Climate risk, underlined the nurse, is a question of “life and death” in her district, creating a “constant economic toll with our businesses” and “to our public housing, which are constantly struggling with mold and mold and, of course, just the high cost of public services”.
And the economic cost of climate change is only to worsen, noted the panellist Ana Baptista, an associate professor of environmental policy at the new school.
Baptista has worked on New York’s panel on the fourth climate report changes, or NPCC4, which, according to her, painted a “terrible image”, because climate impacts such as the growing number of hot days and rain floods should harm in a disproportionate way to vulnerable communities, worsen its existing inequalities.
