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Leveraging Partnerships for Health Climate Services in the Caribbean

August 19, 2019
Adrian Trotman
Roché Mahon
Cédric J. Van Meerbeeck
Blog Post
Burden of Caribbean climate sensitive disease Illness due to dengue virus is estimated to cost the Caribbean over US$ 300 million per year. Layered...
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Keywords: 
Climate Risk Management, climate science, health, partnership
Geography: 
Latin America & Caribbean
ATLAS Health Nexus Guide

New Tool Available - Financing the Climate-Health Nexus

June 28, 2019
ATLAS
Announcements
The new Financing the Climate-Health Nexus Tool from the Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessment (ATLAS) project summarizes available sources of...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, climate finance, climate science, health
Geography: 
Global
Women planting a young tree, Southeast Asia.

One Health offers multisectoral approaches in a changing world

June 27, 2019
Isabela Barriga
Blog Post
Global environmental changes such as landscape conversions alter natural systems and can increase contact between humans and other species. Under...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, climate change integration, climate science, health, partnership, resilience, sustainable landscapes
Geography: 
Global
A group of women stands in a field of wheat.

Impacts of Climate-Smart Villages: A non-zero sum game

June 21, 2019
Shalika Vyas
Arun Khatri-Chhetri
Blog Post
Samantabai is a happy woman. The first 'super-champion' farmer in her village, she has been involved in the Climate-Smart Village (CSV) project under...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, agriculture, climate policy, climate science, governance, health, private-sector engagement, weather & climate services
Geography: 
Asia
Close-up of a world map with numerous colored pins and a hand pointing to an area on it.

Future Earth leads health research and innovation

June 13, 2019
Christine Chumbler
Blog Post
The 2015 Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on planetary health final report, “ Safeguarding Human Health in the Anthropocene Epoch ,” begins...
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Keywords: 
climate science, governance, health, partnership, private-sector engagement
Geography: 
Global
Men receiving his mosquito net LLIN during mass campaign in Casamance, Senegal.jpg

Editor’s Pick: Global health tools and resources on Climatelinks

June 5, 2019
Isabela Barriga
Blog Post
This year’s World Environment Day theme focuses on a global challenge with pressing implications on human health and the environment: air pollution...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, Climate Risk Management, climate science, health, resilience, weather & climate services
Geography: 
Global

Community Spotlights: Health and Climate Change Resources

April 27, 2017
Katherine Cunningham
Joyce-Lynn Njinga
Community Spotlights
Climatelinks focused on climate change’s impacts to human health this month. We featured a potential malaria transmission early warning system based...
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Keywords: 
adaptation, climate change integration, climate science, health
Geography: 
Global