Climate change effects on air quality - ENBEL educational videos 2/6

The ENBEL project, that brings together climate change and health researchers, has made a series of five short educational videos to give more information on how climate change effects our health and what we can do about it.

Air quality is of key importance for public health and climate change can affect air quality. In this educational video (2/6), Dr. Hans Orru, Professor of Environmental Health, University of Tartu, Estonia speaks about how air pollution affects our health, how climate change, air pollution and health are interconnected and how this is also relevant for pollen allergy.

The topics covered by the other four educational videos are environment and occupational heat, vulnerable groups and minorities, costs of climate change, heat health adaptation plans, protection of workers in a changing climate and the CHANCE network for climate change and health in Africa.

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https://www.enbel-project.eu/news-page/educational-videos

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The ENBEL project supports EU policy making by bringing together leaders in climate change and health research through a network of major international health and climate research projects under the Belmont Forum’s Collaborative Research Action (CRA), Societal Challenge 1 and 5 of EU’s Horizon 2020, and other national and international funding schemes. This network develops evidence syntheses and co-produces with stakeholders a series of tailor-made knowledge products. The key thematic focus is on environmental and occupational heat, air pollution (including from wildfires) and climate-sensitive infectious diseases, with specific attention given to high-risk groups and populations.

Published in Climate-ADAPT Jan 16, 2024 - Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Apr 4, 2024