Planetary Health

Low-carbon healthcare provides an approach for designing, building, operating, and investing in health systems and facilities that generate minimal amounts of greenhouse gases. It puts health systems on a climate-smart development path, aligning health development and delivery with global climate goals. This approach saves money by reducing energy and resource costs. It can improve the quality of care in a diversity of settings.

The TCC-3W (Tick-borne and Climate Change - 3 West) project is a One Health initiative that is funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada... and is led by the BC Centre for Disease Control

R Shiny tool - BCCDC and SFU 2012-2015 project

Climate resilient and environmentally sustainable health care facilities contribute to high quality of care and accessibility of services, and by helping reduce facility costs also ensure better affordability. They are, therefore, an important component of universal health coverage (UHC).
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Greening Buildings for Healthier People identifies building-scale opportunities to simultaneously and
cost-effectively accelerate action on climate change and health, maximize their co-benefits, and manage
any tensions between them.

Planning, financing, and implementing adaptation for protection against climate impacts such as droughts, floods and sea-level rise.

Annual Global Energy Review assesses the direction energy demand and carbon dioxide emissions are taking in 2021. The latest statistical data and real-time analysis confirm our initial estimates for 2020 energy demand and CO2 emissions while providing insights into how economic activity and energy use are rebounding in countries around the world – and what this means for global emissions. Includes renewable energy sector report.

Not climate-specific. Global risks across five categories: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal, and technological.

Against the backdrop of turbulent markets and a crucial meeting of the COP26 conference on climate change in Glasgow, the 2021 World Energy Outlook (WEO) provides an indispensable guide to the opportunities, benefits and risks ahead at this vital moment for clean energy transitions.