January 23, 2023
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Climate Change
2020 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
Policy Brief for the United States of America
Resumen de Recomendaciones Political para los Estados Unidos de America
Climate change is a public health issue. The 2020 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change published in The Lancet medical journal brings together experts from across the globe to track how climate change is affecting our health, including Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy Dr. Melissa C. Lott who examines the impacts of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector. The report finds that no is country immune from the health harms of climate change – as COVID-19 pandemic offers glimpse of future disruption to lives and livelihoods:
Energy and Environment in India: The Politics of a Chronic Crisis By Johannes Urpelainen July...
In June 2022, the government of South Sudan acknowledged that Egypt had delivered equipment for resuming its long-dormant Jonglei Canal megaproject by dredging tributaries of the White Nile.
A significant gap exists globally between the financing needed and the current level of spending to meet net-zero goals.