No, not the daytime quiz game beloved of students and the over 70s, I’m talking about the other Countdown – the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change which has just published its latest report.…
Countdown
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Climate change and health. A review of WHO’s commitment to ‘safeguarding the health of the planet’.
With confirmation that 2023 was the warmest year on record (between 1.43-1.48C above preindustrial levels depending on which dataset you use), it’s reassuring to read that the World Health Organisation is starting to take climate…
Sunflowers
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Van Gogh was 35 when he painted the Sunflowers, which is currently residing in The National Gallery, London (the gallery bought the painting in 1987 for $40m). If you earn twice the average UK salary…
Climate change, indigenous communities and health
[This short post first appeared on International Health Policies on 18th November] I am, of course, referring to the People’s Health Hearing: Health Justice means Climate Justice that convened on Sunday 7th November, and which can be viewed on YouTube…
Week one of COP26: some reflections
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To be honest, I didn’t expect to see a Formula One racing car on display in the Blue Zone. But there it was, all shiny black, signalling that thanks to EV technology nothing is going…
What does the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment WG1 Report warn us about the health impacts of global warming?
Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) in September. Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis is the most comprehensive assessment of “new scientific…
The NDC is dead; long live the NZT?
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It’s all but impossible to keep up with the number of reports on climate change, even those published just this month. Close on the heels of the IPCC WG1 report, three noteworthy publications came out…
COP26: some initial reflections on its aims
COP26 is taking place in Glasgow from 31st October to the 12th November. The UK government, which is co-hosting the event with Italy, has produced an explainer – read it carefully because, as COP 26…
The road to hell, and back again
You know the cartoon I mean? It’s the one with the IPCC scientist standing at the front of an auditorium in 1990 warning that “this climate change thing could be a problem” and becoming increasingly…
The Reith Lectures part 2: The great turning
There’s little to admire about this year’s Reith lectures, delivered by ex-governor of the Bank of England Dr (a title conspicuous in its new-found usage) Mark Carney, United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Finance, and…