Obama's Climate Leaders Launch New Harvard Center on Health and Climate

"Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, who will head the center, was joined by former Secretary of State John Kerry and science advisor John Holdren."

"Some of the Obama Administration's most outspoken advocates on climate change urged health experts to reach beyond the ivory tower as they reunited for the launch of a new center, focused on the health impacts of climate change, at Harvard University on Wednesday.

Gina McCarthy, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency who will lead the Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE), joined John Kerry, the former Secretary of State who negotiated the Paris Agreement in 2015, and John Holdren, Obama's science advisor, to open its doors.

McCarthy, in an energetic speech that stood in sharp contrast to the gloom and doom that often accompanies talk of global warming, cast the threat of climate change as an opportunity to solve two problems at once."

Phil McKenna reports for InsideClimate News May 31, 2018.

Source: InsideClimate News, 06/01/2018