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20 Apr 2018 |
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Diet and Climate Change: Cooking up a Storm
While epidemics of chronic disease are currently by far the leading causes of death, climate change is considered the greatest public health threat. This video explains how people can eat to combat dietary diseases and greenhouse gas emissions at the same time.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Big Question: Is Earth past the tipping point?
For 10,000 years, our world seemed endless. The sky was the limit. But today’s world looks much smaller. We’ve cleared, consumed and polluted our way across the globe. The planet is shrinking. Have we pushed Earth past the tipping point? That’s a critical issue the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Science: What You Need To Know
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20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Equity
Climate One presents a podcast in which three speakers discuss vulnerable populations, specifically communitites of color, and the impacts of climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change is simple: David Roberts at TEDxTheEvergreenStateCollege
David Roberts is staff writer at Grist.org. In “Climate Change is Simple” he describes the causes and effects of climate change in blunt, plain terms.On April 16, 2012, speakers and attendees gathered at TEDxTheEvergreenStateCollege: Hello Climate Change to reflect on the ability—and responsibility—of formal ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Lancet Climate Commission
The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change maps out the impacts of climate change, and the necessary policy responses, to ensure the highest attainable standards of health for populations worldwide. This Commission is multidisciplinary and international, with strong collaboration between academic centres in Europe and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate – Health – Opening by André Vallini of the 2nd Global Conference on Health and Climate (Paris, July 7, 2016)
On July 7, André Vallini, Minister of State for Development and Francophonie, opened the 2nd Global Conference on Health and Climate, organized by France and the World Health Organization. He delivered a speech, notably in the presence of Ségolène Royal, Minister of the Environment, Energy and Marine Affairs, Hakima El Haite, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change health impacts loom large
The world should brace for potentially devastating impacts on human health due to climate change, top policy makers and officials from around the globe meeting in Paris said Thursday.Some of these consequences may be avoided if humanity radically curbs its use of fossil fuels in coming decades, but many are already being felt, they ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Scientist: Fossil fuels’ two-way assault on children’s health needs to stop
Fossil fuels represent a two-pronged attack on the health of children, a leading health scientist has warned. To foster health and well-being in future generations, society needs to dramatically decrease dependence on dirty energy.Frederica Perera (Credit: Columbia.edu) In a commentary released today summarizing the key science ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Southern California leaders to fight climate change’s effects on health
Climate change threatens to undermine the last 50 years in economic development and progress in global public health unless leaders from every sector work to change dependence on fossil fuels, a new report concluded.The report, published Monday in The Lancet, Britain’s medical journal, is considered a major study on climate change ...