Resources by Issue Focus

This is a selective compilation of climate, health, and equity resources focused on specific issues.  Use links throughout the toolkit to find additional sources of information.   Please help us improve these offerings by suggesting additions or corrections.

OVERVIEWS FOR FUNDERS

• Much Alarm, Less Action:  Foundations and Climate Change, Center for Effective Philanthropy (2022) 

• Climate Change, Health, and Equity Survey Findings:  Gaps, Needs, and Opportunities, Health and Environmental Funders Network and partners (March 2020).  See also excerpted survey materials:  Funders of Climate, Health, and Equity (2019 Survey Respondents) and Nonprofits Addressing Climate, Health, and Equity (2019 Survey Respondents)

• Achieving a Climate for Health: Philanthropy to Promote Health and Justice through the Challenges of Climate Change, funder primer by ecoAmerica and the Health and Environmental Funders Network (2015)

The following additional resources are listed by issue focus, using issue categories from the Environmental Grantmakers Association Tracking the Field database.  In each section, resources are listed alphabetically.   

RESOURCES BY ISSUE

ENERGY AND CLIMATE

Climate & Atmosphere

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change global science consensus assessments and working group reports 

• Lancet Countdown Report 2020,  Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change (2020)

Energy

• Clean Energy Futures Policy Brief, authors from Syracuse University, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Resources for the Future; and Georgia Institute of Technology

• Energy Infrastructure: Sources of Inequities and Policy Solutions for Improving Community Health and Wellbeing, Synapse Energy Economics, Regulatory Assistance Project, and Community Action Partnership, report commissioned by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2020)

• Energy Justice and Climate Change:  Key Concepts for Public Health, American Public Health Association (2020)

• Energy Policy Simulator - Public Health Outputs, Energy Innovation and Introduction:  Climate policy is health policy: A powerful online tool,  Sarah Spengeman, Surili Patel, Public Health Newswire (2020)

• Equitable Building Electrification:  A Framework for Powering Resilient Cities, Greenlining Institute (2019)

• Lancet Countdown Report 2020 indicators 3.1 on energy system and health, 4.2 on economics of the transition to zero-carbon economies,   Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change (2020)

• The 2019 U.S. Energy & Employment Report,  National Association of State Energy Officials and Energy Futures Initiative (2019)

• Western States Deep Decarbonization: Bringing Health and Equity to Western States Deep Decarbonization, Physicians, Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy

• Where to Install Renewable Energy to Get the Greatest Climate and Health Benefits in the U.S.  Jonathan J. Buonocore, Ethan J. Hughes, Drew R. Michanowicz, Jinhyok Heo, Joseph G. Allen, Augusta Williams, Environmental Research Letters (2019)

Oil & Gas Development

• Drilling Down: The Community Consequences of Expanded Oil Development in Los Angeles, Liberty Hill Foundation (2015)

• Is the Energy Boom in Your Backyard? Oil and Gas Extraction Threatens Health and Communities Across the United States ,  Philip Johnson, Grantmakers In Health Views from the Field (2016)

• Repository for Oil and Gas Energy Research, Physicians, Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy

Transportation

• Fourth National Climate Assessment, Chapter 12:  Transportation, U.S. Global Change Research Program (2018)

• Transportation's Role Addressing Climate Change, Improving Community Health, and Expanding Access to Opportunity Issue Brief, Martha Roskowski, The Funders Network (2020) 

LAND

Biodiversity & Species Preservation

• Gene Drives and Synthetic Biology: Implications for Food Systems, Biodiversity, and the Environment, recording of funder webinar sponsored by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and cosponsored by the AgroEcology Fund, Biodiversity Funders Group, CS Fund, GRACE Communications Foundation, Nell Newman Foundation (2019)

Terrestrial Ecosystems & Land Use

• Building Wildfire Resilience in the West: A Virtual Series, summary report and recordings, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Philanthropy California, Resources Legacy Fund, Smart Growth California, Vibrant Planet, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (2020)

• Fourth National Climate Assessment, Chapter 5:  Land Cover and Land Use Change; Chapter 6:  Forests, U.S. Global Change Research Program (2018)

• Greener Parks for Health, National Parks and Recreation Association toolkit

• Investing in Equitable Urban Park Systems: Emerging Funding Strategies and Tools, City Parks Alliance and Urban Institute report commissioned by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

WATER ECOSYSTEMS

Coastal & Marine Ecosystems

• Issue Insight: Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones, Center for Disaster Philanthropy

• Fourth National Climate Assessment, Chapter 8: Coastal Effects, U.S. Global Change Research Program (2018)

• Preparing for Rising Seas and Flooding, Georgetown University Climate Center Adaptation Clearinghouse

