UTHealth researcher Lanza selected for New York State Climate Impacts Assessment

The State of New York has recently launched a multi-year study to explore how climate change affects the state’s communities, ecosystem, and economy. New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced the project, titled纽约州气候影响评估：理解和准备我们的气候变化, in November 2021. Kevin Lanza, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology, human genetics & environmental sciences at UTHealth School of Public Health (SPH), was selected as one of the few research experts not residing in New York, contributing to the initiative. “Climate change is here and now,” says Lanza. “It affects everyone, some more than others. We must plan for the present and future.”

由纽约州能源研究和发展beplay苹果手机能用吗lopment Authority (NYSERDA), the影响评估是气候变化反应转变的主要垫脚石，这是纽约首次全州气候变化评估的基础（ClimAID) released in 2011. The new assessment will be prepared by technical workgroups that focus on eight sectors of impact: agriculture, buildings, ecosystems, energy, health and human safety, society and economy, transportation, and water resources.

Lanza, based at the UTHealth SPH Austin campus, 1,700 miles away from New York, was accepted into the health and human safety technical workgroup. As one of the few members from outside of New York, he offers a public health and urban planning perspective on methods, results, and best practices to this workgroup. His research—on the relations between the environment, physical activity, and health through the lens of climate equity—contributed to his acceptance into the initiative. “There are strategies from Texas that can be applied to New York. The exchange of knowledge between my heat health research in the Sun Belt region contributes to this project, and this initiative in New York state can inform the development of future climate impact assessments for Texas,” he said.

纽约制定了该国最激进的气候和清洁能源计划之一。该项目是该努力的延伸。该州已经制定了一项计划，该计划是到2040年的零排放电力部门，包括到2030年的70％可再生能源产生，并达到范围内的碳中立性。项目报告预计于2023年初在Nyserda上发布.