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20 Apr 2018 |
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Shocke Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty
Ending poverty and addressing climate change are the two defining issues of our time. Both are essential to achieving sustainable global development. But they cannot be considered in isolation. This report brings together these two overarching objectives and explores how they can be more easily achieved if considered together. It ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Children’s Health: A Commentary
This commentary describes the likely impacts on children’s health and wellbeing from climate change, based on the solid science of environmental child health. It describes likely climate change scenarios, why children are more vulnerable than older people to these changes, and what to expect in terms of diseases (e.g., ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Public Health
As the climate changes, we’re exposed to new health risks. Oregon’s Public Health Division is working to better understand how we can prepare for these new risks and protect our communities. Together with local health jurisdictions, state agencies, and non-profit partners we’re identifying Oregon’s most vulnerable populations ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Report: Climate Change Already Affecting Americans’ Health
Climate change from human causes is already having negative health effects on humans, according to to a report released by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.According to the Climate and Health Assessment report, human-induced climate change is endangering our health by affecting “our food and water sources, the air we breathe ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health Inequities: A Framework for Action
Climate change has been identified as the greatest health challenge of the 21st century. Recently released reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the U.S. National Climate Assessment summarize the current effects of climate change on health, projections that these effects will surely increase, and the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health Policy Assessment Project Report: A Global Survey 2015
A report on the results from a global survey to evaluate the actions of national governments in protecting the health of their citizens from the impacts of climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health: Transcending Silos to Find Solutions
Climate change has myriad implications for the health of humans, our ecosystems, and the ecological processes that sustain them. Projections of rising greenhouse gas emissions suggest increasing direct and indirect burden of infectious and noninfectious disease, effects on food and water security, and other societal disruptions. As ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and human survival
The IPCC has already concluded that it is “virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system” and that it is “extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010” is anthropogenic. Its new report outlines the future threats of further ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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People’s Test on Climate 2015
Nothing less than a systemic transformation of our societies, our economies, and our world will suffice to solve the climate crisis and close the ever-increasing inequality gap. After over 20 years of stunted and ineffective action to reduce climate pollution by governments – particularly in wealthy countries that have failed to ...