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Climate resilience through women's education can take many other forms, like women learning to follow weather reports or choose more durable construction techniques for their homes. (kpbs.org)
Its purpose is both simple and expansive: to help us all avoid catastrophic planetary warming and to build resilience around the world to the impacts from climate change we already see. (ijpr.org)
Public engagement is critical to the long-term success of efforts to build climate resilience through national adaptation plan (NAP) processes. (iisd.org)
The report describes the need for schools to adapt and build resilience in preparation for the negative consequences of climate change highlighting the impact on students, families, and schools from the Camp Fire and Hurricane Maria. (aspeninstitute.org)
The education sector has a tremendous opportunity to adopt consistent sustainable practices to reduce the carbon footprint and build the resilience of our education system, all while preparing our children and youth to lead climate solutions and advance a sustainable future. (aspeninstitute.org)
In the Statement, African countries agreed to implement an essential public health package to enhance climate change resilience of the health sector. (who.int)
Focused on the reduction of disaster risk, climate resilience, and mental health and psychosocial support at city level, this project resulted from a collaboration between the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Indian National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), which began in 2017. (medscape.com)

In the 2022 edition of the same climate survey, in the European Union and the United Kingdom 87% of respondents agree that their government has moved too slowly to address climate change, compared to 76% and 74%, respectively, in China and the United States. (wikipedia.org)
Peter Shattuck, director of the Clean Energy Initiative at the Acadia Center, calls the agreement a major victory for bipartisan action to address climate change. (publicnewsservice.org)
The state of Wisconsin should create jobs programs and an "Office of Environmental Justice" to promote an equitable transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to an expansive report listing dozens of recommendations to address climate change. (wpr.org)
Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump's likely choice to be America's top diplomat as Secretary of State, has spent years funding climate change denial and underwriting efforts to block measures to address climate change while misleading the public, according to evidence compiled by the Center for Media and Democracy. (prwatch.org)
We are honored to receive support from such a diverse group of organizations demanding swift federal action to address climate change. (earthisland.org)
Rabe examines the political feasibility and durability of environmental and energy policy, with a particular emphasis on efforts to address climate change in the U.S. and other federal systems. (umich.edu)
This paper describes a path forward for health professionals to address climate change in both in everyday operations and for advancing health policy to address the challenges of climate change. (cdc.gov)

An optimist sees evidence of climate change adaptation. (brookings.edu)
Our report with @ClimateOutreach explores why and how public engagement in national #adaptation planning matters. (iisd.org)
Building public support will be crucial for implementing the adaptation actions prioritized through the NAP process. (iisd.org)
This report provides an introduction to public engagement on climate change adaptation for decision-makers involved in leading NAP processes. (iisd.org)
African gove rnme nts have ma de firm comm itm ents at variou s forum s to ad dress climate change with emphasis on health adaptation. (who.int)
ate Change is intended to provide a scientific and evidence-based coordinated response to the climate change adaptation needs of African countries in orde r to support the commitments and priorities of African governments. (who.int)
The overall objective of the Fram ework is to guide the formulation of country-specific action plans that will form the health component of national clim ate change adaptation plans aimed at minimizing the adverse public health effects of clim ate change. (who.int)
This publication is designed to address this need by providing practical information to governments, health agencies and environmental and meteorological institutions in both industrialized and developing countries on quantitative and qualitative methods of assessing human health vulnerability and public health adaptation to climate change. (who.int)
Climate Change Adaptation actors within this field of study. (lu.se)
We have created a programme that has synergies between disaster risk management and climate change adaptation because these two areas are strongly interlinked. (lu.se)
Magnus Hagelsteen, Programme Director, MSc in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation. (lu.se)
Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation will be at- universityadmissions.se. (lu.se)
Emanuel Toft - Coordinator of the city of Malmö's climate adaptation work and coordinates the work between the administrations in the city to achieve the goals in the Environmental Program for the City of Malmö 2021 - 2030. (lu.se)
Climate adaptation is about preparing society and the physical infrastructure for the challenges a changing climate entails. (lu.se)

91% of Chinese respondents to an EU survey, 73% of Britons, 70% of Europeans and 60% of Americans support stronger policies for climate change mitigation. (wikipedia.org)
WASHINGTON, DC -- How do Americans respond when they are asked to reflect on the public health risks of climate change and the benefits to health from mitigation-related actions? (scienceblogs.com)
Efforts toward climate change mitigation and resiliency have created the most vibrant new sector of the economy - renewable energy - with exponential growth in new, enduring, high-quality jobs and U.S.-made technologies that are attracting billions of dollars in investments, and that could boost the U.S. back toward a leadership role in the global economy. (maine.edu)
Identify and develop culturally appropriate climate mitigation strategies to foster community resiliency. (downstate.edu)
CONCLUSIONS: Health impacts from climate change are increasing yet health systems are not yet building the necessary adaptive capacity or GHG mitigation for health infrastructure. (cdc.gov)

