Hello everybody: We published a piece in Huff Post today on "Amazon HQ2 In The Time Of Climate Change." https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazon-hq2-in-the-time-of-climate-change_us_5a249819e4b03350e0b79719?ije The core issue is: why are climate change considerations absent from the discussions about Amazon HQ2? In September 2017, Amazon announced that it is going to create its second headquarters (HQ2) and invited cities to send their proposals. By the October 18 deadline, 238 proposals were in: from cities in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, as well as by counties and even states! Several analysts have provided their ranking of cities. Moody’s Analytics lead the rating charge and published their top 65 cities for HQ2. Interestingly none of the analysts include climate change issues in their rankings. We propose ranking cities on climate vulnerability and examine its overlap with Moody's ranking. Bottom line: Focusing attention on specific attributes may produce different results for the ideal city for Amazon's HQ2. Aseem ******************************************************************** Aseem Prakash Professor, Department of Political Science Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics 39 Gowen Hall, Box 353530 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-3530 http://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/ http://depts.washington.edu/envirpol/
