Climate change and cancer: converging policies
Intervening on risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (including cancer) in industrialized countries could achieve a reduction of between 30% and 40% of premature deaths. In the meantime, the need to intervene against the threat of climate change has become obvious. CO2 emissions must be reduced...
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doaj-a50a53dacef343118c963db113cfdb4d2021-03-04T10:18:45ZengWileyMolecular Oncology1574-78911878-02612021-03-0115376476910.1002/1878-0261.12781Climate change and cancer: converging policiesPaolo Vineis0Inge Huybrechts1Christopher Millett2Elisabete Weiderpass3Grantham Institute for Climate Change and School of Public Health Imperial College London UKInternational Agency for Research on Cancer Lyon FranceSchool of Public Health Imperial College London UKInternational Agency for Research on Cancer Lyon FranceIntervening on risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (including cancer) in industrialized countries could achieve a reduction of between 30% and 40% of premature deaths. In the meantime, the need to intervene against the threat of climate change has become obvious. CO2 emissions must be reduced by 45% by the year 2030 and to zero by 2050 according to recent agreements. We propose an approach in which interventions are designed to prevent diseases and jointly mitigate climate change, the so‐called cobenefits. The present article describes some examples of how climate change mitigation and cancer prevention could go hand in hand: tobacco control, food production, and transportation (air pollution). Many others can be identified. The advantage of the proposed approach is that both long‐term (climate) and short‐term (health) benefits can be accrued with appropriate intersectoral policies.https://doi.org/10.1002/1878-0261.12781air pollutionbiodiversityclimate changecobenefitsexternalitiesultraprocessed food |
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Paolo Vineis Inge Huybrechts Christopher Millett Elisabete Weiderpass Climate change and cancer: converging policies Molecular Oncology air pollution biodiversity climate change cobenefits externalities ultraprocessed food |
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Climate change and cancer: converging policies |
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Climate change and cancer: converging policies |
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Climate change and cancer: converging policies |
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Climate change and cancer: converging policies |
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Climate change and cancer: converging policies |
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climate change and cancer: converging policies |
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Molecular Oncology |
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1574-7891 1878-0261 |
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2021-03-01 |
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Intervening on risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (including cancer) in industrialized countries could achieve a reduction of between 30% and 40% of premature deaths. In the meantime, the need to intervene against the threat of climate change has become obvious. CO2 emissions must be reduced by 45% by the year 2030 and to zero by 2050 according to recent agreements. We propose an approach in which interventions are designed to prevent diseases and jointly mitigate climate change, the so‐called cobenefits. The present article describes some examples of how climate change mitigation and cancer prevention could go hand in hand: tobacco control, food production, and transportation (air pollution). Many others can be identified. The advantage of the proposed approach is that both long‐term (climate) and short‐term (health) benefits can be accrued with appropriate intersectoral policies. |
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air pollution biodiversity climate change cobenefits externalities ultraprocessed food |
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https://doi.org/10.1002/1878-0261.12781 |
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