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20 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, ...
20 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 ...
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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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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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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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 ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Presdent’s State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience: Recommendations to the President
Across America, states, cities, and communities are taking steps to protect themselves from extreme weather and other climate impacts. As part of his Climate Action Plan, President Obama signed an Executive Order on November 1st, 2013 establishing a Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience to advise the Administration on how ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Webinar: Heat’s Deadly Effects
The second in a series of climate change webinars from PSR. This webinar, held June 26, 2013, features PSR Board Member Andrew Jameton explaining the health impacts of extreme heat and its connection to climate change, and Director of Environment & Health Barbara Gottlieb discussing the need, and method. for letters to the editor ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Action is Health Action: Why Support for California Climate Legislation is Good for Our Health
Linda Rudolph, MD, MPH, director of PHI’s Center for Climate Change and Health, recently testified before the California State Assembly on SB 350, one of the key bills moving through the legislature, and serves as a national spokesperson to raise awareness of the connections between climate change and health. We sat down with Linda ...