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Hello from Davos, where the 54th annual World Economic Forum meeting is in full swing. Neither climate nor nature nor health is top of mind—instead, geopolitics and AI are dominating the ...
The effects of climate change on human health are increasingly well studied and quantified. [1][2] Rising temperatures and changes in weather patterns are increasing the severity of heat waves, extreme weather and other causes of illness, injury or death. Heat waves and extreme weather events have a big impact on health both directly and indirectly. When people are exposed to higher ...
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.
The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as COP26, was the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference, held at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, from 31 October to 13 November 2021. The president of the conference was UK cabinet minister Alok Sharma. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Delayed for a year due to ...
The climate crisis can be threatening for people with mental health problems. Here’s what people should know and how communities can support those who are affected.
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 ...
Brain Pollution. Climate change can impact air quality, which may affect mental health, too. Sandstorms, windblown dust from droughts, and wildfire smoke add to the unhealthy soup of pollutants we ...
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 ...