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Taxonomy Archive: Climate mitigation/GHG reduction
20 Apr 2018 |
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Global Climate Change and Children’s Health
Rising global temperatures are causing major physical, chemical, and ecological changes in the planet. There is wide consensus among scientific organizations and climatologists that these broad effects, known as “climate change,” are the result of contemporary human activity. Climate change poses threats to human health, safety, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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AAP Publications Reaffirmed and Retired
Reaffirmation of AAP’s 2007 policy “Global Climate Change and Children’s Health”
20 Apr 2018 |
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Divestment for Health
The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) presents the need for divestment from fossil fuels for human and environmental health. CAPE encourages Canada’s healthcare organizations to make sure their investments are in line with their climate-health vision.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Iowa Climate Statement 2014: Impacts on the Health of Iowans
Iowans are experiencing the very real impacts of climate change, including heavier rains in spring, increased flooding, and a longer growing season. Human health effects are just as real and are already being felt in Iowa. Most obvious, immediate, and direct are the health‐related effects of extreme events, which are increasing in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Professional Organizations Call on Governors to Continue Advancing the Clean Power Plan for the Health of the Nation
A report on the very first analysis of the cross-border impacts on health of coal power plants in the EU has been published today. The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), Climate Action network (CAN) Europe, the WWF European Policy Office and Sandbag, have outlined the enormous benefits a full coal phase-out would bring.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Protect AB 32: Clean Air Saves Lives and Money
Air pollution has created a public health crisis in California. California’s innovative clean air laws, including AB 32, are vital to cut harmful pollution from our air, reduce the incidence of asthma attacks and lung and heart illnesses that send people to hospitals and emergency rooms, and help people live full and healthy lives. ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Public Health Opportunities to Address the Health Effects of Climate Change
Climate change poses major threats to human health, human and animal populations, ecological stability, and human social, financial, and political stability and well-being. Observed health impacts of climate change include increased heat-related morbidity and mortality, expanded ranges and frequency of infectious disease outbreaks, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health must be addressed by the International climate conference COP21
The 21st Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) will take place in December in Paris. It is an important opportunity to tackle the impact of climate change on health by drafting a genuine universal agreement which would put health to the foreground in the debate on climate change […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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WHPA Statement on Health and Climate Change
Based on recognised scientific evidences related to the impact of climate change on health, the WHPA is profoundly concerned by its harmful effects, predominantly among vulnerable populations, including the risks of increased malnutrition, death and injury due to natural disasters (e.g. floods and storms), changes in disease patterns ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)
Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis; Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability; Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change; Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report.Includes Summary for Policymakers and a presentation of key findings.