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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 ...
Research. NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies – Global change research. NOAA State of the Climate Report – U.S. and global monthly state of the climate reports. Climate Change at the National Academies — repository for reports. Nature Reports Climate Change — free-access web resource. Met Office: Climate change — UK National ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
In common usage, climate change describes global warming —the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to Earth's climate. The current rise in global average temperature is primarily caused by humans burning fossil ...
Air pollution. Rapid climate change. Glossary of climate change. Greenhouse effect. Greenhouse gases. History of climate change science. Human impact on the environment. Index of climate change articles. List of renewable energy topics by country.
The Climate and Health Program. The Mailman School houses the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education, a global network of 200+ Universities committed to educate their students on health impacts of climate change. The school is the first to house a climate and health training program funded by the National Institutes of Health for ...