What a few years ago was something distant and circumstantial for all of us, is now a reality. The effects of climate change have reached our lives even much sooner than some expected. And in recent years, we have witnessed that extreme phenomena are accentuated in these latitudes and, in our case, they are translating into long periods of drought in regions where water was stored comfortably, in spontaneous episodes of rain. torrential rains that cause serious damage to the population, long summers of high temperatures and increasingly shorter winters.
Given these observations, it is logical that many voices are already warning that the weather and climatology are changing with respect to the patterns recorded in recent decades. It is public, well-known and even objective data. You just have to collect references from historical notes to appreciate that the weather is not what it was and that the traditional tendency of our climate has modified its attitude since the experts alerted us to these changes.
Faced with fait accompli of this type, we now have to ask ourselves not only how this will affect our surroundings and environment, but also how it will affect our health, so exposed to the weather.
With the purpose of analyzing the situation and responding to the concerns that climate change is generating among the population at all levels, La Vanguardia, through its SOS-sustainability and Health conference cycle, will offer an information session with an expert who gives voice to the effects of climate change. This is Dr. Marina Romanello, head of Lance Countdown, the organization that develops extensive studies to understand the effects that climate change is having on people’s health.
Lancet Countdown works to ensure that governments understand health as a central element when making decisions around climate change. To do this, they study all the scientific evidence that exists, and provide health professionals with tools to improve people’s lives.
On the other hand, Dr. Romanello is a researcher in climate change and health at the University of Cambridge in London. Her research experience ranges from toxicology to environmental health and climate change. Trained in biochemistry, she earned a doctorate in medical sciences from Cambridge and the Francis Crick Institute. Currently, she collaborates as a consultant for the British National Health System, the working group of the Italian Higher Health Council and has been interim at the World Health Organization.
His conference can be followed streaming through the La Vanguardia website. It will be next October 27 at 11 a.m.
