Jorge Gastelumendi on Climate Games, Chief Heat Officers, and Reshaping Resilience

How can video games drive climate resilience? Could Minecraft and Fortnite teach kids (and adults) about adapting to extreme temperatures and other punishing climate risks?

Jorge Gastelumendi, Senior Director at the Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center, certainly thinks so. He joins Climate Proofers to talk about the newly renamed center, which has an exciting mission to reach one billion people with resilience solutions.

Sounds hard, right? Jorge breaks down the three strategic pillars of the center, and its work so far engaging with the video games industry and promoting Chief Heat Officers around the world.

He also shares his observations of a project close to his heart — Peru’s National Carbon Registry — and explains how this sort of initiative can help restore credibility and integrity to carbon markets, which have the potential to channel millions of dollars into adaptation and mitigation projects.

Listen below, download from the Podcasts page on Climate Proof, or tune in via Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

We talk about:

👉 The mission of the Climate Resilience Center and its three strategic pillars: extreme heat resilience, adaptation policy and finance, and leveraging gaming and technology for climate education

👉 Why video games are an important vector for climate risk and adaptation information

👉 How Chief Heat Officers are addressing urban climate risks and bringing extreme temperature risks into the heart of discussions of city governance

👉 Peru’s National Carbon Registry and the challenges and opportunities in scaling carbon markets for climate finance

👉The role of insurance in catalyzing finance for adaptation across public, private, and community levels

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Louie Woodall
Editor