This blog is reposted from Climate Health Connect

Who's afraid of climate change? Well, I am. And not necessarily for the reasons you may think. I’m afraid that the recent, much-deserved attention to climate change will revive some of the old alarmist debates on population. And with those debates, I’m worried that the specter of population control will rear its ugly head again.

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Last week, in the wrap-up of the international climate change conference in Cancun, two of the rare side event…

A recent article published in the Washington Post describing the slow pace of progress at the international climate change conference in Cancun (COP16) argues that the conference is unlikely to produce a binding international treaty on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Many expected this going into…

This past Monday, I attended a second side event at the COP16 international…

This past Friday, the U.S. Expo Center of the international climate change conference (COP16) hosted a side event focused on the human health effects of climate change. Panelists included representatives of the National Institutes of Environmental Health Services (NIEHS) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), as well as a…

Japan shocked delegates to the COP 16 Conference on Climate Change Tuesday by announcing that it would not agree to an extension of the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty. Adopted in Kyoto, Japan in 1997, the Protocol sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse…

Last night at the COP 16 climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico, I attended a briefing on the topic of displacement and migration in the context of climate change. Representatives from a range of United Nations departments highlighted…

Today marks the official start to proceedings of the COP 16 conference in Cancun, Mexico. However, this past weekend, international youth delegates, researchers and activists converged at the 6th Conference of Youth (COY 6) meetings to share information and resources, network, and dialogue about all things climate change related. PHI's GoJoven program, which builds the capacity of youth leaders to improve…

This year marks the first time that PHI’s Center for Public Health & Climate…

This week, PHI will participate in the 6th annual Conference of Youth (COY6) meetings in Cancun, November 26th-28th, 2010: http://dialogue4health.ning.com/events/the-conference-of-youth-coy6. Held just prior to the UN Climate Change Conference, COY meetings bring international youth together to share, network, dialogue and strategize on a range…