News and Events Categories: Health & Wellbeing
Climate Just: tailored solutions to improve your area’s resilience to climate change
February 5, 2016
Thanks to Climate Just, you can look at climate change impacts across England at a neighbourhood level. Those training events helped attendees to use and apply the Climate Just’s resources in practice. … Read more
Resilient Health, Care and Wellbeing in a Changing Climate: Lessons from Research and Local Practice
Climate UK, along with Durham University and the Future Health Partnership heard from local authorities who have worked with their communities to develop new approaches to planning and delivering resilient services that reflect specific local characteristics and needs. … Read more
London Health, Social Care and Public Health Sustainability Workshop
June 18, 2015
Public Health England London hosted a one day event looking at building a sustainable health and care in London. … Read more
Public Health England releases Heatwave Plan for England
May 21, 2015
The Heatwave Plan for England was recently released, and the Met Office will be in charge of issuing Heatwave Alerts when relevant from 1 June to 15 September 2015. … Read more
Climate Just series of events: local action to protect the most affected by climate change
February 27, 2015
Climate UK, in partnership with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Environment Agency hosted a series of half-day events during Winter 2014/15 to support the launch of a powerful new website and mapping tool called Climate Just. … Read more
Climate Just website maps England’s climate disadvantage ‘hot spots’
February 4, 2015
For the first time in England, on a publicly available website, we are able to see this effect mapped across the country at a neighbourhood level. … Read more
Screening of ‘Wind of Change’, a film about climate and health
November 5, 2014
On 31 October the Royal Society of Medicine screened this award-winning documentary, which follows Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer and father of seven children, and his family living on the front line of climate change. … Read more
Take part in a free on-line climate change course
October 27, 2014
The University of Reading is running a free on-line climate change course, starting on 10 November 2014. … Read more
Climate risks to infrastructure, buildings & health
August 6, 2014
On 9 July Climate UK held 7 satellite events to allow local stakeholders access to the launch of the UK Adaptation Sub Committee’s 2014 climate adaptation report on Health, Infrastructure and Buildings … Read more
Londoners at increasing risk of heatwaves and floods
July 9, 2014
Responding to the publication of the report on ‘Adapting to Climate Change – climate risks to the economy and well-being’ by the Adaptation Sub-Committee of the Committee on Climate Change, CBE, Chair of the London Climate Change Partnership, said: The London Climate Change Partnership welcomes this timely and informative report. London’s weather … … Read more