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Sep 17, 2019
– by Rachel Thomson, Policy Fellow at World Obesity Federation (GCHA member) – The interconnections between climate and human health are now widely recognised: by scientists, by policymakers and by communities experiencing the effects of...
Sep 10, 2019
– by Frances MacGuire – A search for the Amazon on Google will throw up more than a dozen air pollution monitors for sale. This is surprising because, of all the thousands of words that have been written about the Amazon forest fires since mid-August, very...
Aug 9, 2019
– by Jeni Miller – In 2006 I worked on a major public health initiative to reduce obesity in California, called “Healthy Eating, Active Communities”. Obesity in the US is still at epidemic levels, affecting nearly 40% of US adults according to the Centers...
Jul 5, 2019
Guest opinion from Diedre Duff of GCHA member organization MedAct. Climate change is already claiming thousands of lives every year and impacting the health of millions of the world’s most vulnerable people. In 2015, the Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change...
Mar 4, 2019
Guest blog, Rashmi Venkatraman Conference of the Parties (COP) is the annual meeting held between participants in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 24th meeting took place in Katowice, Poland. COP24 in December 2018 brought...
