From concept to action: a united, holistic and One Health approach to respond to the climate change crisis

Zhang, Renhe; Xu, Tan; Liu, Jian; Visbeck, Martin; Guo, Huadong; Murray, Virginia; Mcgillycuddy, Catherine; Ke, Bing; Kalonji, G.; Zhai, Panmao; Shi, Xiaoming; Lu, Jiahai; Zhou, Xiao‐Nong; Kan, Haidong; Han, Qunli; Yao, Qian; Luo, Yong; Chen, Jianmin; Cai, Wenjia; Djalante, Riyanti; Baklanov, Alexander; Ren, Lu; Brasseur, Guy; Gao, George F.; Zhou, Lei

doi:10.1186/s40249-022-00941-9

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“…Significant numbers of lives can be protected by investing in early warning systems (Adams et al, 2022) (relevant for extreme weather events and microbial and disease outbreaks), which should include monitoring and evaluation (UNSD, 2022). Population health and health system resilience linked to climate change need to be increased, addressing inequities, to better manage complex and compounding hazards in a systems-based manner (Zhang et al, 2022a(Zhang et al, , 2022b.…”

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“…The financial sector is thus in an early stage of reckoning with the multifaceted challenges presented by climate change. It also suffers from critical constraints such as data gaps in climate disclosure and metrics as well as analytical tools (In & Schumacher, 2021;OECD, 2021) hindering an orderly transition to low-carbon economies, as evidenced by its lateness in recognizing corporate greenwashing and the related risks for global finance (Baldi & Pandimiglio, 2022;Zhang et al, 2022aZhang et al, , 2022b. One study found no difference in the environmental performance of ESG and non-ESG mutual fund companies (Raghunandan & Rajgopal, 2022), with voluntary ESG disclosure being the only differentiator.…”

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Ten new insights in climate science 2022

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Non-technical summary We summarize what we assess as the past year's most important findings within climate change research: limits to adaptation, vulnerability hotspots, new threats coming from the climate–health nexus, climate (im)mobility and security, sustainable practices for land use and finance, losses and damages, inclusive societal climate decisions and ways to overcome structural barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C. Technical summary We synthesize 10 topics within climate research where there have been significant advances or emerging scientific consensus since January 2021. The selection of these insights was based on input from an international open call with broad disciplinary scope. Findings concern: (1) new aspects of soft and hard limits to adaptation; (2) the emergence of regional vulnerability hotspots from climate impacts and human vulnerability; (3) new threats on the climate–health horizon – some involving plants and animals; (4) climate (im)mobility and the need for anticipatory action; (5) security and climate; (6) sustainable land management as a prerequisite to land-based solutions; (7) sustainable finance practices in the private sector and the need for political guidance; (8) the urgent planetary imperative for addressing losses and damages; (9) inclusive societal choices for climate-resilient development and (10) how to overcome barriers to accelerate mitigation and limit global warming to below 2°C. Social media summary Science has evidence on barriers to mitigation and how to overcome them to avoid limits to adaptation across multiple fields.

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Section: Insight 7: Sustainable Finance Practices By Private Sector A...mentioning

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“…For example, during lockdown periods in China, although there were reductions in concentrations of PM 2.5 , PM 10 , NO 2 , SO 2 , and CO, almost all the concentrations remained higher than the WHO AQGs as listed in Table 1, and the observed concentrations of PM 2.5 and O 3 even increased around Beijing (Wang and Zhang 2020). It should be noted that in addition to the high air pollution emissions, the heavy ambient air pollution over Asia is also attributed to the local meteorological conditions, such as weakened surface wind speed, declined vertical wind shear between the lower and upper troposphere, increased potential temperature difference between 850 and 1,000 hPa, enhanced humidity, and a weakened Asian monsoon (Zhang et al 2014;Li et al 2016;Wang and Zhang 2020). This suggests that achieving AQGs in those countries and regions in the near future will be extremely challenging.…”

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“…We have stepped into a climate-emergency era in which rapid actions to mitigate climate warming threats have become a top priority for governments around the world. Climate change and air pollution are interconnected and are exerting a combined effect on public health (Zhang et al 2022). Evidence suggests that climate change may deteriorate air quality through altering emissions, reactions, and transport of chemical species as well as stagnant weather conditions, which play an important role in driving air pollution events (Zhang 2017).…”

Section: Policy Integration With Climate Actions Toward Cohealth Bene...mentioning

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“…Climate change and air pollution are interconnected and are exerting a combined effect on public health (Zhang et al 2022). Evidence suggests that climate change may deteriorate air quality through altering emissions, reactions, and transport of chemical species as well as stagnant weather conditions, which play an important role in driving air pollution events (Zhang 2017). It is also well understood that climate actions including reducing fossil fuels consumption and a shift to clean energy would not only contribute to mitigation of climate change, but will also significantly improve air quality (WHO 2021b).…”

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Toward Better and Healthier Air Quality: Implementation of WHO 2021 Global Air Quality Guidelines in Asia

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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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Air pollution is estimated to contribute to approximately 7 million premature deaths, of which around 4.5 million deaths are linked to ambient (outdoor) air pollution (Murray et al. 2020). The deaths attributed to air pollution rank the highest in the Asian Region and thus the implementation of the stricter World Health Organization (WHO) Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) released on 22 Sep 2021 will generate the greatest health benefits in the Asian region. Here we present some key messages and recommendations at national, regional, and global level to promote the strategies for implementation of the ambitious WHO 2021 AQGs in the Asian region.

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Characteristics of cold events in the eastern China: Perspective from five metropolitan regions

Shang,

Chen,

Tang

2024

Intl Journal of Climatology

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This study investigates the characteristics of cold events affecting eastern China during November–March of 1979–2018 using station observations and the ERA5 reanalysis, focusing five major cities (Beijing, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Shanghai and Guangzhou) for their high vulnerability and distinct local thermal conditions than the broader climate regimes. For each city, cold day (CD) (one or more continuous days where the temperature falls below the local 5th percentiles) and cold surge (CS) (a period of 1–3 days with a total temperature decrease exceeding 8°C) were both examined in aspects of occurrence frequency, circulation characteristics and health impacts. Results show that the northern cities are relatively more/less exposed to CD/CS than the southern cities. At all five cities, the two types of events rarely coincide and exhibit distinct multiple‐year variations, as CD and CS are, respectively, dominated by continental‐ and regional‐scale circulations. However, both types of events are associated with the interplay of the East Asia trough at 300 hPa and the Siberian high, Aleutian low and subtropical high at 850 hPa. Results also show that during CDs in these cities, the effective temperatures (ET), which take into account of the near‐surface wind speed and humidity, are often about 5°C lower than the actual temperatures. The ET decreases are larger than the actual temperature drops in most CSs, yet in specific scenarios (primarily in Beijing and Zhengzhou when the temperature drop is relatively small), the ET drop can be less pronounced, as the possible decrease of wind speed and/or humidity can partially mitigate the ET decrease caused by dropping temperatures. These underline the complexity of health impacts of cold events, which vary regionally due to differences in covariations of temperature, wind speed and relative humidity. There aspects are worthy of further investigation.

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From concept to action: a united, holistic and One Health approach to respond to the climate change crisis

Cited by 26 publications

References 6 publications

Ten new insights in climate science 2022

Ten new insights in climate science 2022

Toward Better and Healthier Air Quality: Implementation of WHO 2021 Global Air Quality Guidelines in Asia

Characteristics of cold events in the eastern China: Perspective from five metropolitan regions

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