• At What Point Managed Retreat?  Resilience Building in the Coastal Zone, conference summary Columbia University (2019)

Fresh Water & Inland Water Ecosystems

• Fourth National Climate Assessment, Chapter 3:  Water, U.S. Global Change Research Program (2018)

• How Climate Change Impacts Our Water,  Sarah Fecht, Columbia University Earth Institute (2019)

• Policy Innovations to Secure Safe Drinking Water for All, U.S. Water Alliance and the Water Foundation (2020)

• Securing Safe Drinking Water for All:  A Guide for Funders Seeking Equitable and Sustainable Solutions, Water Foundation (2019)

SYSTEMS

Material Consumption & Waste Management

• Inequity in Consumption of Goods and Services Adds to Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Pollution Exposure, Tessum et al, Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.  March (2019).

Population

• Health and Education Solutions Summary and Technical Summary, Project Drawdown

Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems

• Alignment Of US School Lunches With The EAT-Lancet Healthy Reference Diet’s Standards For Planetary Health, Mary Kathryn Poole, Aviva A. Musicus, and Erica L. Kenney, Health Affairs (Dec 2020)

• Building Power and Shifting the Frame: Grassroots Narratives for the Future of Food, recording of funder webinar by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (2020)

• COVID-19 and the Food & Agriculture System: Funder Briefing & Strategy Session, recording of funder webinar by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (2020)

• Emancipation Never Really Came to Agriculture, FAIR interview transcript by New England Sustainability Institute (2020)

• Fourth National Climate Assessment, Chapter 10:  Agriculture and Rural Communities, U.S. Global Change Research Program (2018)

• Gene Drives and Synthetic Biology: Implications for Food Systems, Biodiversity, and the Environment, recording of funder webinar sponsored by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and cosponsored by the AgroEcology Fund, Biodiversity Funders Group, CS Fund, GRACE Communications Foundation, Nell Newman Foundation (2019)

• Greenhouse Gases and Malnutrition, American Public Health Association factsheet

• Organic for Climate resources, Organic Farming Research Foundation

• Plant-Rich Diets Solution Summary, Project Drawdown

• Protecting Outdoor Workers from Heat Illness and other resources from National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• SAFSF Fibers Roadmap: Case Studies from the Fiber System, recording of funder webinar by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (2020)

• The State of the States on Climate Adaptation for Agriculture, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (2018)

Sustainable Communities / Climate Adaptation & Resilience

• Adaptation in Action: Updated Grantee Success Stories from CDC's Climate and Health Program, Part II, American Public Health Association (2018)

• Adaptation Clearinghouse, Georgetown University Climate Center

• A Framework for Local Action on Climate Change: 9 Ways Mayors Can Build Resilient and Just Cities,  Cathleen Kelly, Cecilia Martinez, Walker Hathaway-Williams, report by Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy and the Center for American Progress (2017)

• Bounce Forward:  Urban Resilience in the Era of Climate Change, strategy paper from Island Press and the Kresge Foundation 

• Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE), a knowledge sharing platform managed by EcoAdapt.

• Climate Adaptation:  The State of Practice in U.S. Communities, Kresge Foundation (2016)

• Climate Resilience Toolkit, US Global Change Program.

• Fourth National Climate Assessment, Chapter 11:   Built Environment, Urban Systems, and Cities, U.S. Global Change Research Program (2018)

• Futures Scanning Report, Foresight public health scenarios for the Kresge Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, (2019)

• Green Zones and Grassroots: How California's Climate Investments Benefit Los Angeles County's Disadvantaged Communities, Liberty HIll Foundation (2017)

• Lancet Countdown Report 2020 indicators 1.4 on food security and undernutrition, 3.5 on food, agriculture, and health, Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change (2020)

• Resilience Community GeoPlatform.gov data related to climate change to help prepare US communities, businesses, and citizens, including data on food resilience, flooding, transportation, human health, tribal nations, and water

Trade & Finance

• Estimating the Costs of Inaction and the Benefits of Addressing the Health Harms of Climate Change, Health Affairs special issue (Dec 2020)

• Social Cost and Material Loss: The Dakota Access Pipeline,  Carla Fredericks, Mark Meaney, Nicholas Pelosi, Kate Finn, First Peoples Investment Engagement Program (2018)

HEALTH AND JUSTICE

• Achieving a Climate for Health: Philanthropy to Promote Health and Justice through the Challenges of Climate Change, funder primer by ecoAmerica and the Health and Environmental Funders Network (2015)

• Adding a Climate Lens to Health Policy in the United States,  Renee Salas, Aaron Bernstein, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment / Health Affairs (2020)

