Public Health Impacts of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Free Public Event - Climate Change
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
7:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Venue: National Press Club
529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20045
Climate Change threatens the health of millions of people worldwide. In the first major study of its type, an international team of researchers from the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), India, Spain, Australia, and the World Health Organization has modelled the health effects of different policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in high- and low-income countries. Case studies examined in this research focus on four key sectors that produce greenhouse gases: power generation, transport, household energy, and food and agriculture. Another paper addresses the health effects of short-lived greenhouse pollutants.
The results of these findings were published as (6) research papers in the Lancet on November 25, 2009. Due to the importance of the study results for people worldwide, the release of the findings was a combined US and UK event on Wednesday November 25 2009 at the National Press Club.
Papers and comments are available at the following links on The Lancet’s Health and Climate Change website
- Public Health Benefits of Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions: Household Energy
Paul Wilkinson, Kirk R Smith, Michael Davies, Heather Adair, Ben G Armstrong, Mark Barrett, Nigel Bruce, Andy Haines, Ian Hamilton, Tadj Oreszczyn, Ian Ridley, Cathryn Tonne, Zaid Chalabi - Public Health Benefits of Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions: Urban Land Transport
James Woodcock, Phil Edwards, Cathryn Tonne, Ben G Armstrong, Olu Ashiru, David Banister, Sean Beevers, Zaid Chalabi, Zohir Chowdhury, Aaron Cohen, Oscar H Franco, Andy Haines, Robin Hickman, Graeme Lindsay, Ishaan Mittal, Dinesh Mohan, Geetam Tiwari, Alistair Woodward, Ian Roberts - Public Health Benefits of Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions: Low-Carbon Electricity Generation
Anil Markandya, Ben G Armstrong, Simon Hales, Aline Chiabai, Patrick Criqui, Silvana Mima, Cathryn Tonne, Paul Wilkinson - Public Health Benefits of Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions: Food and Agriculture
Sharon Friel, Alan D Dangour, Tara Garnett, Karen Lock, Zaid Chalabi, Ian Roberts, Ainslie Butler, Colin D Butler, Jeff Waage, Anthony J McMichael, Andy Haines - Public Health Benefits of Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions: Health Implications of Short-lived Greenhouse Pollutants
Kirk R Smith, Michael Jerrett, H Ross Anderson, Richard T Burnett, Vicki Stone, Richard Derwent, Richard W Atkinson, Aaron Cohen, Seth B Shonkoff, Daniel Krewski, C Arden Pope III, Michael J Thun, George Thurston - Public Health Benefits of Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions: Overview and Implications for Policy Makers
Andy Haines, Anthony J McMichael, Kirk R Smith, Ian Roberts, James Woodcock, Anil Markandya, Ben G Armstrong, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Alan D Dangour, Michael Davies, Nigel Bruce, Cathryn Tonne, Mark Barrett, Paul Wilkinson - Series Comment: The Climate Dividend
Richard Horton - Series Comment: Cutting Carbon, Improving Health
Margaret Chan - Series Comment: Health Professionals Must Act to Tackle Climate Change
Mike Gill, Robin Stott - Series Comment: Aligning Climate Change and Public Health Policies
Andy Haines, Paul Wilkinson, Cathryn Tonne, Ian Roberts
Funders:
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Department of Health, National Institutes of Health Research
Economic and Social Research Council
The Lancet, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Health, Economic and Social Research Council, Royal College of Physicians, National Institute for Health Research, The Academy of Medical Sciences, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Wellcome Trust
