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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

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Announcements

Follow Us: We're Expanding Our Social Presence to Bluesky

In the wake of the election, many are seeking new platforms to connect. While we’ll continue posting on X, we’re excited to expand to Bluesky to stay connected with our community. Follow us @docsforclimate.bsky.social.

 

Plus, check out this climate and health starter pack to get connected with others in this space!

Registration Opens Soon! 2025 Climate Action Convention

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On March 2-4, 2025, our organizations are coming together to host the largest event on planetary health/climate and health to date in Washington, DC. By joining forces, we can catalyze faster action to create a sustainable, healthier, and more just world.

 

Registration opens December 4th! Stay tuned for more details here. 

New Episode: Healthy Climate America

Tune in as Juanita Constible from the National Resources Defense Council unpacks the history behind the new OSHA heat standard, breaks down its key elements, and shares advocacy strategies to push it along. Learn how health professionals can help make workplaces safer and healthier.

 

LISTEN HERE

Climate Checkup

Man looking at a utility bill

Utility Shutoffs Can Be Deadly During Extreme Weather Events

November 25, 2024 | MedPage Today | Cheryl Holder

Latest News

Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

Climate change made all of this year’s Atlantic hurricanes so much worse

November 20, 2024 | Grist | Matt Simon

ABC storm alert for the bomb cyclone

How climate change contributes to the atmospheric river slamming the West Coast

November 20, 2024 | ABC News | Julia Jacobo, Daniel Manzo, and Daniel Peck

Yalchin Rafiyev, lead negotiator for the host country, Azerbaijan, on Friday as the United Nations climate summit headed into overtime.Credit...Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press

Climate Talks End With a Bitter Fight and a Deal on Money

November 23, 2024 | The New York Times | Max Bearak

Advocate Voices

Bruce Bekkar for this TEDx talk: The climate crisis is not your fault, but it is your problem (11/11/24)

 

Jonathan Patz interviewed for this article in Wisconsin Public Radio: Framing the climate crisis around health: Wisconsin professor wants a narrative shift (11/11/24)

 

Alfred Glover for being named as the inaugural Policy Experience in Equity Climate and Health (PEECH) fellow (11/12/24)

 

Michael Cohen for this op-ed in this article in the New Hampshire Bulletin: Now is the time for thinking globally and acting locally (11/19/24)

 

Neelima Tummala, Colleen M. Fitzpatrick, and Kelly N. Wright, for this viewpoint in JAMA Surgery: Sustainability in Surgery—Reinvesting in People Over Things (11/20/24)

State News

An artificial intelligence data center is built on land once slated for development by Foxconn in Mount Pleasant on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Mount Pleasant, Wis. Angela Major/WPR

Microsoft to use diesel-fired generators as backup power for data centers

November 15, 2024 | Wisconsin Public Radio | Danielle Kaeding

Jessica Meszaros / WUSF Bob Bunting, CEO and chairman of the Climate Adaptation Center, says there should be a real-time monitoring system in the medical community that keeps track of heat deaths, just like for hurricanes.

Health and heat are hot topics at a Florida climate change conference

November 18, 2024 | WUSF | Jessica Meszaros

Berlin Fire Chief Jonn Massirio walks past closed trails at Giuffrida Park in Meriden, Conn., Wednesday, November 6, 2024. Giuffrida Park reopens Thursday with access to trails around the Bradley Hubbard Reservoir and Chauncey Peak. Trails leading to Lamentation Mountain from Giuffrida Park were closed during the height of brush fires in Meriden and Wallingford.  Dave Zajac/Hearst Connecticut Media

Connecticut's on-going drought is just a 'tiny taste' of the climate change to come, experts warn

November 21, 2024 | CT Insider | Cris Villalonga-Vivoni

New Research & Reports

Emissions Disclosures and Energy Use Reporting by Hospitals in the United States

NAM Perspectives

 

Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism

npj Climate Action

 

Pediatric climate distress: A scoping review and clinical resource

The Journal of Climate Change and Health

 

Climate Change, Floods, and Human Health

The New England Journal of Medicine

Events & Opportunities

You can find more events and opportunities on our website.

Diploma in Climate Medicine

Become a Climate Medicine Diplomate Flyer FINAL

The Diploma in Climate Medicine from the University of Colorado School of Medicine is a five-part continuing education program designed to provide healthcare professionals with expertise in the health impacts of climate change. The in-person portion of the first 2025 certificate, Community Resilience, will take place in Washington, D.C., alongside our annual convention.

 

Learn more and register here.

Climate Health Equity Day 2025: Our Patients, Our Planet, Our Future

Medical Students for a Sustainable Future will host its annual conference on Saturday, March 1, 2025, in collaboration with the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health. This event will give health students an opportunity to build community, connect with leaders, present research, and engage in impactful discussions around climate and health.

 

Learn more and register here.

MS4SF also invites you to submit an abstract by Wednesday, January 1, 2025. The goal is to highlight student projects that focus on research and exploring the humanities. Submit an abstract here.

Embedding Environmental Sustainability into Daily Practice

Join the National Academy of Medicine on December 11 for a webinar on Embedding Environmental Sustainability into Your Daily Practice! Speakers will discuss actionable decarbonization and sustainability practices for health professionals, including initiatives like telework/telemedicine, the reduction/replacement of anesthetic gases, and other impactful strategies.

 

REGISTER HERE

Call for Papers: Advancing and Integrating Climate and Health Policies

 

This special issue of the Journal of Climate Change and Health investigates whether and how climate policy and health policy can be advantageously integrated to better protect both human health and the climate. Manuscripts are due by June 30, 2025. 

 

LEARN MORE HERE

The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, 4400 University Drive, MS 6A8, Fairfax, Virginia 22030

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