Sentences with phrase «of planetary health»

We believe that these pieces of work will contribute to building a framework of planetary health.

A key challenge that panelists put forward was the need for coordination of the many efforts among multiple sectors doing impactful work on dimensions of the planetary health challenge.

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 health.

Interest is growing in the nascent concept of planetary health, and a variety of information, resources, and opportunities for action now exist through the work of numerous projects and organizations.

David G. Victor: I've been nervous about using a single indicator of planetary health for a long time.

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.

And Joe says «global [surface] temperature is a perfectly reasonable indicator of planetary health.»

Alex Jack is founder and president of Planetary Health, Inc.; sponsor of Amberwaves, a grassroots network devoted to promoting whole grains and other natural foods; and codirector of the Macrobiotic Summer Conference.

«The concept of planetary health offers a new way of thinking about the health of our planet and its resilience in the face of pressures like climate change, urbanization and globalization, to name just a few,» said Helen Clark, administrator of the U.N. Development Programme, by video statement.

Not exact matches

We are committing 30 % of our company to be used in support of organizations and activities that align with improving human and planetary health.

Micheal Lerner, creator of Commonweal, a health and environmental research institute, can be heard here discussing the connections between personal and planetary healing.

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.

«We correctly forecast the peak in dengue incidence to occur three months earlier than expected in March 2016, with a 90 percent chance of exceeding the mean dengue incidence for the previous five years,» said Lowe, Stewart Ibarra's colleague who is the lead author of an article on the study that appeared in the July 2017 issue of Lancet Planetary Health.

Conventional measures of public health overlook these trade - offs, especially at a global level, so a planetary health approach is required to ensure that public health interventions like draining swamps to curb disease - carrying mosquitoes don't lead to water shortages that could claim lives.

To forestall future threats and to handle emerging medical problems, an international research commission yesterday called for the creation of a new field of medicine: planetary 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.»

The Center draws its strength from faculty members and students across the University who make up a remarkable intellectual community of scholars, researchers, and teachers of diverse fields including chemistry, earth and planetary sciences, engineering and applied sciences, biology, public health and medicine, government, business, economics, religion, and the law.

The study, published in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health, showed that worsening or severe drought conditions can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and even death.

University of Notre Dame planetary geologist Clive Neal says that a lunar base would be invaluable for studying the effects of reduced gravity on astronauts» health.

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There is an emerging field of passionate doctors who are exploring the link between planetary health and human health, but we need more of them.

In your admirable pursuit of both personal and planetary health, there's still a good chance you may become deficient in one or more key nutrients essential for long - term health.

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A vast number of scientists, engineers, and visionary businessmen are boldly designing a future that is based on low - impact energy pathways and living within safe planetary boundaries; a future in which substantial health gains can be achieved by eliminating fossil - fuel pollution; and a future in which we strive to hand over a liveable planet to posterity.

I promoted Keith Kloor «s post on the paucity of coverage of a new peer - reviewed study on the health benefits of nuclear power (compared to coal), co-authored by James Hansen, who retired yesterday after 46 years of planetary and climate science at NASA:

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.

Amid nonstop work tracking developments at the climate talks in Paris, I had to slip in a note about the Planetary Health Alliance, an important new initiative aimed at mixing disciplines in ways that can bolster human health by considering its relationship to the health of ecosyHealth Alliance, an important new initiative aimed at mixing disciplines in ways that can bolster human health by considering its relationship to the health of ecosyhealth by considering its relationship to the health of ecosyhealth of ecosystems.

The Planetary Health Alliance will be grown into a consortium of universities, non-governmental organizations, governmental entities, and other partners, working together to build a community of stakeholders to foster research, training, and policy action at the intersection of human - driven environmental change and public hHealth Alliance will be grown into a consortium of universities, non-governmental organizations, governmental entities, and other partners, working together to build a community of stakeholders to foster research, training, and policy action at the intersection of human - driven environmental change and public healthhealth.

Today Harvard University, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and a range of other partner organizations are launching the Planetary Health Alliance, a new effort to dramatically improve our understanding of the linkages between environmental change and human health across the Health Alliance, a new effort to dramatically improve our understanding of the linkages between environmental change and human health across the health across the globe.

The Planetary Health Alliance is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, following on the recent release of the groundbreaking Rockefeller Foundation - Lancet Commission on Planetary Health, which outlines key opportunities to advance public health through more robust approaches to environmental stewarHealth Alliance is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, following on the recent release of the groundbreaking Rockefeller Foundation - Lancet Commission on Planetary Health, which outlines key opportunities to advance public health through more robust approaches to environmental stewarHealth, which outlines key opportunities to advance public health through more robust approaches to environmental stewarhealth through more robust approaches to environmental stewardship.

Planetary health is a simple, but powerful concept: The health of human beings fundamentally depends on the health of ecosystems.

The recent Rockefeller Foundation - Lancet Commission on Planetary Health assembled an overwhelming amount of evidence showing how the health of millions of people is being threatened by failing ecosyHealth assembled an overwhelming amount of evidence showing how the health of millions of people is being threatened by failing ecosyhealth of millions of people is being threatened by failing ecosystems.

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»

while in the context of the ongoing climate debate we continue — albeit with some embarrassment — to employ the scientifically meaningless phrase «climate change», we recognise that, in principle, a planetary warming to fend off otherwise imminent glacial inception, together with CO2 greening (the latter offsetting loss of vegetation footprint, the only real environmental concern) is having broad positive impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

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.

The Rockefeller Foundation - Lancet Commission on Planetary Health recognizes that human health and the health of our planet are inextricably linked, and that our civilization depends on human health, flourishing natural systems, and the wise stewardship of natural resoHealth recognizes that human health and the health of our planet are inextricably linked, and that our civilization depends on human health, flourishing natural systems, and the wise stewardship of natural resohealth and the health of our planet are inextricably linked, and that our civilization depends on human health, flourishing natural systems, and the wise stewardship of natural resohealth of our planet are inextricably linked, and that our civilization depends on human health, flourishing natural systems, and the wise stewardship of natural resohealth, flourishing natural systems, and the wise stewardship of natural resources.

These are facts of life in 2016, and shaped the conversation on Saturday in Marrakesh, Morocco where The Rockefeller Foundation and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) launched our newest collaboration, Momentum for Change: Planetary Health.

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.

This venue conveyed the urgency and importance of using planetary health thinking to guide important decisions facing the planet and our health.

Planetary health recognizes that the health and wellbeing of humanity are inextricably tied to the health of earth's natural systems, which provide us with sustenance, shelter and energy.

Momentum for Change: Planetary Health will recognize and showcase novel solutions to balancing the need for healthy communities with stewardship of natural ecosystems.

«Planetary health is a new field, and one that needs ideas and solutions that span multiple sectors and disciplines to guide the creative stewardship of our planet to protect our own health.

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.

«I am honored to have the support of Ocean Champions, whose members are some of the most dedicated advocates for our planetary and environmental health,» said Markey.

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.

Such claims are indicative of the narrow obsession with carbon accounting that disregards planetary systems and biodiversity, human rights, public health and, even methane emissions in the case of natural gas.»

The 2018 lineup of speakers will explore some of the most fascinating subjects in science today including the historical origins of the U.S. opioid crisis, understanding how the brain controls parenting behavior, and how «frugal science» can improve science accessibility to better human and planetary health to communities around the world.