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20 Apr 2018 |
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Minding the Climate Gap: What’s at Stake if California’s Climate Law Isn’t Done Right and Right Away
This report explores whether or not implementation of cap-and-trade in California might fail to capture public health benefits, or even make an already inequitable situation worse, taking into account co-pollutants.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Are cars the new tobacco?
BACKGROUND: Public health must continually respond to new threats reflecting wider societal changes. Ecological public health recognizes the links between human health and global sustainability. We argue that these links are typified by the harms caused by dependence on private cars. METHODS: We present routine data and literature on ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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A review of frameworks for developing environmental health indicators for climate change and health
The role climate change may play in altering human health, particularly in the emergence and spread of diseases, is an evolving area of research. It is important to understand this relationship because it will compound the already significant burden of diseases on national economies and public health. Authorities need to be able to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Driving Change: Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled in California
Three specific strategies are to be employed to help reduce smissions: Hgiher-density deveopment, investments in alternatives to solo driving, and pricing policies that raise the cost of driving and parking. This report reviews the opportunities and challenges of each of these strategies and assesses California’s recent ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Driving California Forward: Public Health and Societal Economic Benefits of California’s AB 32 Transportation Fuel Policies – LCFS and Cap-and-Trade regulations
This analysis calculates the economic benefit of the LCFS and C&T by evaluating the societal benefits of full implementation in 2020 and 2025, which include 1) avoided public health costs and incidents of illness, 2) avoided fossil fuel dependence costs, and 3) avoided climate change-related costs (see Figure E-1 below for the ...
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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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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US Effort on Ocean Acidification Needs Focus on Human Impacts
This article presents the impact of ocean acidification on human health, food security, and local economies. Acidification is one of the larger problems associated with greenhouse gas emissions, as oceans serve as a giant sponge for carbon dioxide. When carbon dioxide is dissolved in seawater, water chemistry changes and acidity ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Public Health Policy: Translating the Science
Public health authorities are required to prepare for future threats and need predictions of the likely impact of climate change on public health risks. They may get overwhelmed by the volume of heterogeneous information in scientific articles and risk relying purely on the public opinion articles which focus mainly on global warming ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate action will make our cities safer
In Arlington County, as with much of the country, climate change has turned up the heat. Our residents are feeling the effects. And when it comes to taking action on climate to protect our communities, we are not waiting.