Find the facts:

 

o       Factsheets and reports from Harvard Medical School on Climate, energy and Health: http://chge.med.harvard.edu/programs/ccf/index.html

o       WHO Resources on Climate Change and Health Europe: http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/health-topics/environment-and-health/Climate-change

o       WHO Resources on Climate Change and Health Global: http://www.who.int/topics/climate/en/

o       UN key documents on climate change: http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/climatechange/pages/gateway/documents

o       UK Met Office pages on health and climate change: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/health http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/health/professionals/climatechange

o       UK Department of Health, “The Health Impact of Climate Change: Promoting Sustainable Communities”: http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/documents/digitalasset/dh_083954.pdf

o       Health Care without Harm at: http://www.noharm.org/us_canada/issues/climate/resources.php

o       Nature Reports Climate Change. www.nature.com/climate

 

Resources on climate change and health to download, including a powerpoint presentation given by the Director of the UK NHS Sustainable Development Unit at the Royal College of General Practitioners' conference in October 2010, are available at: www.climateandhealth.org/files.html

In this table, you will find links to Factsheets, Powerpoint slides, Best practice case studies, News articles, Campaigning resources, Videos, FAQs, Blogs and Carbon Calculators.

Resources/issues

Climate science

Health impacts of climate change

Adaptation

Mitigation

Clinical practice

Factsheets

Climate change glossary

 

The great warming fact sheet

WHO climate and health fact sheet

 

Climate and health evidence

 

American Public health Association fact sheet

 

United Nations Fact Sheet: The Need for Adaptation

United Nations Fact Sheet: The Need for Mitigation

 

Ecology center fact sheets

Reducing carbon footprint

PowerPoint slides

Red Cross: Climate change power point

 

 

Climate connection - Health impacts of climate change

 

Practical Action: Community based adaptation slides

Energy and health slides

 

Mitigation and Health improvement

Sustainable Action Planning slides

 

Sustainable Action Planning slides - 2

Best practice/ case studies

Red Cross: Global good practice case studies

West Midlands – Health Impacts of Climate Change

Defra Future Worlds Images

 

 

Kentish Town - buildings

 

UKCIP Case Studies

International – WHO’s Health in the Green Economy

 

UK Centre for sustainable healthcare

 

HCWH checklist for action at work – OR EVEN LINK TO… their main page HCWH

News articles

The Guardian – climate change

 

BBC – Durban Winners and Losers

The Guardian – Health Hazard

 

The Guardian – Climate Change Biggest Threat to Health

Health relevant adaptation still in infancy

BBC – Climate Change Threat to Security and Health

Greener hospitals in Cananda (but something more up to date would be better instead/as well)

Campaigning resources and

Campaigning groups  

WWF - campaign earth hour

 

WWF – get on board

 

People and planet – student campaign

 

Christian Aid Campaign guilde

 

Medsin Campaign – Healthy Planet

 

Health and sustainability articulate

 

WONCA

Warmer homes campaign? FoE – could go here too

Friends of the earth online campaign

 

International demonstration on climate change

 

UK Campaign Against Climate Change: Local Groups

 

10:10 Health Campaign

 

Sustainable Action Planning – engaging people tool

 

New South Wales Nurses’ Association

Videos

Video – climate and heath – the connection

 

Climate, Oceans and human health

 

 

Video – the world has malaria

 

BMJ – health impacts of climate change

Indigenous health adaptation to climate change

BMJ – Health, Security and economic benefits of tackling climate change

 

IPCC presentations

 

“The good news” - Wellcome Trust

 

FAQs

Red Cross: Climate change FAQ

 

Guardian: Ultimate Climate Change FAQ

 

European Environmental Agency

WHO climate and health FAQs

Oxfam: Climate Change Adaptation & Disaster Risk Reduction FAQs

 

NHS Sustainable Development Unit FAQs

 

GP commissioning consortia FAQs

Blogs

Climate Ark

 

The Guardian Environment Blog

The climate connection discussion forum

 

Health toll of climate change 2005 - 2011

India - adaptation

 

Adaptation Nation blogspot

Conservation International – Climate Mitigation

Centre for sustainable healthcare - blog

Other

 

Postnote – UK Impacts of Climate Change

 

Poster – climate change, air quality and health

Adaptation Learning Mechanism – Discussion Forum

 

Climate Vulnerability Handbook

Health Service Carbon Calculator:

RCGP – primary care

 

 

Personal Carbon Calculator:

Guardian

WWF

Directgov

 

UK map of greener healthcare

 

Efficiency Action Plan - blank

Department of Health – Health impacts of climate change Report 2008

 

Sustainable action planning: Progress spreadsheet