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The Lancet Series on Health and Climate Change
The climate dividend
Richard Horton
“Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.” So concluded a Lancet —UCL Commission earlier this year. 1 A systematic appraisal of available evidence showed that the risks from changing patterns of disease, food insecurity, unsafe water and sanitation, damage to human settlements, extreme events, and population growth and migration were far more severe for human health than most observers had understood. The message added an important new dimension to the political debate …
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Cutting carbon, improving health
Margaret Chan
Events such as the financial crisis and climate change are not quirks of the marketplace or quirks of nature. Instead they are markers of massive failure in international systems that govern the way nations and their populations interact. The contagion of our mistakes shows no mercy and makes no exceptions on the basis of fair play. For example, countries that have contributed least to greenhouse-gas emissions will be the first and hardest hit by climate change.
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Health professionals must act to tackle climate change
Mike Gill, Robin Stott
Climate change already affects human health, creating problems that will increase if no action is taken. The most vulnerable are the world’s poorest people, who already face poor health and premature death, and are least responsible for greenhouse-gas emissions.
The only heartening aspect of this bleak terrain is the gathering awareness that many of the measures needed to make the necessary reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions are those needed to protect and improve global health. Overall, w …
Aligning climate change and public health policies Andy Haines, Paul Wilkinson, Cathryn Tonne, Ian Roberts On Dec 7—18, 2009, representatives from 192 countries will meet in Copenhagen to formulate a climate agreement for 2012 onwards. This conference (called COP15) represents the most important opportunity in decades to achieve international agreement on how to cut emissions of greenhouse gases deeply enough to reduce the likelihood of dangerous climate change. The case for major reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions is well established. The case is based on the recognition of the multiple adverse .. Series Papers Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: household energy Paul Wilkinson, Kirk R Smith, Michael Davies, Heather Adair, Ben G Armstrong, Mark Barrett, Nigel Bruce, Andy Haines, Ian Hamilton, Tadj Oreszczyn, Ian Ridley, Cathryn Tonne, Zaid Chalabi Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport James Woodcock, Phil Edwards, Cathryn Tonne, Ben G Armstrong, Olu Ashiru, David Banister, Sean Beevers, Zaid Chalabi, Zohir Chowdhury, Aaron Cohen, Oscar H Franco, Andy Haines, Robin Hickman, Graeme Lindsay, Ishaan Mittal, Dinesh Mohan, Geetam Tiwari, Alistair Woodward, Ian Roberts Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: low-carbon electricity generation Anil Markandya, Ben G Armstrong, Simon Hales, Aline Chiabai, Patrick Criqui, Silvana Mima, Cathryn Tonne, Paul Wilkinson Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: food and agriculture Sharon Friel, Alan D Dangour, Tara Garnett, Karen Lock, Zaid Chalabi, Ian Roberts, Ainslie Butler, Colin D Butler, Jeff Waage, Anthony J McMichael, Andy Haines Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: health implications of short-lived greenhouse pollutants Kirk R Smith, Michael Jerrett, H Ross Anderson, Richard T Burnett, Vicki Stone, Richard Derwent, Richard W Atkinson, Aaron Cohen, Seth B Shonkoff, Daniel Krewski, C Arden Pope III, Michael J Thun, George Thurston Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: overview and implications for policy makers Andy Haines, Anthony J McMichael, Kirk R Smith, Ian Roberts, James Woodcock, Anil Markandya, Ben G Armstrong, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Alan D Dangour, Michael Davies, Nigel Bruce, Cathryn Tonne, Mark Barrett, Paul Wilkinson