Sustainable Development

COP28: The climate crisis is also a health crisis Health has made it onto the agenda of a UN climate conference, and health advocates at COP28 in Dubai on Sunday said the topic was long overdue for discussion as climate inaction is costing lives and impacting health every single day. UN News

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Climate change is directly contributing to humanitarian emergencies spared by heatwaves, wildfires, floods, tropical storms and hurricanes. Those and similar climate shocks are only increasing in scale, frequency and intensity.

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Five grassroots climate justice movements COP28 could learn from From Pakistan to Paraguay, these campaigns are trying to bring out changes in communities at front line of the crisis Sarah Shamim Al Jazeera

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Still, the annual UN summits have often been described as talk shops that do little to fundamentally improve the planet’s chances of surviving warming temperatures, or to ensure climate justice.

Under pressure, biotech and pharma grapple with how to take action on climate As the health impacts of climate change become harder to ignore, biotech and pharma companies are facing increasing pressure to reduce their carbon emissions. Erica Goode STAT

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More than a billion people on a wider perspective suffer from chronic malnutrition and hunger. In spite of official pledges to halve the world's hungry, the trend now runs in the opposite direction. More than thirty million people die of malnutrition and starvation every year - nearly 100,000 every day.