US Climate and Health Alliance

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Apr 2018

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Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Obligations

This resolution seeks to unify the voices of Canadian Registered Nurses for healthy public policy provincially, territorially and nationally, in one of the defining challenges of our time: climate change. It seeks to strengthen the leadership that RNs have provided in this area, and in so doing, change public policy in a way that ...

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Apr 2018

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Climate Change and Health

The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) believes that changes in our climate are occurring worldwide and that nurses have a role in supporting adaptation to and mitigation of climate change through nursing practice, research, administration, education and policy. The most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...

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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 ...

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Apr 2018

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People’s Test on Climate 2015

Nothing less than a systemic transformation of our societies, our economies, and our world will suffice to solve the climate crisis and close the ever-increasing inequality gap. After over 20 years of stunted and ineffective action to reduce climate pollution by governments – particularly in wealthy countries that have failed to ...

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Apr 2018

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Nurses, climate change and health

The International Council of Nurses (ICN) concurs with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that climate change has emerged as a new threat to public health. ICN acknowledges climate change as an important issue for the nursing profession, particularly in light of the impact on people’s health and nursing’s shared ...

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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.

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Apr 2018

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RACP Climate Change and Health Position Statement

The medical profession has a duty of care to protect and promote the health of our patients and the community. Climate change presents a current and ongoing threat to human health globally. The medical profession has a responsibility to advocate for strong action to mitigate climate change and its consequences and to understand and ...

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Apr 2018

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Global Health Professionals Call for Transition Away from Coal

On behalf of health professionals around the world, we call on the G7 nations to accelerate the global transition away from coal­fired electricity. Eliminating air pollution from coal­fired power plants provides immediate and significant air pollution­related health benefits and health care savings. A coal phase­out also slows ...

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Apr 2018

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Health and Ethics Policies of the American Medical Association House of Delegates

H-135.938 Global Climate Change and Human Health H-135.973 Stewardship of the Environment H-135.977 Global Climate Change – The “Greenhouse Effect”

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Apr 2018

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Climate Change and Gender Justice

Melting ice-caps, freak storms, the search for ‘green’ forms of transport and the international carbon trading system; superfi cially, both the impact of human-induced climate change and the policies adopted in response to it may seem gender-neutral. In reality though, there are complex and dynamic links between gender relations ...

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