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August 2015
Global Environmental Health Newsletter
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  • Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Draft for Adoption
    The final draft of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) has been released prior to adoption by the UN General Assembly meeting in September 2015.
  • Cities Vulnerability to Climate Change
    The European Environment Agency (EEA) recently published a series of interactive maps, illustrating various climate threats European cities face as well as cities’ capacity to respond to these threats. This new ‘map book’ provides background information and allows users to view the maps, selecting different parameters.
  • Meeting the challenges of a changing climate
    The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit provides scientific tools, information, and expertise to help people manage their climate-related risks and opportunities, and improve their resilience to extreme events. The site is designed to serve interested citizens, communities, businesses, resource managers, planners, and policy leaders at all levels of government.
  • Becoming Climate-Ready: The new Laboratory Priority
    In the Summer 2015 edition of Lab Matters, The Association of Public Health Laboratories highlights the health impacts of climate change and how public health labs are impacted and can act. NIEHS’ Dr. John Balbus is featured in the ‘15 Minutes with’ section.