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Taxonomy Archive: Climate adaptation/resilience
20 Apr 2018 |
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WMA Declaration of Delhi on Health and Climate Change
The purpose of this document is to provide a response by the WMA on behalf of its members to the challenges imposed on health and healthcare systems by climate change. Although governments and international organizations have the main responsibility for creating regulations and legislation to mitigate the effects of climate change ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Fossil fuels are the new tobacco when it comes to health risk
As future doctors we call on the Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to remove their investments from fossil fuel companies. We share a responsibility to our future patients to address unmitigated climate change – described as “the biggest health threat of the 21st century” – and to advocate for a ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change in the United States: Benefits of Global Action
The Earth’s changing climate is affecting human health and the environment in many ways. Across the United States (U.S.), temperatures are rising, snow and rainfall patterns are shifting, and extreme climate events are becoming more common. Scientists are confident that many of the observed changes in the climate are caused by the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Health Protection and Promotion Act
Climate Change Health Protection and Promotion Act – Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to the impact of climate change on health systems.Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) publish and implement a national strategic action plan to assist health professionals in preparing for and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Adaptation in Action: Grantee Success Stories from CDC’s Climate and Health Program
Many factors affect communities; however, few are as far-reaching as the environment. A healthy environment is vital to building a healthy community. Yet protecting public health is more than preserving environmental resources like clean air and water. Protecting public health requires equipping communities with the knowledge and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The State of Climate Change Adaptation in the Great Lakes Region
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. It is a global problem that threatens the success and longevity of conservation and management actions. Strategies undertaken to address the causes and effects of global climate change are classified as either mitigation or adaptation. Mitigation strategies help reduce ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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You’re Making This Island Disappear
Scientists say we easily could warm the atmosphere by 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century—and if you call up a scientist like Stefan Rahmstorf, a professor of ocean physics from Germany’s Potsdam University, he’ll say ominous things like this: “Even limiting warming to 2 degrees, in my view, will still ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Resolve
Climate Resolve is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit dedicated to creating real, practical solutions to meet the climate challenge while building a better city for Angelenos today and in the future. Our mission is to make Southern California more livable and prosperous today and for generations to come by inspiring people at home, at ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Preventing the Spread of Zika Requires Addressing Poverty
As the Centers for Disease Control, the White House administration and other federal and state agencies grapple with how best to deal with Zika, it’s critical that we all take special note of communities that are likely to face even greater threats than the general population from these diseases. Individuals living near or below ...