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Taxonomy Archive: International policy
20 Apr 2018 |
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Population, development, and climate change: links and effects on human health
Global health, population growth, economic development, environmental degradation, and climate change are the main challenges we face in the 21st century. However, because the academics, non-governmental organisations, and policy makers in these specialties work within separate communities, our understanding of the associations ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The debate on climate change and health in the context of ecological public health: a necessary corrective to Costello et al.’s ‘biggest global health threat’, or co-opted apologists for the neoliberal hegemony?
The threat posed to global health by climate change has been widely discussed internationally. The United Kingdom public health community seem to have accepted this as fact and have called for urgent action on climate change, often through state interventionist mitigation strategies and the adoption of a risk discourse. Putting aside ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Why human health and health ethics must be central to climate change deliberations
Jerome Singh argues that health ethics principles must be afforded equal status to economics principles in climate change deliberations, and that the health community must play more of a leadership role.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future. Climate Change and Development
Stabilizing climate change entails reducing net emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) to zero. This report outlines three principles to guide countries in their efforts to create a zero-carbon future: (a) planning ahead with an eye on the end goal; (b) going beyond carbon pricing with a policy package that triggers changes in investment ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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“Reaching a tipping point”: Climate a key issue at World Health Assembly
Josh Karliner discusses how climate change — widely considered to be the greatest health threat of the century — was a major point of focus this year at the World Health Assembly in Geneva.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Adoption of the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) addressing greenhouse gases emission mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020. An agreement on the language of the treaty was negotiated by representatives of 195 countries at the 21st ...
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 campaigners welcome China’s plan to halve meat consumption
Climate change campaigners have welcomed new guidelines which urge Chinese consumers to eat 50 per cent less meat, even though food experts say enticing the country’s growing urban middle classes away from beef and pork will be a huge challenge.
20 Apr 2018 |
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NCDs & Climate Change: Shared Opportunities for Action
Climate change and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are two of the defining challenges of the 21st century, each posing significant threats to health and sustainable development. Climate change is projected to have increasingly damaging effects on communities and economies over the coming decades, being set to cause several hundred ...