Collaborators from the Nelson Institute have contributed to a new commentary in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health that identifies several solutions that will limit global warming and improve human health.
In “Climate Solutions Double as Health Interventions,” collaborators from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI), Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Project Drawdown, and the University of Minnesota, look at nine sectors and identify 80 solutions that build on existing technologies and practices to limit global warming and improve human health.
Jonathan Patz, who is the Tony McMichael Professor, and the John P. Holton Chair of Health and the Environment with appointments in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Population Health Sciences, co-authored the commentary and noted that there are only about eight years for these solutions to be implemented to keep the earth from heating more than 1.5 degrees, causing a human health emergency.