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    Climate emergency: Treat Earth as an ancestor, not a commodity - 6 month(s) ago

    Does the Earth belong to animals or plants, land or sea? Arrogantly, humanity has presumed the Earth to be its own. A particular world view has bent the Earth to our whims, imposing an imagined superiority over environments and other species—and other, less privileged, humans. That world view, driven by the extractive excesses of capitalism and colonialism, continues to harm people and the planet. It treats species, natural resources, and traditional and poorer communities as commodities to be exploited and profited from. An alternative is to think of the Earth as “an ancestor to be held in good relation” (doi:10.1136/bmj.p2202).1 This is no communist manifesto. It is a reasoned reaction to a climate emergency of which we have all but lost control. The approach is to understand and absorb the values and responsibilities that Indigenous communities live by so that decision making is “conducted with a critical …

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      Health and wellbeing outcomes should be central to our response to the climate emergency, something the UN’s climate conference of the parties has summarily failed to do, writes @KamranAbbasi in Editor's Choice. Read more as we launch our #Climate issue https://t.co/2usWMbJLFF

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    Nationally determined contributions: working towards improved international climate and health law - 6 month(s) ago

    The World Health Organization identifies climate change as the biggest health threat facing humanity. In view of this, one might expect health to feature heavily in the international legal framework regarding climate change, mainly composed of the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 2015 Paris Agreement. The word “health” is indeed mentioned in two places in the UNFCCC. The first mention occurs where “adverse effects of climate change” are explained as “changes in the physical environment or biota resulting from climate change, which have significant deleterious effects on the composition, resilience or productivity of natural and managed ecosystems or on the operation of socioeconomic systems or on human health and welfare.” The second mention refers to the obligations of Parties to take “climate change considerations into account, to the extent feasible, in their relevant social, economic and environmental policies and actions, and employ appropriate methods,

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      Professor of international law @petra_minnerop discusses nationally determined contributions and improving #climate and health law internationally https://t.co/Qu2XiiF2PU

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    The climate emergency could be the ultimate health opportunity, says WHO’s Maria Neira - 7 month(s) ago

    Climate change could be the “ultimate” public health opportunity—but we need politicians to act, the World Health Organization’s Maria Neira tells Elisabeth Mahase Maria Neira wanted to be a diabetologist—that was until she went to work with Médecins Sans Frontières in El Salvador and Honduras, treating people displaced to refugee camps during the armed conflict. “That’s when I discovered public health and changed completely from the curative to the preventative. I wanted more impact from my interventions,” she says. “I then did a masters in public health—but I really learnt about it in the refugee camps, not at university.” Neira later spent five years working in eastern Africa, as a public health adviser to the Mozambique Ministry of Health and as a UN public health adviser in Kigali, Rwanda. And for nearly two decades she has headed up WHO’s department of environment, climate change, and health. Over that time, she says there have been advancements—including in how public health off

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      “Sometimes you see politicians using the language of activists, which is great. But then don’t forget that you have the power. So don’t tell me, tell yourself and then make the right decisions.” @WHO's @DrMariaNeira talks to The BMJ about #Climate Change https://t.co/f5q3Sx3LWE https://t.co/sSDpi3N9uu

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    Climate emergency: Treat Earth as an ancestor, not a commodity - 7 month(s) ago

    Does the Earth belong to animals or plants, land or sea? Arrogantly, humanity has presumed the Earth to be its own. A particular world view has bent the Earth to our whims, imposing an imagined superiority over environments and other species—and other, less privileged, humans. That world view, driven by the extractive excesses of capitalism and colonialism, continues to harm people and the planet. It treats species, natural resources, and traditional and poorer communities as commodities to be exploited and profited from. An alternative is to think of the Earth as “an ancestor to be held in good relation” (doi:10.1136/bmj.p2202).1 This is no communist manifesto. It is a reasoned reaction to a climate emergency of which we have all but lost control. The approach is to understand and absorb the values and responsibilities that Indigenous communities live by so that decision making is “conducted with a critical …

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      Evidence continues to grow for the damaging impact of climate change and the economic arguments for action become clearer by the day. @KamranAbbasi guides readers through our new #Climate issue https://t.co/2usWMbJLFF

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    Nationally determined contributions: working towards improved international climate and health law - 7 month(s) ago

    The World Health Organization identifies climate change as the biggest health threat facing humanity. In view of this, one might expect health to feature heavily in the international legal framework regarding climate change, mainly composed of the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 2015 Paris Agreement. The word “health” is indeed mentioned in two places in the UNFCCC. The first mention occurs where “adverse effects of climate change” are explained as “changes in the physical environment or biota resulting from climate change, which have significant deleterious effects on the composition, resilience or productivity of natural and managed ecosystems or on the operation of socioeconomic systems or on human health and welfare.” The second mention refers to the obligations of Parties to take “climate change considerations into account, to the extent feasible, in their relevant social, economic and environmental policies and actions, and employ appropriate methods,

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      International #law on climate change is continually evolving. Professor of international law @petra_minnerop discusses nationally determined contributions and working towards improved international #climate and health law https://t.co/Qu2XiiFAFs

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