Featured Tools & Collabs

Partnering with the United Nations to Provide Local Data to Vulnerable Nations

The Human Climate Horizons data platform provides hyperlocal climate data to developing regions expected to be the hardest hit.
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Featured Tools & Collabs

Justifying Climate Policy by Counting Lives
Saved Locally

The “Lives Saved Calculator” provides advocates and leaders with actionable evidence to help them justify their efforts at every level of government.
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Featured Tools & Collabs

Factoring the Cost of Climate Change into Government Rulemaking

The Lab has worked closely with the U.S. federal government, along with numerous state governments, to establish an updated social cost of carbon.
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Explore the ways climate change will impact where you live, work and do business

Featured Tools & Lab Impacts

Featured Tools & Collabs

Partnering with the United Nations to Provide Local Data to Vulnerable Nations

With the Human Climate Horizons data platform, the Lab has partnered with the United Nations Development Programme to provide hyperlocal climate data to developing regions expected to be the hardest hit.
Featured Tools & Collabs

Factoring the Cost of Climate Change into Government Rulemaking

The Lab has worked closely with the U.S. federal government, along with numerous state governments, to establish an updated social cost of carbon that leaders can use to guide policy development.
Featured Tools & Collabs

Justifying Climate Policy by Counting Lives
Saved Locally

The Lab created the “Lives Saved Calculator” to provide advocates and leaders with actionable evidence to help them justify their efforts at every level of government.
Featured Tools & Collabs

Predicting Flood Risk for American Families

The Lab’s data, in partnership with First Street Foundation, exposes the flood risk of nearly every home in the United States.
Featured Tools & Collabs

Highlighting Climate Change’s Impact on Sports with Nike

The Lab teamed up with Nike to show how climate change will impact the sports and activities that people love.
Featured Tools & Collabs

Providing Data to Researchers Globally Through Microsoft Planetary Computer

The Lab has teamed up with Microsoft’s AI for Earth to advance the state of climate knowledge within the research community through an open and freely-available dataset.
Featured Tools & Collabs

Informing the Financial and Insurance Sectors of Climate Risk

The Lab has partnered with the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, BlackRock, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and others, to help stakeholders understand climate risks to their industries.

Featured Research

Featured Research

Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits

The Quarterly Journal of Economics / November 1, 2022
Featured Research

Estimating a Social Cost of Carbon for Global Energy Consumption

Nature / October 13, 2021

News & Insights

Featured In the News

Hot, hotter, hottest: How much will climate change warm your county?

USA Today / August 29, 2024
Featured In the News

Heat waves are a drain on the economy. And they’re getting worse.

Marketplace / June 17, 2024
Featured In the News

New Data Details the Risk of Sea-Level Rise for U.S. Coastal Cities

The New York Times / March 6, 2024
Featured In the News

Just How Many People Will Die From Climate Change?

The New York Times / February 22, 2024
Featured Podcasts

The social cost of carbon

VoxDev / December 13, 2023
Featured In the News

More than 70 million people face increased threats from sea level rise worldwide

CBS News / December 8, 2023
Featured Events

COP28: Launch of the Human Climate Horizons data platform

December 7, 2023
Featured In the News

Biden Administration Unleashes Powerful Regulatory Tool Aimed at Climate

The New York Times / December 4, 2023
Featured Press Releases

Climate change’s impact on coastal flooding to increase five times over this century

November 28, 2023
Featured In the News

The inequality of heat

Washington Post / September 22, 2023
Featured In the News

Climate change is already costing us money, but we have a chance to limit the worst of it and prosper. Here’s how.

Business Insider / September 21, 2023
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White House Directs Agencies to Account for Climate Change in Budgets

The New York Times / September 21, 2023

Areas of Focus

Climate Science

The Climate Impact Lab is developing highly-resolved climate projection frameworks capable of producing both the detail and the likelihood assessments needed for quantitative assessment of future climate risk.

Social Cost of Carbon

The Social Cost of Carbon is an essential tool for incorporating the cost of climate change in policy-making, corporate planning and investment decision-making in the US and around the world.

Health

While it is difficult to tie particular natural disasters to climate change, heat waves are the events scientists can most easily and robustly attribute to man-made changes in the atmosphere.

Agriculture

Extremes in local and regional weather patterns and climate variability have disrupted agricultural production in the past; climate-related changes in temperature and precipitation are expected to affect crop yields in many regions of the world.

Labor

Rising average temperatures, greater temperature variability, and more frequent and severe temperature extremes will make it harder to sustain optimal working conditions for outdoor and indoor labor.

Energy

Energy systems as currently designed are poorly prepared for future climatic changes. Rising temperatures, increased competition for water supply, and elevated storm surge risk will affect the cost and reliability of energy supply.

Coastal

Coastal living carries risk as hurricanes and other coastal storms inflict trillions in property and infrastructure damage each year. Climate change will only elevate these risks.

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