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Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

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The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change has been formed to map out the impacts of climate change, and the necessary policy responses, in order to ensure the highest attainable stand-alone position on climate change.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2015-11-07 and is currently open access. It has received 1198 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Political economy of climate change & Health policy.

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Air-quality-related health impacts from climate change and from adaptation of cooling demand for buildings in the eastern United States: An interdisciplinary modeling study

TL;DR: The contribution of future air-pollution-related health damages that are caused by the power sector through heat-driven air conditioning adaptation in buildings is examined to highlight the need for cleaner energy sources, energy efficiency, and energy conservation to meet the authors' growing dependence on building cooling systems and simultaneously mitigate climate change.
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Conceptual and institutional gaps: understanding how the WHO can become a more effective cross-sectoral collaborator.

TL;DR: There are a number of external and internal pressures on WHO which have created an organizational culture and operational structure that focuses on a narrow, technical approach to global health, prioritizing disease-based, siloed interventions over more complex approaches that span sectors.
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Forecasting societies' adaptive capacities through a demographic metabolism model

TL;DR: It is proposed that the concept of demographic metabolism and the associated methods of multi-dimensional population projections provide an effective analytical toolbox to forecast important aspects of societal change that affect adaptive capacity.
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Impact of weather changes on air quality and related mortality in Spain over a 25 year period [1993-2017].

TL;DR: Air quality trends in Spain of important air pollutants recorded during the last 25 years, from 1993 to 2017 are analyzed, finding significant penalties for most pollutants, implying that air quality would have improved even more during the study period if weather conditions had remained constant.
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Climate change and energy performance of European residential building stocks – A comprehensive impact assessment using climate big data from the coordinated regional climate downscaling experiment

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive study of the impacts of climate change on the energy performances and thermal comfort of European residential building stocks is presented. But the authors do not consider the impact of extreme weather conditions on building performance.
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Summary for Policymakers

TL;DR: The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) as mentioned in this paper identifies strategies that could help resolve the multiple challenges simultaneously and bring multiple benefits, including sustainable economic and social development, poverty eradication, adequate food production and food security, health for all, climate protection, conservation of ecosystems, and security.
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The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review

TL;DR: The Stern Review as discussed by the authors is an independent, rigourous and comprehensive analysis of the economic aspects of this crucial issue, conducted by Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the UK Government Economic Service, and a former Chief Economist of the World Bank.
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A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimated deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs; sum of years lived with disability [YLD] and years of life lost [YLL]) attributable to the independent effects of 67 risk factors and clusters of risk factors for 21 regions in 1990 and 2010.
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World Energy Outlook

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