Sep 12, 2018
Washington Post, September 12, 2018: Opinion: You’re probably breathing dangerous air By Christiana Figueres Christiana Figueres was executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 2016. Climate change is here now, and it’s time to...
Dec 11, 2017
Mar 5, 2017
Em todo o mundo, 92% das pessoas vivem em locais que não atendem às diretrizes da Organização Mundial da Saúide (OMS) para a qualidade do ar. Além disso, a poluição é responsável por uma em cada nove mortes no planeta. Foi pensando nesse problema que surgiu a...
Aug 3, 2016
Six months after the international climate agreement was reached in Paris at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the World Health Organization returned to the French capital on July 7–8 to host the second Global...
Dec 9, 2015
The World Health Organization and a vast network of doctors and nurses calls for a climate deal to emphasize the danger to human health “For a very long time, policy makers have been hearing the same message about climate change, about biodiversity, about polar bears,...
Oct 4, 2014
Another study linking health and climate change came up this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Jonathan Patz, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute and lead author of the study, presented it live at the Civil...
