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Climate Change
& Health
What do you
want to learn?
What
What is the issue?
Source: http://engage.gov.bc.ca/climateleadership/
Climate Change – by the Numbers
1979 – First international summit on climate change
1988 – identified as an issue caused by human activities
2014– UN Intergovernmental panel report on
Climate Change
2015 - COP 21 (Paris) - goal of keeping global
temperature increase below2 degrees.
Expected rise in sea level 1 m (UN report based on 2013 data) to 3 m (Ice
melt, sea level rise & superstorms, James Hansen - retired director of NASAs
Institute for Space Studies)
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_science
http://ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/SYR_AR5_FINAL_full_wcover.pdf
http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/15/20059/2015/acpd-15-20059-2015-print.pdf
2015 – The Hottest Year on Record
Coincides with 1st international summit on
climate change
Source: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/01/climate-change
Vancouver’s Climate Change Action Plan
Source: http://vancouver.ca/green-vancouver/climate-change-adaptation-strategy.aspx
Source: https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/climate-change
Source: https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/climate-change
What is the Difference Between
Mitigation and Adaption?
What’s the plan?
✓ Vancouver’s Climate Change Action Plan
✓ Vancouver’s Renewable City Strategy
✓ LMHO GreenCare Strategic Framework
✓ B.C.’s Climate Leadership Plan
✓ Canada’s National Climate Change Plan (TBD)
✓ UN Climate Change Conference, Paris COP21
How to determine your carbon
footprint?
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.
php/GFN/page/personal_footprint/
How can I make a difference?
Want to Learn More?
Potential Future topics:
1. Focus on the evidence, such as the Intergovernmental
Report on Climate Change
2. Arguments - Counterarguments
3. Focus on individual actions to mitigate and adapt to
climate change?
4. Eating sustainably
5. Attempting a ‘zero waste’ lifestyle
6. City of Vancouver plan for climate change
Resources
✓ Climate Change & Health Policy Group (CCHPG)
http://www.climatehealthbc.ca/#!resources/c1yjv
✓ Vancouver map of flood plain
http://vancouver.ca/green-vancouver/flood-proofing-buildings.aspx
✓ 2014 UN Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change
http://ipcc.ch/pdf/assessmentreport/ar5/syr/SYR_AR5_FINAL_full_wcover.pdf
✓ Ice melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms - James Hansen
http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/acp-2015-432/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/james-hansen-sea-levelrise_us_55aecb02e4b0a9b94852e7f5
Additional Resources
✓ Center for Disease Control – Climate and Health
http://www.cdc.gov/climateandhealth/default.htm
✓ American Public Health Association
https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/climate-change
✓ US National Climate Assessment – Human Health
http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/sectors/human-health
✓ The Lancet – Health and Climate Change
http://www.thelancet.com/commissions/climate-change-2015
✓ American Academy of Pediatrics
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/early/2015/10/21/
peds.2015-3233.full.pdf