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"

The snowstorm that swept North America this past weekend definitely gave the cities and towns a system-wide stress test on their climate preparedness. How governments and business respond, recover and improve after such storms will determine the success of climate adaptation in the everyday functioning of critical systems and communities.

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.