The Climate and Health Council is a network of health professionals informing and advocating on the health benefits of more sustainable lifestyles and the urgency of addressing climate change.
We take the firm stance that health professionals can, should and must take meaningful action on climate change. By becoming a member, you can learn more, share ideas with colleagues and join the health voice calling for action to protect health from climate change.
Protecting public health is our duty in society. It's what we do best.
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Nell Crowden wrote a new blog: "Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate".One of the clearest and most direct letters on climate change: Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition? In science, as in any area, reputations are based on knowledge and ...
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"Nell Crowden" commented on Nell Crowden's Blog "UK Public say they want a sustainable NHS even if it costs money".
Great news! Glad you liked it Paul.
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"Paul Anthony" commented on Nell Crowden's Blog "UK Public say they want a sustainable NHS even if it costs money".Nice article. Very interesting
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Nell Crowden wrote a new blog: "UK Public say they want a sustainable NHS even if it costs money".
"More than nine in ten (92%) of the public recently interviewed in a specially commissioned survey say they want the NHS to be more sustainable with 33% saying it should be done even if it were to cost the health service money."This is also in the ...
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Nell Crowden wrote a new blog: "NHS Carbon Emission "levelling off" new report says!".
Today we are delighted to announce the release of the NHS Sustainable Development Unit's 2012 Healthcheck."In the first independent survey of its kind 92% of the public questioned said it is important that the NHS works in a more sustainable way ...
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Hugh Montgomery wrote a new blog: "New EU data".New EU analysis (http://ec.europa.eu/clima/news/articles/news_2012013002_en.htm) today shows that a 30% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions across all EU countries. by 2020 would be far cheaper than expected. The target could be ...
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Sarah Walpole wrote a new blog: "UNSCN Nutrition and Climate Change eGroup"."The Nutrition and Climate change eGroup is an ad hoc online discussion forum, cre-ated with the aims of bringing a nutrition lens into climate change issues and increas-ing the participation of interested sectors to discuss how this can be done and ...
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"Paul Anthony" commented on Nell Crowden's Blog "CHC in print: Transparency needed on donors to climate sceptic lobby".
Great article Nell. Well done
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Nell Crowden wrote a new blog: "CHC in print: Transparency needed on donors to climate sceptic lobby".
Today The Guardian newspaper printed our letter. Tweet it - like NASA news did! Or email, or get a paper version to read over your morning coffee. Transparency needed on donors to climate sceptic lobby Science is by its nature sceptical: ...
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Aubrey Meyer Ban Ki Moon "Climate Agreement by 2015." "C&C is flexible and fair and reduces disparities." http://www.gci.org.uk/news_January_2012.html8 days ago
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Aubrey Meyer 26 January 2012 - Cabinet Office 10 Downing St. "UK Climate Act is based on C&C Principle." After an effort covering 21 years, to read - at last - this 'acceptance' published on the website of the UK Cabinet Office at No 10 Downing Street, means we have turned a page: - "The primary piece of legislation governing carbon emissions in the UK Climate Act. It is based on the C&C principle. Considering the debacle at COP-15, where HMG attempted to prescribe these rates to the global community, it would make more sense for HMG to go to the UNFCCC negotiations and *negotiate rather than prescribe* these rates." Comment Tags: Negotiate-not-prescribe C&C-rates http://www.redtapechallenge.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/environment/industrial-emissions-and-carbon-reductions/comment-tag/negotiate-not-prescribe-cc-rates/9 days ago
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How the Sierra Club took millions from the natural gas industry — and why it stopped.
3 Feb 2012, 2:00 pmMainstream environmental groups have struggled to balance local concerns about traditional pollution with planet-sized worries over climate change, and how to work with corporate America without being seen as selling out. -
Canada must act decisively to protect marine biodiversity: Report.
3 Feb 2012, 2:00 pmCanada is failing badly at protecting its rich marine biodiversity from the looming threat of climate change, an expert-panel report for the Royal Society of Canada concluded Thursday. -
Cheap natural gas jumbles energy markets, stirs fears it could inhibit renewables.
3 Feb 2012, 2:00 pmFor the past three years, promoters of shale gas and environmentalists opposed to coal-fired power plants have hailed the sudden abundance of U.S. natural gas as a bridge to a renewable-energy future. -
Equity must be basis of climate talks: PM.
3 Feb 2012, 2:00 pmIn one of his most emphatic public statements reaffirming the return of "equity" in India's climate change stance, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said global cooperation on climate change "must be based on the foundation of the right to ... -
How the stimulus revived the electric car.
3 Feb 2012, 2:00 pmOne success the Obama administration can duly claim is the rebirth of the electric-car industry in the United States. The question is: Will it last? -
Climate change okay for one coral.
3 Feb 2012, 2:00 pmClimate change is wreaking havoc on coral reefs, heating and acidifying the waters in which they live. But some corals are actually benefiting from a warming world, according to a new study. -
Clear and present dangers not so clear, or present.
3 Feb 2012, 2:00 pmLet’s face it, human beings are not very good at dealing with distant, relatively uncertain threats. By the time some of the worst consequences of climate change clearly manifest themselves as near-term challenges, it will be too late to stop them. -
Federal government opens more ocean to wind projects.
3 Feb 2012, 2:00 pmEnthusiasm for offshore wind projects may have cooled among developers in the United States these days, but the Obama administration is still trying to make a ribbon of wind farms off the Atlantic Coast a reality. -
Poor, minority residents face most health risks with climate change.
3 Feb 2012, 2:00 pmPoor, urban and minority residents are most at risk for health problems linked to climate change, according to a new California Department of Public Health analysis of Los Angeles and Fresno counties. -
New meteorological theory argues that the world's forests are rainmakers.
3 Feb 2012, 2:00 pmFirst published in 2007 by two Russian physicists, Victor Gorshkov and Anastassia Makarieva, the still little-known biotic pump theory postulates that forests are the driving force behind precipitation over land masses.