Climate Change Adaptation: Community Health Risk, Resilience and Response

The public health and safety impacts of climate change – severe weather events, air pollution, changing vector ecologies, proliferation of allergens, water and food insecurity, civil unrest and increasing conflict, environmental degradation and extreme heat – are increasingly likely to impact (differentially) the aluminium sector’s industrial sites, local communities, and its workforce.

In this 45 Minutes on webinar, Dr Jim Wesdock (Global Health Director, Alcoa), Paul Marsh (Health, Safety & Environment Program Manager, IAI), and Greg Paoli (Principal Risk Scientist, Risk Sciences International) explore an ongoing International Aluminium Institute-led and ASI-supported project to develop tools for evaluating and managing health, safety and well-being risks related to climate change, with an overarching goal to favourably impact on asset operational resilience and the communities in which these assets reside.

The utility of such work to practitioners and communities across the globe is highly dependent on local community engagement and the support of operations – an Alcoa Foundation project to facilitate this engagement through enhanced health literacy – is also addressed, as well as what ASI and its Members can do to improve adaptation to climate change and the resilience of affected populations.