Extreme weather poses threat to people's health
1 month, 1 week ago

Extreme weather poses threat to people's health

China Daily  

Climate change is emerging as one of the most severe threats to humanity, with intensifying global warming leading to more frequent and extreme weather events, causing water and food scarcities, disrupting the natural and social systems that underpin human health, exacerbating inequality, and hindering economic growth. The impacts of climate change on human health are complex and diverse, which can be broadly categorized into direct and indirect effects on people's health and well-being, and healthcare systems. Climate change can also affect the healthcare and public health systems by disrupting the functioning of medical equipment, pharmaceutical supply chains, energy and transportation systems, and endangering the health of medical workers. In September, China's National Administration of Disease Prevention and Control and 12 other governmental agencies issued the "National Climate Change Health Adaptation Action Plan " for enhancing the health sector's adaptability to climate change.

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Optimizing climate health adaptation policies
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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Optimizing climate health adaptation policies

China Daily  

At the just-concluded UN Climate Change Conference, or COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, health amid climate change was a prominent subject of discussion. Climate change does pose a serious threat to the health and wellbeing of people around the globe, because it is responsible for the increasing extreme weather events such as extreme heat, floods and forest fires. According to a …

Optimizing climate health adaptation policies
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Optimizing climate health adaptation policies

China Daily  

A view shows a sign of the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference with a backdrop of the cityscape in Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct 31, 2024. At the just-concluded UN Climate Change Conference, or COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, health amid climate change was a prominent subject of discussion. Climate change does pose a serious threat to the health and wellbeing of …

Optimizing climate health adaptation policies
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Optimizing climate health adaptation policies

China Daily  

A view shows a sign of the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference with a backdrop of the cityscape in Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct 31, 2024. At the just-concluded UN Climate Change Conference, or COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, health amid climate change was a prominent subject of discussion. Climate change does pose a serious threat to the health and wellbeing of …

Climate-smart agriculture to address climate change
1 month, 1 week ago

Climate-smart agriculture to address climate change

China Daily  

SHI YU/CHINA DAILY Climate change is one of the most serious common challenges the world is facing today, and one of the worst impacts of climate change has been on the agriculture sector, affecting development patterns and threatening global food security. In terms of policy formulation, the government has used strategic planning, policies and regulations, such as the National Climate …

Climate-smart agriculture to address climate change
1 month, 1 week ago

Climate-smart agriculture to address climate change

China Daily  

SHI YU/CHINA DAILY Climate change is one of the most serious common challenges the world is facing today, and one of the worst impacts of climate change has been on the agriculture sector, affecting development patterns and threatening global food security. In terms of policy formulation, the government has used strategic planning, policies and regulations, such as the National Climate …

Chinese vice-premier calls for strengthening early warnings for all at COP29
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1 month, 1 week ago

Chinese vice-premier calls for strengthening early warnings for all at COP29

China Daily  

BAKU -- Chinese President Xi Jinping's special representative Ding Xuexiang, also China's vice-premier, on Tuesday called for strengthening early warning systems for all and enhancing climate adaptation capacity when addressing a high-level meeting held by China on early warnings during the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Baku, …

Climate change a chronic threat to public health
1 month, 1 week ago

Climate change a chronic threat to public health

China Daily  

That climate change is becoming an increasingly bigger challenge for humankind was evident, more clearly than ever, in 2023 when average global temperatures rose 1.45 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, making it the warmest year since records began in 1850. The 2024 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change says climate change poses one of the greatest …

Climate change a chronic threat to public health
1 month, 1 week ago

Climate change a chronic threat to public health

China Daily  

That climate change is becoming an increasingly bigger challenge for humankind was evident, more clearly than ever, in 2023 when average global temperatures rose 1.45 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, making it the warmest year since records began in 1850. The 2024 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change says climate change poses one of the greatest …

Extreme weather poses threat to people's health
1 month, 1 week ago

Extreme weather poses threat to people's health

China Daily  

Climate change is emerging as one of the most severe threats to humanity, with intensifying global warming leading to more frequent and extreme weather events, causing water and food scarcities, disrupting the natural and social systems that underpin human health, exacerbating inequality, and hindering economic growth. The impacts of climate change on human health are complex and diverse, which can …

Heat, air pollution, disease: How climate change affects health
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Heat, air pollution, disease: How climate change affects health

