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Embracing principles of planetary health 3 remind us of the local, global, and planetary connections between our actions and impacts beyond our borders, and beyond our species. Because Indigenous peoples’ laws have always been in harmony with the natural world and are based on the laws of nature, traditional knowledge carries solutions to the crises of water (droughts and floods), food ...
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In April 2024, the Committee unanimously recommended several important revisions to the Code to improve safety at B.C. mines. The revisions ensure the Code remains current with changing technology and standards. These revisions come into force April 29, 2024:
The purpose of the Code is to: 1. Protect employees and all other persons from undue risks to their health and safety arising out of or in connection with activities at mines. 2. Safeguard the public from risks arising out of or in connection with activities at mines. 3. Protect and reclaim the land and watercourses affected by mining. 4. Monitor t...
The Code Review Committee (the Committee) reviews the Code and makes revisions every year. The Committee has equal representation from Indigenous communities, labour and industry. The Committee ensures that the Code stays current with changing technology, standards, and other legislation. More about the Code Review Committee
Oct 10, 2024 · The compliance & enforcement branch of the EAO conducts compliance inspections of regulated parties and projects, and, where required, uses enforcement to ensure that projects are designed, built, operated, and decommissioned or reclaimed in compliance with the legally binding requirements of the Act, its regulations and any environmental assessment certificates or exemption order.
Extensive evidence exists that human health and civilisation depends on flourishing natural systems.1 The Rockefeller–Lancet Commission on planetary health summarised how climate change, biodiversity loss, freshwater depletion, and air and water pollution threaten to reverse advances in human health and increase health inequities worldwide.2 For example, increasing carbon dioxide ...
- Subhrendu K Pattanayak, Andy Haines
- 2017
It is becoming increasingly clear that our future health, as well as the health of future generations, is linked to global planetary health, including the preservation of the natural environment, appropriate use of resources, and engagement of sustainable systems. The Board of the Vancouver Medical, Dental, and Allied Staff Association/Vancouver Physician Staff Association is very supportive ...
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Feb 1, 2021 · The Planetary Health strategy includes the need to act urgently, a need that has been highlighted by the 2018 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Masson-Delmotte et al., 2019) and by the report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) (IPBES, 2019). The COVID-19 pandemic, which was identified soon after the ...
