Your Health and a Changing Climate: Newsletter - Volume 6, January 2008

January 2008
ISSN: 1710-2006

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In this issue:

• The Summer of 2007 - A Summer of Heat
  • Heat Wave in Western North America
  • European Heat Wave
  • Heat Wave in South Asia
• Impacts and Adaptation Research
  • Health Canada - Advancing Heat and Health Initiatives
  • Human Health in a Changing Climate: A Canadian Assessment of Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Capacity
  • Canadian Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Assessment
  • Assessing the Capacity of Individual Canadians to Adapt to the Health Impacts of Climate Change
  • A Scan of Municipal Heat/Health Warning Systems and Hot Weather Response Plans
  • Climate in Focus in Toronto
• International Activities
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - 4th Assessment of Climate Change
  • EuroHEAT Project - Improving Public Health Responses to Extreme Weather/Heat-waves
• Policy Initiatives
  • International Polar Year (IPY)
• Outreach Activities
  • Heat Health Warning Workshop - Montreal
• Publications and Conferences
  • Your Health and a Changing Climate: Information for Health Professionals
  • Towards Health Security: A discussion paper on recent health crises in the WHO European Region
  • Human Health in a Changing Climate: A Canadian Assessment of Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Capacity
  • Upcoming Conferences