Caitlan Frederick

Background

About Caitlan Frederick

The IPCC’s latest report (AR6 Working Group 3, for those who pain themselves to read it) gives us less than 10 years to fight warming from surpassing 1.5C. We know that once we pass this threshold, several feedback loops and tipping points will be triggered, accelerating warming much further, much quicker. For some, this will mean hotter and drier days tending to the farm, for others this means migration, as their land has been inundated by the rising sea. I work in the space that grips strongly to this 1.5C guardrail, ready to employ actions that operate within my lifetime, to preserve those lifetimes to come. Specifically, my work centers short-lived climate pollutants (including methane, black carbon, HFCs, tropospheric ozone), which remain in the atmosphere for weeks to decades. I look at how to center the mitigation of these pollutants around justice for those facing climate impacts today and the generations to come that will face climate change impacts tomorrow, based on today's action (or inaction). My practical research interests include climate/environmental justice at all steps of the food supply chain, food security, circular waste systems, reducing short-lived climate pollutants in our food systems, etc. I have been looking into these topics since my University studies, and I intend to continue to build this knowledge to call for appropriate solutions to our climate crisis. I am guided by deeper interests in achieving intergenerational justice through my work as a co-chair of FACE Intergenerational Justice.