Share Your StorySeveral of them attended the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, known as COP28, late last year, where more than 120 countries signed a declaration acknowledging the growing health impacts of climate change and their responsibility to keep people safe. “Leaders from around the world are coming to these climate negotiations understanding that climate change is both killing and hurting their people,” said Wade Crowfoot, secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency, who represented California in Dubai. It also has a massive economic impact,” said Liane Randolph, who chairs the California Air Resources Board and also attended the conference. The key piece of it is reducing the combustion of fossil fuels because those have public health impacts on the ground for air quality and they have climate impacts. Building our resilience to these climate impacts is a matter of health and safety.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 01, 2024 10:56 UTC