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that we need to cut global greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and entirely by 2040 to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change.1 Yet these emissions hit a record high in 2018. (wbur.org)

In January 2021, the United Nations Development Programme reported results of The Peoples' Climate Vote. (wikipedia.org)
Ballew MT, Pearson AR, Schuldt JP, Kotcher JE, Maibach EW, Rosenthal SA, Leiserowitz A (2021) Is the political divide on climate change narrower for people of color? (springer.com)
As part of events to mark the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26) to be held at Glasgow from 31 October- 12 November, the School of Law, University of Bradford, is organising a symposium on the theme: Climate Change: A Red Hot Challenge on Wednesday 10th November 2021. (bradford.ac.uk)
Tawonga Zakeyu of Malawi graduated from Earth University in Costa Rica in December 2021 and now teaches women farmers how to cope with the challenges posed by a changing climate. (kpbs.org)

International public opinion on climate change shows a majority viewing the crisis as an emergency. (wikipedia.org)
Climate change is killing us, and climate change is a health crisis," said Vanessa Kerry, the World Health Organization's special envoy for health and climate change, CEO of Seed Global Health and the daughter of U.S. climate envoy John Kerry. (yahoo.com)
The climate crisis is a health crisis," said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization. (yahoo.com)
The climate crisis is the challenge of our time. (citizen.org)
Zakeyu is working for an organization called CAMFED - the Campaign for Female Education - on a key, often-overlooked strategy in the fight against the climate crisis: women's and girls' education. (kpbs.org)
Organizations like Drawdown and the Brookings Institution affirm that universal, high-quality education for all genders is key to tackling the climate crisis. (kpbs.org)
Still, Drawdown, a nonprofit which focuses on solutions to the climate crisis, calculates that investment in voluntary - key word - family planning programs, together with universal high-quality education, could reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases by 68.90 gigatons between 2020 and 2050. (kpbs.org)
Today, the United States 🇺🇸 re-joined the #ParisAgreement - the international response to the climate crisis. (ijpr.org)
President Biden hailed as "historic" the Senate Democrats' agreement on a bill to fight the climate crisis and decrease the cost of prescription drugs - key pieces of his domestic agenda. (nhpr.org)
My message to Congress is this: This is the strongest bill you can pass" to reduce inflation, combat climate crisis and reduce the burden facing lower and middle class families, he said. (nhpr.org)
Our education sector can also help prepare the next generation and be a tool to advance equity as we address the climate crisis. (aspeninstitute.org)
Amidst heat waves and drought, genocidal takings of sovereign lands, increasing food insecurity, echoes of animal relatives lost daily, and a runaway climate crisis, federally protected wild lands and waters are a reprieve and climate solution we can't chronically risk to revolving-door politics and carving for sale to capitalism's wealthy few. (earthisland.org)
anything Climate zealots advance their "crisis" agenda substantially through lies - some brazen, some sophisticated. (rudd-o.com)

By concentrating on how climate change is causing death and disease, they hope, nations may act more on the root cause: carbon pollution. (yahoo.com)
The association between respiratory infection and air pollution in the setting of air quality policy and economic change ( Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2019 ). (harvard.edu)
The nine RGGI states together comprise the sixth-largest economy in the world, and Shattuck says RGGI's record of pollution reduction and economic growth proves that the cooperative's approach to fighting climate change can work. (publicnewsservice.org)
This step helps clean up the electric sector, but we're also going to need to tackle transportation, which is the largest source of climate pollution in the region and now, the country as a whole," he stresses. (publicnewsservice.org)
Tim is an attorney in the Pollution & Climate Change Programme at the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) in South Africa. (bradford.ac.uk)
By virtue of Executive Order 24, New York State has a goal to reduce climate pollution 80% below the levels emitted in 1990 by 2050. (nysenate.gov)
The effects of climate change and pollution on health are life-threatening, a problem worsened by the convergence of climate and public health crises. (maine.edu)
Learn to recognize and reduce climate-health effects in clinical and public health settings through various policies at the individual, local, and global scales to address reductions in carbon pollution sources and to maximize health co-benefits. (downstate.edu)

Last year I spent time with researchers at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication , which has conducted countless scientific studies on public opinion and behaviour around climate change. (abc.net.au)

The paper rejects efforts to determine if climate change or natural variability are solely responsible for more frequent extreme weather like the 2013 floods. (cpr.org)
It has been dem onstrated that the majority of African countries are ill-prepared to cope with the negative impacts of clim ate variability and change. (who.int)
In response to these changing risks, the Third Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in London in 1999 recommended developing the capacity to undertake national assessments of the potential health effects of climate variability and change, with the goal of identifying: 1) vulnerable populations and subgroups and 2) interventions that could be implemented to reduce the current and future burden of disease. (who.int)

