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Why COP28 – the Health COP – Must Drive More Ambitious Climate Action to Protect People’s Health

Why COP28 – the Health COP – Must Drive More Ambitious Climate Action to Protect People’s Health

May 3, 2023

This year, 2023, is a major year for climate and health. The health movement on climate change has grown dramatically over the past few years, as the health impacts of the climate crisis make themselves increasingly and dramatically felt in every corner of the globe;...
Parliamentarians from global network write to newly elected Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, welcoming his climate proposals

Parliamentarians from global network write to newly elected Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, welcoming his climate proposals

Sep 14, 2022

Parliamentarians from over 30 countries have been signing a letter to the newly elected President of Colombia Gustavo Petro, welcoming his stated intentions to address the climate crisis, working for climate justice, and delivering a planned, gradual, and just...
Climate Medicine will constitute the cornerstone for the practice of Medicine in the 21st century

Climate Medicine will constitute the cornerstone for the practice of Medicine in the 21st century

Apr 1, 2021

The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change stated that “climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century”. In 2019, the world’s leading medical journal, the New England Journal of Medicine, provided readers with “a...
IPCC Report: Our food system is at risk and doing harm — transforming it is essential for health and climate

IPCC Report: Our food system is at risk and doing harm — transforming it is essential for health and climate

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...
Attempts to hinder climate action stall progress at international political talks

Attempts to hinder climate action stall progress at international political talks

Jun 28, 2019

Bonn, 28 June 2019 – To the dismay of health groups and over the objections of many delegations to this week’s climate talks in Bonn, negotiators failed to adopt the scientific findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on...

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