All agreed that health and climate change could be two sides of the same coin.
Google.org Executive Director Larry Brilliant said the corporate initiative dovetails with the philanthropy's work on global health and climate change.
"Reducing emissions from diesel engines and domestic wood and coal fires is a no-brainer as there are tandem health and climate benefits, " said Professor Piers Forster from the University of Leeds.
As we begin to calculate the enormous health care and social costs of climate change, health care professionals are in a position to educate their patients about the public health impacts of climate change and help prepare them for these impacts, and also become potent spokespersons for policies at all levels of government that would rein in climate change.
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His personal approval ratings are still pretty solid, but many Americans have lost faith in his ability to handle issues like health care and climate change.
He served for almost two years as director of the Congressional Budget Office, focusing a lot of attention on health care and climate change before being recruited into the administration.
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In the next few years, GLOBE will be focusing in particular on the goal of enhancing climate education with a focus on global warming, the carbon and energy footprint, climate and human health, and ecosystems, agriculture, and biodiversity.
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Let's look more closely at how the policies of Obama and the Democrats on the economy, health care, climate change and national security have played with voters.
Indeed, the report is seen by some as a sort of mini-manifesto on transport for Mr Brown, serving the same function that the Wanless and Stern reviews did to win support for health spending and measures to tackle climate change.
Programmes target a wide range of national, regional and global challenges such as climate change, ocean health and fisheries, disaster warning and mitigation, capacity building, and data availability and exchange.
It offers rankings for health and life expectancy, employment, school performance and climate.
At its meeting on Tuesday, the board considered options for the future in order to secure clinically and financially sustainable services for Scarborough and the surrounding areas, "within the context of a difficult financial climate and changing health policy".
It seems that our transport, health and education systems, skilled work force, benign climate and proximity to customers and suppliers are seen as major benefits and continue to influence foreign investment decisions.
The 2008 election is unusual in having so many big issues on the agenda: the economy, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, health care, taxes, immigration, education and climate change.
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We face threats to our health, our climate, and of course our security, that have left many of our young people wondering what kind of future they'll be leaving for their own kids.
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More than ever before, young people recognize the importance of sustainable, long-term development and are getting directly involved in issues like education, hunger, climate change, and global health.
They see the world they are inheriting facing urgent challenges and risks related to climate change, income disparity, health issues, and more.
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He claims Mr Mugabe's presence will "divert attention" from big issues such as poverty, climate change and health.
The article, however, had no mention of the many idealists working to solve problems in health, education, climate change and poverty that plague much of the globe.
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As a part of this meeting, they heard from a variety of USAID experts on the agency's key priorities in India - health, global climate change, and food security.
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But Pollack also said he thinks on some of the other big issues after health reform, like climate change and Wall Street regulatory reform, "they will have to get some Republican" lawmakers on board, and the new political reality may force some compromise on both sides.
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The author of a Swiss study on climate change and health, Dr Nino Kunzli of the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine in Basle, said the greatest health benefits would come from policies covering technology, urban planning, traffic speed and safety, and the promotion of walking, cycling and public transport.
Exactly the same thing happened with climate change, health reform and a fistful of other issues in recent years.
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But not on health care, or climate change, and not on the economy, taxes, or the price of petrol.
Provide health care for all and solutions for the climate crisis.
She has written about environmental health, climate, radiation, energy and other issues for numerous publications including Miller-McCune Magazine, High Country News, SELF, and Environmental Health Perspectives.
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An ambitious multi-disciplinary study is under way to address the issue of climate change and public health, and its findings are being posted on a World Wide Web site set up by a Johns Hopkins University engineering graduate student.
" Caterpillar, the giant Peoria-based maker of heavy construction machinery, made the same point more vividly when it declined in February to locate a new factory in Illinois, specifically citing concern about the state's "business climate and overall fiscal health.
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We had come together and voted for a candidate whose platform included universal health care, ending the wars in the Middle East and curbing climate change.
The third central role of the health care sector is in education and advocacy around climate change policy.
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