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20 Apr 2018 |
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Cooling the Planet, Clearing the Air: Climate Policy, Carbon Pricing, and Co-Benefits
Policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions can yield substantial co-benefits via reduced emissions of co-pollutants such as particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and air toxics. Valuation studies suggest that these benefits may be comparable in magnitude to the value of reduced carbon emissions. However, co-pollutant intensity (the ...
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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Climate Change: Health Impacts and Opportunities
The most recent report from Working Group 2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCCWG2), Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, describes in worrying detail, the current and future impacts of climate change; as well as the challenges we face in mitigating further climate change and adapting to its ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Science for Health Professionals
Medact has developed its second briefing explaining the health implications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group II report, Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. The report describes in worrying detail the current and future impacts of climate change as well as the challenges we ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Doctors call for divestment from fossil fuels
The international divest–invest movement, which has been gaining momentum since it began in 2012, is making in-roads into the medical community. In 2014, the British Medical Association committed to divesting from fossil fuels and The Royal Australasian College of Physicians followed suit in June. The CMA has over $29 million in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Let’s Talk Climate: Messages to Motivate Americans
Let’s Talk Climate: Messages to Motivate Americans report delivers the results from research that rigorously tested words, phrases, and narratives that link climate change to mainstream Americans’ values. The findings include personally-relevant messages that give leaders and advocates across the country a powerful ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Big Coal Funded This Prominent Climate Change Denier, Docs Reveal
One of the world’s largest coal companies, Peabody Energy, paid a prominent scientist and dozens of others to promote climate change denial, new documents reveal.
20 Apr 2018 |
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The perfect storm: climate change and its health consequences
March 30 saw the launch of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change—a coalition of major UK health institutions and The Lancet, who have come together to raise awareness in the UK of the health risks posed by climate change. We are united by a shared understanding that climate change threatens the wellbeing of the […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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How to Deliver the Most Important Public Health Treaty of the Century
According to the recently published 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change, the effects of global warming are set to undermine much of the global public health gains from the past century.1 But the message of the Lancet Commission is also hopeful, highlighting the leadership role that health professionals can play in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health
By almost any measure, human health is better now than at any time in history. Life expectancy has soared from 47 years in 1950–1955, to 69 years in 2005–2010, and death rates in children younger than 5 years of age have decreased substantially, from 214 per thousand live births in 1950–1955, to 59 in 2005–2010. […]