An UNEP report of 2016 ("Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern") had said: Expanding populations and worsening climate-change impacts are putting greater pressure on the land, with deforestation, urbanisation, intensifying agriculture, and resource extraction providing more opportunities for pathogens to spill over from animals to people. (countercurrents.org)
The enormous loss of life on multiple continents reinforces the profound danger posed by climate-driven rain storms, and the need for better warning systems and infrastructure to protect the most vulnerable populations. (ideastream.org)
Planetary health focuses on the study of activities of global populations and resulting environmental changes at the planetary/ecosystem level that impact human health, with a particular focus on climate change. (downstate.edu)
Students who complete the Advanced Certificate Program in Climate Change and Planetary Health will emerge with the ability to provide guidance and potential for leadership within academia, government institutions, the non-governmental sector (community-based organizations), or in private industry to address the health implications of the activities and behavior of global populations. (downstate.edu)
In the absence of strong measures to cut carbon emissions and protect populations from the effects of climate change, rising sea levels will submerge extensive and densely populated coastal areas, including some entire small island nations, by the end of this century. (who.int)
Some specific populations have been identified as more vulnerable to climate change impacts. (cdc.gov)

In other words, if we were to re-frame climate change in terms of localized impacts that people personally experience and can understand--such as vulnerability to extreme heat or poor air quality--could we shift public thinking on the issue? (scienceblogs.com)
Her research interests revolve around inclusive development and sustainability, particularly the interactions between law and climate change, governance of water and other natural resources, and intersecting forms of human vulnerability. (bradford.ac.uk)
He hopes that the assessment will show how the changing environment could make existing social vulnerability and inequality worse. (alaskapublic.org)
The disasters in the last two weeks also underscore the vulnerability to climate change of people who are not wealthy or who live in places that are at war. (ideastream.org)
The course also pursues a number of cross-cutting themes, for example on the unequal dimensions to both climate change responsibility and vulnerability, and a focus on questions of power for understanding the obstacles to, and opportunities for, climate action. (lu.se)

Almost two years ago, Inside Climate News published a significant expose that confirmed Exxon's own scientists had agreed that human carbon emissions contributed to global warming as early as July 1977. (greencarreports.com)
But as the company's scientists grew steadily more convinced of that fact over more than three decades, Exxon's ads to the public increasingly cast doubt on the same science. (greencarreports.com)
That revelation, also covered by the Los Angeles Times, focused huge public attention on the discrepancy between Exxon's internal understanding of climate science and its efforts to convince the public that scientists remained unsure. (greencarreports.com)
Available documents show a systematic, quantifiable discrepancy between what Exxon Mobil's scientists and executives discussed about climate change in private and in academic circles, and what it presented to the general public. (greencarreports.com)
Its scientists published scientific reports and papers noting that climate change could be "addressed by reducing fossil fuel use, meaning that fossil-fuel reserves might one day become stranded assets. (greencarreports.com)
The U.N. then adds them all up and calculates if that sum is enough - or, as now, if a gap remains between those plans and what climate scientists say is needed to avoid the most catastrophic effects. (nhpr.org)
Addressing the real threats from climate change and listening to our scientists is at the center of our domestic and foreign policy priorities. (ijpr.org)
And even though U.S. emissions are falling, the rate of the reduction is far too slow to avoid catastrophic warming, according to climate scientists. (ijpr.org)
Scientists and local governments are working together to study how climate change is unfolding in urban green spaces and to figure out how to make parks more resilient. (ijpr.org)
As it warms, climate scientists are increasingly concerned that this can have significant implications for the jet stream, and cold arctic air is being pushed into areas that are not prepared for these conditions. (harvard.edu)
The Union of Concerned Scientists released a report this week documenting the deception tactics used by fossil fuel companies in spreading misinformation about climate change. (sustainablebrands.com)
In the 1990s, internal memos show scientists within major companies warning unequivocally that burning fossil fuels is causing climate change. (sustainablebrands.com)
In the Alaska chapter of the upcoming National Climate Assessment , a team of scientists, educators, and community leaders from across the state are asking what those changes mean for people. (alaskapublic.org)
Human-caused warming made the extreme rainfall in Libya 50 times more likely to happen, according to a rapid analysis done by World Weather Attribution , a team of international climate scientists. (ideastream.org)
Federal scientists hope that better access to climate data will help one industry adapt: property insurers. (gpb.org)

