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20 Apr 2018 |
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The potential role of Health Impact Assessment in tackling the complexity of climate change adaptation for health
Managing an issue of the magnitude, scope and complexity of climate change is a daunting prospect, yet one which nations around the world must face. Climate change is an issue without boundaries—impacts will cut across administrative and geographical borders and be felt by every sector of society. Responses to climate change ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System
Food security—the ability to obtain and use sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food—is a fundamental human need. Achieving food security for all people everywhere is a widely agreed upon international objective, most recently codified in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. This report describes the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Public health in a changing climate
Climate change poses both a threat and an opportunity for public health. This report reviews current local strategies and actions to address climate change by public health departments and their partners. It explores barriers and opportunities for action, and identifies recommendations for local and national policy and practice.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Obligations
This resolution seeks to unify the voices of Canadian Registered Nurses for healthy public policy provincially, territorially and nationally, in one of the defining challenges of our time: climate change. It seeks to strengthen the leadership that RNs have provided in this area, and in so doing, change public policy in a way that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health
The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) believes that changes in our climate are occurring worldwide and that nurses have a role in supporting adaptation to and mitigation of climate change through nursing practice, research, administration, education and policy. The most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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10 Things to Know About the New Report on Climate Change and Human Health
This blog post produced by Climate Resolve presents the key takeaways from a report recently developed by the US Global Change Research Program and released by the White House. The report and factsheet present the impacts of climate change on human health in the United States.
20 Apr 2018 |
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A Sting Exclusive: “Climate change- the biggest global health threat of the 21st century, yet overlooked in climate negotiations?” IFMSA wonders from COP21 in Paris
Leading medical journal, The Lancet, has named climate change the “biggest global health threat of the 21st century”. All the while this cross cutting issue does not receive much attention. IFMSA has set out on a mission to inform negotiators, press, fellow youth representatives, and everyone else who will listen, how we will ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Adoption of the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) addressing greenhouse gases emission mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020. An agreement on the language of the treaty was negotiated by representatives of 195 countries at the 21st ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Advancing the Framework for Considering the Effects of Climate Change on Worker Safety and Health
In 2009, a preliminary framework for how climate change could affect worker safety and health was described. That framework was based on a literature search from 1988-2008 that supported seven categories of climate-related occupational hazards: (1) increased ambient temperature; (2) air pollution; (3) ultraviolet exposure; (4) ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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What are the Effects of Climate-Related Risks on Public Health? A summary of National Climate Assessment information from the US Global Change Research Program about the public health risks associated with climate change
What are the Effects of Climate-Related Risks on Public Health? A summary of National Climate Assessment information from the US Global Change Research Program about the public health risks associated with climate change