ESSIC Research Assistant Professor Melissa Kenney participated in the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) Science and Human Rights Coalition Meeting on Climate Change and Human Rights, which took place on July 25 and 26. Kenney moderated the first plenary session on actionable climate science for human rights. According to the AAAS website, this session was a way for scientists and policy makers to discuss their current work as well as a means for them to talk about ways to prevent and mitigate the human rights impacts of climate change.
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