In the process, giving climate change a public health focus suggests that there is a need to both mitigate (i.e. reduce greenhouse gas emissions) and adapt to the problem (i.e. protect communities and people from current and future health related impacts). (scienceblogs.com)
9. The Climate Smokescreen: The Public Relations Consultancies Working to Obstruct Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in Europe-A Critical Approach. (routledge.com)
In the 135-page California complaint, the state claims that oil and gas executives knew at least since the 1960s that greenhouse gasses produced by fossil fuels would warm the planet and change the climate. (kpbs.org)
These climate meetings began in 1992, when countries signed a treaty promising to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and prevent dangerous changes to the climate. (nhpr.org)
Wealthy countries also promised large amounts of aid to poorer nations to help them cope with climate change and to reduce their own greenhouse emissions. (nhpr.org)
Alarmists posit human greenhouse gas emissions are driving rising temperatures, yet the climate models they use to support this assertion consistently misrepresent past temperature and climate trends and overstate the amount of warming Earth has experienced. (heartland.org)
To hear from scientific experts, New York residents and businesses impacted by climate change, and environmental advocates and government officials about the progress of New York State's Climate Action Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (nysenate.gov)
The UN International Panel on Climate Change was also formed in this year, and the US National Energy Policy Act began efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. (sustainablebrands.com)
It was also up to 50 percent more intense, compared to a climate without the added greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels. (ideastream.org)
In North America some have adopted sustainability plans which include greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction strategies, but few if any are engaged in planning for the accompanying health impacts, much less the socio-ecological, knowledge, attitude/belief system shifts that climate change demands over the next 50-100 years. (cdc.gov)

Bromley-Trujillo R, Holman MR (2020) Climate change policymaking in the states: a view at 2020. (springer.com)
In 2020, there have already been 16 climate-driven disasters that cost at least $1 billion each, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (ijpr.org)
Washington, DC, October 15, 2020 - K12 Climate Action , an initiative by the Aspen Institute, today released a report that examines key areas where states have enacted policies that can support schools in moving toward climate action. (aspeninstitute.org)

The COP26 summit to fight climate change has started. (nhpr.org)
It seems what really upsets Brulle is the fact Americans haven't been duped by climate alarmists and stampeded into calling for drastic action to fight climate change. (heartland.org)

Benegal SD (2018) The spillover of race and racial attitudes into public opinion about climate change. (springer.com)
Carmichael JT, Brulle RJ (2018) Media use and climate change concern. (springer.com)
Climate Change - A Health Emergency " - "As the Camp wildfire spread rapidly in California in early November 2018, the University of California, Davis, Burn Center received a call that nearby Feather City Hospital was on fire and patients were being urgently transferred. (wbur.org)
Among the scientific and policy highlights of 2018 were landmark reports on climate change and human health. (wbur.org)

This forum will examine our progress thus far, highlight the current and possible impacts that climate change poses to New York residents and businesses, and determine what steps need to be taken in the future to make New York a global leader in fighting climate change. (nysenate.gov)
Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a policy report to confront the increasingly strong and lasting impacts that climate change is having directly and indirectly on people's mental health and psychosocial well-being. (medscape.com)

Fully disclose the financial and physical risks of climate change to their business operations. (sustainablebrands.com)
In May 2008, the World Health Assembly requested the Director-General of WHO to continue close cooperation with Member States, appropriate United Nations agencies and other partners in order to develop capacity to assess the risks of climate change to human health. (who.int)

As CMD detailed in a joint complaint filed with the IRS shortly before the election, Exxon has used the American Legislative Exchange Council "as a key asset in its explicit campaign to sow uncertainty about climate science, undermine international climate treaties and block legislation to reduce emissions. (prwatch.org)
The Climate Deception Dossiers contains 85 internal memos showing a variety of efforts to manufacture uncertainty about climate science. (sustainablebrands.com)

In just the past year, California has been inundated with record heat, explosive wildfires , unusual bouts of severe rain and snow, and a rising sea level that's threatened the state's shorelines - disasters that studies say were made more likely or more intense due to climate change. (kpbs.org)
Education also helps women and their families survive climate disasters, which are becoming more frequent and more severe. (kpbs.org)
we know that in climate-related disasters, it tends to be often a disproportionate number of girls and women who are impacted, who die, especially in flooding but also in droughts and and storms. (kpbs.org)
Climate change, however, is damaging once-pristine natural areas, making them more dangerous and less accessible due to natural disasters such as increased incidences of catastrophic wildfires, unexpected ice melts, and flash flooding - but additionally, and more dangerously, contributing to the steady incremental rise in temperature. (earthisland.org)
HERSHER: Well, you know, I cover climate change, and weather disasters are getting more common as the Earth heats up. (wyomingpublicmedia.org)
The goal is to help insurers understand how often and how severe floods, fires, heat waves and other climate-driven disasters will be in the future, so that companies can adjust their businesses to cope with that risk. (gpb.org)
Climate change is a significant concern to the property casualty insurance industry as our nation faces the prospect of increased frequency and severity of major natural disasters including hurricanes, wildfires, and floods," Karen Collins, a vice president at the trade group, wrote in an email to NPR. (gpb.org)
When the climate changes, disasters follow and unfortunately it is a growing trend. (lu.se)
As such, children are disproportionally vulnerable to environmental exposures in disasters and every day, differences that are often unrecognized and overlooked by professionals, policy makers, and the public in general. (cdc.gov)

