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| The Health Sector on the Front Lines |
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In the age of climate change, the health sector finds itself on the front lines, confronting and adapting to a changing landscape and shifting burden of disease. By working to reduce carbon pollution in the atmosphere, while developing forward looking adaptation strategies, we can protect human health, saving lives and money. Indeed, the health sector can play a leadership role in developing and modeling climate solutions for the rest of society. |
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| Be Informed |
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WHO-HCWH Climate Report: Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Addressing Climate Change in Health Care Settings (pdf)
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| US: HCWH Delivers Support For EPA's Mercury Rule to Reduce Emissions |
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| by Boston Green Blog |
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Health Care Without Harm and more than 200 health, environmental, and social justice organizations (including the Alliance for Climate Protection, Environment Defense, Greenpeace, National Wildlife Federation, Physicians for Social Responsibility, US Climate Action Network and others) have lobbied the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) to ensure that the proposed mercury safeguards remain strong enough to protect the health of children and mothers. These organisations also support the EPA's draft rules to significantly curb mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants which affects health and the environment and enhances climate change. more |
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| Global: The Importance of Climate Change to Health: Where the UN Negotiations Sit |
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| by The Lancet |
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A survey conducted at the sixteenth negotiation session of the Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP16) demonstrated that COP delegates acknowledge that human health should be an important factor in the UNFCCC negotiations yet delegates also recognised that health is currently not important to the process. It also suggests that more health expertise needs to be present at the negotiations, and government delegations require more negotiators who have a health background. Most importantly, health professionals need to improve the communication of the health effects of climate change and the health and economic benefits of emission reductions to the general public and to policy makers. more |
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| Global: Estimating the Global Public Health Implications of Electricity and Coal Consumption
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| by Environmental Health Daily |
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The growing health risks associated with greenhouse gas emissions highlight the need for new energy policies that emphasize efficiency and low-carbon energy intensity. This study assesses the relationships among electricity use, coal consumption, and health outcomes. As a conclusion, the study states that coal consumption has significant detrimental health impacts. more |
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| Ireland: Environmental Health Practitioners Act To Reduce The Impact of Climate Change |
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| by CIEH |
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Environmental Health practitioners are taking action to mitigate and adapt to climate change, according to a landmark publication launched today by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health. The document entitled Our World, Our Wellbeing showcases 14 Northern Ireland environmental health inspired initiatives and a total of 68 across the UK. According to Gary McFarlane, Director for CIEH Northern Ireland, environmental health practitioners are in a unique position to influence behaviour in three core domains: externally with the businesses, organisations and communities they work with on a daily basis, internally within their own organisations and individually at a personal level. more |
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| Botswana: Experts Link Climate Change to Rising Health Threats |
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| by Global Press Institute |
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As Botswana studies its growing vulnerability to climate change, health risks associated with a changing climate have come to the forefront. Higher temperatures and less frequent and predictable rain have hurt crops and nutrition, which is essential for strengthening the immune system against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. Meanwhile, higher carbon dioxide levels are enabling the rapid spread of primary malaria agents malaria to mostly women and girls. more |
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| London: Report States That Teen Girls Face Heaviest Risks From Climate Impacts |
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| by Trust |
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The gender dimension of climate change is gaining a greater profile in the global debate. Yet the double jeopardy brought by gender and age remains largely ignored. According to the Report Weathering the Storm: Adolescent Girls and Climate Change climate change disproportionately affects girls, particularly adolescent girls. Women and girls constitute 70% of the global poor and the combination of poverty and prescribed gender roles means that they are increasingly being affected by climate risks. more |
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| US: Health Impacts of Climate Change
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| by Pacific Press |
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According to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), by 2020 climate change-induced ground-level ozone, the primary component of smog, will cause millions of respiratory illnesses and thousands of hospitalizations for serious breathing problems, including asthma. Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It, by Paul R. Epstein, M.D., and Dan Ferber, probes the topic of climate disruption’s effects on health in depth. more |
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