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20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Professional Organizations Call on Governors to Continue Advancing the Clean Power Plan for the Health of the Nation
A report on the very first analysis of the cross-border impacts on health of coal power plants in the EU has been published today. The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), Climate Action network (CAN) Europe, the WWF European Policy Office and Sandbag, have outlined the enormous benefits a full coal phase-out would bring.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Professionals: Sign Letter to Support Strong Methane Standards
We, the undersigned physicians, nurses, and health professionals, strongly support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rules to reduce industrial methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from new oil and gas sources. These standards will not only help to mitigate climate change and its associated health risks ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Public Health Opportunities to Address the Health Effects of Climate Change
Climate change poses major threats to human health, human and animal populations, ecological stability, and human social, financial, and political stability and well-being. Observed health impacts of climate change include increased heat-related morbidity and mortality, expanded ranges and frequency of infectious disease outbreaks, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Position Statement: Climate Change Threatens Public Health
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) is the national nonprofit organization representing public health agencies in the United States, its territories, and the District of Columbia, and the more than 100,000 public health professionals these agencies employ. ASTHO members, the chief health officials of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health must be addressed by the International climate conference COP21
The 21st Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) will take place in December in Paris. It is an important opportunity to tackle the impact of climate change on health by drafting a genuine universal agreement which would put health to the foreground in the debate on climate change […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Position Statement on Climate Change
NCEJN developed a statement to explain our environmental justice perspective on climate change to predominantly white environmental groups that seek to partner with us. NCEJN opposes strategies that reduce greenhouse emissions while maintaining or magnifying existing social, economic, and environmental injustices. Wealthy communities ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Human rights and climate change
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, and reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action,Welcoming ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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WHPA Statement on Health and Climate Change
Based on recognised scientific evidences related to the impact of climate change on health, the WHPA is profoundly concerned by its harmful effects, predominantly among vulnerable populations, including the risks of increased malnutrition, death and injury due to natural disasters (e.g. floods and storms), changes in disease patterns ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Effects of Climate Change Slide Set
Outlines how climate change in Minnesota can lead to various health effects; formative assessment at end of slide set; associated handout provided for students. Activity takes approximately 30 minutes; 90 minutes if you include the assessment.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Extreme Weather: Impacts on Public Health
Dr. Catherine Thomasson’s presentation at the Woodrow Wilson Center on April 10, 2013 on the effects of climate change.