Changing Work in a Changing Climate | Pulitzer Center Panel at D.C. Environmental Film Festival 2023

What are the intersections of climate and work? How are global climate risks playing out in fields and on factory floors and being discussed in company boardrooms? As the world heats up, what jobs and employment sectors, what factory practices, what sorts of manufacturing—from computer chips to batteries to food production to fast fashion—are threatened or must change? Factors affecting work range from heat to competition for water resources. With a series of films focusing on labor and the environment, the Pulitzer Center offers a view into the real-world problems of working as temperatures rise, limited labor rights oversight and threats to livelihoods for some of the world’s most vulnerable workers. Reporting efforts also seek to document solutions by companies and communities and insights into the work of scientists seeking to reduce the impacts of climate change. A screening followed by a conversation with journalists and filmmakers involved in these projects, including Sidrah Fatma Ahmed, Aryn Baker, Hal Bernton, Andrew Robinson, and Fred de Sam Lazaro. Christine Spolar, the Pulitzer Center's climate and labor editor, will moderate the conversation. The event will take place Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at 6:00pm EST in Washington, D.C., as part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital. All films are supported by the Pulitzer Center in conjunction with the individual media outlets named: Scientific American, The Financial Times, PBS NewsHour, TIME, Anchorage Daily News, and The Seattle Times. Shorts curated by the Pulitzer Center; program in partnership with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital and co-presented with the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. Christine Spolar worked as a consultant climate editor for the Pulitzer Center between January 2022 and January 2025. Films Include: "Can India Adapt to Extreme Heat?" (Financial Times)    • Can India adapt to extreme heat? | FT Film   "Too Hot to Work: Qatar’s World Cup Building Boom" (TIME) https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/cl... "Climate Change Forces Major Lifestyle Changes High in the Himalayan Mountains" (PBS NewsHour)    • Climate change forces major lifestyle chan...   "The Vanishing Invisible Forests" (Scientific American; also co-published with Monterey Herald)    • Dive into a vanishing, invisible forest to...   "Amid a Changing Climate, a Record Return of Alaska’s Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon" (Co-Published by The Seattle Times and Anchorage Daily News)    • Bristol Bay sockeye salmon are thriving as...