Can Greater Health Focus at Glasgow Climate Conference Motivate Tougher Action on Global Warming? 16/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin & Elaine Ruth Fletcher This year’s 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), will be a critical moment of decision on climate policies, as the clock runs down before the more severe ravages of global warming become irreversible. Against the panoply of issues under debate, health is getting more attention from this year’s COP26 organisers as a […] Continue reading -> US Wildfire Smoke in May Have Contributed to Excess COVID Cases and Deaths in 2020 13/08/2021 Raisa Santos While the US was contending with the COVID-19 pandemic, huge wildfires that swept across the country in 2020 may have contributed to thousands of COVID cases and deaths, according to a US study on fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) air pollution from wildfires and COVID-19. The study, conducted by researchers at the Harvard Chan School […] Continue reading -> PAHO to Help Members Buy Vaccines as Delta Variant Drives COVID-19 Across Americas 12/08/2021 Raisa Santos As the Delta variant continues to fuel COVID-19 cases and deaths across the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is becoming more proactive in procuring vaccines for its members. PAHO announced this week that its Revolving Fund, which provides access to vaccines at affordable prices, is now open for requests from member states for […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Weighs Heavily on Young People’s Mental Health 12/08/2021 Kerry Cullinan International Youth Day – Loneliness, depression, anxiety, substance abuse and job losses. These are some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is weighing on children and young adults who have been isolated from friends, leisure activity and job opportunities by lockdowns and social distancing. Over 1.5 million children have also lost their parents […] Continue reading -> Glasgow Summit is the ‘Last Chance to Get Runaway Climate Change Under Control’ 10/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is expected to be a pivotal moment in the fight against climate change, bringing leaders together in Glasgow to accelerate progress on global climate action. The event is “the world’s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control,” said the COP26 organisers […] Continue reading -> Climate Scientists Issue ‘Red Alert’ for Humanity – and Health 09/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Climate change is now an existential health problem overshadowing all others, say scientists in a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s largest and most comprehensive assessment of the state of the planet. Unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate have been recorded in every region and the world is […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Planetary ‘Vital Signs’ Indicate that Climate Tipping Point is Imminent 05/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A new study, conducted by an international group of scientists, found that key indicators of the state of the climate crisis were reaching critical tipping points. The study, published in the journal BioScience, measured some 31 planetary vital signs, ranging from coal, oil, and gas consumption to carbon dioxide emissions to ocean acidity to fossil […] Continue reading -> ‘High Hopes’ of WTO Action to Curb Harmful Fisheries Subsidies & Stimulate Pandemic Response – But Decisions Punted to Autumn 27/07/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher World Trade Organization Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has ” high hopes” that the WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) that convenes at the end of November can deliver decisions that curb harmful fisheries subsidies as well as improving access of low- and middle-income countries to COVID medicines and vaccines. But WTO members must overcome a series of […] Continue reading -> While Global Tobacco Control Measures Improve, Electronic Cigarettes Evade Regulation in Many Countries 27/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan While there has been significant global progress in curbing conventional tobacco products, newer tobacco and nicotine products such as e-cigarettes are evading regulation, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2021 report on the tobacco epidemic. Some 5.3 billion people are now covered by at least one of the six tobacco ‘MPower’ control measures recommended […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
US Wildfire Smoke in May Have Contributed to Excess COVID Cases and Deaths in 2020 13/08/2021 Raisa Santos While the US was contending with the COVID-19 pandemic, huge wildfires that swept across the country in 2020 may have contributed to thousands of COVID cases and deaths, according to a US study on fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) air pollution from wildfires and COVID-19. The study, conducted by researchers at the Harvard Chan School […] Continue reading -> PAHO to Help Members Buy Vaccines as Delta Variant Drives COVID-19 Across Americas 12/08/2021 Raisa Santos As the Delta variant continues to fuel COVID-19 cases and deaths across the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is becoming more proactive in procuring vaccines for its members. PAHO announced this week that its Revolving Fund, which provides access to vaccines at affordable prices, is now open for requests from member states for […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Weighs Heavily on Young People’s Mental Health 12/08/2021 Kerry Cullinan International Youth Day – Loneliness, depression, anxiety, substance abuse and job losses. These are some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is weighing on children and young adults who have been isolated from friends, leisure activity and job opportunities by lockdowns and social distancing. Over 1.5 million children have also lost their parents […] Continue reading -> Glasgow Summit is the ‘Last Chance to Get Runaway Climate Change Under Control’ 10/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is expected to be a pivotal moment in the fight against climate change, bringing leaders together in Glasgow to accelerate progress on global climate action. The event is “the world’s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control,” said