If carbon emissions and associated damages are left unaddressed, the climate crisis will not only become more costly to global health and the global economy, but also will exacerbate inequality within the US and around the world.

Climate migration is poised to be one of the biggest human development and security challenges of the next several decades, yet policymakers and the research community are just now understanding the myriad impacts of climate change on human mobility. A…

New study from the Climate Impact Lab finds people in poor parts of the world are disproportionately vulnerable to the risk of death associated with increased heat

On August 5, Climate Impact Lab co-director Michael Greenstone, the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, testified before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform on the Lab’s newly published research on the…