The Glasgow Climate Conference (COP26)

Highlights from the Ninth European Breast Cancer Conference, Glasgow, 19–21 March 2014

The Ninth European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-9), one of the largest breast cancer conferences in the world, was held in Glasgow in March 2014, and brought together the voices of doctors, researchers, nurses, and patients. All the major breast cancer advocacy groups and institutions were united in one forum (Europa Donna, the EORTC Breast Cancer group, and EUSOMA). The Scientific Programme ...

Cool build-up to climate conference

’ university’s legendary debating society) a week after that. Coaches were to carry the Oxford students to the London event, and protests had to be organised for Clegg’s visit. As the capital greeted thousands of students from across the UK on a bright crisp November morning, the news emerged that Clegg had cancelled his visit to Oxford “due to an unfortunate clash of diaries”. The Oxford stude...

Continents under Climate Change Conference on the Occasion

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The 2014 WHO conference on health and climate.

Editorials 546 As discussed elsewhere in this issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization , human health and climate change are inextricably linked. This month, the World Health Organization (WHO) will, for the first time, bring together high-level government representatives , development partners and technical experts in a global conference on climate and health. What does the confe...

The UN climate conference achieved some results, albeit modest ones