Ginci Insights

Insights from Toronto Climate Week, including a shift of focus from mitigation to adaptation, climate strategy is moving to the core and the emergence of the term "Climate Teach"

A WHO analysis underscores that climate change is heightening the risks of waterborne disease outbreaks, making robust wastewater monitoring a critical pillar of health adaptation. If we want truly climate-resilient health systems, we can’t stop at hospitals and flood barriers. We need smart, scalable early-warning networks. While it comes with constraints, wastewater remains one of the most valuable tools we have.

Europe was hit by heatwaves multiple times this summer. However, most cities aren't prepared. If 1.5 degrees C becomes an inevitable reality, how are we, as an individual, city or business, going to adapt to this new norm?

In this latest Ginci Insights, I explore how rising CO2, longer growing seasons and urban air pollution are feeling an invisible epidemic - a rise in respiratory allergies and asthma, especially among vulnerable.