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20 Apr 2018 |
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LIGHTS OUT IN THE COLD: Reforming Utility Shut-Off Policies as If Human Rights Matter
This report provides a comprehensive overview of common disconnection protections and policies employed by utilities nationwide, explores critical issues that should be considered in the development of disconnection policies, and calls for concrete action toward establishing policies that protect the well-being of all utility ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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SAFEGUARDING CALIFORNIA: IMPLEMENTATION ACTION PLANS Public Health Sector Plan
California released its first comprehensive plan for adapting to climate change in 2009, and updated that strategy with the 2014 report Safeguarding California: Reducing Climate Risk. Since 2009, California has experienced several of the most extreme natural events in its recorded history: severe drought, an almost non-existent ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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CalBRACE – 2017 Climate Change And Health Profile Reports
This page provides links to Climate Change and Health Profile Reports to assist counties in California to prepare for the health impacts related to climate change through adaptation planning. The following reports (PDFs) present the most likely county and regional climate impacts, the climate-related health risks, and local ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Air Quality and Health Co-Benefits of a Carbon Fee-and-Rebate Bill in Massachusetts
This report builds a model to calculate the health co-benefits that would result from a carbon fee in Massachusetts. The results indicate that the health co-benefits of a carbon fee in Massachusetts can be substantial, even though the policy was not designed as a public health measure. The annual health benefits of the carbon fee ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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A Breath of Fresh Air: Addressing Climate Change and Air Pollution Together for Health
This report from the Alliance considers the ways in which integrated strategies to address air pollution and climate change will simultaneously lead to greater health benefits and cost-savings, than strategies which address them separately. It is clear that in order to protect health and wellbeing from the dangerous impacts of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate-Smart Healthcare: Low-Carbon and Resilience Strategies for the Health Sector
Climate mitigation, adaptation, and low-carbon and resilient health development strategies reduce emissions, build healthcare climate resilience, and provide significant health and economic co-benefits. Climate-smart healthcare will strengthen health sectors and communities by ensuring access to clean and independent energy, safe ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Analysis of the Public Health Impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, 2009–2014
This independent study provides an analysis of the public health impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) over its first six years of implementation (2009 to 2014). It found that the RGGI program improved air quality throughout the Northeast states and created major benefits to public health and productivity, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Assessing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Health Co-Benefits: A Structured Review of Lifestyle-Related Climate Change Mitigation Strategies
This is the first structured review to identify and summarize research on lifestyle choices that improve health and have the greatest potential to mitigate climate change. Two literature searches were conducted on: (1) active transport health co-benefits, and (2) dietary health co-benefits.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Public Health, Energy & Climate Change: A Maryland Statewide Survey
As climate change continues to reshape human environments around the world, communities throughout Maryland may find themselves battling both intensified existing health issues and new crises. Continuing a research partnership that began during the 2015 study, George Mason University (GMU) teamed up with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND LABOUR: IMPACTS OF HEAT IN THE WORKPLACE
This Issue Paper explains the underlying mechanisms of the impact of climate change through altered thermal conditions in the workplace, shows examples of the current and likely future impacts and provides indications of policy response options to these challenges.