Climate activists are arrested as they blockade the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to call for an end to the use of fossil fuels, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in New York. (yahoo.com)
The suit , filed on Friday in San Francisco Superior Court, claims that the companies misled the public for decades about climate change and the dangers of fossil fuels. (kpbs.org)
Oil and gas companies have privately known the truth for decades - that the burning of fossil fuels leads to climate change - but have fed us lies and mistruths to further their record-breaking profits at the expense of our environment. (kpbs.org)
California filed its lawsuit against Exxon and other oil and gas companies just a day after The Wall Street Journal reported that executives at Exxon continued in recent years to raise doubts internally about the dangers of climate change and the need to cut back on oil and gas use, even as the company publicly conceded that burning fossil fuels contributes to global warming. (kpbs.org)
This includes attacks on the Clean Power Plan which sets out modest steps to try to mitigate the devastating effects of climate change being caused by the burning of fossil fuels. (prwatch.org)

The threats to health in our changing climate are right here and right now. (yahoo.com)
They say changing patterns, such as making homes energy-efficient, can help reduce the climate threats they face. (publicnewsservice.org)
Parks] are part of the solution, but they themselves are vulnerable to some of the same threats," says Michelle Mueller Gamez, the manager of climate change research at the Central Park Conservancy in New York City. (ijpr.org)

This was the largest-ever climate survey, with responses from 1.2 million people in 50 countries, which indicated that 64% of respondents considered climate change to be an emergency, with forest and land conservation being the most popular solutions. (wikipedia.org)
We report results from two national-level surveys of US adults conducted in May and August-September 2022 ( N = 2101 total) that asked respondents whether climate change affects "some groups more than others" or "all groups about equally," and that experimentally tested how referencing specific social categories (e.g., "some racial groups more than others…") affected responses. (springer.com)
With new manifestations of climate emergencies every day and States resorting to extraterritorial border controls, Matthew Scott will reflect on current and potential responses to disaster and climate change related displacement together with Carl Söderbergh and Prof. Gregor Noll . (lu.se)

Public opinion on climate change is the aggregate of attitudes or beliefs held by a population concerning issues relating to "anthropogenic climate change, perceptions of climate change risks, concern about its seriousness, and thoughts on what, if anything, should be done to address it. (wikipedia.org)
According to a 2015 journal article based on a literature review of thousands of articles related to over two hundred studies covering the period from 1980 to 2014, there was an increase in public awareness of climate change in the 1980s and early 1990s, followed by a period of growing concern- mixed with the rise of conflicting positions-in the later 1990s and early 2000s. (wikipedia.org)
This was followed by a period of "declining public concern and increasing skepticism" in some countries in the mid-2000s to late-2000s. (wikipedia.org)
Disruption of our climate system, once a theoretical concern, is now occurring in plain view - with a growing human toll brought by powerful storms, flooding, droughts, wildfires, and rising numbers of insectborne diseases. (wbur.org)
West Nile virus (WNV), a mosquito-borne zoonosis, has emerged as a disease of public health concern in Europe. (lu.se)

Matthew C. Nisbet and Teresa Myers' 2007 article-"Twenty Years of Public Opinion about Global Warming"-covered two decades in the United States starting in 1980-in which they investigated public awareness of the causes and impacts of global warming, public policy, scientific consensus on climate change, public support for the Kyoto Accord, and their concerns about the economic costs of potential public policies that responded to climate change. (wikipedia.org)
Doherty TJ, Clayton S (2011) The psychological impacts of global climate change. (springer.com)
NEW YORK (AP) - Trying to lessen climate change's sweeping impact, experts are hoping that attempts to improve the sputtering global public health system and sometimes-stalled efforts to curb global warming through collaboration can combine - and create a better system for handling the problem along the way. (yahoo.com)
Climate change and global health policy are largely treated as separate issues by the public and media. (harvard.edu)
In 2008, Connecticut passed the Global Warming Solutions Act, which established its climate goals. (publicnewsservice.org)
But he cautions that the even these further carbon reductions by RGGI aren't enough to slow global climate change. (publicnewsservice.org)
The world meets at Glasgow against the backdrop of an increasing urgency for global action to address the climate change challenge. (bradford.ac.uk)
The United States on Friday officially rejoined the Paris Agreement on climate change designed to limit global warming and avoid its potentially catastrophic impacts. (ijpr.org)
In the most extreme cases, the effects of global climate change temporarily make some parks in the U.S. downright dangerous for humans. (ijpr.org)
Renee Salas , a Yerby Fellow at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discussed the health challenges posed by climate change and the complexities of responding to a disaster in the middle of a pandemic . (harvard.edu)
To borrow a term from climate scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, climate change is more than warming-it is also "global weirding. (harvard.edu)
The current and anticipated effects of global climate change on the State of New York, and the State's efforts to combat man-made climate change. (nysenate.gov)
The National Climate Assessment is a congressionally mandated research report organized by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. (alaskapublic.org)
They contribute to climate change, considered potentially to pose the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century. (who.int)
Global warming can be concerning, but are your patients wondering whether climate change can affect health? (medscape.com)
In the report we just published, we provide comprehensive recommendations on how to transform mental health systems for all, such as trying to integrate climate change considerations into policies and programs for mental health or building on existing global commitments, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or the Paris Agreement. (medscape.com)

