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Extreme heat due to climate change, combined with wildfires and desert dust, is having a pernicious effect on air quality, human health and the environment, a WMO report stated.
Climate Health Research

Air pollution linked to increased risk of head and neck cancers

HQ Team November 22, 2024: Air pollution is a human carcinogenic and is associated with lung, breast and gastric cancers. Long-term exposure to.

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More than 30 nations, which combined account for 47% of global methane emissions from organic waste, signed a pact to reduce levels by 2030.
Climate Health Medical

Pact to cut methane emissions from organic waste signed at COP29

More than 30 nations, which combined account for 47% of global methane emissions from organic waste, signed a pact to reduce levels by.

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Climate

Developing nations demand trillions in climate finance at COP29

HQ team November 14, 2024: The 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held.

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Climate

Multilateral development banks pledge $120b to climate finance

HQ Team November 13, 2024: At COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, multilateral development banks (MBDs) announced a commitment to $120 billion in climate financing.

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UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres outlined a three-point plan to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030, including new ways to finance climate change.
Climate Health Medical

Tax fossil fuel extraction, aviation, shipping: UN chief says at COP29

UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres outlined a three-point plan to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030, including new ways to.

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Diseases
Climate

Small nations at risk of climate change floodings despite least emissions

HQ Team November 11, 2024: A recent study led by the University of Bristol has revealed alarming insights into the vulnerability of Small.

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Climate

2024 sees global temperatures exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels

HQ team November 9, 2024: The year 2024 is well on its way to being recorded as the hottest on record, according to.

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Dengue has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people in Bangladesh since January as 79,598 cases, the highest so far this year, were reported in September.
Climate Health Pharma

Public health: ‘Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does’

HQ Team In our search for websites and organizations engaged in community health, public policy and similar endeavors, we came across “The Third.

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Malaria killed 1,157 people in Ethiopia during the first ten months of this year, and 7.3 million cases were reported in the landlocked East African nation — the highest number of annual cases recorded in the last seven years, according to the World Health Organization.
Climate Health Pharma

Malaria kills 1,157 people so far this year in Ethiopia, national risk ‘high’

Malaria killed 1,157 people in Ethiopia during the first ten months of this year, and 7.3 million cases were reported in the landlocked.

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Exiting plans to combat climate change “fall miles short” of what’s needed to stop global heating from destroying every economy and wrecking billions of lives and livelihoods across every nation, a UN climate official said.
Climate Health Medical

Global heat to cripple economies, wreck billions of lives: UN official says

Exiting plans to combat climate change “fall miles short” of what’s needed to stop global heating from destroying every economy and wrecking billions.

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