Climate Changes Health: Climate Justice

Climate change is public health's greatest challenge. While all of us will experience the health impacts of climate change, certain groups, like children, the elderly, the underserved and minority communities, are less climate-resilient and, as a result, are more vulnerable to negative health effects of climate change. 

How can we help? By providing resources and assistance to communities that need it most. That way, we can create healthy environments across all places. Yet we can only achieve healthy environments if our efforts are supported with sound science and informed policy. Let’s work to make sure both the best science and policies that address climate injustice are in every conversation about climate change solutions. 

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CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH SPOTLIGHTS

RESOURCES AND PARTNERS

• Climate Justice Changes Health: Local, Tribal Global and Generational (recorded webinar)
• Learn more about Executive Order 12898 on environmental justice
• EPA Climate Justice: A Fight for Equal Opportunity blog
• American Planning Association Climate Change & Environmental Justice event
• NAACP Environmental & Climate Justice webpage
• Natural Resources Defense Council Nuestro Futuro: Climate Change and U.S. Latinos
• Natural Resources Defense Council Climate Change Deals an Uneven Hand to U.S. Latinos

AJPH Articles

• Workers: the Climate Canaries (October 2014)
• Indigenous Health and Climate Change (July 2012)
• Climate Change: The Public Health Response (March 2008)
• Complete list of American Journal of Public Health climate change articles from 1923 through 2017

Climate Justice Partners

• U.S. Climate and Health Alliance
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• APHA Environment Section Environmental Justice Topic Committee
• APHA Environment Section Climate Change Topic Committee