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		<title>Climate and Clean Air Coalition Sets Priorities for 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) held a Working Group meeting to set its priority areas, goals and key milestones for 2013, including actions to reduce short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), which have been identified as one of the greatest hazards to human health.]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Article #91: Mainstreaming Gender in Health Adaptation to Climate Change Programmes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When measuring the health impacts caused by climate change, one needs to understand how the main environmental determinants of health are affected by climate change, as some of the major killers, such as undernutrition, diarrheal diseases linked to poor water quality, indoor air pollution, and malaria, are very sensitive to weather and climate.]]></description>
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		<title>WHO Workshop Discusses Adaptation to Health Impacts of Climate Change in Southern and Eastern Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the WHO workshop, participants from Southern and Eastern African countries discussed, among other issues: identification of health risks from climate change, health adaptation strategies; mechanisms to develop and implement health adaptation plans, financial resource needs; and follow-up activities.]]></description>
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		<title>WHO Side-Event Discusses Improving Climate Resilience of Public Health Systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WHO side event, held at the margins of the Doha Climate Change Conference, addressed the linkages between climate change and health, with special focus on initiatives that improved climate resilience of public health systems.]]></description>
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		<title>WHO Releases Guide on Mainstreaming Gender in Health Adaptation to Climate Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drawing on the WHO's manual on gender mainstreaming in health management, these guidelines provide information, tools and recommendations for effective mainstreaming of gender-related issues in the design of projects that seek to enhance adaptive capacity to health impacts of climate change.]]></description>
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		<title>ENTWINED Launches Guidance on Border Carbon Adjustment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by an international expert drafting group, and presenting over two years of effort, the guide goes into depth on the complex web of issues that will confront policy makers considering a BCA regime as a way to deal with the competitiveness issues associated with unilateral climate action.]]></description>
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		<title>UNISDR, UNESCO Convene Retreat on Post-Hyogo Disaster Framework</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to UNISDR, together with UNESCO, the retreat aimed to produce a UN strategic plan for disaster risk reduction in four months time. The plan is expected to increase the coherence of the UN system on strengthening resilience and disaster risk reduction as the first line of defence against climate change and is also intended to feed into the development of the Second Hyogo Framework for Action, a key part of the post-2015 development agenda.]]></description>
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		<title>WHO, WMO Launch Atlas of Health and Climate</title>
		<link>http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/who-wmo-launch-atlas-of-health-and-climate/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Atlas of Health and Climate highlights how climate variability and extreme conditions affect human health, and how climate services can protect human health through prevention, preparedness and risk management. The Atlas also describes how other types of vulnerability, such as environmental degradation and poverty, influence the relationship between climate and health. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) collaborated on the publication. ]]></description>
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		<title>ITU Launches Initiatives on Sustainable Development and Disaster Preparedness</title>
		<link>http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/itu-launches-initiatives-on-sustainable-development-and-disaster-preparedness/</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) launched m-Powering Development and the Smart Sustainable Development Model (SSDM), two initiatives that aim to achieve sustainable development and improved disaster preparedness and response through smart information and communication technologies (ICT).]]></description>
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		<title>Global Alliance Highlights Climate Change Mitigation Benefits of Clean Cookstoves</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves has released a fact-sheet, titled "Clean Cookstoves and Climate Change," which notes that close to three billion people around the world use coal or wood to cook, highlighting the related security, environmental and health risks associated with the search for, and use of biomass. ]]></description>
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