La fonte des glaciers pourrait favoriser l'émergence d'un virus pandémique
Conclusion de l’équipe: le risque de voir des virus sauter d’une espèce à l’autre — y compris, dans le pire des cas, vers l’homme — est accru par la fonte des glaciers. Pourquoi c’est intéressant.
Gesundheit Eisschmelze PandemieUse Covid lessons to curb climate change, Lords tell government
Information campaigns like those used in the Covid-19 pandemic would help individuals act on climate change, a House of Lords report has said. To meet climate goals, a third of cuts to UK emissions by 2035 must come from people changing their behaviour, it says.
Klimakommunikation PandemieChance verpasst – Verbrauch fossiler Rohstoffe so hoch wie nie
Nach den ersten Lockdowns versprachen Politiker weltweit, die Covid-Krise zu nutzen, um grüne Technologien nach vorne zu bringen. Das Ergebnis ist ernüchternd. Zwei Jahre später ist klar: «Build Back Better» ist gescheitert. Aber nicht überall.
foss. Energie PandemieAs Animals Migrate Because of Climate Change, Thousands of New Viruses Will Hop From Wildlife to Humans—and Mitigation Won’t Stop Them
Long before the world had ever heard of COVID-19, Colin J. Carlson and a team of researchers began work on a study that explored how climate change and the destruction of wildlife habitats might affect how diseases are spread from animals to people.
Gesundheit Pandemie‘Potentially devastating’: Climate crisis may fuel future pandemics
There will be at least 15,000 instances of viruses leaping between species over the next 50 years, with the climate crisis helping fuel a “potentially devastating” spread of disease that will imperil animals and people and risk further pandemics, researchers have warned.
Gesundheit PandemieWe Created the ‘Pandemicene’
For the world’s viruses, this is a time of unprecedented opportunity. An estimated 40,000 viruses lurk in the bodies of mammals, of which a quarter could conceivably infect humans. Most do not, because they have few chances to leap into our bodies. But those chances are growing.
Gesundheit PandemieZaudern der mächtigsten Länder – Klimapleite in der Corona-Krise
Die mächtigsten Wirtschaftsnationen der G-20 versprachen, ihre Aufbauprogramme am Klimaschutz auszurichten. Die Zahlen zeigen eine andere Entwicklung. Eigentlich hätte es die grosse Chance der Corona-Krise sein sollen.
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