Climate change and cancer

Abstract

Such a path could achieve significant and sustained cuts in Canada's greenhouse gas emissions and help communities adapt to climate change impacts. Warming temperatures, changes in rain, snow, and ice patterns, rising sea levels, more frequent and intense weather-related disasters - such as floods, droughts, extreme heat waves, forest fires, and violent storms - have the potential to disturb ecosystems and pose a threat to human health, safety, and well-being. Reducing the impacts of climate change requires a shift away from activities and behaviours that increase the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere, mainly through the combustion of fossil fuels.