He claims Mr Mugabe's presence will "divert attention" from big issues such as poverty, climate change and health.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
Exactly the same thing happened with climate change, health reform and a fistful of other issues in recent years.
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The Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), a UN system-wide initiative, will amplify the benefits from global to national levels of efforts to adapt to climate variability and change for improved health, water management, disaster risk reduction, agriculture and food security from 2013.
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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The EPA asked researchers to look at how climate change could affect public health and how policy makers should respond.
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.
He spoke in a conference call with several reporters on the eve of his Clinton Global Initiative University this weekend in San Diego, where 1, 100 students from 300 schools around the world and in every state will gather to create problem-solving pr0jects in five areas: education, environment and climate change, peace and human rights, poverty alleviation, and public health.
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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.
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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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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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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Oceans Day at Durban will draw high-level attention to ocean issues during the COP17 climate talks, highlighting the direct link between climate change, the health of the oceans, and human well-being, as well as the need for sufficient funding to support bold mitigation and adaptation measures that will minimize climate change impacts on coastal communities and ocean ecosystems and resources.
But not on health care, or climate change, and not on the economy, taxes, or the price of petrol.
Refusing to address climate change may bring unprecedented environmental damage to the health and well-being of people throughout the world.
Businesses are keen to know what the new administration will do in terms of providing tax incentives, curbing climate change, empowering unions, making health care cheaper and boosting overall U.S. competitiveness.
It also examines a range of subjects, including population growth, climate change, altered ecosystems, food production, health, industry and energy, as well as biofuels and the importance of underground aquifers.
The third central role of the health care sector is in education and advocacy around climate change policy.
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Climate change is a health crisis, an energy crisis, a food crisis and a security crisis all rolled into one.
The participants stressed the central role of water in ensuring sustainable development, public health, poverty alleviation and combating the effects of climate change.
This is the former president's vehicle for promoting international good works with respect to climate change, poverty alleviation and mitigating religious and ethnic conflict, along with global health.
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