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Downtown Nashville flooded, 2010. In 2016, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that "Tennessee's climate is changing. Although the average temperature did not change much during the 20th century, the state has warmed in the last 20 years. Average annual rainfall is increasing, and a rising percentage of that rain is ...
The Climate Project, founded in 2006 and based in Nashville, Tennessee, was also supported by Gore's profits from the documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The Climate Project was an educational, worldwide grassroots organization that trained selected members of the public to give public talks, similar to Gore's presentation in the film.
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 ...
Climate change, the World Health Organization says, is the “single biggest health threat facing humanity.” Climate-driven malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and heat stress are projected to kill ...
As Climate Week starts in New York, ahead of a special U.N. Climate Ambition Summit on Wednesday, leaders looked at health as a key part of the climate-change fight, saying better and more ...
Three of the biggest global health funders have joined forces for the first time in a $300 million partnership aimed at tackling the linked impacts of climate change, malnutrition, and infectious ...
The United Nations Climate Change Conferences are yearly conferences held in the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They serve as the formal meeting of the UNFCCC parties – the Conference of the Parties (COP) – to assess progress in dealing with climate change, and beginning in the mid-1990s, to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol to establish legally ...
The Tennessee Poor People's Campaign, a local chapter of a national faith-based social justice movement, organized a march on Saturday, March 2, 2024 in Nashville, Tenn. as part of a nationwide ...