New Indian Express  

PARIS: Record-breaking heat, extreme weather events, air pollution and the spread of infectious disease: climate change poses an already vast yet rising threat to the health of humans around the world, experts warn. "Climate change is making us sick, and urgent action is a matter of life and death," the World Health Organization warned this week. Extreme heat The EU's …

Health risks of climate change reach record-breaking levels
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Health risks of climate change reach record-breaking levels

China Daily  

By Jonathan Powell | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-10-31 21:02 Children play at an improvised soccer field in the dry area of Lake Tefe, amid what the national disaster monitoring agency Cemaden has already called Brazil's worst drought since at least the 1950s, in Tefe, Amazonas State, Brazil October 18, 2024. People worldwide faced an unprecedented 50 extra days of health-threatening …

Diseases linked to climate change to be monitored
3 months ago

Diseases linked to climate change to be monitored

China Daily  

China plans to improve early warning systems for climate-sensitive diseases and strengthen the medical system's resilience and emergency response ability to extreme climate events as part of efforts to tackle climate change, which an action plan released on Tuesday dubbed the most complicated public health problem. By next year, China will strengthen construction of a monitoring system for diseases that …

Partnerships seen as key to combat climate woes
3 months, 1 week ago

Partnerships seen as key to combat climate woes

China Daily  

The image of Fuyan, mascot of China International Fair for Trade in Services, is pictured at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, capital of China, Sept 11, 2024. Further efforts are needed to fortify international partnerships in meteorology amid global climate change, as extreme weather events become more frequent and their effects on health turn increasingly evident, officials and …

Partnerships seen as key to combat climate woes
3 months, 1 week ago

Partnerships seen as key to combat climate woes

China Daily  

The image of Fuyan, mascot of China International Fair for Trade in Services, is pictured at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, capital of China, Sept 11, 2024. Further efforts are needed to fortify international partnerships in meteorology amid global climate change, as extreme weather events become more frequent and their effects on health turn increasingly evident, officials and …

China and US push forward climate actions
3 months, 1 week ago

China and US push forward climate actions

China Daily  

China and the United States will make joint efforts to ensure a successful United Nations climate change conference in November, a key task of which will be to set a new financial target for supporting developing countries in their climate actions. While reaffirming their intention to jointly host a summit on methane and other non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gases at the …

United Nations urges nations to adopt several proposals aimed at reducing heat deaths; asks to care for vulnerable people
4 months, 3 weeks ago

United Nations urges nations to adopt several proposals aimed at reducing heat deaths; asks to care for vulnerable people

The Hindu  

After three of Earth's hottest days ever measured, the United Nations called for a flurry of efforts to try to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures, calling it “an extreme heat epidemic.” “If there is one thing that unites our divided world, it's that we're all increasingly feeling the heat,” United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said …

To cope with change
6 months ago

To cope with change

China Daily  

JIN DING/CHINA DAILY Embedding ethics into climate health adaptation is essential to ensure that actions benefit and do not compromise future generations. These mechanisms, along with processes like Global Stocktaking, are instrumental in building climate change health adaptation capacities. Decision-makers can suppose they do not know their own circumstances for climate health funds — whether they represent a wealthy country …

UN labor agency report warns of rising threat of excess heat, climate change on world’s workers
8 months ago

UN labor agency report warns of rising threat of excess heat, climate change on world’s workers

Associated Press  

GENEVA — The U.N. labor organization warned Monday that over 70% of the world’s workforce is likely to be exposed to excessive heat during their careers, citing increased concern about exposure to sunlight. In a new report, the International Labor Organization suggested ways that governments can improve their legislation and help cope with the rising effects of climate change on …

Climate actions vital for a better future
9 months ago

Climate actions vital for a better future

China Daily  

SONG CHEN/CHINA DAILY March 23 marks the 64th World Meteorological Day, whose theme this year, "at the frontline of climate action", calls for urgent action across societies to strengthen cooperation in mitigating and adapting to climate change and addressing the severe challenges posed by the Earth's warming. It is human nature to expect the best outcome from any event but …

Climate actions vital for a better future
9 months ago

Climate actions vital for a better future

China Daily  

SONG CHEN/CHINA DAILY March 23 marks the 64th World Meteorological Day, whose theme this year, "at the frontline of climate action", calls for urgent action across societies to strengthen cooperation in mitigating and adapting to climate change and addressing the severe challenges posed by the Earth's warming. It is human nature to expect the best outcome from any event but …