What are some steps that you'd like to see taken to better understand how climate change is impacting health and health care delivery? (harvard.edu)
The site offers a one-stop shop for undecided voters and the general public to understand how climate change affects the most sensitive aspects of their everyday lives, and how efforts to reduce and reverse its effects represent the defining opportunity of our time. (maine.edu)

The state further charges that the oil companies continue to deceive the public today about the science and reality of climate change, adding that the industry's investments in clean fuels and renewable energy are "nonexistent or miniscule" in comparison to the resources devoted to expanding their fossil fuel production. (kpbs.org)

Public opinion on climate change is related to a broad set of variables, including the effects of sociodemographic, political, cultural, economic, and environmental factors" as well as media coverage and interaction with different news and social media. (wikipedia.org)
According to the European Investment Bank's climate survey from 2022, 84% of EU respondents stated that if we do not significantly cut back on our consumption of goods and energy in the near future, the negative effects would be non-reversible. (wikipedia.org)
These effects of climate disruption are fundamentally health issues, and they pose existential risks to all of us. (wbur.org)
The report, released Wednesday by the Governor's Task Force On Climate Change, includes around 50 recommendations on ways to adapt to and reduce the effects of climate change across nine focus areas, including climate justice and equity, energy, transportation and agriculture. (wpr.org)
It's billed as a potential turning point in the struggle to avert the worst effects of climate change, and it has a curious name: COP26. (nhpr.org)
Our Advanced Certificate Program in Climate Change and Planetary Health will provide students with training to characterize and assess impacts related to climate change and the anthropogenic effects on health and wellbeing through constructive strategizing for policy and positive change. (downstate.edu)
In the last few months they've really come to us saying, 'We need better information on understanding climate change and its effects on extreme [weather],'" Kapnick explains. (gpb.org)
An integrated approach to assessment is encouraged because the impact of climate is likely to transcend traditional sector and regional boundaries, with effects in one sector affecting the coping capacity of another sector or region. (who.int)

An email from an Exxon employee in 1981 shows the company was already factoring climate change into decisions about fossil fuel extraction. (sustainablebrands.com)

Why is it so important for health officials to talk about climate change now? (harvard.edu)
I have spent the past 15 years listening to Australians talk about climate change. (abc.net.au)
As someone who has spent about 15 years listening to Australians talk about climate change, this approach immediately resonated with me. (abc.net.au)
Let's talk about climate change. (medscape.com)

This economic frame likely leaves the public ambivalent about policy action and works to the advantage of industries that are reluctant to reduce their carbon intensity. (scienceblogs.com)
Indeed, it is precisely the lack of a countervailing populist movement on climate change that has made policy solutions so difficult to enact. (scienceblogs.com)
P.B.Anand is Professor of Public Policy and Sustainable Development and Head of Peace Studies and International Development at the University of Bradford where he has been teaching since 1998. (bradford.ac.uk)
It measures the American public's climate change beliefs, attitudes, risk perceptions, motivations, values, policy preferences, behaviours - including voting patterns and media consumption - and underlying barriers to action. (abc.net.au)
The recommendations call for policy changes and executive actions among Wisconsin's state agencies, as well as increasing or providing funding for a variety of proposals. (wpr.org)
With an Office of Environmental Justice, we can turn the page and make sure that we aren't making the poor environmental policy decisions that not only change the climate, but have adverse impacts on the health, financial security and social and cultural lifestyles of so many people across Wisconsin," said Barnes. (wpr.org)
Since launching ALECexposed, CMD has been contacted by numerous whistleblowers about public corruption, and CMD initiates thousands of open records requests each year about corporate efforts to influence public policy. (prwatch.org)
The Biden administration will make climate change a key component of its foreign policy, weaving it into its most important bilateral and multilateral conversations, Blinken said. (ijpr.org)
Climate change and science diplomacy can never again be 'add-ons' in our foreign policy discussions. (ijpr.org)
Countries will not achieve their climate ambitions without bringing citizens into the policy-making process. (iisd.org)
Despite these early developments, more than half of all industrial carbon emissions have been released since 1988, and comprehensive federal policy on climate change is lacking. (sustainablebrands.com)
Theo is getting his PhD in Public Policy & Economics. (umich.edu)
Barry Rabe, The New York Times: Barry Rabe, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, said public opinion in the state about the need for climate action is shifting. (umich.edu)
But, Kapnick says, the methods that insurers currently use to figure out how much to charge for a property insurance policy don't typically include detailed, long-term projections about how the climate will change in the future. (gpb.org)
As the data provided in the recently released Mental Health and Climate Change Policy Brief indicate, there are large gaps in many countries between mental health needs and the services and systems available to address them. (medscape.com)
A primary function of the National Academies is to provide unbiased and timely expert advice to policy makers and the general public. (cdc.gov)
Health policy and climate change: who's responsible for this portfolio? (cdc.gov)