the COP26 organisers […] Continue reading -> Climate Scientists Issue ‘Red Alert’ for Humanity – and Health 09/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Climate change is now an existential health problem overshadowing all others, say scientists in a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s largest and most comprehensive assessment of the state of the planet. Unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate have been recorded in every region and the world is […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Planetary ‘Vital Signs’ Indicate that Climate Tipping Point is Imminent 05/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A new study, conducted by an international group of scientists, found that key indicators of the state of the climate crisis were reaching critical tipping points. The study, published in the journal BioScience, measured some 31 planetary vital signs, ranging from coal, oil, and gas consumption to carbon dioxide emissions to ocean acidity to fossil […] Continue reading -> ‘High Hopes’ of WTO Action to Curb Harmful Fisheries Subsidies & Stimulate Pandemic Response – But Decisions Punted to Autumn 27/07/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher World Trade Organization Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has ” high hopes” that the WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) that convenes at the end of November can deliver decisions that curb harmful fisheries subsidies as well as improving access of low- and middle-income countries to COVID medicines and vaccines. But WTO members must overcome a series of […] Continue reading -> While Global Tobacco Control Measures Improve, Electronic Cigarettes Evade Regulation in Many Countries 27/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan While there has been significant global progress in curbing conventional tobacco products, newer tobacco and nicotine products such as e-cigarettes are evading regulation, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2021 report on the tobacco epidemic. Some 5.3 billion people are now covered by at least one of the six tobacco ‘MPower’ control measures recommended […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
PAHO to Help Members Buy Vaccines as Delta Variant Drives COVID-19 Across Americas 12/08/2021 Raisa Santos As the Delta variant continues to fuel COVID-19 cases and deaths across the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is becoming more proactive in procuring vaccines for its members. PAHO announced this week that its Revolving Fund, which provides access to vaccines at affordable prices, is now open for requests from member states for […] Continue reading -> COVID-19 Weighs Heavily on Young People’s Mental Health 12/08/2021 Kerry Cullinan International Youth Day – Loneliness, depression, anxiety, substance abuse and job losses. These are some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is weighing on children and young adults who have been isolated from friends, leisure activity and job opportunities by lockdowns and social distancing. Over 1.5 million children have also lost their parents […] Continue reading -> Glasgow Summit is the ‘Last Chance to Get Runaway Climate Change Under Control’ 10/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is expected to be a pivotal moment in the fight against climate change, bringing leaders together in Glasgow to accelerate progress on global climate action. The event is “the world’s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control,” said the COP26 organisers […] Continue reading -> Climate Scientists Issue ‘Red Alert’ for Humanity – and Health 09/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Climate change is now an existential health problem overshadowing all others, say scientists in a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s largest and most comprehensive assessment of the state of the planet. Unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate have been recorded in every region and the world is […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Planetary ‘Vital Signs’ Indicate that Climate Tipping Point is Imminent 05/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A new study, conducted by an international group of scientists, found that key indicators of the state of the climate crisis were reaching critical tipping points. The study, published in the journal BioScience, measured some 31 planetary vital signs, ranging from coal, oil, and gas consumption to carbon dioxide emissions to ocean acidity to fossil […] Continue reading -> ‘High Hopes’ of WTO Action to Curb Harmful Fisheries Subsidies & Stimulate Pandemic Response – But Decisions Punted to Autumn 27/07/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher World Trade Organization Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has ” high hopes” that the WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) that convenes at the end of November can deliver decisions that curb harmful fisheries subsidies as well as improving access of low- and middle-income countries to COVID medicines and vaccines. But WTO members must overcome a series of […] Continue reading -> While Global Tobacco Control Measures Improve, Electronic Cigarettes Evade Regulation in Many Countries 27/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan While there has been significant global progress in curbing conventional tobacco products, newer tobacco and nicotine products such as e-cigarettes are evading regulation, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2021 report on the tobacco epidemic. Some 5.3 billion people are now covered by at least one of the six tobacco ‘MPower’ control measures recommended […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
