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US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Climate change and public health
The CDC's website on climate change and public health offers the background on why the spread of infectious disease is likely to change in the future. A special section on vector-borne diseases outlines how global warming could lead to the re-emergence of diseases such as dengue fever that have...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Climate change – Health and environmental effects
The EPA regulates the US government's environmental activities and enforces related legislation. As this website shows, it also undertakes research on the links between human health and the environment. Here the agency summarises some of the key research on climate change and health, including...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
Climate and Health Information Exchange (CHIEX)
CHIEX investigates how climate variability affects human health in the tropical Americas. It runs projects in Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico and Venezuela, and focuses specifically on the spread of dengue fever and malaria in these countries. These projects have practical implications; for...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
Climate Institute: Human health
The health gateway of the Climate Institute, which aims to help policymakers tackle climate change, has detailed notes on the resurgence of infectious diseases through global warming. These include vector-borne diseases spread through mosquitoes, ticks, triatomine bugs, sandflies and blackflies. It...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF)
The GHF's mission is to document the impact of climate change on humans, much of which is health-related. The website expands on the forum's key goal to raise awareness of "climate injustice", by which it means that the world's poor who cause "less than 1 per cent of global emissions, suffer 99 per...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
Health and Climate Partnership
This partnership of government and non-government organisations, researchers, international bodies and the private sector has a much-called for goal: to increase cooperation between organisations involved different sectors such as health, climate, humanitarian assistance, ecosystems, research and...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
Climate-L.org: REDD
Climate-L.org, run by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, publishes information on international climate change negotiations and other related activities, including updates on UN processes and notification of research publications. The information is arranged by actors...
LINK | 8 July 2009 | EN
Guardian Environment
The Guardian Environment website publishes news and commentary on environmental issues such as climate change, energy, ethical living, food and recycling. It also provides blogs, job listings and multimedia, including audio and video podcasts. Users can comment and are encouraged to join...
LINK | 5 March 2009 | EN
Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary
This is an electronic information service covering global warming, climate change, sea-level rise and related issues. The Cyberlibrary provides access to authoritative news, views, briefing material, publications, data, analysis tools and educational resources on the subject of climate change, with...
LINK | 21 May 2003 | EN
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