Clean Air Champions' mission is to improve air quality and reduce climate change by working with high performance athletes to educate and inspire Canadians, primarily youth, to adopt more sustainable, healthier lifestyles.

This Fact Sheet provides a broad overview of the potential health effects of climate change. 

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As the international community mobilizes in response to global climatic changes, climate funds must ensure the equitable and effective allocation of funds for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Women and girls, disproportionately vulnerable to negative climate change impacts in developing countries, have largely been excluded from climate change finance policies and programmes. This report examines four funds –climate funds and non-climate funds, to draw out the lessons for gender integration in global finance mechanisms.

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The effects of climate on human society, and our ability to mitigate and adapt to them, are mediated by social factos, including gender.  This report provides a first review of the interactions between climate change, gender and health.  It documents evidence for gender differences in health risks that are likely to be exacerbated by climat

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• National targets would contribute to rapid biofuel expansion in the next 10 years
• Reaching those goals would have a limited impact on the global economy
• Some countries would be affected significantly, with higher cost of food imports

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