Assistant Secretary for HealthRachel Levine,who is expected to help oversee the initiative, told reporters on Monday that the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity will have three main jobs: building resilience to climate health impacts; partnering with hospitals to reduce their greenhouse gas e...
The Office of Climate Change and Health Equity was established in 2021 to help the health sector drive down its climate warming pollution, in part by accessing clean energy tax credits passed under former President Joe Biden. It also provided public information about the health dangers of extreme ...
HealthDay News — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will no longer fund new research on how climate change affects people’s health, according to records reviewed byProPublica. The new directive was shared internally with staff last week. It follows other action to stop NIH support for...
Tweet A coalition of healthcare, environmental and scientific groups is urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take steps to ensure equitable distribution of public health benefits from the Biden administration’s efforts to mitigate greenhouse gases with an emphasize on protecting...
Healthcare facilities are in the crosshairs of climate change. Proceeding as usual or waiting for updated resilience regulations is no longer an option. Any step taken to protect your hospital building from climate risks is a step forward. Now is not the time to let perfect get in the way ...
“The power of that training is profound,” Kerry said. “Across all four countries where we work, we’ve seen real improvements in health outcomes, boosts in morale, and increased capacity to respond to crises like Ebola, cholera, or climate change.” ...
They do not, and cannot, describe all possible future outcomes. As such, there is no assurance that the scenarios presented in this report are a reliable indicator of the actual impact of climate change on ConocoPhillips' portfolio or business. We publish certain details of our scenarios to ...
New U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg interview with The Points Guy. "Mayor Pete" says dramatic change in travel already under way, time to "build back better."
Climate change Agriculture Adaptive capacity Adaptation Gender 1. Introduction For the food security challenge in a world with 9.6 billion people by 2050 (United Nations DESA, 2013), climate change poses both an opportunity and a threat. The opportunity lies in the possibility of very different and...
High public demand was created for strong climate policies and other future public actions that must be implemented to avert the current climate crisis. Keywords: climate change; climate justice; Google Trends Citation: Salerno, F. The Greta Thunberg Effect on Climate Equity: A Worldwide Google ...