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Climate Change and Human Health

Fact Sheet by Action Against Aids Germany

New Arrivals

  • Briefing Paper: Climate Change and Health – Time to Act. Facts and Conclusions for Industrial and Developing Countries
    • January 2012
    • PDF, English
    • Brief summary: Climate change will result in grave consequences for the health of the world population. While industrialized countries have begun to protect themselves by starting adaptation programs developing countries have only limited resources to do so. They however - and especially least developed countries - will suffer most from climate change. Yet historically the global warming is a result of the industrialization in the north although meanwhile emerging economies contribute more and more. Because of the negative effects of climate change on health and the positive "side effects" of mitigation measures for human health the international discussion on climate change and the necessity for mitigation and adaptation needs to place much more emphasis on health issues. Health professionals and the health sector in general need to battle climate change - for health reasons as well as for the sustainability of human life.
    • by Winfried Zacher of germanwatch.org
  • Gender, Climate Change and Health (WHO Draft Discussion Paper)
    • February 2010
    • PDF, English
    • The draft discussion paper offers available information on the differential links between climate change and the health of women and men through the perspectives of direct and indirect health consequences, and the possible interaction of biological and social risk factors in determining these impacts. The paper aims to provide a framework for gendered health risk assessment and adaptation/mitigation actions in relation to climate change. Such a framework is intended to strengthen WHO support to member States in developing standardized country-level health risk assessments and climate policy interventions that are beneficial to both women and men.
    • The draft discussion paper addresses: health impacts; social and human consequences of climate change, including migration and displacement, shifts in farming and land use, and increased livelihood, household and caring burdens; responses to climate change; and gaps in understanding and urgent needs to be addressed.
    •  The World Health Organization (WHO)

Links

  • Population and Climate Change (Population Action International - PAI)
    • continuously updated
    • Web site, English
    • PAI’s Climate Change Initiative is an ambitious multi-year program of research, advocacy, and strategic communications designed to bring our experience and expertise to the critical and complex relationships among population, gender, and climate change.

Archive Documents

  • Climate Change and AIDS: A Joint Working Paper by UNEP and UNAIDS
    • December 2008
    • PDF, English
    • AIDS and climate change (CC) are two of the most important “long wave” global issues of the recent past, the present and the future. They share similarities, interactions, and present possibilities for a more united response. Yet these links have received little analysis. This paper seeks to address that gap. It first focuses on scientific issues, identifying major, minor, and speculative pathways by which AIDS and CC are likely to interact. These interactions are, here, called the HIV and Climate Change Complex (HACC).
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Environmental Sustainability
    • May 2007
    • PDF, English
    • Preventing maternal mortality, improving health, enhancing gender equality and advancing sexual and reproductive rights are essential to reducing poverty and achieving sustainable development. All governments, including those wishing to address environmental sustainability, should pursue policies which will ensure universal access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information, services and supplies.
    • Fact sheet of the NGO network "Countdown 2015 Europe"