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Displaying 105 of about 1187 resultsThis document provides some key recommendations for addressing disaster risk in health in the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction. It presents: (i) the status of mainstreaming disaster risk in health, reporting on the progresses and highlighting some emerging trends; (ii) the drivers for mainstreaming disaster risk into health, including cli…
This document reports on the network's successes in disaster preparedness, response and recovery; health promotion; food security; development; gender equality; promotion of humanitarian principles and values; and its efforts to reduce stigma and discrimination suffered by vulnerable groups across the world. It recalls the prioritization of disaster pre…
Special edition for the COP 16/CMP 6, Mexico:
This document aims to show, in a clear and articulate way, through charts, maps and detailed analyses, the status of climate change and its implications for Latin America and the Caribbean, including the effects on ecosystem services, human health and the region's vulnerability to extreme events. In additi…
This document assesses the progress made since the environment and health process began 20 years ago. It discusses how to move the environment and health process forward in Europe, and sums up some intents with the Parma Declaration, which included a commitments to not only preventing environmental risks and diseases but also tackling emerging issues su…
This document explains step-by-step how to develop a joint adaptation strategy, with a special focus on the transboundary context. Based on the concept of integrated water resources management, it provides advice to decision makers and water managers on how to assess impacts of climate change on water quantity and quality, how to perform risk assessment…
Fact sheet n°266:
This fact sheet includes sections on: (i) climate change general facts; (ii) the impact of climate change on health; (iii) extreme heat; (iv) natural disasters and variable rainfall patterns, including sea level rise, extreme weather events, drought, floods, and freshwater supplies contamination; (v) patterns of infection; (vi) measu…
This updated handbook provides hands-on guidance for identifying the most effective technology options for poverty reduction and climate change mitigation and adaptation. By drawing on decades of experience and inputs from leading experts and practitioners, it brings novel insights for carrying out needs assessments and creating actionable plans as part…
Geneva - Previously unrecognized health benefits could be realized from fast action to reduce climate change and its consequences. For example, changes in energy and transport policies could save millions of lives annually from diseases caused by high levels of air pollution. The right energy and transport policies could also reduce the burden of diseas…
By Valerie Volcovici
Washington - The Obama administration on Tuesday released an updated report on how a changing climate has touched every corner of the country, from oyster growers in Washington State to maple syrup producers in Vermont, and said that urgent action is needed.
"Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved…
Avery Fellow reports for Bloomberg BNA Energy and Climate Report that the draft US National Climate Assessment lacks information about climate change impacts on cities besides storm surge and sea-level rise, data on potential health threats related to climate change, and asserts that the report should consider steps including adaptation in urban areas.
Margareta Wahlstrom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction is speaking about the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Some of the disaster risk reduction related topics covered include climate change adaptation, the social and economic impacts of disasters and the safe schools and hospitals campaign at…
Data from a climate vulnerability monitor for 184 nations are now available via an interactive online portal, making them more accessible to researchers, academics and policymakers worldwide.
The data are based on the Climate Vulnerability Monitor report, first released at the UN climate conference (COP 16) in Cancun, Mexico, in 2010, and updated in S…
A group of health experts from WHO, the Montenegrin Ministry of Health, Institute of Public Health and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) have agreed to work on a joint project to develop for the first time in Montenegro a strategy for adapting the national health system to climate change and its impact on Montenegrins’ health…
The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index has opened its call for applications to the 2014 ND-GAIN Corporate Adaptation Prize.
The ND-GAIN Corporate Adaptation Prize recognizes organizations that have made measurable contributions in creating resilience or adaptation to climate change. Prizes will be awarded to both multi-national and local corporations f…
New research from 35 global institutions published in The Lancet reports on extensive health damage from climate change and sets out the lifelong health consequences of rising temperatures for a child born today should the world follow a business-as-usual pathway. [2]
As temperatures rise, infants will be vulnerable to the burden of m…