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20 Apr 2018 |
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Are We Ready: Preparing for the Public Health Challenges of Climate Change
Local health departments play a vital role in helping communities prepare for and address the health effects of climate change. In 2012, NACCHO and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication assessed local health department directors’ perceptions of the impacts of climate change within their ...
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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Addressing Climate Change in the Health Care Setting: Opportunities for Action
Combating climate change is not a finite goal but an ongoing effort. Whether focusing on fleet management, local sourcing, energy and water conservation strategies, or green energy, climate change response is a continuous process. The important thing is to get started. Initiate the conversation internally, get others excited about ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change: Mastering the Public Health Role
For several years now, those working in public health have been building the case that climate change is a major public health issue. National Public Health Week 2008, themed “Climate Change: Our Health in the Balance,” was the official start to APHA’s work to illuminate the connection between climate change and public health. ...
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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City and County of Denver – Climate Action Plan 2015
As global concern grows over the role human activity plays in accelerating climate change, opportunity exists to implement changes to minimize the most severe and potentially irreversible impacts on our planet. To help address this critical issue, Denver is releasing an updated Climate Action Plan (CAP) with new strategies to meet ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Labor: Impacts of Heat in the Workplace
Rising heat in the workplace implies severe effects for Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and emerging economies with high concentrations of outdoor labour and industrial and service sector workers operating in ineffectively climate controlled conditions. Its consequences imply effects for a majority of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Scientific Consensus on Maintaining Humanity’s Life Support Systems in the 21st Century: Information for Policy Makers
Earth is rapidly approaching a tipping point. Human impacts are causing alarming levels of harm to our planet. As scientists who study the interaction of people with the rest of the biosphere using a wide range of approaches, we agree that the evidence that humans are damaging their ecological life-support systems is overwhelming. We ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The End of Coal: Ontario’s coal phase-out
Ontario has successfully implemented its policy to put an end to coal use by the end of 2014. The coal phaseout in Ontario has become “the single largest GHG reduction measure in North America”. Since 2007, when coal accounted for about 25 per cent of its electricity generation, the province has reduced its greenhouse gas […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Building Resilience Against Climate Effects: Arizona Extreme Weather, Climate and Health: Synthesis Report 2015
Humans have always been affected by Earth’s environment. However, our risk of harm from environmental hazards may be increasing, as research shows extreme heat events are likely to intensify and occur more often across the globe. Extreme heat events are already of particular concern because of Arizona’s dangerously hot summers. ...