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20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Challenges: Vehicle Emissions and Public Health in California
This study examines options for reducing emissions from motor vehicles and evaluates each of the options in terms of its public health, climate change, and cost implications, including the uncertainty associated with each option. We examine battery-electric vehiicles, fuel cell vehicles, the use of ethnaol blends in flex-fuel ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Care Facility Climate Change Resiliency Toolkit
This tool kit has been developed to help health care facilities access their resiliency to climate change. The toolkit includes three components: Facilitator’s guide, a presentation which facilitators can tailor to the specific needs of their health care facilities. The presentation outlines instructions for conducting the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Lessons on Climate Change and Poverty From the California Drought
This report explores the intersection of climate change and inequality in the context of the California drought, highlighting the unqiue and disproportionate challenges faced by California’s low-income and farming communities. Finally, the report offers recommendations for better addressing these disparities with urgency in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Clean Power Plan: The Case for Carbon Pollution Limits
In response to the many dangerous impacts of climate change, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed the first-ever limits on industrial carbon pollution in June 2014. Each year more than 2 billion tons of carbon pollution are spewed into the atmosphere by power plants—the largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Why Do Pediatricians Care About Climate Change?
Pediatrician Samantha Ahdoot discusses the numerous health impacts on children associated with climate change. Children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change due to their growing minds and bodies, necessitating pediatrician awareness and action.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health & Green Infrastucture
Green infrastructure is the integration of nature and ecosystems in cities, towns, and regions to generate multiple benefits, such as clean air, better stormwater management, and public health. At the regional scale, it is a planned network of natural areas and open spaces, such as parks and nature preserves, river corridors, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Impact on Women’s Health of Climatic and Economic Disaster
Globally, women and children are at greater risk both during and after a disaster and more women than men die in disasters. Climatic disaster affects women disproportionately as the risk is multiplied by women’s economic vulnerability. More women than men inhabit risk-prone localities and inadequate housing, and through poverty, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Benefits of Urban Greening
This factsheet is provided on the resource page of Friends of the Urban Forest and reviews the economic and health benfits of urban greening and forestry, including increased property values, cleaner air, and decreased water pollution.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Obligations
This resolution seeks to unify the voices of Canadian Registered Nurses for healthy public policy provincially, territorially and nationally, in one of the defining challenges of our time: climate change. It seeks to strengthen the leadership that RNs have provided in this area, and in so doing, change public policy in a way that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health
The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) believes that changes in our climate are occurring worldwide and that nurses have a role in supporting adaptation to and mitigation of climate change through nursing practice, research, administration, education and policy. The most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...