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Climate Nexus
Climate Nexus is a strategic communications organization dedicated to changing the conversation on climate and clean energy solutions in the United States with a variety of resources and media services that connect to climate change and health.
20 Apr 2018 |
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How climate change impacts health
The World Health Organisation predicts that by 2030, climate change will cause an extra 250,000 deaths per year.Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty says in the longer term, the numbers could be ‘infinitely worse’ caused less by the spread of infectious diseases, but by the health impacts of food insecurity and social ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Makes Me Sick!
”Climate Change Makes Me Sick” is PSR’s Spring 2016 campaign highlighting the many ways that climate change harms our health. The campaign features a series of e-postcards, each displaying a different health impact. Below, you will also find more detailed information, resources, and opportunities to take ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change: A Human Rights Opportunity
A restaurant near Shanghai is charging customers a “clean air fee” to breathe unpolluted air. This is a response to air pollution levels hitting “red alert” status. It begs the question: is a healthy living environment a human right or a commodity?Last December, I attended the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21) to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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COP21 SERIES Reshaping the landscape: The geography of human rights, climate change, and disasters
When leaders gather in Paris to discuss serious measures to address climate change this December, they will be surrounded by a city and region that, in recent decades, has spent its summers grappling with deadly heat. The ongoing effects of these annual climatic threats may not be visible from the Paris-Le Bourget site in December, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Debunking Handbook
The Debunking Handbook, a guide to debunking misinformation, is now freely available to download. Although there is a great deal of psychological research on misinformation, there’s no summary of the literature that offers practical guidelines on the most effective ways of reducing the influence of myths. The Debunking Handbook ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Gender Justice
Melting ice-caps, freak storms, the search for ‘green’ forms of transport and the international carbon trading system; superfi cially, both the impact of human-induced climate change and the policies adopted in response to it may seem gender-neutral. In reality though, there are complex and dynamic links between gender relations ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Health Practitioner’s Guide to Climate Change: Diagnosis and Cure
There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate change. This is the first book to set out what health practitioners can do to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, to make health services sustainable, and to design healthy, sustainable communities.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change in the United States: Benefits of Global Action
A new EPA report, Climate Change in the United States: Benefits of Global Action, explores the question: What are the benefits to the United States of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions? To answer this, we need to understand the basic scale of the difference between a world with and without global climate action. This report ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Increases the Number and Geographic Range of Disease-Carrying Insects and Ticks
Climate change poses many risks to human health. Some health impacts of climate change are already being felt in the United States. We need to safeguard our communities by protecting people’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life from climate change impacts. Many communities are already taking steps to address these public health ...