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'There's no occupational beings without the planet': Climate Change and Occupational Therapy

Climate change disproportionately affects those who are already systemically disadvantaged and Canada is warming at twice the global average (three times the global average in the artic). Although green-houses gases produced by health-care services contribute to global warming, they can also try to mitigate the effects of climate through their purchasing practices, focusing on prevention and wellness and increasing access to virtual services.

Research, Editor's PicksGeorgina SavageOctober 4, 2024Climate Change, Occupational Therapy, climate anxiety

Teaching Climate Change: Creating a Vision for the Future

Climate change affects us all, but especially young children who have their lives stretching out before them. It is part of a web of complex inter-related environmental problems confronting humanity, any one of which has the potential to cause devastating consequences.

ResearchWehida NiaziAugust 23, 2024Climate Change, sustainability, Environment

In the eye of the storm? What a second Round of Trump-ist Contestation can do to multilateral Climate Action

Withdrawal by multiple members from the Paris Agreement would have meant a weakening not only of the Agreement itself, but it would have also let to a de-legitimation of the norm. The case of the US contestation and the CCA norm, however, did not end in a destruction of multilateral cooperation to fight climate change but in a (re-)legitimation of the norm and the Paris Agreement.