COP29 and the UNFCCC’s Health Turn: Progress or Peril?
Conclusion of the Digital Symposium Climate Change and Health
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Read more: Reproductive Health at Risk: Climate Change and Agrotoxins in Latin America Reproductive Health at Risk: Climate Change and Agrotoxins in Latin America
By Cristina Rosero-Arteaga The climate emergency in Latin America is intensifying a long-standing yet underrecognized health crisis: reproductive harm due to agrochemical exposure, particularly for rural women. As shifting climate patterns threaten to exacerbate these harms, it is crucial to bring these issues into the focus of climate action. The region’s human rights framework —…
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Read more: Life rights for reproduction: Voices from the climate-affected rural subalterns Life rights for reproduction: Voices from the climate-affected rural subalterns
Women queue to fill their buckets, Bolangir, Odisha, India 18.1.2022. ©Nairita Roy Chaudhuri By Nairita Roy Chaudhuri Most small farmers in rural India directly depend on rainwater…
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Read more: Climate Change and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa: The Urgent Need for Intersectional Approaches in Climate Change Policy and Governance Climate Change and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa: The Urgent Need for Intersectional Approaches in Climate Change Policy and Governance
Photo credit: @wambuigichobi | SMA A Masai woman raises her fist as other women leaders look on at COP 27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt during one of the debriefs by the Women and Gender Constituency. by Faith Lumonya, Esther Wambui, and Eunice Musiime As global temperatures rise and the frequency of extreme weather events…
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Read more: The impacts of climate change on the right to health in the United Kingdom The impacts of climate change on the right to health in the United Kingdom
By Rossella De Falco Climate change is one of the most pressing threats to health in the U.K. While climate change impacts everyone, marginalized groups and those with pre-existing health conditions are suffering the most, leading to greater health inequalities. This article explains how climate change impacts the health of the most marginalized populations in…
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Read more: Reinventing South African Trade Unions to Protect the Health of Informal Workers in the Face of Climate Change Reinventing South African Trade Unions to Protect the Health of Informal Workers in the Face of Climate Change
By Cecile de Villiers South Africa is considered the most unequal country in the world, with stagnant economic growth and staggeringly high unemployment. More than five million or 31.2% of workers in South Africa find economic opportunities in the “informal economy,” often because there are fewer barriers (training, skills, regulation) to entering the sector. Informal…
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Read more: Climate Change and Health: Mobilizing Public International Law into Action Climate Change and Health: Mobilizing Public International Law into Action
This post launches a new Digital Symposium, Climate Change and Health: Mobilizing Public International Law into Action by Guest Editors Thalia Viveros Uehara and Alicia Ely Yamin. Check back for more posts twice a week! The election of Donald J. Trump, who has called climate change a “hoax” and in his prior administration pulled the…
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Read more: Intersectionality, Indigeneity, and Disability Climate Justice in Nepal Intersectionality, Indigeneity, and Disability Climate Justice in Nepal
Indigenous Peoples with disabilities in Nepal are disparately impacted by climate change due to intersecting and compounding discrimination.
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Read more: Climate Change and Neglected Tropical Diseases: Key Takeaways from the WHO-WIPO-WTO Trilateral Symposium Climate Change and Neglected Tropical Diseases: Key Takeaways from the WHO-WIPO-WTO Trilateral Symposium
Neglected tropical diseases were at the forefront of a recent convening on human health and climate change.
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Read more: Climate-Resilient and Accessible Architecture Climate-Resilient and Accessible Architecture
Climate change is the gravest threat currently faced by human civilization, and our architecture must internalize this reality of our time.
