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From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience

Proceedings of a Joint Summit
15-17 May 2024
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and Veerabhadran Ramanathan (eds.)
Scripta Varia 156, LEV, Vatican City, 2025
pp. 424 | ISBN: 978-88-266-0975-1
DOI: 10.65398/VAIH2213

Contents

Introduction

Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to Summit Participants

Introduction

Card. Peter K.A. Turkson, PAS Chancellor

Introduction

Sr Helen Alford, PASS President

Introduction

Joachim von Braun, PAS President

Session I: Setting the Stage

Climate Crisis: UN IPCC Perspective

Hoesung Lee

Climate Resilience. A New Way to Navigate Through the Climate Crisis

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Joachim von Braun, Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

Climate and Migration: MAST Strategy

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Judit Senarriaga-Esteve

Governing in the Time of Climate Disruption

Governor Maura T. Healey

Chair's Perspective

Mohamed Hassan

Comments

Governor Wilber K. Ottichilo

Comments

Mayor Roberto Gualtieri

Comments

Mayor Ricardo Nunes

Session II: Water

Sponge Planet: A Holistic Unified Water-Based Solution to the Climate Emergency

Kongjian Yu

Synthesis for Session II Water: Transformative Action Needed Now

Paul Kirshen

Building New Water Practices for Resilience in the Age of Climate Change

Sunita Narain

Floods: Is Horn of Africa Prepared?

Joyce Kimutai

Climate Change and Drought: The Impact on the Invisible 60% of Africa’s Population

Kenneth Strzepek, Rev. Len Abrams, and Timothy S. Thomas

Africa’s Vulnerability to Climate Change

Jean Jacques Muhinda

Session III: Air

Fossil Fuel-Attributable Air Pollution Deaths

Jos Lelieveld

Bending the Temperature Curve Down

Gabrielle B. Dreyfus

Pathways to a Healthy, Net-Zero Future

Sarah Sharpe, Andy Haines

People-Centred Approaches to Deliver Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation

Virgílio Viana

Defending Humankind. The Human Right to Resilience as a Framework for Policy and Investment Guidance

Romina Picolotti

Soaring Methane: Risk for Accelerated Natural Releases, Opportunities for Mitigated Anthropogenic Releases

Örjan Gustafsson

Session IV: Food

Energy vs. Food Security: The Aquavoltaics Case of Taiwan

Chien-Te Fan, Chia-Ling Lee

Realigning Economic Incentives to Foster Climate Resilience

David Laborde

Session V: Energy

Real Success in Meeting the Climate Change Challenge: Foundations for a Just Energy Transition

Daniel C. Esty

Pathway to Net-Zero Emissions. Taiwan’s Experiences

Wen-Chen Shih

Governing in the Time of Climate Disruption: A Blueprint for Transformative Change

Melissa A. Hoffer

Accelerating Energy Transitions: Scale, Business Models, Supply Chains

Arunabha Ghosh

Protecting People and Nature: California Adapting to Climate Change

Wade Crowfoot

Comments

Kristina Costa

Comments

Governor Wilber K. Ottichilo

Session VI: Climate Resilience Leadership

Chair’s Remarks

Deanne Criswell

How Do We Adapt to the Climate Crisis?

Mayor Anne Hidalgo

The Gold Standard: Climate Leadership in the Golden State

Governor Gavin Newsom

Climate Leadership in the Empire State: Building Resiliency for All

Governor Kathy Hochul

Session VII-VIII: In the Front Lines: Climate Hotspots/Best Practices in Governance

Climate Crisis in Santiago: The New Face of Territorial Inequality

Governor Claudio Orrego Larraín, Patricia Pastén Valdés

A Different Kind of Energy

Mayor Michelle Wu

Valencia, European Green Capital 2024. A Collective Success Story

Mayor María José Catalá

Decarbonization with Yokohama’s Citizen Empowerment

Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka

Address

Mayor Henriette Reker

Speech at the Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience Summit – Vatican

Mayor Ricardo Nunes

Agire ora. La lotta al cambiamento climatico: I sindaci in prima linea

Mayor Dario Nardella

Unlocking Climate Actions: Managing Climate Impacts to Climate Resilience – Taiwan’s Practice

Deputy Minister Wen-Chen Shih

In the Front Lines: Climate Hotspots

Mayor Renzo Caramaschi

Governance in the Age of Climate Change

Mayor Sadiq Khan

Climate Leadership in Rome

Mayor Roberto Gualtieri

Governance, Water

Mayor Luigi Brugnaro

Address

Mayor Haris Doukas

Address

Mayor Matteo Lepore

Address

Governor Raúl Jalil

Session IX: Social Tipping Points: Forced Migrations

Climate Migration and Integration

Mary C. Waters

Climate Change and Children: Contexts, Impacts, and Supporting Resilience

Carola Suárez-Orozco

Santuario Frontera: A Sanctuary for Climate Migrants at the US-Mexico Border

Fonna Forman

Impact of Climate Change on Women and Children

Soumya Swaminathan

Session X: Social Tipping Points: Ethics and Equity

The Demands of Justice in the Context of Climate Change

Vittorio Hösle

Transformation Policies for Climate Change – Why Mitigation and Adaptation Policies Are Not Sufficient

Stefano Zamagni

Climate Change: The Franciscan Doctrine

Roberto Andrés Gallardo

Legal Significance of the Ethical and Scientific Foundations of Laudato Si’, Fratelli Tutti and Laudate Deum

Antonio Herman Benjamin

The Kayapó People’s Fight for the Amazonian Forest

Chief Raoni Metuktire

Session XI: Financing Resiliency

Investing in Sustainable Water Solutions: A Holistic Approach to Addressing Global Challenges

Craig Cogut

Talent Finance for Green Jobs: How a New Generation of Innovative Investments in Workforce Training Can Address Climate Goals and Expand Economic Mobility

Tracy Palandjian, Xavier de Souza Briggs

Building a More Just and Resilient World: The Role Philanthropy Can Play in Adaptation and Societal Transformation

Cathleen D. Stone and James M. Stone

Climate and the Private Sector

Andrew Forrest

Session XII: Voices of the Youth

Listening to Children is Listening to Nature

Carla Rinaldi

Propelling Climate Literacy in Our Youth: The Example of California

Sohyun Kim, Maryanne Wolf

Voices of the Youth

Catarina Lorenzo, Lu Lipmen, Carlos Bautista, Daenisha Howard Oliver, Sashoi Sanchez, Francisco Javier Vera

Session XIII: Role of Sciences in Reducing Climate Risks & Enhancing Climate Resilience

No Child Left Inside: Nature-Based Education as Holistic Approach to Climate Resilience and Sustainable Development

Christina A. Christie, Laís Fleury, Ana LúciaVillela

Towards Agricultural Resilience: Bending the Carbon Curve

Benjamin Z. Houlton

Role of Sciences in Reducing Climate Risks & Enhancing Climate Resilience: A Virtuous Cycle of Knowledge & Action

Jane Lubchenco

Session XIV: Public Health

Climate Change and Population Health

Maddalena Ferranna, David E. Bloom

Weather Extremes & Mental Health

Jyoti Mishra

Programmable Medicines to Tackle Emerging Health Threats

Avak Kahvejian

Public Health, Introduction

Vanessa Kerry

The Strong Health Argument for Climate Action

Maria Neira

Changing the Narrative to Health for Urgent Climate Actions: Chair's Perspective

Jeremy Farrar

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