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Exposure to air pollution has significant adverse health effects, leading to nearly 1 in every 8 deaths globally. Air pollution affects all age groups, from unborn children to older people, in both high- and low-income nations.
This publication provides an overview of evidence and guidance on the growing challenge of workplace heat stress in the context of climate change. It highlights the health and productivity risks faced by billions of workers, especially in manual labor sectors. The report details the physiological, s
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IDMC's Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) is the authoritative source for data and analysis on the state of internal displacement for the previous year.
This report synthesizes the state of knowledge on the interlinkages between environmental degradation climate change conflict and mobility in the East and Horn of Africa, focusing on Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Internal displacements due to conflict and disasters are a major driver of global human mobility. While the total numbers of internal displacements by cause and geographical location are increasingly well tracked, a significant gap remains in the availability of disaggregated data on key variables
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The health of refugees and migrants is directly related to their access to quality, effective and appropriate health care along all their routes of travel. Refugees and migrants face challenges in accessing health care, including financial, legal and cultural barriers, that are well documented.
Public health challenges over the past decade have highlighted the importance of approaching health through a holistic lens of human, animal, and environmental sectors, recognizing the need for a collaborative response against shared threats. Zoonotic diseases, transmitted between humans and animals
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WHO, as the coordinating authority on international health, supports countries in protecting public health through evidence-based policies and actions. Considering the significant health burden and the multiple potential benefits of interventions, the WHO Air Quality, Energy and Health Unit aims to
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The health impacts of climate change are no longer a distant threat. They are being felt here and now and becoming more extreme.
To address these threats, the WHO Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health in the Western Pacific Region (ACE) was established in 2019 through a partnership with
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This Climate terminology bank provides key definitions and facts related to climate and resilience for Uganda’s refugee response. Its goal is to build a common understanding among stakeholders and support the integration of climate-smart practices in humanitarian efforts.
Why this document? The Waste Value Chain Analysis (WVCA) has been designed to help organizations understand local waste value chains, with the aim: To identify gaps and opportunities for improvement of local waste value chains (e.g. where shredding, baling can make recovery profitable) and much more
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This guide outlines a practical approach to estimating greenhouse gas emissions avoided by diverting waste from landfills through reverse logistics and reuse/recycling. It provides step-by-step guidance, emission factors, and a scenario tailored to humanitarian operations, along with suggestions on
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Más del 75 % de los cultivos alimentarios del mundo dependen de los polinizadores, que aportan anualmente entre 235 000 y 577 000 millones de dólares de los Estados Unidos a la producción agrícola mundial.
Las tormentas de arena y de polvo son fenómenos meteorológicos, habituales en las regiones áridas y semiáridas, que generan grandes cantidades de partículas de polvo mineral en suspensión.
A escala mundial, unos 2100 millones de personas siguen cocinando con combustibles sólidos (como leña, desechos agrícolas, carbón vegetal y mineral y excrementos de animales) y queroseno, en fuegos abiertos y fogones poco eficientes (1). En su mayor parte, se trata de personas en situación de p
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La contaminación atmosférica proviene principalmente de cinco actividades humanas que emiten una gama de sustancias, tales como monóxido de carbono, dióxido de carbono, óxido de nitrógeno, dióxido de nitrógeno, dióxido de azufre, ozono troposférico o a nivel del suelo, material particulado
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La contaminación atmosférica es una de las mayores amenazas para la salud infantil. El 99% de la población mundial vive en lugares donde el aire se considera nocivo. Respirar aire contaminado perjudica la salud de los niños y las niñas y pone en peligro su futuro.
El cambio climático, definido por las Naciones Unidas como “cambios a largo plazo en la temperatura y los patrones meteorológicos” debido a actividades humanas como la quema de combustibles fósiles en la era industrial, ha dado lugar a cambios profundos y continuos en nuestro entorno y en la
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El cambio climático está intesificando el calor extremo, con efectos graves sobre la salud.
Necesitamos un cambio fundamental en la forma en que vivimos en la Tierra, es lo que llamamos la Gran Transición. Lograr la Gran Transición, requerirá cambios
estructurales rápidos y profundos en la mayoría de las dimensiones de la actividad humana. Esto incluye cómo producimos y consumimo
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