World Health Day – 2008

Fact Sheets

Useful web links on climate change and human health

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WHD 2008 SEARO Fact Sheet No 8: Useful web links on climate change and human health

 

*      Convention on Biological Diversity: http://www.cbd.int/

*      Center of Global Change and Health: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/cgch/

*      Climate Action Network: http://www.climatenetwork.org/

*      Global Environment Facility (GEF):  http://www.gefweb.org/ 

*      Global Warming Climate Change Greenhouse Effect:  http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/index.html     

*      European Commission:  http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/campaign/

*      Greenpeace:  http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change

*      International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development: http://www.icimod.org/home/

*      Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: http://www.ipcc.ch

*      International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies http://www.ifrc.org/

*     Met Office Hadley Centre, UK: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/

*      Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change : www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews

*      United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): http://unfccc.int/2860.php;
see also NAPA at:  http://unfccc.int/adaptation/napas/items/2679.php  UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol: http://unfccc.int/essential_background/convention/items/2627.php UNFCCC Nairobi Work Programmehttp://unfccc.int/adaptation/sbsta_agenda_item_adaptation/items/3633.php                           

*      UN System's Work on Climate Change:  http://www.un.org/climatechange/index.shtml

*      United Nations Environment Programme: http://climatechange.unep.net

*      United Nations Conventions to Combat Desertification (UNCCD):  http://www.unccd.int/

*      US Green Building Council: http://www.usgbc.org/

*      World Health Organisation (WHO):  http://www.who.int/globalchange/climate/en/index.html

*      WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia: www.searo.who.int 

*      World Meteorological Organization (WMO): http://www.wmo.ch/pages/index_en.html

*      World Wildlife Fund: http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/climate_change/index.cfm


*      Selected WHO publications

*      El Niño and its health impacts. WHO, 2000: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs192/en/

*      Ecosystems and human well-being: a health synthesis. WHO, 2005. http://www.who.int/globalchange/ecosystems/ecosystems05/en/index.html

*      Using climate to predict infectious disease epidemics. WHO, 2005. http://www.who.int/globalchange/publications/infectdiseases/en/index.html 

*      Climate variability and change and their health effects in small island states: information for adaptation planning in the health sector.  WHO, 2005. http://www.who.int/globalchange/climate/climatevariab/en/index.html

*      Synthesis workshop on climate variability, climate change and health in small-island states, Maldives, 2003.  WHO, 2005. http://www.who.int/globalchange/climate/oeh0402/en/index.html

*      Human health impacts from climate variability and climate change in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya Region : A report of an Interregional Workshop, India, 2005. WHO, 2006. http://www.searo.who.int/en/Section23/Section1001/Section1110_11692.htm

*      Climate change - Quantifying the health impact at national and local levels.
Environmental Burden of Disease Series No. 14, WHO, 2007. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2007/9789241595674_eng.pdf

*      Global climate change: implications for international health policy. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 85, 2007.  http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/85/3/06-039503/en/

*      Executive Board - Climate change and health. Report by the Secretariat, 2008 http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB122/B122_4-en.pdf

*      Selected publications of WHO with partner organisations

*      Biodiversity and human health, Interim Executive Summary. Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, WHO and UNEP, 2002. http://chge.med.harvard.edu/publications/

*      Climate change and human health - risks and responses. WHO, WMO and UNEP, 2003. http://www.who.int/globalchange/publications/cchhbook/en/index.html 

*      Comparative Risk Assessment of the Burden of Disease from Climate Change. Environmental Health Perspectives, 2006. http://www.ehponline.org/members/2006/8432/8432.pdf

*      Climate change and developing-country cities: implications for environmental health and equity. Journal of Urban Health 84, 2007. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17393341

*      Climate and Human Health Impacts. IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, Working Group II: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, Chapter 8, 2007. http://www.ipcc-wg2.org/

 

 

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