2022-07-29
CIGH Human and Planetary Health Newsletter
- Stanford's Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) releases policy brief that calls for climate financing to replace coal with renewables, which would result in a net gain of $78 trillion (conservative estimate).
- Diseases spread between humans & animals have jumped by 63% in the last decade.
- Predicting infectious disease emergence with climate and land use change data.
- Summary of methodologies for climate & mental health research.
- Study reveals negative impacts of climate on fisheries & agriculture – with greater impacts on the former, and greater impacts on lower-income settings overall – in 72 coastal communities across five Indo-Pacific countries.
- 87% of Americans support rebates or tax incentives for homeowners, landlords or businesses to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings (which are responsible for 31% of US emissions) – strong bipartisan climate consensus.
- Terry Tempest Williams & Rebecca Solnit in The Guardian: "Humanity can't equivocate any longer. This is a climate emergency."
- Environmental scientist and creator of Gaia theory James Lovelock dies at 103.
- Planetary Health Alliance newsletter: July edition