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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 ...
The health effects of climate change are increasingly a matter of concern for the international public health policy community. In 2009, a publication in the general medical journal The Lancet stated that "Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century". The World Health Organization reiterated this in 2015.
Sustainable healthcare is organised medical care that ensures the health needs of the current population are met, without compromising environmental, economic or social resources for future generations . Commonly used schematics of the tripartite description of sustainability: Left, typical representation of sustainability as three intersecting ...
The White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy (also known as the Climate Policy Office) is an office within the White House Office that is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States. It is headed by the Assistant to the President and National Climate Advisor (also known as the White House national climate advisor ...
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 ...
The climate and health crises are trapping people in a cycle of poverty and despair. Estimates project that 1.2 billion people will be displaced by climate change by 2050. ... Return-to-office ...
Climate change is the biggest threat to human health in Africa and the rest of the world, the head of the continent's public health agency said. Mitigating that risk was top of his agenda, Jean ...
The scientific understanding about the potential health risks and observed health impacts caused by climate change is now better understood. One category of health risks is that of infectious diseases. A study concluded in 2022 that "58% (that is, 218 out of 375) of infectious diseases confronted by humanity worldwide have been at some point ...
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