![]() In Canada, air pollution, a major climate-related health impact, is linked to an estimated 14,600 premature deaths per year. A World Health Organization (WHO) assessment estimated that between 20, a changing climate would cause an additional 250,000 deaths per year due to heat stress, diarrhea, malaria and malnutrition. Image: World Reso urces Institute infographic showing climate impacts at 1.5☌ and 2☌ average global temperature changeĬlimate change is a public health issue because it threatens what we need to survive at a very basic level, including the air we breathe, the food we eat and the structures under which we find shelter. What’s more, Northern Canada is warming three times faster than the rest of the world, which compounds the climate change impacts on northern Indigenous communities. Comparing average temperatures in 2016 to 1948 reveals that Canada’s average temperature has increased by 1.7 ☌. Global temperatures have increased by approximately 1☌ since preindustrial times. With further emissions and warming, the situation is predicted to worsen. This has caused polar ice caps to melt sea levels to rise precipitation patterns to change and the number of extreme weather events such as heat waves, hurricanes, floods and forest fires to increase. As a result, unsustainable amounts of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gasses have accumulated in the earth’s atmosphere. The main causes of climate change include humans burning fossil fuels to power their everyday lives destroying forests and releasing methane into the atmosphere through animal agriculture, food waste and the extraction and use of natural gas. Ĭlimate change refers to a long-term change in weather conditions that is already under way. Feedback, comments or stories from the field can be sent to author Pemma Muzumdar, NCCDH Knowledge Translation Specialist, at. Click here to read the second blog in this series. This is the first blog in a series that explores the connections between climate change, health equity and public health. Prior to joining the NCCs, Pemma contributed to dynamic teams at the Ontario Science Centre, Discovery Channel Canada, the Program Training and Consultation Centre of the Smoke Free Ontario Strategy, TakingITGlobal and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. She completed her Masters of Public Health at the University of Waterloo in 2010, and draws from significant experience in science communication, public speaking, group facilitation, team learning and organizational development. Pemma has worked with the six National Collaborating Centres (NCCs) for Public Health in various capacities since 2011, developing and sharing knowledge, networks and resources for improved public health action. Pemma Muzumdar is motivated by a desire to improve well-being and planetary health, particularly those who, through intersecting factors, experience marginalization and exclusion. Pemma Muzumdar, MPH Knowledge Translation Specialist
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