Mar 15, 2019
GCHA board member Dr. Courtney Howard of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment writes, “The scale of the climate crisis and the threat to human life has just been made clear in the starkest possible terms by youthful truth-tellers. There is...
Mar 15, 2019
Nov 29, 2018
Following release of The Lancet report, the Global Climate and Health Alliance, an international coalition of health and development organizations, called on world leaders to take the actions required to limit global warming to the targets set by the Paris climate...
Oct 22, 2018
We are facing a global emergency and should organise accordingly Twelve years to act or we will face catastrophic climate change. This is the core message of the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on 8 October.1 The basis for...
Oct 21, 2018
October 21, 2018, op-ed by Tim K. Takaro and Jennifer Miller for CBC in Canada After a summer that saw over 90 heat-related deaths in Quebec, drought-impacted crops across the Prairies, and large swaths of Western Canada and Ontario ravaged by wildfires and shrouded...
Oct 19, 2018