Win-Win-Win: Slash Carbon, Methane and Black Carbon Emissions, for better Climate, Human Health and Agriculture
By Nell CrowdenStudy: Simple measures could reduce global warming, save lives
By Brian Vastag and Juliet Eilperin,
Published: January
12
Carbon Trust Public Sector Programmes 2012/13
By Nell CrowdenUK members, reclaim your sunshine!
By Nell Crowden"The idea is simple: we shift the clocks forward by one hour throughout the entire year. We would still put the clocks forward in spring and back in autumn, but we would have moved an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening, when more of us are awake to enjoy it...... Cutting carbon and making life better can and should go hand in hand."
Ideas for your resolution...
By Sarah Walpolehttp://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/going-green-12-simple-steps-for-2012/
Climate Change, Rising Sea Levels and Mosquito-Borne Diseases
By ranjan ramasamyHappy new year, let's fight some GLOBESITY!
By Nell CrowdenFighting Globesity by Philip and Jackie Mills, M.D.,
"Globesity is a term we use to describe the relationship that currently operates between personal fitness, national health systems and global sustainability.
How to avoid an 18th COP out.
By robin stottThree separate images from the recent COP 17 in Durban, where I was as an observer on behalf of the Climate and Health council, frame my view of how we can rescue the COP process from its terminal decline. We might then have a better chance of rescuing the Globe from a three degree increase in temperature , with the 70% predicted species extinction and the unimaginable human catastrophe that this will produce.
The first is the widely distributed photo of The UNFCC executive secretary Ms Christiana Figueres ,the EU chief negotiator Ms Connie Hedegaard , and the South African chair of the conference Ms Maite Nkoana-Mashabane turning the tables in the last few hours of negotiations. The caption could well have been ‘It takes the efforts of three women to rescue some semblance of progress from the negotiations,and to avert catastrophe.’
WHO: Health issues gain traction at UN Climate Conference
By Nell CrowdenHealth issues gain traction at UN Climate Conference
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Conference of the Parties (COP-17) Nov 28–Dec 9 2011
For the first time since the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed in 1992, health is gaining notice as a key goal of climate policies and as a priority in climate mitigation and adaptation actions.
Up until recently, the level of health representation in the negotiations has taken very low, usually with just a single side event dedicated to the issue.
This year's meeting, in contrast, hosts the largest health presence to date. Nearly a dozen side events are highlighting different dimensions of the links between health and climate,
Hugh's views on COP17
By Nell Crowden
Professor Hugh Montgomery reports back on
COP17:
Let us deal first with available data, and the latest climate
science. 1990 was the
benchmark year for emissions reductions under the
Kyoto Protocol. Since then, world
emissions have risen- not fallen- by
49%. Average increases have been
3.1% per year for each and every one of
the last ten years, with emissions
rising by nearly 6% last year alone.
These rises are FAR in
excess of the past 'worst case' projections.
Health leaders call for urgent action on climate
By Taruna GuptaInternational health leaders in Durban for the global climate talks have called on negotiators
to push for the most ambitious commitments possible, warning that the direction of current
negotiations risks the lives of billions of people around the globe.
See online:
http://www.climateandhealthcare.org/health-leaders-call-for-urgent-action-on-climate-2/
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yz2D7RCcFZVjZNYMmQn%2BWaWWTkBiL7XY>