COVID-19 Weighs Heavily on Young People’s Mental Health 12/08/2021 Kerry Cullinan International Youth Day – Loneliness, depression, anxiety, substance abuse and job losses. These are some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is weighing on children and young adults who have been isolated from friends, leisure activity and job opportunities by lockdowns and social distancing. Over 1.5 million children have also lost their parents […] Continue reading -> Glasgow Summit is the ‘Last Chance to Get Runaway Climate Change Under Control’ 10/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is expected to be a pivotal moment in the fight against climate change, bringing leaders together in Glasgow to accelerate progress on global climate action. The event is “the world’s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control,” said the COP26 organisers […] Continue reading -> Climate Scientists Issue ‘Red Alert’ for Humanity – and Health 09/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Climate change is now an existential health problem overshadowing all others, say scientists in a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s largest and most comprehensive assessment of the state of the planet. Unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate have been recorded in every region and the world is […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Planetary ‘Vital Signs’ Indicate that Climate Tipping Point is Imminent 05/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A new study, conducted by an international group of scientists, found that key indicators of the state of the climate crisis were reaching critical tipping points. The study, published in the journal BioScience, measured some 31 planetary vital signs, ranging from coal, oil, and gas consumption to carbon dioxide emissions to ocean acidity to fossil […] Continue reading -> ‘High Hopes’ of WTO Action to Curb Harmful Fisheries Subsidies & Stimulate Pandemic Response – But Decisions Punted to Autumn 27/07/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher World Trade Organization Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has ” high hopes” that the WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) that convenes at the end of November can deliver decisions that curb harmful fisheries subsidies as well as improving access of low- and middle-income countries to COVID medicines and vaccines. But WTO members must overcome a series of […] Continue reading -> While Global Tobacco Control Measures Improve, Electronic Cigarettes Evade Regulation in Many Countries 27/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan While there has been significant global progress in curbing conventional tobacco products, newer tobacco and nicotine products such as e-cigarettes are evading regulation, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2021 report on the tobacco epidemic. Some 5.3 billion people are now covered by at least one of the six tobacco ‘MPower’ control measures recommended […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Glasgow Summit is the ‘Last Chance to Get Runaway Climate Change Under Control’ 10/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is expected to be a pivotal moment in the fight against climate change, bringing leaders together in Glasgow to accelerate progress on global climate action. The event is “the world’s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control,” said the COP26 organisers […] Continue reading -> Climate Scientists Issue ‘Red Alert’ for Humanity – and Health 09/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Climate change is now an existential health problem overshadowing all others, say scientists in a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s largest and most comprehensive assessment of the state of the planet. Unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate have been recorded in every region and the world is […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Planetary ‘Vital Signs’ Indicate that Climate Tipping Point is Imminent 05/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A new study, conducted by an international group of scientists, found that key indicators of the state of the climate crisis were reaching critical tipping points. The study, published in the journal BioScience, measured some 31 planetary vital signs, ranging from coal, oil, and gas consumption to carbon dioxide emissions to ocean acidity to fossil […] Continue reading -> ‘High Hopes’ of WTO Action to Curb Harmful Fisheries Subsidies & Stimulate Pandemic Response – But Decisions Punted to Autumn 27/07/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher World Trade Organization Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has ” high hopes” that the WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) that convenes at the end of November can deliver decisions that curb harmful fisheries subsidies as well as improving access of low- and middle-income countries to COVID medicines and vaccines. But WTO members must overcome a series of […] Continue reading -> While Global Tobacco Control Measures Improve, Electronic Cigarettes Evade Regulation in Many Countries 27/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan While there has been significant global progress in curbing conventional tobacco products, newer tobacco and nicotine products such as e-cigarettes are evading regulation, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2021 report on the tobacco epidemic. Some 5.3 billion people are now covered by at least one of the six tobacco ‘MPower’ control measures recommended […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Climate Scientists Issue ‘Red Alert’ for Humanity – and Health 09/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin Climate change is now an existential health problem overshadowing all others, say scientists in a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s largest and most comprehensive assessment of the state of the planet. Unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate have been recorded in every region and the world is […] Continue reading -> Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Planetary ‘Vital Signs’ Indicate that Climate Tipping Point is Imminent 05/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A new study, conducted by an international group of scientists, found that key indicators of the state of the climate crisis were reaching critical tipping points. The study, published in the journal BioScience, measured some 31 planetary vital signs, ranging from coal, oil, and gas consumption to carbon dioxide emissions to ocean acidity to fossil […] Continue reading -> ‘High Hopes’ of WTO Action to Curb Harmful Fisheries Subsidies & Stimulate Pandemic Response – But Decisions Punted to Autumn 27/07/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher World Trade Organization Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has ” high hopes” that the WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) that