Related Links

Key actors in the area of 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/

     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 Programme: http://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: http://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 organizations

     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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