Dr. Noelle Selin is an Associate Professor at MIT with the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. Her research uses atmospheric chemistry modelling to inform decision-making on air pollution, climate change and hazardous substances such as mercury and persistent organic pollutants. Noelle discusses the cutting edge of climate science, how she analyses social and environmental factors in her research and much more.
Sustainability is about human well being:
I frame things in terms of sustainability; thinking about how to maintain human well being in the present and the future.
Aligning physical and economic systems will happen, question is how rocky it will be:
Most climate scientists were there five or more years ago saying that there’s a real disconnect between how things are valued and the kinds of impacts that are likely to happen in the future. That disconnect, the longer it goes, the larger the adjustment is going to be when it happens. The physical (climate) change is going to happen so the question is, when is the economic system going to come in line with the physical system? This could be more or less rocky depending on how long it takes.
I wouldn’t separate ESG from everything else:
Cutting edge climate risk thinking happens at a ‘systems level’. I integrate climate models, economic models and health impacts to better forecast what happens to people with climate change. This helps to inform change pathways and policy decision making.
I wouldn’t separate ESG from everything else:
Cutting edge climate risk thinking happens at a ‘systems level’. I integrate climate models, economic models and health impacts to better forecast what happens to people with climate change. This helps to inform change pathways and policy decision making.