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20 Apr 2018 |
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Scientific Evidence of Health Effects from Coal Use in Energy Generation
Access to electricity has a positive effect on the health and well-being of people worldwide. However, the use of coal to generate energy has negative health consequences. There is evidence of coal’s impact on human health during every stage of its use for electricity generation—from mining to postcombustion disposal. In ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Care & Climate Change: An Opportunity for Transformative Leadership
The reversal of climate change will pivot around fundamental realignments in the ways that energy is created and consumed. The report provides detailed guidelines and case studies to help hospital leaders and facilities’ staff develop comprehensive strategies to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels through the use of “clean ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Health Impacts of Energy Choices: A Briefing Paper for the Health Community
Access to energy for cooking, heating, transport, and productive activities is essential to human health. Access to electricity is also critical to improving health service delivery, strengthening health systems, and achieving universal health coverage. As the World Health Organization (WHO) observes, “energy access in health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Training Manual: Climate and Health
IFMSA is proudly launching today a training manual, titled Climate and Health: Enabling Students and Young Professionals to Understand and Act Upon Climate Change Using a Health Narrative, developed in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), and the United Nations Alliance on Climate Change Education, Training and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Politics and Global Warming, Spring 2016
This report offers our latest findings on how American voters across the political spectrum–Democrats, Independents, and Republicans and liberals, moderates, and conservatives–view global warming, how those views will affect their vote in the 2016 elections, and how they think citizens and government should address global warming.
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Human Health Effects of Rail Transport of Coal Through Multnomah County, Oregon A Health Analysis and Recommendations for Further Action
Balancing the potential benefits and harms of using coal as an energy source is an ongoing challenge for local communities and the global economy. Coal is a natural resource that has long been used to power a wide variety of activities. It is a non-renewable resource; the bulk of the coal mined today is about […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Leading by Example: Emissions Reductions in Public Health Agencies
This manual provides guidance on how to prioritize and implement the operational changes that allow public health agencies to shrink their climate impact, and it also provides guidance about how to demonstrate a commitment to a healthy future.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Bridging the Clean Energy Divide: Affordable Clean Energy Solutions for Today and Tomorrow
The impacts of pollution often hit the poor the hardest. And experts predict that climate change will worsen the situation. However, the shift to clean energy offers a chance to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, while lessening the toll that dirty fossil fuels are currently wreaking on some of our most vulnerable communities
20 Apr 2018 |
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City Resilience Toolkit: Response to Deadly Heat Waves and Preparing for Rising Temperatures
Climate change poses signifi cant challenges to cities. As urban populations continue to grow, the need for cities and their residents to adapt to climate change and its impacts becomes increasingly urgent. Extreme heat is one of the health threats already challenging cities in India and around the world.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Recommendations for Engaging Indigenous Populations
Disasters affect populations and ecosystems differently, depending on many factors such as socio-economic status, development practices, condition of the ecosystems, level of organization of the community and its human resources, and climate variability and extremes. Deteriorating environmental conditions in many parts of the world, ...