Climate policy is entering a new paradigm shift: from treating decarbonization as a purely technical and economic challenge to understanding it as a question of human well-being, social infrastructure, and everyday resilience. In this broader view, care is not a peripheral social issue but a core climate issue, because families, health systems, schools, childcare, eldercare, and frontline workers are the institutions that absorb the shocks of extreme heat, outages, storms, and rising costs. In line this this broader vision of climate and care, the present panel shifts the discussion from abstract equity to a concrete planning question: how can energy projects be designed to protect and support the institutions and workers that make daily life possible? It will explore who bears the burden of transition costs but also showcase how better planning can reduce strain on hospitals, childcare centers, eldercare facilities, schools, and low-income households.