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Mitigating Heat Stress: A Growing Threat for Workers and Employers
22/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan
Hundreds of migrant construction workers are likely to have died of heat stress while building soccer stadiums in the Qatari desert for the recent Fifa World Cup. But people’s exposure to extreme heat – temperatures of 38°C and higher – is becoming widespread as climate-related temperatures soar. “Billions of people are already exposed to dangerous […] Continue reading ->
UN Plastics Treaty Talks Fail Again After Overnight Deadlock
15/08/2025 Stefan Anderson
GENEVA — Negotiations over a United Nations (UN) treaty to combat the plastic pollution crisis ended in failure early Friday morning, as 183 nations were unable to bridge vast divides over production limits, toxic chemicals and financing after three years of diplomacy. Norway officially announced the failure at 7am Geneva time after a final overtime […] Continue reading ->
‘A Mockery’: Nations Unite in Outrage at Plastics Treaty Draft
13/08/2025 Stefan Anderson
GENEVA – A new draft of the global plastics treaty published Wednesday found a clever solution to answering the difficult questions facing nations seeking the historic treaty: delete them from the text. The long-awaited draft arrived at a tense moment in negotiations over what many hoped would be a watershed treaty to address the crisis […] Continue reading ->
EU Says It’s Ready to Deal on Plastics Treaty, But Not ‘At Any Cost’
12/08/2025 Stefan Anderson
GENEVA – The European Union said Tuesday it is ready to make a deal on a global plastics treaty but will not accept an agreement “at any cost,” leaving the door open to rejecting a weak outcome as negotiators enter the final 72 hours of talks with core provisions still deadlocked. “The EU is here […] Continue reading ->
Global Plastics Treaty Talks Near Collapse With Days to Deadline
11/08/2025 Stefan Anderson
GENEVA — The world’s attempt to forge a plastics treaty billed as the most important environmental deal since the Paris climate accord is falling apart after three years of talks. With negotiations due to end Thursday evening, 184 nations gathered in Geneva remain deadlocked over basic definitions, the scope of the treaty and whether to […] Continue reading ->
Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Swarm ‘Last Chance’ UN Plastics Treaty Talks
08/08/2025 Stefan Anderson
GENEVA — Fossil fuel and petrochemical lobbyists have descended on UN plastics treaty negotiations in record numbers, as delegates from over 180 countries attempt to forge a global agreement to stem the tsunami of plastic pollution drowning the planet. According to a new analysis by the Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL), at least 234 […] Continue reading ->
‘Plastics Crisis’ Costs Trillions, Kills Hundreds of Thousands Each Year, Lancet Finds
04/08/2025 Stefan Anderson
Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to people and the planet, causing “disease and death” from infancy to old age, a landmark review has found. The Lancet Plastics Countdown, published as diplomats from around the world arrived in Geneva on Monday for the overtime round of talks on a global plastics treaty, estimates […] Continue reading ->
Health Organizations Must Cut Ties with Fossil-Fueled Public Relations and Advertising Firms
31/07/2025 Edward Maibach & Jemilah Mahmood
As health actors meet this week in Brasilia to refine a Health Action Plan for COP30, ending relationships with PR firms that engage with fossil fuel producers is one concrete step both civil society and UN actors could take now, two leading global health actors argue. The call is the more urgent in light of […] Continue reading ->
Exposure to Leaded Fuel Affects Memory Loss of Older Americans
29/07/2025 Kerry Cullinan
Americans are about 20% more likely to experience memory problems if they lived in areas with high levels of atmospheric lead, according to a study of over 600,000 adults over the age of 65 released at the  Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Toronto on Tuesday. Researchers examined how exposure to airborne lead between 1960 and […] Continue reading ->
The Accelerating Health Impacts of Heat: UK Climate and Health Summit Highlights Trends Ahead of COP30
28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher
LONDON – Summit it was not as there were no heads of state or even Bill Gates, although the UK’s Minister for Climate Change made a compelling presentation showing the kind of policy leadership starkly absent in the United States.   Even so, the recent Climate and Health Summit, hosted by the UK Physiological Society, the […] Continue reading ->

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