Sustainable Development or Global Warming: Call in the G20 Nations

United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

How can the sustainable development goals improve global health? A call for papers

Global warming and malaria: a call for accuracy.

For more than a decade, malaria has held a prominent place in speculations on the impacts of global climate change. Mathematical models that " predict " increases in the geographic distribution of malaria vectors and the prevalence of the disease have received wide publicity. Efforts to put the issue into perspective 1–5 are rarely quoted and have had little influence on the political debate. T...

Global Governance: The G20 and a Global Green New Deal

As the world recovers from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the international community should promote a mix of policies to sustain this global recovery and create jobs through reducing carbon dependency, ecological degradation and poverty. Such a Global Green New Deal (GGND) requires a long-term commitment to implementing and coordinating “green investments” by the Group o...

Mesoamerican Nephropathy or Global Warming Nephropathy?

BACKGROUND An epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) of unknown cause has emerged along the Pacific Coast of Central America. The disease primarily affects men working manually outdoors, and the major group affected is sugarcane workers. The disease presents with an asymptomatic rise in serum creatinine that progresses to end-stage renal disease over several years. Renal biopsies show chronic...