Sentences with phrase «major environmental health issue»

But lead paint remains a major environmental health issue in developing countries — including the Philippines.

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Bain & Company partner Norbert Hueltenschmidt told the BBC last year that China faces major health care issues with its aging population, environmental problems, levels of access to health care, and sedentary living — physical activity has dropped 45 % since 1990.

The summer issue of Mothering, which will be out in May, contains back - to - back articles that strike at the core of two major environmental and health issues and do a superb job of, well, getting to the bottom of things.

«Environmental injustice is a major concern, particularly in indigenous communities where health inequalities are already an issue,» said Verner.

«This vulnerability concept requires the determination of the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including climate, but also from other social and environmental issues,» he said in a book chapter he co-authored in «Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective» earlier this year.

It coordinates some of the world's most exciting research projects, tackling major issues such as climate change, food security, environmental influences on human health, the genetic make - up of life on earth, and much more.

The Fred Singers of the world are the ones who brought the polarization, and who would have brought polarization regardless of the scientific approach: see, eg, cigarette smoking, DDT, and every other health or environmental issue opposed by major corporate interests.

What are the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including climate, of which added CO2 and other greenhouse gases are a part, but also from other social and environmental issues?

Probably, the major issue that forces us as individuals to take action is health and in so far, no socio - environmental issue like climate change has given rise to such international political and institutional movement, and societal initiatives, including governmental and non-governmental ones, devising strategies in sectors like Energy and so on — for instance, biodiversity maintenance does not have that power!

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