Former US Vice President Al Gore speaks while attending the session ”Rising to the Challenge of Copenhagen” at the World Economic Forum in this January 30, 2009 file photo. A bill to fight climate change currently before the US Congress ”is a good start,” Nobel laureate and environment champion Al Gore said May 15, 2009. With the House Energy and Commerce Committee due to start its formal debate on the bill come Monday, hoping to approve it by weeks end and send it to the full House, Gore said the legislation ”has now reached the stage that a lot of people thought it never would.” AFP/Getty Images
Managing the health effects of climate change (click title to entry - thank you)
Launched in London, UK, May 13, 2009
A collaboration between The Lancet and University College London, UK, resulting in the first UCL Lancet Commission report, setting out how climate change over the coming decades could have a disastrous effect on health across the globe. The report examines practical measures that can be taken now and in the short and medium term to control its effects....
Launched in London, UK, May 13, 2009
A collaboration between The Lancet and University College London, UK, resulting in the first UCL Lancet Commission report, setting out how climate change over the coming decades could have a disastrous effect on health across the globe. The report examines practical measures that can be taken now and in the short and medium term to control its effects....
...A new advocacy and public health movement is needed urgently to bring together governments, international agencies, non-governmental organisations, communities, and academics from all disciplines to adapt to the effects of climate change on health. Any adaptation should sit alongside the need for primary mitigation: reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, and the need to increase carbon bio-sequestration through reforestation and improved agricultural practices. The recognition by governments and electorates that climate change has enormous health implications should assist the advocacy and political change needed to tackle both mitigation and adaptation.
