Appel à l’action concernant le Changement Climatique et la Santé

A 2019 call to action from Canadian healthcare professionals urging federal political parties to treat climate change as a public health emergency. The document outlines the immediate health risks facing Canadians, the economic costs of extreme weather, and specific policy demands to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to 1.5°C.

• Healthcare professionals in Canada identify climate change as the most significant health threat of the 21st century and view climate solutions as the greatest health opportunity of the century.
• Climate change is already causing severe physical and mental health issues for Canadians, including respiratory problems from wildfires, PTSD from emergency evacuations, food insecurity in the Canadian Arctic due to a 3°C temperature increase since the 1950s, and the spread of Lyme disease.
• The economic burden of natural disasters in Canada has risen sharply; insurance claims for floods and wildfires increased from $400 million annually in previous decades to approximately $1 billion per year, while public funding for damages rose from $100 million annually two decades ago to $2 billion in 2013-14.
• Specific regional impacts in 2018 included Toronto experiencing 21 days over 30°C, more than 90 heat-related deaths in Quebec, a provincial state of emergency in British Columbia due to nearly 600 wildfires, and a doubling of the 10-year average of wildfires in Ontario from 716 to 1,312.
• The document argues that climate policies would provide immediate health and economic benefits in Canada, noting that fine particle air pollution from fossil fuels causes 7,100 premature deaths and $53.5 billion in health costs annually.
• The authors call for federal parties to implement scientifically rigorous emission reduction targets for 2030, 2050, and 2080 to limit warming to 1.5°C, including the phase-out of fossil fuel subsidies and the closure of coal-fired power plants by 2030.
• The document contrasts Canada's emissions trend, which rose from 603 to 704 megatonnes between 1990 and 2016, with the United Kingdom, which reduced emissions by 41% in the same period through the Climate Change Act.

APA

Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (2019). Appel à l’action concernant le Changement Climatique et la Santé. https://cape.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Appel-%C3%A0-l%E2%80%99Action-concernant-le-Changement-Climatique-et-la-Sant%C3%A9-Feb-5-2019-updated-2019-mars.pdf

Chicago

Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. Appel à l’action concernant le Changement Climatique et la Santé. 2019. https://cape.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Appel-%C3%A0-l%E2%80%99Action-concernant-le-Changement-Climatique-et-la-Sant%C3%A9-Feb-5-2019-updated-2019-mars.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{canadianassociationofphysiciansfortheenvironment2019appel, author = {{Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment}}, title = {{Appel à l’action concernant le Changement Climatique et la Santé}}, publisher = {Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment}, year = {2019}, month = feb, url = {https://cape.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Appel-%C3%A0-l%E2%80%99Action-concernant-le-Changement-Climatique-et-la-Sant%C3%A9-Feb-5-2019-updated-2019-mars.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }