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Addressing Inequities In The Mental Health Burden Of Climate Change

Energy Innovation

People around the world are increasingly aware of and impacted by climate change, which is connected unsurprisingly with a parallel uptick in associated mental health stress. But providing supportive services requires a better understanding of climate change’s effects on the mental health of all people.

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Study: People are moving to flood-prone areas, not away from them

Grist

More than a decade later, in January 2015, heavy rains swept through the two countries again, producing flooding in many of the same areas, killing nearly 300 people, and displacing just over 300,000. Then, by pulling global population data for 2000 and 2015, they calculated how much populations changed in affected areas during that period.

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Can the first US 'chief heat officer' build a model for future resilience?

Business Green

The chief heat officer’s responsibilities include education, disaster response training and infrastructure that considers extreme heat alongside other public health safety considerations. The city's heat index reached 108 degrees F, the highest since August 2015. Even cities accustomed to humid summers are struggling with heat.

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Study: People are moving to flood-prone areas, not away from them

Grist

More than a decade later, in January 2015, heavy rains swept through the two countries again, producing flooding in many of the same areas, killing nearly 300 people, and displacing just over 300,000. Then, by pulling global population data for 2000 and 2015, they calculated how much populations changed in affected areas during that period.

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Climate Litigation Is Increasing as Government Action Falters

DeSmogBlog

In 2015, the Hague District Court in the Netherlands issued a landmark ruling — subsequently upheld on appeal — in a climate lawsuit brought by Urgenda and Dutch citizens against the national government. A two-week hearing on the case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany concluded on Monday.

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Immediate action is needed to ensure ‘a livable future for all,’ UN report says

Grist

Melting ice caps and ocean expansion have contributed to sea-level rise of nearly eight inches, heat waves and flooding have become more prevalent, and damage to the natural world is worse and more widespread than ever before. Drawing on the IPCC’s previous publications, the report says global temperatures have risen 1.1

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Net Economic Gains from Climate Action

Green Market Oracle

s National Oceanographic Centre, the costs of sea level rise alone could exceed $14 trillion a year by 2100. In 2013 the stock of manageable assets was $143 trillion as estimated by the Financial Stability Board, updated based on EIU data in 2015 suggests that number is $207 trillion. According to the U.K.’s