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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 facilities as members, and gathered 13 million ...
[11] [8] The Calderone Prize is the most prestigious award in the field of public health, and is administered by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. In 2011, the School established the Climate and Health Program to foster cross-disciplinary, translational scholarship on the human health dimensions of climate change.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations. Its job is to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities. [1] The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) set up the IPCC in 1988.
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 more rapid than previous changes, and is ...
Overview of health effects and pathways. The effects of climate change on human health can be grouped into direct and indirect effects.: 1867 Both types of effects interact with social dynamics.
Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall warming trend, changes to precipitation patterns, and more extreme weather.
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 ...
The health benefits from climate change mitigation are significant. Potential measures can not only mitigate future health impacts from climate change but also improve health directly. Climate change mitigation is interconnected with various health co-benefits, such as those from reduced air pollution.