Other research suggests that members of the public will support a strong response to combat climate change if they accept all four of those statements. (greencarreports.com)

Countries of the African Region are ill-prepared to cope with the negative consequences of climate change, particularly on health, because their health systems are weak and already over-stretched. (who.int)

A 2010 journal article in Risk Analysis compared and contrasted a 1992 survey and a 2009 survey of lay peoples' awareness and opinions of climate change. (wikipedia.org)
In 1992, the general public did not differentiate between climate change and the depletion of the ozone layer. (wikipedia.org)

The state of California has filed a sweeping climate lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron, as well as the domestic oil industry's biggest lobby, the American Petroleum Institute. (kpbs.org)
Exxon Mobil misled the public about the state of climate science and its implications. (greencarreports.com)

It demands the companies help fund recovery efforts related to California's extreme weather events, from rising sea levels to drought and wildfires, that have been supercharged by human-caused climate change. (kpbs.org)
Tackling this challenge may feel overwhelming, but physicians are well placed and, we believe, morally bound to take a lead role in confronting climate change with the urgency that it demands. (wbur.org)
At the same time, climate change demands ever more attention from parks departments, and dozens of cities have added new positions to meet those demands. (ijpr.org)

We ask that any comments by climate-change denialists be flagged for moderation. (greencarreports.com)

But 81 percent of their advertorials expressed doubts about climate change in various ways, many suggesting that the science was still in debate. (greencarreports.com)
The role of Tillerson and Exxon in peddling climate change denial doubts to state and federal politicians through ALEC also calls into question his fitness for such a position of public trust to advance the public interest of all Americans, rather than the narrow corporate enrichment interests he has pursued throughout his entire career for one of the richest corporations in the world. (prwatch.org)

Consumers desperately need aggressive action to avert catastrophic climate change. (citizen.org)

Public Citizen advocates for ordinary people by taking on corporate interests and their cronies in government. (citizen.org)
Public Citizen advocates Medicare for All, stronger oversight of dangerous doctors and safe clinical trials. (citizen.org)

Only 0.5% of the world's financial aid goes to public health and climate change, Al Jaber said. (yahoo.com)

In this report we examine public support for climate change and energy policies among different racial and ethnic groups. (climatechangecommunication.org)

The increase in the risk is not linear but undergoes periods of sharp changes governed by climatic thresholds associated with ideal conditions for WNV vectors. (lu.se)

These brought more insight and urgency to the reality that climate change is happening now and harming our lives in a host of ways. (wbur.org)

In examining state academic standards, currently, 29 states include human-caused climate in science standards, and only five states require climate change in social studies standards. (aspeninstitute.org)

Climate change is making heat waves in the U.S. more common, from an average of two heat waves per year during the 1960s to six per year during the 2010s. (ijpr.org)
And those heat waves are 3 to 5 degrees hotter than they used to be, because of climate change. (ijpr.org)
Climate-driven heat waves, heavy rain, intense drought and more-powerful hurricanes are putting stress on plants and animals in urban parks. (ijpr.org)
Climate-driven floods, hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves cause billions of dollars of damage every year in the United States. (gpb.org)

Domains included level of understanding about climate change and health and related programs, and perceptions of organizational capacity to respond to these impacts. (cdc.gov)

As society becomes increasingly urbanized and digitally connected, America's public lands constitute one of the last refuges of liberty. (earthisland.org)
In addition to the increasingly high incidence of mental disorders (eg, emotional distress, stress, depression, and suicidal behavior) affecting people worldwide, the WHO warned of new, emerging syndromes that are directly related to climate change, such as "ecotrauma. (medscape.com)
The fact that climate is changing has become increasingly clear over the past decade. (who.int)

While national and international research and assessments have explored the potential human health impacts of climate change, few assessments have explored the implications of climate change from a local public health perspective. (mdpi.com)

A U.N. report earlier this month showed the world is way off track in its efforts to fulfill the 2015 Paris agreement and limit future warming, said Adnan Amin, the CEO of the upcoming climate talks, called COP28. (yahoo.com)
The detailed evidence of Tillerson/Exxon's role in using ALEC to peddle climate change denial and thwart efforts to address climate changes is available in the attachments on Document Cloud listed here . (prwatch.org)
As the picture of the fossil fuel companies' efforts to deceive the public comes into clear view, the time is ripe to hold these companies accountable for their actions and responsible for the harm they have caused," says the report's conclusion. (sustainablebrands.com)

