The relationship between climate change, health, and the humanitarian response

Baxter, Louisa; McGowan, Catherine R; Smiley, Sandra; Palacios, Liliana; Devine, Carol M.; Casademont, Cristian

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(22)01991-2

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“…Protracted food scarcity as occurs with prolonged droughts leads to conflict, political instability and mass displacements of peoples [ 59 ]. In 2020, almost 31 million people were displaced because of climate disasters.…”

Section: Social Determinants Of Health and Climate Changementioning

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Climate change and its influence in nephron mass

Alvarez-Elias,

Brenner,

Luyckx

2023

Current Opinion in Nephrology &Amp; Hypertension

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Purpose The consequences of climate change, including heat and extreme weather events impact kidney function in adults and children. The impacts of climate change on kidney development during gestation and thereby on kidney function later in life have been poorly described. Clinical evidence is summarized to highlight possible associations between climate change and nephron mass. Recent findings Pregnant women are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, being less able to thermoregulate, more sensitive to the effects of dehydration, and more susceptible to infections. Exposure to heat, wildfire smoke, drought, floods and climate-related infections are associated with low birth weight, preterm birth and preeclampsia. These factors are associated with reduced nephron numbers, kidney dysfunction and higher blood pressures in offspring in later life. Exposure to air pollution is associated with higher blood pressures in children and has variable effects on estimated glomerular filtration rate. Summary Climate change has important impacts on pregnant women and their unborn children. Being born too small or too soon is associated with life-time risk of kidney disease. Climate change may therefore have a dual effect of impacting fetal kidney development and contributing to cumulative postnatal kidney injury. The impact on population kidney health of future generations may be significant.

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Section: Social Determinants Of Health and Climate Changementioning

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Climate change and its influence in nephron mass

Alvarez-Elias,

Brenner,

Luyckx

2023

Current Opinion in Nephrology &Amp; Hypertension

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“…Yet, regulatory standards still rely on geographic averages, rarely accounting for this unequal burden of exposure, let alone synergistic effects. Through the intersection of existing inequalities in health, structural racism, and other forms of discrimination, climate change therefore acts as a threat multiplier, exacerbating existing drivers of poor health for the world’s most vulnerable populations 26…”

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Protecting populations from the health harms of air pollution

Sullivan,

Sorensen

2023

BMJ

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“…Climate change is already making humanitarian work harder, less predictable, and more complex (IFRC., 2018;Baxter et al, 2022). There is a duplicity between the growing humanitarian impact on the world's most vulnerable, and the leisurely pace and ambition of mitigation and adaptation committed to date (United Nations Environment Programme., 2022).…”

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Editorial: Solar geoengineering in the horizon: humanitarian dimensions

2023

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Editorial on the Research Topic Solar geoengineering in the horizon: humanitarian dimensions Should humanitarians, with hearts so pure, Turn to solar geoengineering, a remedy unsure?A risky path, a choice profound, As nature's forces loom around. A moral dilemma, fraught with strife, In a world beset by climate's knife.-ChatGPT, 2023Climate change is already making humanitarian work harder, less predictable, and more complex (IFRC., 2018;Baxter et al., 2022). There is a duplicity between the growing humanitarian impact on the world's most vulnerable, and the leisurely pace and ambition of mitigation and adaptation committed to date (United Nations Environment Programme., 2022). In this context, conversations about what role, if any, solar geoengineering might play in either ameliorating or exacerbating climate impacts of the world's most vulnerable have come to the fore. For example, the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine recently called for $200 M in federal funding for research, including on the social and ethical dimensions (National Academies of Sciences Engineering Medicine., 2021). Yet the debate is fraught with competing justice narratives. On the one hand, staunch opponents are calling for a non-use agreement (Biermann et al., 2022), which would, for example, ban all outdoor experimentation and public funding, and even shut down technological assessment within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Biermann et al., 2022, p. 5). On the other hand, some supportive of research frame solar geoengineering as an "obligation to the global poor" due to its potential to possibly ameliorate the worst climate impacts while we continue to mitigate and adapt (Horton and Keith, 2016). The discussion was further complicated by a rogue private actor, Make Sunsets, which conducted small-scale outdoor Solar geoengineering is an emerging technology, which could ameliorate some climate impacts by scattering approximately % of incoming sunlight away from the Earth to lower global temperatures.

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The relationship between climate change, health, and the humanitarian response

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

Climate change and its influence in nephron mass

Climate change and its influence in nephron mass

Protecting populations from the health harms of air pollution

Editorial: Solar geoengineering in the horizon: humanitarian dimensions

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