Climate Change

Alan Plattus

MArch, Professor, Founding Director of the Urban Design Workshop, Yale School of Architecture

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Andrei Harwell

MArch, AIA, Senior Critic, Director of the Urban Design Workshop, Yale School of Architecture

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LaRon E. Nelson

PhD, RN, FNP (BC), FAAN, Associate Professor, Yale School of Public Health

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Narasimha Rao

PhD, Associate Professor of Energy Systems, Yale School of the Environment

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Drew Gentner

PhD, Associate Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Associate Professor, Yale School of the Environment

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Joel Sanders

FAIA, Professor in the Practice, Yale School of Architecture and founder of JSA/MIXdesign

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Morgan Grove

PhD, MFS, Lecturer, Yale School of the Environment, Team Leader, USDA Forest Service’s Baltimore Urban Field Station, Scholar in Residence, SESYNC (National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center)

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Mushfiq Mobarak

PhD, Jerome Kasoff ‘54 Professor of Management and Economics, Yale University, Yale School of Management, Founder and Faculty Director, Yale Research Initiative on Innocation and Scale

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Authors of UN Report on Climate Change Discuss Opportunities, Challenges of Urban Areas at Annual Hixon Conference

The most recent report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released earlier this year issued a dire warning about the growing threats posed to people and ecosystems if urgent — if not immediate — action is not taken on climate change. But the report also outlined where mitigation — particularly in urban areas — could provide hope for meaningful climate action.

On a Warming Planet, Urban Trees Become Critical Infrastructure

As heat waves turn cities into sweltering ovens, tree shade has become a critical tool to mitigate climate change—and Yale is working to promote a healthy tree canopy on campus and around New Haven.

Urban trees provide a host of benefits that blunt the effects of climate change, and they are increasingly being treated as important infrastructure for cities. Trees sequester carbon dioxide, produce oxygen, reduce stormwater runoff by utilizing water before it’s channeled into a drainage system, and capture pollution particulates—especially ozone—through their leaves or needles.