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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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Climate change 2014 - Mitigation of climate change

Minh Ha-Duong
TL;DR: The work of the IPCC Working Group III 5th Assessment report as mentioned in this paper is a comprehensive, objective and policy neutral assessment of the current scientific knowledge on mitigating climate change, which has been extensively reviewed by experts and governments to ensure quality and comprehensiveness.
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The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

Philip J. Landrigan, +49 more
- 19 Oct 2017 - 
TL;DR: This book is dedicated to the memory of those who have served in the armed forces and their families during the conflicts of the twentieth century.
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The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report

TL;DR: This work aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMMARM, which aims to provide real-time information about concrete mechanical properties such as E-modulus and compressive strength.
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Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three categories of challenges that have to be addressed to maintain and enhance human health in the face of increasingly harmful environmental trends: conceptual and empathy failures (imagination challenges), such as an overreliance on gross domestic product as a measure of human progress, the failure to account for future health and environmental harms over present day gains, and the disproportionate eff ect of those harms on the poor and those in developing nations.
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Assessing ozone-related health impacts under a changing climate.

TL;DR: An integrated modeling framework is developed and applied to assess potential O3-related health impacts in future decades under a changing climate and provides a potentially useful new tool for assessing the health risks of climate change.
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An Ill Wind? Climate Change, Migration and Health

TL;DR: This risk assessment draws on research into the health of refugees, migrants, and people in resettlement schemes as analogs of the likely health consequences of climate-related migration to explore the role that health impacts of climate change may play in population movements.
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High food prices: the what, who, and how of proposed policy actions.

TL;DR: In view of the urgency of assisting people and countries in need, the first set of policy actionsconsists of steps that can yield immediate impact: 1. expand emergency responses and humanitarian assistance to food-insecure people and people threatening government legitimacy, 2. eliminate agricultural export bans and export restrictions, 3. undertake fast-impact food production programs in key areas, and 4. change biofuel policies as discussed by the authors.
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Climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture. Overview of current scientific knowledge

TL;DR: An overview of the current scientific knowledge available on climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture can be found in this paper, where three technical papers presented and discussed during the Expert Workshop on 'Climate Change Implications for Fisheries and Aquaculture' (Rome, 7-9 April 2008).
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Getting the Prices Right

TL;DR: SFPark as discussed by the authors is a program that adjusts prices to achieve availability of one or two open spaces per block, and calculates the price elasticity of demand revealed by over 5,000 price and occupancy changes during the program's first year.
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