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20 Apr 2018 |
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The Carbon-Free City Handbook
This handbook, developed by the Rocky Mountain Institute, is organized around 22 recommendations for no-regrets actions that will help cities become carbon free. The recommendations are numbered continuously and are divided among five sections
20 Apr 2018 |
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Let’s Lead on Climate
This guide features stories from organizations and communities across America that have successfully engaged their constituents in programs and initiatives to elevate climate leadership, action, and solutions. From nurses to pastors to local leaders, these stories allow others to see how Americans just like themselves have led on ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Declaration of the Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility
This declaration is based on the data and concepts presented at the workshop: Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibilty; Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Health
20 Apr 2018 |
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How the Public Health Community is Leading on Climate Change: The American Public Health Association has divested from fossil fuels and named the 2017 “Year of Climate Change”
When the internationsl climate negotiation COP23 opened on November 6, the U.S. delegation was sidelined for the first time in international climate negotiations. Following the Trump Administration’s decision to pull out of the Paris Accord and its refusal to fund an official U.S. pavilion at the meeting, state and local ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Human Health in New Hampshire: An Impact Assessment
Climate change threatens human health in many ways. The negative impacts of climate change on human health are likely to increase in both magnitude and frequency as the climate system continues to change in response to ever increasing global emissions of heat-trapping gases released from a variety of human activities. The Centers for ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Analysis of the Public Health Impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, 2009-2014
This independent study provides an analysis of the public health impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) over its first six years of implementation (2009 to 2014). RGGI is the nation’s first regional regulatory program designed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from large electric power plants, and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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It’s Happening: True Stories, Healthy Climate Solutions in Action
Climate 911 presents a series of videos sharing true stories of healthy climate solutions in action.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Healthy Planet, Healthy People | Courtney Howard | TEDxMontrealWomen
For too long we’ve put health and the environment in different boxes. The work of our generation is to bridge the two, to understand that in fact, they belong in the same box- that planetary health defines human health- ans that as we improve one, we will improve the other as well.Courtney Howard is a […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change is Affecting Our Health. Is There a Cure? | Jonathan Patz | TEDxOshkosh
Public Health is being impacted by climate change via many pathways – from alterations in infectious disease transmission to water-source compromise, malnutrition, air pollution, and other factors. This talk includes recent analyses that show how mitigating global warming provides extensive health opportunities, as well as ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Multisolving at the Intersection of Health and Climate: Lessons from Success Stories
By leveraging cross-sectoral collaboration, it is possible to design and implement projects that improve local health, produce financial savings, and advance long-term climate goals all at once. These “multisolving” initiatives deliver improvements in multiple sectors with the same investment of time, money, or political ...