Studying the effects of climate change, recommending solutions to decision makers, and investigating attacks on environmental defenders
Featured Initiative
Climate Disasters
HRC’s Climate Disasters Initiative engages in research aimed at transforming disaster preparedness and response systems. By exposing critical gaps and advancing blueprintable solutions, we are helping to build more just systems capable of responding to the human cost of our changing climate.
Open Source Investigations
We have completed several environment and climate-related projects through our Investigations Lab. We’ve worked with our sister Labs at UC Santa Cruz and UCLA through the University of California Digital Investigations Network (UCDIN) to create a guide for researchers that demonstrates how open source investigative methods can be useful for investigating environmental crimes and the impacts of climate change. We also partnered with UCDIN and Cultural Survival to document the killing of Indigenous land defenders of the Amazon; explored the health impacts of mining on children in Peru with the Center for Climate Crime Analysis and SITU Research; mapped the rebuilding of homes after wildfires in Northern California in 2016 and 2017 with Earthrise Media.
