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20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Action for Health: Integrating Public Health into Climate Action Planning
This document introduces key health connections to climate change mitigation strategies, suggestions of where these fit into a CAP, a process for forging partnerships between planning and health organizations, links to data that will help planners identify and reference the existing health status of their jurisdiction, and supporting ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Status and Progress in Engaging Communities of Color to Advance Resilience to Climate Change: Experiences of 15 U.S. Cities
Focused on 15 major U.S. cities representing a range of geographic, population, and climate-related dynamics, this study coalesced leading research and local policies, programs, and perspectives on integrating communities of color in climate change planning and adaptation especially to build community resilience. As such, the goal of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Assets for health: linking vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to climate change
Human health risks and impacts from climate change constitute significant threats. Reducing vulnerability, increasing resilience and improving adaptation to climate change is vital, but what shapes them is still poorly understood. To examine what shapes human vulnerability, resilience and adaptation, and the connections that exist ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health Policy Assessment Project Report: A Global Survey 2015
A report on the results from a global survey to evaluate the actions of national governments in protecting the health of their citizens from the impacts of climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health: Transcending Silos to Find Solutions
Climate change has myriad implications for the health of humans, our ecosystems, and the ecological processes that sustain them. Projections of rising greenhouse gas emissions suggest increasing direct and indirect burden of infectious and noninfectious disease, effects on food and water security, and other societal disruptions. As ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Los Angeles Declaration on Climate Action
Climate change is a global challenge that calls for local action. The Path to Positive: Los Angeles campaign engages leaders from local government, faith, higher education, business, and health sectors on climate solutions.
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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Getting Involved in Climate Change Action Planning
Public health employees have an important role to play in shaping policies and plans designed to address climate change. As experts on the health of our communities and on the needs of vulnerable communities, public health staff can ensure that these needs are addressed while we prepare to adapt to a changing climate. Policy work ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Renewable energy is healthy energy
A future powered by healthy energy will require reducing dependence on dirty sources of energy, using energy more efficiently, and increasing investment in clean, renewable energy choices