And we should not assume that as climate change becomes worse, these divisions will start to heal. (abc.net.au)
Even in the United States, much of the infrastructure is designed for the climate of the past with some cities still using outdated data that doesn't reflect how storms are getting worse. (ideastream.org)

Despite this, oil companies intentionally suppressed the information from the public and policymakers, even investing billions to cast doubt and spread disinformation on climate change, the state alleges. (kpbs.org)
As noted by Eric Havian, a partner at the law form of Constantine Cannon who specializes in tax law, CMD's evidence shows that Exxon has used "ALEC's charitable status to fuel its disinformation campaign on climate change, so taxpayers are literally paying Exxon to lie to them. (prwatch.org)

Both reports - one written by 13 federal agencies and released by the Trump administration, the other written by an international group of health experts and published in the prestigious journal the Lancet - specifically point to the fact that climate change is harming human health. (wbur.org)

Artists paint a mural on a wall near Scottish Events Centre (SEC) in Glasgow, which will host the U.N. climate summit starting Sunday. (nhpr.org)
Saleemul Huq , from the International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Bangladesh, has been to every single COP. (nhpr.org)

We have many reasons to take climate action to improve our health and reducing risks for infectious disease emergence is one of them. (harvard.edu)
The Boulder-based photographer says it's the best way to see climate change in action. (cpr.org)
The consensus is that climate change action requires joined-up action from diverse sectors, disciplines and stakeholders. (bradford.ac.uk)
Against this backdrop, the panel will explore some of the urgent issues, challenges and opportunities for climate action. (bradford.ac.uk)
The symposium will therefore be relevant to researchers, students, civil society, business and career professionals from diverse backgrounds with an interest in climate action. (bradford.ac.uk)
For these reasons, I have long been keen to understand the ways people respond to climate change - and the language we need to use to convince people to take action. (abc.net.au)
It groups the public into six different segments, varying in size and well differentiated in terms of their attitudes to climate change and their views about action. (abc.net.au)
This group is fully convinced of the reality and seriousness of climate change and already taking individual, consumer, and political action to address it. (abc.net.au)
The public is grouped into six segments depending on their attitudes to climate change and their views about action. (abc.net.au)
That Executive Order also required the development and implementation of a Climate Action Plan. (nysenate.gov)
Our education sector presents both a need and an opportunity to move toward climate action. (aspeninstitute.org)
The findings show that some states have started to work toward climate action, but it has yet to be comprehensively considered across states and school systems need additional support to help the country achieve rapid decarbonization by 2050. (aspeninstitute.org)
The need to act on climate change is universal," said Laura Schifter, Senior Fellow with K12 Climate Action. (aspeninstitute.org)
K12 Climate Action is committed to developing an action plan that outlines steps for the public K-12 education sector in moving toward climate action, solutions, and environmental justice. (aspeninstitute.org)
Co-chaired by John B. King Jr., president and CEO of The Education Trust and 10th U.S. Secretary of Education under President Barack Obama, and Christine Todd Whitman, president of the Whitman Strategy Group and former Governor of New Jersey and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George W. Bush, K12 Climate Action consists of 23 commissioners and over 25 coalition partners. (aspeninstitute.org)
Next week, on October 19, K12 Climate Action will host the first in a series of listening sessions focused on Why Should Schools Move Toward Climate Action. (aspeninstitute.org)

The qualitative research I've done has revealed the extent to which attitudes about climate are informed not by an understanding of science, but by world views, values, political identification, social and cultural conditioning and gender identity. (abc.net.au)
They compared the company's internal files and research on climate science to statements in 36 "advertorials" (paid ads that look like editorial content) published from 1989 to 2004 in The New York Times . (greencarreports.com)
While roughly 80 percent of the company's internal documents acknowledged that climate change is real, and caused by humans, after "accounting for reasonable doubt given the state of the science" when each document was created. (greencarreports.com)
To translate climate change science to inform states, local health departments and communities. (cdc.gov)
The authors drew on their distinct disciplines of law and science to deliver this public interest project," said Professor Charles Norchi. (maine.edu)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) say they will create a research center that focuses on bringing climate change data to the insurance industry. (gpb.org)
The goal of the new research center will be to make detailed federal climate data available to insurance companies so they can use climate science to look into the future. (gpb.org)
Students come from all over the world and from various ac- processes of change such as climate change, urbanisation, ademic disciplines, such as engineering science, social science, and the increasing complexity of modern society poses major political science, natural science and environmental science. (lu.se)

The recommendations also call for statewide plans to make communities resilient to climate risks and flooding, as well as a statewide electric transportation plan. (wpr.org)
Or as Zakeyu is doing, to make farming more resilient and productive despite changing weather. (kpbs.org)

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