Climate change an alarming health threat
9 months ago

Climate change an alarming health threat

China Daily  

The file photo shows a wind power plant in Zhangjiakou, North China's Hebei province. Then there are the medium- and longer-term sequelae: More heatwaves contribute to more cardiovascular disease; air pollution drives lung cancer, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Chemicals such as lead cause intellectual disability, cardiovascular and kidney disease; Certain pesticides are associated with higher rates of suicide …

Climate change an alarming health threat
9 months ago

Climate change an alarming health threat

China Daily  

The file photo shows a wind power plant in Zhangjiakou, North China's Hebei province. Then there are the medium- and longer-term sequelae: More heatwaves contribute to more cardiovascular disease; air pollution drives lung cancer, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Chemicals such as lead cause intellectual disability, cardiovascular and kidney disease; Certain pesticides are associated with higher rates of suicide …

Climate crisis may kill 14.5 million people and inflict USD 12.5 trillion economic loss by 2050
11 months ago

Climate crisis may kill 14.5 million people and inflict USD 12.5 trillion economic loss by 2050

New Indian Express  

The analysis is based on scenarios developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the most likely trajectory for the planet’s rising average temperature -- 2.5°C to 2.9°C over pre-industrial levels.Shyam Bishen, Head, Centre for Health and Healthcare and member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum, warned: “Over the next decade, the failure to mitigate and adapt to …

Example set for collaboration in climate fight
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Example set for collaboration in climate fight

China Daily  

The beautiful scenery around the Great Wall in Qianxi county, Tangshan city, North China's Hebei province, is captured on Aug 30, 2023. Experts praise California and China for innovative approaches in green efforts Addressing climate change and air pollution simultaneously delivers significant public health benefits, a new study has found, and California and China, with their ambitious policies and innovative …

COP28: Impact of the climate crisis on public health
11 months, 3 weeks ago

COP28: Impact of the climate crisis on public health

Hindustan Times  

The coming together of global health and climate action at COP28 marked a watershed moment in the ongoing battle against climate crisis's profound impacts on public health. A profound metamorphosis in governance and policy-making surfaces as health ministers converge within the UN climate conference, marking a watershed moment in the approach towards combating climate-induced health challenges. These concerted efforts exemplify …

Unpacking the first ever COP ‘Health Day’
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Unpacking the first ever COP ‘Health Day’

The Hindu  

The 28th UN Climate Change Conference, hosted by the United Arab Emirates at Dubai, was held in a year when the planet is facing unprecedented challenges. That is why the World Health Organization declared “Climate change as the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century”. A good global response On December 3, the inaugural Health Day at COP28 …

Health Matters | Pursuing a healthy climate agenda
1 year ago

Health Matters | Pursuing a healthy climate agenda

The Hindu  

December 06, 2023 10:04 am | Updated December 07, 2023 10:00 am IST Something really significant for health care happened at the biggest climate conference this weekend. The Declaration read thus: “We, on the occasion of the first Health Day at the 28th UN Climate Change Conference, express our grave concern about the negative impacts of climate change on health. …

COP28: health is finally on the agenda – but there’s more to do as we face continued climate extremes
1 year ago

COP28: health is finally on the agenda – but there’s more to do as we face continued climate extremes

The Hindu  

As global leaders gather in Dubai for COP28, health has finally landed firmly on the climate change agenda, with the first “health day” at the annual UN climate summit taking place on December 3. Now, this inaugural health day at COP has sought to raise the profile of the health impacts of climate change, and to mobilise finances for effective …

Health is on the agenda at UN climate negotiations. Here's why that's a big deal
1 year ago

Health is on the agenda at UN climate negotiations. Here's why that's a big deal

NPR  

Health is on the agenda at UN climate negotiations. The negotiating documents that came from the first international climate agreement in 1992, recognized that climate change would have an "adverse effect" on human health. "This is the first true opportunity to bring the health voice to the climate community," says Estelle Willie, director of health policy at the Rockefeller Foundation, …

Extreme heat is a health crisis, Columbia experts say
1 year, 9 months ago

Extreme heat is a health crisis, Columbia experts say

Associated Press  

The record-breaking heat Earth endured during the summer of 2022 will be repeated without a robust international effort to address climate change, a panel of scientists warned Monday. Radley Horton, a research professor at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, stated that human-induced climate change has caused the global average atmospheric temperature to warm by about 2 degrees in the last several …

Is climate change affecting global health?
2 years, 1 month ago

Is climate change affecting global health?

