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New Office of Climate Change and Health Equity announced

Inhabitat - Innovation

Office of Climate Change and Health Equity will be charged with protecting vulnerable communities from climate-driven disasters. Responding to President Joe Biden’s executive order on climate change, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the new office Monday.

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COVID-19 and climate change: A healthy dose of reality

GreenBiz

Consider the global health crisis currently upon us as a warm-up act for a climate-changing world.

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Climate change is the biggest public health issue

Inhabitat - Innovation

More than 220 of the world’s top public health and medical journals have published a joint plea for the global population to reduce carbon emissions immediately. Humanity already faces irreversible public health threats, the editors wrote. We can’t wait for the pandemic to end before we face the task of reducing emissions.

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Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change?

GreenBiz

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. According to the group’s scorecard , Vault 100 firms: litigated 286 cases exacerbating climate change (versus three cases mitigating it).

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Climate change is adversely affecting childrens health worldwide

Inhabitat - Innovation

Unless significant intervention takes place, global warming and climate change will negatively “shape the well-being of an entire generation.”

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New ADEPT president launches climate change policy position

Envirotec Magazine

Mark Kemp, the new President of the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (ADEPT), has launched the group’s new Climate Change and Green Growth policy position. Key to achieving climate change action is behaviour change.

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Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change?

GreenBiz

Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change? Sports leagues are seeing the impacts and the surge of climate-responsible athletes using their platforms to promote positive environmental and social impact — it’s something for the history books. Aubrey McCormick. Fri, 04/09/2021 - 02:00.