Walter E. Washington Convention Center | Washington, D.C.
Climate change affects everyone, but it exacerbates existing inequities in disadvantaged communities, which are disproportionately affected by pollution, flooding, drought, and other impacts. The 2023 National Environmental Justice Conference and Training Program brings together community members, academia, the private sector and federal, state, and local officials to examine the state of environmental justice and share best practices. The focus of this year’s conference is “Enhancing Communities Through Capacity Building and Technical Assistance.”
Abt helps government agencies and communities mitigate climate impacts by applying our expertise in physical and biological sciences, risk assessment, economics, policy, and data analysis, and some of our experts will be onsite and available to meet. Click below to connect with us during the conference. We look forward to seeing you there!
Abt Featured Sessions
Thursday, March 9
4:00pm - 5:00pm ET | Room: 146 AB
Panel: Charging an Equitable Transportation Future
- David Cooley, Senior Associate, Abt Global
- Victoria Flowers, Senior Environmental Scientist, Oneida Tribe
- Amy Posner, Electric Vehicle Planner, City of Alexandria, VA
Additional Resources
On the Edge: How Climate Affects Community Health and Equity
This Abt webinar will cover using the social determinants of health to support environmental justice populations.
Increasing Climate Change Resilience Among HUD Grantees
Climate change is a crisis impacting communities across the United States, and Americans are already feeling its effects. While climate-related hazards have devastating effects on all communities, low- and moderate-income communities, including…
Fully Accounting for Air Emissions with Massachusetts’ Cumulative Impact Analysis Approach
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed sweeping legislation to address climate issues and protect environmental justice (EJ) populations. That legislation requires the state, with input from stakeholders, to develop a cumulative impact analysis (CIA…
How Do We Account for the Environmental Justice Cost of EVs?
Abt’s Kaylene Ritter unpacks why we need to address environmental justice issues as the U.S. ramps-up resource extraction for electric vehicle (EV) batteries.
Spotlight On: Environmental Justice Services
Abt conducts technical analyses and supports community engagement to help agencies identify and address the impacts of environmental justice actions.