At COP28, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Climate Impact Lab (CIL) will unveil an expanded version of the Human Climate Horizons data platform (HCH).
As scientists have increasingly been able to link planetary warming to wildfires, floods, droughts, storms and heat waves, estimates of the social cost of carbon have grown more sophisticated. The new estimate of the social cost of carbon, making its…
According to new data on the Human Climate Horizons platform, a collaboration between the Climate Impact Lab and UNDP, increased coastal flooding this century will put over 70 million people in the path of expanding floodplains. Latin America, the Caribbean,…
The Climate Impact Lab, a group of economists and scientists, estimates that without measures like widespread air conditioning, higher temperatures would lead to several hundred thousand added deaths by 2040.
The costs of climate change will only climb if we don’t address the climate crisis, economists like the Lab’s Amir Jina say. But in these sometimes-scary numbers, there are is also opportunity — a chance to remake the global economy…