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Climate Change Futures
NEW PUBLICATION
Healthy Solutions for the Low Carbon Economy: Guidelines for Investors, Insurers and Policy Makers
Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions
A project in collaboration with Swiss
Re and the United Nations Development Programme.
Findings from this study were released on November 1, 2005 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. See http://www.climatechangefutures.org.
Concerns about climate change are often placed into the distant
future. But the health and financial impacts of climate instability
are already affecting many nations and economies. Climate change
affects human health and economics via many pathways, including:
- The productivity of natural and managed biological resources
and ecosystems – forest, agricultural and marine
- The emergence and distribution of infectious diseases in plants, animals, and humans
- The costs of extreme weather for travel, trade, tourism,
and infrastructure – especially in developing nations
- The character and intensity of ambient air pollution and
synergies with climate change (e.g., increased heatwaves).
Until now, little has been done to integrate our current understanding
of climate change and ecosystem degradation with projections for
public health, the value of biological resources, and the long-term
security of investments.
The
Center for Health and the Global Environment,
Swiss Re and the United Nations Development Programme joined forces in a three-year effort to examine the physical and health risks of climate instability culminating in the final report Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions. An Executive Summary for Policymakers is also available.
Final Report | Executive Summary for Policy Makers | CCF Synopsis Flyer | CCF Launch Event | CCF Q & A
To view a list of Climate Change Futures appearences in the news please visit our media site.
Made possible through generous support from the John Merck Fund.
Resources
National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Earth Materials and Health: Research Priorities for Earth Science and Public Health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press; 2007.
Climate Change: From Dialogue to Action - A joint event of The Swiss Society of New York and the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, hosted at Swiss Re's Park Avenue Plaza office. View presentations rom panelists including: Ambassador Peter Maurer, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations; Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School; Anna-Marie Francello, Head of UBS Americas In-House Ecology; and Mark Way, Director, Sustainable Development Americas, Swiss Re.
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