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… Europe and globally. Pollution is the number one burden of disease globally, with air pollution alone causing the … pollution (xii), e.g. the 1952 London smog, the 'Minamata disease' caused by methylmercury and discovered in 1956 in … 6.5 million people per year and is the number one cause of disease (xiv). In Europe, air pollution is estimated to cause …

… 4.6 Impacts and effects of ocean warming on human health (disease) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … collapses in fisheries Coral bleaching, enhanced disease prevalence, malnutrition and human migration … Australia and Canada. Heat, drought and floods exacerbate disease prevalence, malnutrition and migration; El Niño and …

… 3.4 Values 87 3.5 Conservation context and resources 87 4 Disease risk assessment (DRA) 89 5 Population viability … 6, 7 3 www.cbd.int/sp/targets/ 4 Guidelines for Wildlife Disease Risk Analysis. 5 Guidelines for Reintroductions and … Species Conservation Act 1995. Since the mortality event a disease investiga- tion has identified a virus (Bellinger …

… Development of promising candidates for the treatment of disease 271 7.2.1.4 Tracking of samples made available for … 284 7.4.4 Organisms collected by the Panama ICBG 284 7.4.5 Disease targets selected by the Panama ICBG: Technology … for leishmaniasis 286 7.4.5.5 Drug discovery for Chagas’ Disease 287 7.4.6 General investments in infrastructure and …

… prevalence worldwide of NCDs, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and mental illness, with the WHO … the global increase in NCDs, as well as climate-sensitive disease and the risks of disease transmission between wildlife and people; NOTING that …

… to deteriorate as a result. Air pollutants also cause lung disease and asthma, impair visibility and generate foul … these populations more vulnerable to poverty and disease. Adverse environmental conditions also have a greater … natural resources that support livelihoods. • Respiratory disease due to poor air quality. • Gastrointestinal diseases …

… 6 million who have been made completely blind by the disease. It is the leading cause of preventable blindness in … may increase the prevalence of outbreaks of infectious disease; lead to loss of land (as a result of rising sea … and wastewater treatment to reduce water-related disease outbreaks. Protocol on Shared Watercourses in the …

… health – increased susceptibility of animal populations to disease and injury and poor quality or contaminated … that such elements are important for animal welfare, hence disease, injury and malnutrition are more or less universally … and biological functioning – for example by reducing disease, injury, malnutrition and death – will improve the …

… regulation of ecosystem processes • climate regulation • disease regulation • flood regulation • detoxification … can reduce child mortality related to water-borne disease. • Indoor air pollution and carrying heavy loads … factors account for up to one-fifth of the total burden of disease in developing countries. • Preventive environmental …

… hazards are responsible for about a quarter of disease worldwide. It is estimated that as many as 13 million … 17 children under the age of five, one third of all disease is caused by environmental factors such as unsafe … by increasing risks of flood, drought, crop failure, or disease.18 Figure 1: Health implications of environmental …