusses how to communicate the urgency of climate change to policymakers juggling multiple crises.

Biomimetics suggests that climate solutions for heating, cooling, and lighting our buildings are available in the natural world.

Researchers at Harvard Business School are examining how to unlock private capital and cut the cost of future climate disasters.