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The HSE was set up in 1991 to provide information about life-style and behaviour choices with the aim of improving the targeting of national health policies. From 1991 to 1994, the survey was conducted by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys which is now part of the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
NHS England has proposed methods to assess the climate vulnerability and adaptation capacity of the UK's population, as well as monitor impacts of climate change on health and service delivery. These methods include early surveillance of environmental health data (e.g., occurrence and impacts of extreme weather events, air quality exposure) and ...
Climate change is having economic impacts on the UK and presents risks to human health and ecosystems. [1] The government has committed to reducing emissions by 50% of 1990 levels by 2025 and to net zero by 2050. [2] [3] In 2020, the UK set a target of 68% reduction in emissions by 2030 in its commitments in the Paris Agreement. [4]
The Public Health Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55) further mandated that all new houses have running water and internal drainage. By 1944, there were over 1,000 water suppliers in England and Wales, though 26 supplied half of the total volume, and 97 supplied an additional further quarter of total volume. [5] The Water Act 1945 (8 & 9 Geo. 6. c.
On 26 November 2008, after cross-party pressure over several years, led by environmental groups, the Climate Change Act became law. The Act puts in place a framework to achieve a mandatory 80% cut in the UK's carbon emissions by 2050 (compared to 1990 levels), with an intermediate target of between 34% by 2020 which would have risen in the ...
The December 2020 Lancet Countdown review concluded that trends in 2020 showed "a concerning paucity of progress" in numerous sectors, including "a continued failure to reduce the carbon intensity of the global energy system, an increase in the use of coal-fired power, and a rise in agricultural emissions and premature deaths from excess red meat consumption.
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