The announcement includes a range of new public and private sector initiatives and projects, including health-related projects from companies like Microsoft and Google, the creation of a coalition to educate health care professionals on the risks climate change poses to health, and the release of two government reports on health and climate change.
On a press call, senior adviser to President Brian Deese said that though the White House has stressed the link between climate change and health in the past, these new initiatives are meant to “step up that effort.” He also said that tying climate change to health is an effective way to educate Americans about the threat.
“I think what we are seeing in the public debate is increasing awareness and acceptance … that not only is climate change real, the impacts are things that are affecting more and more people in their daily lives,” he said. “The most salient arguments around climate change are associated with health impacts and are ones that meet people where they are, and that requires making an argument about how climate change is affecting local communities and individuals.”
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