Sentences with phrase «planetary health as»

In July 2015, the commission published a special report — Safeguarding Human Health in the Anthropocene Epoch — which explored the scientific basis for creating Planetary Health as a new field.

These benefits of cutting black carbon were already apparent before Doherty and her colleagues published their new study; now it's clear that cutting soot could help not just personal health, but planetary health as well.

Not exact matches

Amazingly, while the fundamental discoveries in science in the 17th century — gravity, light waves, planetary rotation around stars and the incredible abstraction of science in mathematics — spurred huge explosions of discoveries in physics and chemistry, fundamental discoveries in biology largely lagged behind and were important only as they related to human health.

Combine two of the biggest planetary challenges — climate change and public health — and you've got a problem as huge as Rupert Murdoch's.

As such, it strengthens the claims of a recent Lancet Commission on Planetary Health that calls for protecting nature to achieve health outcomes.&Health that calls for protecting nature to achieve health outcomes.&health outcomes.»

Whether it's Whole Foods Market's recent decision to downplay animal products or vegan actresses touting «kind diets,» it sometimes seems as though every educated man, woman and child in the United States believes that plant - based diets hold the key to personal and planetary health.

Perhaps this «Conference on Planetary Emergencies» will result in something other than yet another extensive production of rhetorical flourishes and other forms of ever so lyrical «chin music» that we have heard for so long and come to see as nothing more than a litany of unending substitutes for what is needed in our time: action on the real threats to human and environmental health.

It is worth noting though that the science behind planetary health is still being established, meaning that devising and testing ecosystems - based solutions at the local level, as a complement to traditional public health measures, will be critical to building the field.

The existing work of the Planetary Health Commission, HEAL, and Planetary Health Alliance is already pointing the way forward, and the case for action will only grow as the field develops.

Aclima, the San Francisco - based company delivering environmental intelligence through sensor networks to improve human and planetary health, was selected among hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum's «technology pioneers»

If the industry leaders involved were civilized people, they would be just as concerned as everyone else with public health and the state of the planetary climate and environment.

Panelists, which included senior environmental and health officials from Morocco, Gambia and Ivory Coast as well as UNFCCC, the World Health Organization, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, weighed in on the urgent need to take action on the environment in ways that protect human health — which is the core of planetary hhealth officials from Morocco, Gambia and Ivory Coast as well as UNFCCC, the World Health Organization, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, weighed in on the urgent need to take action on the environment in ways that protect human health — which is the core of planetary hHealth Organization, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, weighed in on the urgent need to take action on the environment in ways that protect human health — which is the core of planetary hhealth — which is the core of planetary healthhealth.

According to Lynas, Rockström and his associates — referred to by Lynas as the «planetary boundaries experts group» — believe that they have identified nine fundamental measures of the planet's ecological health that human development must not interfere with, if ecological catastrophe is to be avoided.

And while I own a copy of An Inconvenient Truth and likely read it, it would have been just one book out of a stack and doesn't stand out as the best in my recollection, on the risk of human impact on planetary and individual health.

Geoengineering could cause irreversible damage to planetary ecosystems, as well as human health.

As a first step in exploring the scientific basis for creating this new field of study and action — and to make recommendations on policies — The Rockefeller Foundation and the medical journal The Lancet formed The Rockefeller Foundation - Lancet Commission on Planetary Health.

At this point, I do try to minimize my overall ecological footprint (I don't regard carbon to be a particular priority tho) as matter of planetary aesthetics and ecosystem health.