Peer Review

The report is a team effort of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change that includes medical, nursing, and veterinary royal colleges, faculties of health, the British Medical Association, the British Medical Journal and The Lancet. This report explains that more than 20% of global carbon emissions comes from agriculture and food production, and half of all methane emissions come from cattle and rice crops alone. If we want to slow deforestation, improve air and water quality, improve personal health, shrink emissions, and eat more efficiently, changing the way we eat is the most effective way to do so.

• The document serves as reference material to assist in writing policies to promote public health safety in relation to climate change. The 16-page booklet is very easy to read. 

• The best use of the material is to utilize as a resource in the subject matter of environmental health initiatives focused on climate change.
• Public health programs, science discussions and climate change research
• Undergraduate courses about environmental health
• Graduate courses about environmental health

• The 16- page material is in PDF format. The computer must be able to open PDF document. Specific browser or any other software is necessary. 

• A white paper that discusses the threats to planetary health from climate change is minimized in a way that maximizes potential benefits to health.
• The purpose of this collaboration is to expedite safety policies for public health protection from emissions related to food production.
• After engagement in this document, the learner will
  • Explain the threats to planetary health.
  • Summarize climate change.
  • Summarize public health policies to promote planetary health.

• The material is designed for multidiscipline in healthcare. Students at any college/university level can benefit from this literature. Faculty members can incorporate this information in classroom workgroups, lecture, etc. Public health policy writers can benefit as well.
• High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School

• The user should have the ability to read the material. Minimal computer skills are necessary, such as the ability to open a PDF document.