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Taxonomy Archive: Climate mitigation/GHG reduction
20 Apr 2018 |
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How the low carbon economy can improve health
Spotlight Spotlight: Climate Change How the low carbon economy can improve health BMJ 2012; 344 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e1018 (Published 19 March 2012) Cite this as: BMJ 2012;344:e1018 Article Metrics Responses Andy Haines, professor of public health and primary care1, Carlos Dora, co-ordinator2 Author affiliations ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Breathing Life into Paris Agreement: Health Can Drive Action
“The world will not end poverty or hunger, or meet the health targets, without addressing climate change. And it will not solve the climate problem without addressing energy, and air pollution,” said UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary Richard Kinley at the Second Global Conference on Health and Climate. The Conference was held ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Principles Regarding Climate Change
The American Medical Student Association:1. BELIEVES that global warming is one of the major threats to public health and health equity in our time and that all sectors of society, especially the health professional community, must be engaged in solutions to the climate crisis. (2009)2. BELIEVES that stabilization of climate change ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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To Protect Climate, Public Health, Americans Call for End to Federal Coal Program: Ending Public Coal Leasing, Mining Would Keep 212 Million Tons of Carbon in Ground, Save $7 Trillion
WASHINGTON— A coalition of groups today called on President Obama to permanently end the federal coal program, highlighting the fact that ending leasing and mining of public coal in the United States would keep up to 212 billion metric tons of carbon pollution in the ground — the equivalent of taking nearly 50 billion cars […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change extends Lyme tick’s life span
While I advocate mandating extensive health coverage for those afflicted with Lyme disease, I also want to acknowledge one of the main reasons Lyme disease has become such a threatening issue on Cape Cod (“Time ticking on legislating treatment,” July 19, Page 1). The reason is climate change.Temperatures are rising, giving way to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Unhealthy air, unhealthy lungs, unhealthy communities
Op-ed about clean air and climate change in a newsweekly newspaper geared towards Indian-Americans. Also found on page 23 at this link: https://issuu.com/indiapost/docs/indiapost_05-20-2016_e-paper
20 Apr 2018 |
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New Ways Climate Change Will Affect Public Health
Climate change is a disaster for so many reasons, but now there are more coming to light that directly affect public health. John Iadarola, host of ThinkTank, delivers his Final Judgment on the health impacts of global warming.
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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Climate change: Pollution hits low-income communities hardest
There are a lot of questions surrounding California climate policy right now. For me, growing up in Watts, Los Angeles, the most important question is: how will state climate policies help low-income communities and communities of color?