Youth climate strike: ‘a diagnosis being made en masse,’ says ER doc
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 tremendous value in stating a diagnosis out loud.”
New campaign to ‘unmask’ Fresno, cut air pollution. ‘We are the canary in the coal mine.’
The push for better air quality in the San Joaquin Valley has a new team of advocates – doctors – who are taking a more active role in demanding clean air for the region.
Fierce Healthcare: Doctors add voices to fears climate change is posing health risks around the globe
In the wake of a new study released Wednesday that warned of escalating health risks from climate change, a major physician group is backing the call for action.
British Medical Journal: Global warming must stay below 1.5°C
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.
CBC: Trans Mountain pipeline review must look at impact on global health emergency of climate change
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 in smoke, many of the world’s leading experts gathered in San Francisco last month at the Global Climate and Health Forum to discuss the health implications of climate change.
Devex: What the climate community can learn from global health
On 12 September 2018, GCHA co-hosted the Global Climate and Health Forum, alongside the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.
Skoll: Health care in the house at the Global Climate Action Summit – by Josh Karliner
On 12 September 2018, GCHA co-hosted the Global Climate and Health Forum, alongside the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.
Devex: Global health community steps up climate action
On 12 September 2018, GCHA co-hosted the Global Climate and Health Forum, alongside the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.
Forum Calls for Action on Climate Change to Protect Health
On 12 September 2018, GCHA co-hosted the Global Climate and Health Forum, alongside the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.
Huffpost: Hospitals Take Aim at ‘The Greatest Health Threat of the 21st Century’
On 12 September 2018, GCHA co-hosted the Global Climate and Health Forum, alongside the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.
Christiana Figueres: You’re probably breathing dangerous air (Washington Post)
On 12 September 2018, GCHA co-hosted the Global Climate and Health Forum, alongside the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.
Shared opportunities for action
2017 is the Year of Climate Change and Health, a 12-month APHA-led initiative with monthly themes related to the health impacts of climate change.
Campanha mobiliza médicos em combate à poluição nas cidades: A poluição do ar atmosférico é responsável por uma em cada nove mortes no mundo
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.
The Lancet: Health and climate: the road of opportunity
Nick Watts and Hugh Montgomery serve as the Executive Director and Co-Chair, respectively, of Lancet Countdown:
Inside Climate News: Medical Community Warns Climate Change Is an Imminent Public Health Threat
The World Health Organization and a vast network of doctors and nurses calls for a climate deal to emphasize the danger to human health.
CleanTechnica: American Medical Association Highlights Health & Climate Change Link
Another study linking health and climate change came up this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Climate Change and Public Health: Healthy Climate, Healthy People, Healthy Economy
Organized by Health Care Without Harm, Health & Environment Alliance, Environmental Quality Protection Foundation, International Federation of Medical Students’ Association (IFMSA)
Deal in sight at COP17
The cards laid on the table yesterday signalled that the deadlock over the Kyoto Protocol and the Green Climate Fund might break before COP17 wraps up in Durban at the end of the week.