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Taxonomy Archive: Climate mitigation/GHG reduction
20 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 ...
20 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”
20 Apr 2018 |
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Contraction and convergence: the best possible solution to the twin problems of climate change and inequity
Much is now known about anthropogenically induced climate change, its impacts on the planet’s species, and the need for urgent action to avoid catastrophe.1 2 The unequal distribution of resources between the materially rich and the materially poor amplifies the multiple adverse effects of climate change, so disrupting ecosystems, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Mitigation and Solid Waste
The earth’s climate system is changing in response to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG). GHGs are emitted through a variety of human activities including electricity production, transportation, agriculture, and industry (i.e. processing and manufacturing of goods). Reducing and recycling solid waste can help to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change in the United States: Benefits of Global Action
A new EPA report, Climate Change in the United States: Benefits of Global Action, explores the question: What are the benefits to the United States of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions? To answer this, we need to understand the basic scale of the difference between a world with and without global climate action. This report ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Decreases the Quality of the Air We Breathe
Climate change poses many risks to human health. Some health impacts of climate change are already being felt in the United States. We need to safeguard our communities by protecting people’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life from climate change impacts. Many communities are already taking steps to address these public health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health Equity
Whether through sea level rise, droughts, or heat waves, the populations most vulnerable to climate-related health impacts are the same communities that experience health inequities, the unjust and avoidable disparities in health outcomes. These include the elderly, children, communities of color, and those unable to afford food, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health and Equity Co-Benefits of Addressing Climate Change
Climate change mitigation and readiness measures are being implemented in land use, transportation, water, energy, waste, agriculture, and more. Many climate action strategies also have significant beneficial effects on public health and equity, known as co-benefits, making climate change action a “win-win”. Some health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Child Health and State EPA Clean Power Plan Implementation
Outdoor air pollution is linked to respiratory problems in children, including decreased lung function, coughing, wheezing, more frequent respiratory illness, and asthma exacerbation. In 1970, Congress passed the federal Clean Air Act to address these and other concerns about America’s worsening air quality.The Clean Air Act is now ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Why We Need a Cleaner, More Efficient Power Sector
On June 2, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, proposed a commonsense plan to cut carbon pollution from power plants. The science shows that climate change is already posing risks to our health and our economy. This proposal will maintain an affordable, reliable energy ...