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Changes in climate can cause decreasing yields for some crops and regions, resulting in higher food prices, food insecurity, and undernutrition. Climate change can also reduce water security. These factors together can lead to increasing poverty, human migration, violent conflict, and mental health issues. [7] [8] [3]
The Global Climate and Health Alliance ( GCHA) is an organisation, whose members are health professionals and institutes from around the world, with the purpose of tackling climate change to protect and promote public health. It was formed in 2011 in Durban and by 2015 had admitted over 1,700 health organisations and 8,200 hospitals and health ...
The panel also found that a key aim of the landmark Paris climate agreement — to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius — may be out of reach.. More than 190 countries agreed to strive ...
The G8 Climate Change Roundtable developed 3 key principles for governments to consider when addressing climate change. Governments should: Focus their resources on measuring the effects of climate change on human, economic and environmental health. Increase their understanding of current and future changes taking place within the global ...
Climate change does not affect people within communities in the same way. It can have a bigger impact on vulnerable groups such as women, the elderly, religious minorities and refugees than on others. People living in poverty: Climate change disproportionally affects poor people in low-income communities and developing countries around the world.
Various aspects of climate change mitigation: Renewable energy ( solar and wind power) in England, electrified public transport in France, a reforestation project in Haiti to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and an example of a plant-based meal. Climate change mitigation (or decarbonisation) is action to limit the greenhouse gases in ...
Global Environment Outlook. Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a series of reports that review the state and direction of the global environment, issued periodically by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The GEO project is a response to the environmental reporting requirements of UN Agenda 21 and to a UNEP Governing Council ...
Climate change has significant implications for health, healthcare and health inequality in the UK. The National Health Service describes climate change as a "health emergency", citing the health impacts of floods, storms and heat waves, as well as the increased risk of infectious diseases such as tick-borne encephalitis and vibriosis.