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20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Adaptation Plan – City and County of Denver
In 2007, Denver unveiled its Climate Action Plan and set a greenhouse gas reduction goal to reduce emissions by 10 percent per capita below 1990 levels. Denver is on track to meet this goal and continues to be proactive in reducing city-wide per capita emissions. However, the planet is warming and the resulting effects have […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Minnesota Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment 2014
The Minnesota Department of Health conducted a climate change vulnerability assessment to assess population vulnerabiliies by county based on retrospective data for estreme heat events, air pollution, vector-borne diseases, flooding, and drought. Includes a literature review of vulnerable populations and methodologies for conducting ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Heatwaves and Health: Guidance on Warning-System Development
Heat or hot weather that lasts for several days, often referred to as “a heatwave” can have a significant impact on society, including a rise in mortality and morbidity. Heatwaves also place an increased strain on infrastructure (power, water and transport). Clothes and food retailing, tourism and ecosystem services can also be ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Addressing Climate Change: Ideas for Youth Commissions
This second briefing paper addresses climate change. Included you will find background information, ideas for specific actions that youth commissions or councils can take to address climate change and a number of online and other resources where staff and youth can learn more about the issue.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate and Health- Understanding the Risk: An Assessment of San Francisco’s Vulnerability to Extreme Heat Events
This report provides an overview of the San Francisco Department of Health’s approach to identifying and planning for vulnerability to extreme heat events and associated air quality issues, including the developmnt of a Heat Vulnerability Index
20 Apr 2018 |
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How to Harness the Power of Your Community to Address Climate Change: A Local Official’s Guide
This guide offers: 1.) Suggestions about key community engagement strategies 2.) Examples of how counties and cities have used these strategies to involve the public in their climate chang deliberations 3.) Ways to energize the community to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 4.) Lessons learned from local agencies that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Extreme Heat Events
Extreme heat events pose a serious danger to people throughout the United States. Studies conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have shown that exposure to extreme heat can increase discomfort and fatigue, cause heat cramps, and increase emergency room visits and hospitalizations. It can also kill. From ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Conveying the Human Implications of Climate Change: A Climate Change Communication Primer for Public Health Professionals
There is now widespread agreement among climate scientists that the earth is warming as a result of human activity, primarily due to rising levels of carbon dioxide and other heat trapping atmospheric gases created by burning fossil fuels. It is also clear that current trends in energy use, development, and population growth will ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Incorporating Health and Climate Change into the Minnesota Environmental Assessment Worksheet
In 2010, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) received funds from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to review the state Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW), part of the environmental review process in Minnesota. The purpose of the review was to discern whether climate change and health effects were being ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Californians in their Government
The PPIC Statewide Survey provides policymakers, the media, and the public with objective, advocacy-free information on the perceptions, opinions, and public policy preferences of California residents. Inaugurated in April 1998, this is the 124th PPIC Statewide Survey in a series that has generated a database of responses from more ...