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The GCHA blog features posts by GCHA members and our team and offers opinions and insights into recent climate and health related ongoings and discussions.
IPCC Report: Our food system is at risk and doing harm — transforming it is essential for health and climate
In public health, we’ve known for years that our current food system isn’t healthy for people, and that there are ways to make it better. What the IPCC Lands report makes clear is that it’s also not healthy for our climate or the land on which we depend. Transforming how we approach food offers a win-win, for human health, for ecosystems, for a stable climate, but we must act now.
Climate change threatens to undo decades’ worth of global health gains – but the health community can help to stop this
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...
Coal, challenges and collaboration at COP24
This guest blog by health professional Rashmi Venkatraman explores the implication for health and climate change through the lens of the recent COP24 meeting in Katowice, Poland.