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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 ...
Climate change is a global phenomenon with wide-ranging and profound impacts on various aspects of human life. Beyond its well-known environmental consequences, climate change significantly affects human health, including the realm of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHRs). Nowhere are these impacts more pronounced than in Africa, a ...
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 ...
China observed a ground average temperature increase of 0.24 °C (0.43 °F) per decade from 1951 to 2017, exceeding the global rate. The average precipitation of China was 641.3 millimetres (25.25 in) in 2017, 1.8% more than the average precipitation of previous years. There was an annual increase in concentrations of carbon dioxide from 1990 ...
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a special report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation ( SRREN) on May 9, 2011. [1] [2] The report developed under the leadership of Ottmar Edenhofer evaluates the global potential for using renewable energy to mitigate climate change.
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 ...
The Climate Book is a collective non-fiction book by the climate activist Greta Thunberg. The original English edition was published in October 2022. Translations are published in languages including German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Polish.