The Climate Change and Health News Roundup is your place for all the latest news on the health effects of climate change around the world.

Global: "Resolving to Live the Change for Benefits of Health and Planet"

At the top of the list of challenges we face in this new year must be the health of the world's growing population and the looming threat of climate change.

The Climate Change and Health News Roundup is your place for all the latest news on the health effects of climate change around the world.

Global: "Blog: An Alarm in the Offing on Climate Change"

The natural conservatism of science has often led climatologists to be cautious in their pronouncements about global warming. 

The Climate Change and Health News Roundup is your place for all the latest news on the health effects of climate change around the world.

Namibia: "Climate Change Challenges the Health Sector"

"Because of a lack of the priority given to environmental issues and a lack of finance, climate-sensitive diseases such as malaria and diarrhoea have increased. One third of these figures are from the African continent," said Kamwi.

The Weekly Climate Change and Health News Roundup is your place for all the latest news on the health effects of climate change around the world.

United States: "Climate Change Not Mentioned in Presidential Debates for First Time in a Generation" 

California Governor Jerry Brown emphasized that we must make the investment required to address the challenges of climate change, at his December 15th conference in San Francisco on “Extreme Climate Risk and California’s Future.” Joined by climate change leaders and leaders from various other sectors including health, Governor Brown went on to say that the
longer it take us to reduce emissions, the higher the costs of
 adaptation and mitigation will be.

Yesterday, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change opened its 17th annual Conference of the Parties meeting (COP17) in Durban, South Africa. As usual, approximately 20,000 delegates from around the world have converged at the meeting, where civil society representatives raise awareness about climate change and share information, resources and strategies,

Today the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has launched in Kampala Uganda, its ‘Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation’ (SREX).  The report has been written by over 200 hundred authors and reviewed by many hundreds including academics, practitioners and policy makers.  The findings of the report were approved by 194 g

Phoenix, Arizona, is facing its hottest August ever, with temperatures reaching well above 110. Here in the Golden State, we may need to get ready for such atrocities, too.

The Pacific Council on International Policy — a big player with former Secretary of State Warren Christopher on its board — released a report last month called “Preparing for the Effects of Climate Change: A Strategy for California.” Here, we hoped, was a cache of information on how climate change would affect the people of California. But a search for the word “health” in the document only turned up references to “healthy ecosystems.”