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Apr 2018

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Prioritizing health: a human rights analysis of disaster, vulnerability, and urbanization in New Orleans and Port-au-Prince

Climate change prompts increased urbanization and vulnerability to natural hazards. Urbanization processes are relevant to a right to health analysis of natural hazards because they can exacerbate pre-disaster inequalities that create vulnerability. The 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince and the 2005 hurricane in New Orleans provide ...

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Apr 2018

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Advancing climate justice and the right to health through procedural rights

Scholars have increasingly recognized the ways in which climate change threatens the human rights of people around the world, with a disproportionate burden on the rights of already vulnerable persons. At particular risk to these populations is the right to health, as well as to interconnected human rights. Yet, scholars have ...

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Apr 2018

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Role of law at the non-communicable diseases-climate change interface: considerations for planetary and population health policy

The contemporary way of living has not only damaged planetary health due to land use changes and increased production of greenhouse gases (GHGs), but the imbalanced consumption has also led to rapid increases in non-communicable diseases (NCDs).Climate change has been described as the biggest global health threat of the 21st Century. ...

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Apr 2018

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Climate Change and Health: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians

Climate change could have a devastating effect on human and environmental health. Potential effects of climate change on human health include higher rates of respiratory and heat-related illness, increased prevalence of vector-borne and waterborne diseases, food and water insecurity, and malnutrition. Persons who are elderly, sick, ...

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Apr 2018

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Climate change and health at the 66th World Health Assembly

Delegates highlighted the many ways in which climate change affects health, through increasing risks of weather-related extremes, to impacts on both communicable and non-communicable diseases. They commended WHO’s role in international negotiations, technical partnerships with organizations such as the World Meteorological ...

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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 […]

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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 ...

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Apr 2018

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Human health and the Rio Conventions: biological diversity, climate change and desertification

This discussion paper is the result of collaboration between the World Health Organization and the Secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. The report reviews the scientific evidence for the linkages ...

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Apr 2018

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Ent y Cambio Climatico: Oportunidades Conjuntas para la Accion

El cambio climático y las enfermedades no transmisibles (ENT) son dos de los retos decisivos del siglo 21, cada uno presenta una amenaza significativa para la salud y el desarrollo sostenible. Se proyecta que el cambio climático tendrá efectos cada vez más perjudiciales para las comunidades y las economías en las próximas ...

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Apr 2018

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A Vegetarian Italy Could Reduce Climate Change Caused by Food Emissions

The announcement last week that Turin—the industrial core of meat-loving Italy—will be making moves toward vegetarianism was met with some groans. According to The Guardian, the meat-reduction agenda introduced by the city’s new mayor, Chiara Appendino, drew complaints of nanny-stateism; one disgruntled Tweeter mocked the ...

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