The Hindu  

The story so far: Even as countries are meeting at the ongoing Climate Change Conference in Egypt, a recent report by Lancet, has traced in detail the intimate link between changing weather events and their impact on the health of people. The 2022 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Health at the Mercy of Fossil Fuels points out that …

Ways climate change and population combine to threaten public health
2 years, 1 month ago

Ways climate change and population combine to threaten public health

The Hindu  

There are questions that worry me profoundly as a population- and environmental-health scientist. These risks all have three things in common: health, climate change and a growing population that the United Nations forecasts will reach 8 billion people around November 15, 2022 – double the population of just 48 years ago. Often, the most vulnerable people in these countries face …

‘We need to do all we can’: Five key takeaways from the U.N. climate report
2 years, 9 months ago

‘We need to do all we can’: Five key takeaways from the U.N. climate report

LA Times  

Felisa Benitez, 86, wipes sweat from her brow while taking a break from cleaning a standing electrical fan outside her Pacoima home in August. “If we want to have effective climate change policy, we have to look at those human dimensions, and particularly those equity dimensions, and protecting some of the most vulnerable populations,” said Michael Méndez, an assistant professor …

Doctors say climate change is already having devastating effects on our health
2 years, 9 months ago

Doctors say climate change is already having devastating effects on our health

ABC  

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned to expect an increase in illness and premature deaths as the earth warms, but Australian doctors say they're seeing devastating health effects already. Key points: The IPCC warns that health systems need to be strengthened to protect human health and wellbeing Jen Spears had a baby after the Black Summer and …

‘An atlas of human suffering’ – UN report is stark warning on climate impacts
2 years, 9 months ago

‘An atlas of human suffering’ – UN report is stark warning on climate impacts

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Already some of the impacts of global warming are irreversible, as nature and humans are pushed to the limits …

Climate InFact: Can climate change affect your health?
3 years, 1 month ago

Climate InFact: Can climate change affect your health?

The Independent  

What are the health effects of climate change? From extreme heat to worsening hunger and water shortages, accelerating climate change will have a far reaching impact on health, experts have said. The WHO estimates that between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause around 250, 000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress. Andy …

Climate change may already affect 85 percent of humanity
3 years, 2 months ago

Climate change may already affect 85 percent of humanity

Al Jazeera  

Researchers comb through some 100,000 studies documenting climate change’s effects around the planet. Climate change could already be affecting 85 percent of the world’s population, an analysis of tens of thousands of scientific studies found. Between 1951 and 1990, “We have about 1,500 studies in total,” Callaghan said, “Whereas in the five years or so since the last assessment report …

UN urges immediate climate action to cool 'season of fire and floods' worldwide
3 years, 3 months ago

UN urges immediate climate action to cool 'season of fire and floods' worldwide

India TV News  

The United Nations on Monday underlined the importance of limiting temperature rise to the internationally agreed goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. In the wake of extreme weather events increasingly impacting countries across the world, the annual UN climate conference will take place in Glasgow in November. The entire planet is going through a season of fire and …

Over 200 health journals call for emergency action on climate change
3 years, 3 months ago

Over 200 health journals call for emergency action on climate change

India TV News  

More than 200 health journals across the world have, for the first time, come together to simultaneously publish an editorial calling on world leaders to take emergency action to limit global temperature increases, halt the destruction of nature, and protect health. In a year of Covid-19, the editorial warns that the greatest threat to global public health into the future …

Climate change: 1.5°C warming target could be ‘catastrophic’ for health, 230 journals say
3 years, 3 months ago

Climate change: 1.5°C warming target could be ‘catastrophic’ for health, 230 journals say

CNN  

CNN — Human health is already being harmed by the climate crisis, and the impacts could become catastrophic and irreversible unless governments do much more to address global warming, the editors of more than 230 medical journals said in a joint editorial Monday. It warned that an increase of global average temperatures of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and the loss …

Climate change will pose greater threat to human lives than COVID-19: Red Cross
4 years, 1 month ago

Climate change will pose greater threat to human lives than COVID-19: Red Cross

Firstpost  

The World Disaster Report rated climate change as the greatest global challenge, finding disasters triggered by climate-related events had risen 35% since 1990s Geneva: The world should react with the same urgency to climate change as to the coronavirus crisis, the Red Cross said Tuesday, warning that global warming poses a greater threat than COVID-19. Even as the pandemic rages, …

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