Climate Adaptation
The focus of this Flagship Destination is to improve the lives of one billion people by 2035 by enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience, protecting ecosystems, and reducing vulnerability to climate change, with a focus on climate-related extreme events.
The climate is already changing, and we are not on track to cut GHG emissions as rapidly as required to protect people and ecosystems from the damaging impacts of climate change. New solutions are urgently needed to protect vulnerable populations from extreme climate-related events such as floods, droughts, storms, and wildfires.
2022 Projects
In 2022 the Sustainability Accelerator funded its first cohort of 31 teams. Several of these multidisciplinary projects advanced sustainability solutions in the area of climate adaptation.
Accelerating 30x30 through a collaborative regional prioritization partnership
Accelerator for environmental justice (EJ) at Stanford
Addressing blind spots in environmental justice: The Central Valley as a proof of concept
Biodiversity and people: Balancing socioeconomic development and conservation
Performance-based co-design of natural ventilation systems to reduce cooling demand and improve thermal comfort in South East Asia
Western wildfire policy: from prescribed fire to public health
