Climate Change Research Round 1: Measuring the Impacts of Climate Change on Vulnerable Communities to Design and Target Protective Policies

Research Institution

University of California, Los Angeles

Project Partners

• Coalition for Clean Air
• Greenlining Institute
• Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
• Liberty Hill Foundation
• PolicyLink
• Public Health Alliance
• Santa Clara University
• Southern California Association of Governments
• Southern California Center for Occupational Safety and Health

Measuring the Impacts of Climate Change on Vulnerable Communities Grant Award Information

Project Summary

Researchers quantified financial and health costs of understudied climate impacts across California - workplace morbidity/mortality, wages, unemployment, household energy expenditures, reproductive and prenatal risks, air pollution exposure, inadequate housing quality, and wildfire readiness. Researchers forecasted potential costs due to increases in the number of extreme heat days and create two accessible online mapping tools to inform state agencies, nonprofits, local governments, and community members.

Research Outcomes

• The Healthy Places Index Tool: Extreme Heat Edition
• Adapting to Extreme Heat in California: Assessing Gaps in State-Level Policies and Funding Opportunities
• emPOWER: A Scalable Model for Improving Community Access to Environmental Benefit Programs in California
• Extreme heat vulnerability of subsidized housing residents in California: (not open access, need to follow up with team)
• Subsidized households and wildfire hazards in California. Environmental Management: (not open access, need to follow up with team)
• Procedural Equity in Implementing California’s Clean Cars 4 All Program: f (not open access, need to follow up with team)
• The impact of high ambient temperatures on delivery timing and gestational lengths
• Temperature, Workplace Safety, and Labor Market Inequality

For final report or more information, please contact us at research@sgc.ca.gov