Global Climate and Health Alliance
| Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) |
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|---|---|
| founding | 2011 |
| Seat | Berkeley , California |
| main emphasis | Climate change and health |
| Action space | international |
| people | Jeni Miller (director) |
| Website | www.climateandhealthalliance.org |
The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) is an umbrella organization of over 100 organizations that deal with the health effects of climate change . The GCHA was founded in 2011 at the UN climate conference in Durban and participates directly in the negotiations of the UNFCCC .
In close cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO), the GCHA has organized a series of conferences and side events ( Climate and Health Summits ) parallel to the UN climate conferences .
One of the goals is to establish climate change as a public health issue and to highlight the health-related effects of climate protection (such as the reduction of asthma and heart attacks).
Others
Nick Watts, the director of the GCHA, is also the executive director of the Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change - a 15-year research collaboration (initiated by the medical journal The Lancet , among others in collaboration with the WHO and the World Meteorological Organization ), whose aim is to analyze the effects of climate change on public health.
Publications
- David McCoy, Nick Watts: Climate Change: Health Impacts and Opportunities. A Summary and Discussion of the IPCC Working Group 2 Report . The Global Climate and Health Alliance.
- Isobel Braithwaite: Health and Climate at COP21 and Beyond . The Global Climate and Health Alliance.
Web links
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Linda Rudolph, Nick Watts: Climate and Health Alliances . In: Barry Levy, Jonathan Patz (Eds.): Climate Change and Public Health . Oxford University Press , Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-020246-0 .
- ^ Claudel P-Desrosiers, Charlotte Holm-Hansen, Yassen Tcholakov, Nick Watts: Climate and Health - a call for action from tomorrow's global leaders . In: PNAS Blogs . November 16, 2013. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
- ↑ Events . The Global Climate and Health Alliance. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
- ^ Gary Humphreys: Reframing climate change as a health issue . In: Bulletin of the World Health Organization . 92, 2014, pp. 551-552. doi : 10.2471 / BLT.14.020814 .
- ^ John D. Sutter: How to save 12.6 million lives a year . In: CNN . November 14, 2016. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
- ↑ Joachim Wille : Climate change as an opportunity . In: Klimaretter.info . December 15, 2016. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
- ↑ Nick Watts et al .: The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change . In: The Lancet . November 14, 2016. doi : 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (16) 32124-9 . (freely available after registration)