Climate Hub Blog

How do you feel about climate change? If you're like most of us, you probably feel overwhelmed. It's a huge, complex problem. It feels too big to really understand and too far away to truly worry about in our everyday lives. We look at the graphs and read the headlines. We see numbers rising and warnings repeated. But numbers don’t always help us sit with the reality we actually experience. This is where music comes in.

What happens when the air you breathe becomes your biggest burden? When the Air Feels Heavy follows Victoria, an Emory student whose daily walk to class mirrors Atlanta’s rising heat and worsening air quality. Her story reveals how climate change, pollution, and inequality intertwine—and asks a haunting question: Why does clean air still feel like a privilege?

The Emory Environmental Law & Science Changemaker program kicked off their work by submitting a comment on the proposed repeal of the Endangerment Finding. Through combining backgrounds in science and legal studies, the Emory Environmental Law & Science program will continue its defense of climate protection.

A year after optimistic climate negotiations, progress has collapsed. Without a fundamental transformation in approach, the Paris Agreement cannot prevent environmental destruction and societal decay—it simply lacks the political will needed to save us from the climate crisis ahead.

The purpose of having COP in Belém is symbolic – let world leaders see the Amazon’s magnificence and be catalyzed to better steward their land. However, the influx of people to the area has proven to be problematic for the environment and the city’s residents.

Tenzin Mutup, Tibetan monk and Emory University researcher, reflects on how air pollution has changed his childhood home in the Himalayas over time.