Climate Matters: Climate change impacts public health, marginalized communities

Climate Matters: Climate change impacts public health, marginalized communities

The foundation of my professional career has been healthcare, and I am proud to be a nurse and a public health professional. My experience in healthcare and public health policy had a profound influence upon me and through the course of my transition from nursing and public policy to working in higher education, healthcare remains an abiding passion.In 2023, along with Dr. Rajini Srikanth, dean of faculty and professor of English at University o…

Community tour aims to find how climate change affects health of Nunavimmiut

A team from the Nunavik health board will travel to every community in the region this year to establish a plan for dealing with climate change and its impact on the health of Nunavimmiut.

'The hotter the summer is, the colder the winter is. It's not normal. I can feel the effect of climate change'

Aibiike Alymova shares her experience of the 2024 Canada heat wave with Anel Jazybayeva. Photo by Jess Beaudin Aibiike is a fourth-year journalism student at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia pursuing journalism and new media studies. Originally from Kyrgyzstan, she came to Kamloops when she was 17 with an ambition to become a journalist. She’s now the sports editor at The Omega, the university’s student newspaper, and enj…

Climate justice and the moral duty to act - Africa Sustainability Matters

Climate justice highlights that the effects of climate change are not distributed equally. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) defines climate justice as “putting equity and human rights at the core of decision-making and action on climate change.”

EU LIFE Programme Calls for proposals 2025 including climate change adaptation

n 2021-2027, the LIFE sub-programme Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation co-finances projects in the areas of urban adaptation and land-use planning, resilience of infrastructure, sustainable management of water in drought-prone areas.

“What is clear is that it is no longer possible to conduct monetary policy without considering climate factors”, points out Gustavo Pinheiro