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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 main short-lived climate pollutants are black carbon, methane and tropospheric ozone, which are the most important contributors to the human enhancement of the global greenhouse effect after CO 2. These short-lived climate pollutants are also dangerous air pollutants, with various detrimental impacts on human health, agriculture and ecosystems.
Climate change has been called “ the greatest global health threat ,” increasing the risk of a number of potentially life-threatening conditions. 1. Heart disease. Extreme heat has been linked ...
Both crises are global in nature, and both disproportionately affect the most vulnerable communities of color. In the United States alone, COVID-19 hit Black communities the hardest. “The COVID ...
The chance to secure a livable future for everyone on Earth is slipping away.
The new outlook, based on models from climate prediction centers around the world, highlights the need for drastic action to curb climate change — particularly if the world has any hope of ...
The emotional responses to the threat of climate change can include eco-anxiety, ecological grief and eco-anger. [8] [9] Such emotions can be rational responses to the degradation of the natural world and lead to adaptive action. [10] Assessing the exact mental health effects of climate change is difficult; increases in heat extremes pose risks ...