• Bridging Climate, Health, and Equity: A Growing Imperative, Jalonne L. White-Newsome, Phyllis Meadows, Chris Kabel, American Journal of Public Health 108, no. S2 (2018)

• Climate and Health, Health Affairs special issue (2020)

• Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, Working Group II Sixth Assessment Report for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Summary for Policymakers and Full Report

• Climate Change and Health Equity, American Journal of Public Health Supplemental issue (2018)

• Climate Change and Health Equity (2016); Climate Change, Health, and Equity:  Opportunities for Action (2015); both from Public Health Institute, Center for Climate Change and Health 

• Climate Change & Health: Assessing State Preparedness, summary report and state summaries by Trust for America's Health and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2020)

• Human Health, Impacts, Adaptation, and Co-Benefits, Working Group II contribution to the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2014)

• Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability:  The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report on Climate Change 2021, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (forthcoming in 2021)  

• Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the U.S.: A Scientific Assessment, U.S. Global Change Research Program (2016)

• Lancet Countdown Report 2020 and the companion Lancet Countdown Policy Brief for the U.S., Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change (2020)

• Multi-Solving the Intersection of Health and Climate:  Lessons from Success Stories, Dr. Elizabeth Swain, Stephanie McCauley, Shanna Edberg, Dr. Grace Mwaura, Maria Jose Gutierrez, Climate Interactive report (2018)

• Opportunities for Health Professionals to Advance Climate, Health and Equity through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health (2022)

• Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Communities in a Changing Climate: Proceedings of a Workshop, National Academies Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice (2018)

• Public Health Dimensions of California Wildfire and Wildfire Prevention, Mitigation and Suppression, Physicians, Scientists, and  Engineers for Healthy Energy report and interactive data (2020)

• U.S. Call to Action on Climate, Health, and Equity: A Policy Action Agenda, Health Voices for Climate Action (2019)

Environmental Health

• Climate Change, Health, and Equity: A Guide for Local Health Departments, American Public Health Association and Public Health Institute (2018)

• Climate Change and Lung Health, American Lung Association factsheet

• Closing the Water Access Gap in the United States: A National Action Plan, Dig Deep, US Water Alliance report commissioned by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• Health Approaches to Climate Change: How do health care providers and public health professionals approach climate change differently? and How public health officials can advance an energy just future, American Public Health Association factsheets (2020)

Environmental Justice

(See also Resources by Impact Focus)

• Adaptation Equity Portal, Georgetown University Climate Center

• Climate Changes Health: Ensuring Environmental Justice Underlies Public Health's Climate Change Work, American Public Health Association (2018)

• Environmental Injustice: EHN Guide, Environmental Health News (2020)

• Environmental Justice and Philanthropy: Challenges and Opportunities for Alignment: Gulf Coast and Midwest Case Studies, The New School and Building Equity and Alignment for Impact Initiative report (2020)

• Environmental Racism Collection: Exposure and Health Inequities in Black Americans, Environmental Health Perspectives, National Institutes of Health Sciences (2020)

• Healing Justice Toolkit, Dignity & Power Now! and Justice Teams Network. 

• Inequity in Consumption of Goods and Services Adds to Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Pollution Exposure, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (2019)

• It Takes Roots to Challenge Philanthropy (factsheet)

• Just Transition Principles, Climate Justice Alliance

• New Framework Advances Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Climate Planning, Louise Dettman, Public Health Newswire (2020) 

• Redlining and Climate Change:  A Deadly Combination, News Beat podcast (2020)

• Resonance: A Framework for Philanthropic Transformation, Justice Funders 

• Transactions – Transformations – Translations: Metrics That Matter for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements,(2011)  

• ‘You Can’t Lift People Up by Putting Them Down’:  How to Talk about Tough Issues of Race, Poverty, and More, Trabien Shorters, Chronicle of Philanthropy (2019)

Indigenous Populations / Communities

• Climate Action Resource Center, National Congress of American Indians

• Widening the Sacred Circle: 2018-2019 Strategic Framework, Native Americans in Philanthropy

• How Indigenous Communities Are Adapting To Climate Change: Insights From The Climate-Ready Tribes Initiative, Paul J. Schramm, Angelica L. Al Janabi, Larry W. Campbell, Jamie L. Donatuto, and Shasta C. Gaughen, Health Affairs (Dec 2020)

• How Native Tribes are Taking the Lead on Planning for Climate Change, Yale Environment 360 (2020)

• Priorities in Tribal Public Health, Tribal Public and Environmental Health Think Tank (2018)

• Tribal Climate Change Guide and other resources on Tribal Nations page of US Climate Resilience Toolkit

• Tribal Resilience Program Awards, Bureau of Indian Affairs (2020)

OTHER / MULTI-ISSUE WORK