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Food Recovery Act
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree’s Food Recovery Act takes commonsense steps to reduce food waste while helping feed millions of Americans.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Introducing commonsense bill to standardize food date labeling
The current dizzying array of date labels on food products—such as “sell by,” “use by,” and “expires on”— confuses consumers and contributes to 90 percent of Americans prematurely tossing perfectly safe food
20 Apr 2018 |
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Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
This Act is about improving the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of Wales.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Strengthening the Public Health Infrastructure
Public health infrastructure is the underlying foundation that supports the planning, delivery, and evaluation of public health activities and practices. Public health concentrates on the health of the population rather than care of the individual patient. Public health works to protect and improve the health of communities through ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Global Climate Change and Human Health
The American Medical Association’s Environmental Health policy related to Global Climate Change and Health outlines the recognition of and commitment to addressing the health impacts of climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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House of Delegates Resolution: Global Climate Change
RESOLVED, that the American Nurses Association recognizes and publicly acknowledges that the challenges we face as a result of global climate change are unprecedented in human history and it is critical that nurses speak out in a united voice and advocate for change on both individual and policy levels; and be it furtherRESOLVED, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Resolution on Affirming Psychologists’ Role in Addressing Global Climate Change
Therefore it is resolved that APA reaffirms its recognition of the importance of psychological aspects of human environment relations; Therefore it is resolved that APA supports psychologists’ involvement in scientific research on global climate change and on the role of human behavior as a significant contributor to these changes; ...
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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Global conference sets health action agenda for the implementation of the Paris Agreement
Participants attending the Second Global Conference on Health and Climate, hosted by the Government of France, COP21 presidency, proposed key actions for the implementation of the Paris agreement to reduce health risks linked to climate change. The action agenda is a contribution to COP22, under the Presidency of the Government of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Air Pollution
In recognition of the numerous and serious adverse health consequences resulting from pollution, climate change and ozone layer depletion, the AAFP recommends strong action on all public and private levels to limit and correct the pollution of our land, atmosphere and water.