convenes at the end of November can deliver decisions that curb harmful fisheries subsidies as well as improving access of low- and middle-income countries to COVID medicines and vaccines. But WTO members must overcome a series of […] Continue reading -> While Global Tobacco Control Measures Improve, Electronic Cigarettes Evade Regulation in Many Countries 27/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan While there has been significant global progress in curbing conventional tobacco products, newer tobacco and nicotine products such as e-cigarettes are evading regulation, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2021 report on the tobacco epidemic. Some 5.3 billion people are now covered by at least one of the six tobacco ‘MPower’ control measures recommended […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Climate Change Could Become Leading Global Risk Factor for Health 06/08/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions could lead to 83 million excess temperature-related deaths by 2100, projects a new study conducted by a researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The study, published last week in Nature Communications, is one of the first to calculate the mortality impacts of climate change in the kinds […] Continue reading -> Planetary ‘Vital Signs’ Indicate that Climate Tipping Point is Imminent 05/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A new study, conducted by an international group of scientists, found that key indicators of the state of the climate crisis were reaching critical tipping points. The study, published in the journal BioScience, measured some 31 planetary vital signs, ranging from coal, oil, and gas consumption to carbon dioxide emissions to ocean acidity to fossil […] Continue reading -> ‘High Hopes’ of WTO Action to Curb Harmful Fisheries Subsidies & Stimulate Pandemic Response – But Decisions Punted to Autumn 27/07/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher World Trade Organization Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has ” high hopes” that the WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) that convenes at the end of November can deliver decisions that curb harmful fisheries subsidies as well as improving access of low- and middle-income countries to COVID medicines and vaccines. But WTO members must overcome a series of […] Continue reading -> While Global Tobacco Control Measures Improve, Electronic Cigarettes Evade Regulation in Many Countries 27/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan While there has been significant global progress in curbing conventional tobacco products, newer tobacco and nicotine products such as e-cigarettes are evading regulation, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2021 report on the tobacco epidemic. Some 5.3 billion people are now covered by at least one of the six tobacco ‘MPower’ control measures recommended […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Planetary ‘Vital Signs’ Indicate that Climate Tipping Point is Imminent 05/08/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A new study, conducted by an international group of scientists, found that key indicators of the state of the climate crisis were reaching critical tipping points. The study, published in the journal BioScience, measured some 31 planetary vital signs, ranging from coal, oil, and gas consumption to carbon dioxide emissions to ocean acidity to fossil […] Continue reading -> ‘High Hopes’ of WTO Action to Curb Harmful Fisheries Subsidies & Stimulate Pandemic Response – But Decisions Punted to Autumn 27/07/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher World Trade Organization Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has ” high hopes” that the WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) that convenes at the end of November can deliver decisions that curb harmful fisheries subsidies as well as improving access of low- and middle-income countries to COVID medicines and vaccines. But WTO members must overcome a series of […] Continue reading -> While Global Tobacco Control Measures Improve, Electronic Cigarettes Evade Regulation in Many Countries 27/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan While there has been significant global progress in curbing conventional tobacco products, newer tobacco and nicotine products such as e-cigarettes are evading regulation, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2021 report on the tobacco epidemic. Some 5.3 billion people are now covered by at least one of the six tobacco ‘MPower’ control measures recommended […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
‘High Hopes’ of WTO Action to Curb Harmful Fisheries Subsidies & Stimulate Pandemic Response – But Decisions Punted to Autumn 27/07/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher World Trade Organization Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has ” high hopes” that the WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) that convenes at the end of November can deliver decisions that curb harmful fisheries subsidies as well as improving access of low- and middle-income countries to COVID medicines and vaccines. But WTO members must overcome a series of […] Continue reading -> While Global Tobacco Control Measures Improve, Electronic Cigarettes Evade Regulation in Many Countries 27/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan While there has been significant global progress in curbing conventional tobacco products, newer tobacco and nicotine products such as e-cigarettes are evading regulation, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2021 report on the tobacco epidemic. Some 5.3 billion people are now covered by at least one of the six tobacco ‘MPower’ control measures recommended […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
While Global Tobacco Control Measures Improve, Electronic Cigarettes Evade Regulation in Many Countries 27/07/2021 Kerry Cullinan While there has been significant global progress in curbing conventional tobacco products, newer tobacco and nicotine products such as e-cigarettes are evading regulation, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2021 report on the tobacco epidemic. Some 5.3 billion people are now covered by at least one of the six tobacco ‘MPower’ control measures recommended […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts