Uzbekistan is one of seven countries (China, Bhutan, Kenya, Fiji, Barbados, Jordan) implementing the global project on public health adaptation to climate change funded by Global Environment Facility (GEF). Each of the seven participating countries is politically committed to engage further into climate change.

The policy briefings below summarize initial key findings from the Health in a Green Economy project  and identify expected health impacts from policies to mitigate climate change in the household energy sector.

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The effects of climate change have been and will be worse in poor countries and small-island states, those least able to adapt to the climate-related disasters.

Related work available for download:

Quantifying Vulnerability to Climate Change: Implications for Adaptation Assistance - Working Paper 240

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Dataset: Vulnerability to Climate Change

This training manual is designed to accompany a workshop for city health officials on the health impacts of climate change. It is based on the book: Climate Change and Human Health: Risks and Responses (Editors: McMichael, Campbell-Lendrum, Corvalan, Ebi, Githeko,Scheraga, Woodward WHO/WMO/UNEP 2003). Manual includes 11 sessions and accompanying worksheets. The goal of this training program is to help city health practioners develop action plans at the city level to address climate change.

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Rationale:Chronic exposure to ambient air-borne particulate matter of <2.5 µm (PM2.5) increases cardiovascular risk. The mechanisms by which inhaled ambient particles are sensed and how these effects are systemically transduced remain elusive.

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Background— In controlled human exposure studies, diesel engine exhaust inhalation impairs vascular function and enhances thrombus formation. The aim of the present study was to establish whether an exhaust particle trap could prevent these adverse cardiovascular effects in men.

Climate change has been a key factor in the rise and fall of societies and states from prehistory to the recent fighting in the Sudanese state of Darfur. It drives instability, conflict and collapse, but also expansion and reorganisation. The ways cultures have met the climate challenge provide object lessons for how the modern world can handle the new security threats posed by unprecedented global warming.

This paper provides an overview on the multiple ways agriculture impacts and is impacted by climate change. It makes the case that sustainable farming systems can reduce agriculture's GHG emissions and be a primary vehicle to stabilize and reverse climate change, while continuing to provide food, feed, fiber, and energy in a changing climate.

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This paper reviews the interconnected nature of the climate, water and agriculture crises -- and points to the need for an integrated approach to all three. There is growing recognition that water ecology will be severely impacted by climate change, which in turn has equally critical implications for agriculture. Moreover, the type and scale of irrigation methods influences the degree of farmer vulnerability in a changing climate.

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