Doctors of the World UK - Green Resources

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Websites to check out

The 10:10 Campaign - Join over 58 000 other people in the UK and take action to cut your own emissions by 10% by the end of 2010.

10:10 Health Campaign - Put practice, department or even hospital on the path towards environmental sustainability

Campaign on Greener Healthcare - Transforming Healthcare for a Sustainable Future

Sustainability and Environment - NHS Health Management RSS Feed gathering press stories, reports and other relevant resources on climate change and health issues

Climate and Health Council - "We, the Climate and Health Council, take the firm stance that health professionals – doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, all of us – can, should, and must take meaningful action on climate change." Sign the pledge.

MEDACT - Environment and Health - Aims to highlight the health implications of environmental degradation and work towards solutions which are ecologically sound, socially just, and beneficial to human health.

Act on Copenhagen: The UK Government’s work at Copenhagen

World Health Organisation on climate change

WHO 07.04.08 10 Facts on climate change and health

UNFCCC Fact sheets

ProVention Consortium

Public Interest Research Centre, an independent charity integrating key research on climate change, energy & economics

Not Stupid: the action campaign of the climate blockbuster The Age of Stupid

Greenpeace on climate change

Stop Climate Chaos

Transition Culture - How might our response to peak oil and climate change look more like a party than a protest march? This site explores the emerging transition model in its many manifestations.

The Corner House - Articles on Climate Change

Blogs (take me back to the top of the page)

Sir Jonathon Porritt

George Monbiot’s blog on climate change

Mark Lynas’ blog on climate change

Adam Corner and Tim Fisher's blog on the last 100 months we have to prevent "dangerous climate change"

Climate Progress blog -“The Web's most influential climate-change blogger” — Time Magazine

Real Climate blog - Real climate for real scientists

Climate change denials - Understanding climate change deniers

Reports & studies of interest (take me back to the top)

On the state of public health: Annual report of the Chief Medical Officer 2009

"Protecting children's health in a changing environment" WHO - Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health March 2010

The Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme and the NHS
In line with the NHS's pledge to reduce carbon emissions as outlined in its 2009 Carbon Reduction Strategy ‘Saving Carbon, Improving Health', it will ensure that each qualifying Trust and organising considers the early action criteria, the best energy efficiency option to adopt, the profiling of the league table and the financial impact over the first five years towards significantly reducing the NHS's carbon emissions.

Saving Carbon: Improving Health - The NHS
The NHS's Carbon Reduction Strategy for England.

Linking Health and Climate Goals - The Lancet
This Series by an international team analyses how tackling climate change could have positive effects on public health.

Managing the health effects of climate change – UCL The Lancet
Effects of climate change on health will affect most populations in the next decades and put the lives and wellbeing of billions of people at increased risk.

No Place Like Home - Climate Refugees Report by the Environmental Justice Foundation
New report predicts millions to become climate refugees, and leads calls for a new global legal framework to protect those displaced by climate change.

Up in Smoke?
A series of 5 reports so far from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development, a unique and diverse network of development and environment organizations, an initiative of the IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development) and nef (new economics foundation).

Suffering the Science: Climate change, people and poverty - Oxfam Briefing Paper 130 – July 2009

EM-DAT: Emergency Events Database
EM-DAT is a global database on natural and technological disasters from 1900 to present. Geographical, temporal, human and economic information on disasters are available on a country level.

Views from the Frontline - Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction.
Views from the Frontline is a participatory action research project aimed at measuring progress towards implementation of the Hyogo Framework for action. It is the largest independent, global assessment of disaster reduction ever undertaken at the local level.