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Le climat et la santé, une bombe à retardement Les changements climatiques représentent un des plus grands défis de l’histoire de l’humanité. Ils remettent en cause le droit à la santé, qui est un droit fondamental de l’être humain (OMS et Santé Canada, 2021). Selon l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS), les changements climatiques causeront,…

The United Nations reports that July 2023 was the hottest month on record for the entire planet. Here are two examples among many: On August 2, 2023, the government of Iran, on the recommendation of its ministry of health, decreed two public holidays throughout the country to protect the health of its population. At the…

Once viewed as a remote, distant, and abstract environmental issue because it was too global, climate change has become a continuously topical issue and is described as a global emergency with increasingly present and worrisome economic and human consequences. The latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and news reports from around…

The sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2022) states that the political commitments made at the Glasgow United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP) in November 2021 are insufficient to contain global warming to the level of the Paris Agreement (below 1.5 °C). Beyond this threshold, our societies’ will be progressively less…

Over one third of the world’s population resides within 100 km of a coast, and this is expected to increase to 50 % by 2030 (Bilkovic et al., 2017). This places a significant proportion of the globe in the direct path of coastal hazards including erosion, flooding, and extreme events such as hurricanes and tsunamis. For…