Natural and unnatural synergies: climate change policy and health equity
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Natural and unnatural synergies: climate change policy and health equity.
a Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. b Department of Public Health and Environment, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Correspondence to Kumanan Rasanathan (e-mail: [email protected]). (Submitted: 30 April 2009 – Revised version received: 22 July 2009 – Accepted: 23 July 2009 – Published o...
متن کاملIII . 4 Equity , Development and Climate Change Policy
This chapter explores the relationship between an equitable sharing of emission abatement targets between developed and developing countries and their incentives to participate in an international agreement to control climate change. Although developing countries face a drastic increase in their emissions, environmental efforts are not ranked among their priorities. The obvious explanation is t...
متن کاملClimate Change and Public Health Policy.
Climate change poses real and immediate impacts to the public health of populations around the globe. Adverse impacts are expected to continue throughout the century. Emphasizing co-benefits of climate action for health, combining adaptation and mitigation efforts, and increasing interagency coordination can effectively address both public health and climate change challenges.
متن کاملVulnerability to Poverty and Vulnerability to Climate Change: Conceptual Framework, Measurement and Synergies in Policy
This paper attempts to compare the concepts and metrics related to vulnerability notion as used in the poverty literature with those in the filed of climate change. Such comparison could shed light on the understanding of the perceived and real differences between the two fields and also help to identify possible policy synergies between the climate change and poverty communities. The analysis ...
متن کاملEquity, International Trade and Climate Policy
The literature of welfare-maximising greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies pays remarkably little attention to equity. This paper introduces various ways to consider efficiency and equity simultaneously. Lower (higher) discount rates lead to higher (lower) emission reduction. Higher (lower) inequity aversion leads to higher (lower) emission abatement, unless one also considers the negati...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.09.067116