About us
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Climate change is having major impacts on our health, from heat related illnesses, to risks of infectious diseases, to mental health effects.
The Net Positive Centre is focused on identifying solutions, such as the design of our urban environments, our green and blue spaces, or through food systems, so that we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and better respond to emerging health threats.
Led by The University of Exeter, together with partners from UK Health Security Agency, Forest Research, the National Trust and the Met Office, we are a national focus for research, networking and capacity building and provide the basis for furthering scientific advances, policy advice and innovation that will address climate-environment-health inequalities across the life course.
Conceptualise
To conceptualise and identify key issues and priorities in climate change and health.
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Understand
To understand current and potential health and environmental impacts.
Impacts include the adaptation and mitigation approaches within critical systems (urban, green/blue infrastructure and food systems) across the lifecourse.
Evaluate
To evaluate feasibility and potential health and environment co-effects.
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Build
To build UK cross-sectoral capacity and maintain dialogue on climate change and health solutions.
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Foundational principles
Six cross-cutting foundational principles bring together and make clear connections between all four themes. These are:
Interdisciplinary approach
This includes professions beyond the academy and is essential to address climate change and health challenges
Sustainability
CHeCCS will focus efforts on sustainable solutions that deliver net-positive impacts for health with environmental co-benefits and uphold best practice in terms of the Centre’s own environmental footprint
Equality, diversity & inclusion
Understanding impacts on the most vulnerable population groups and directly involving them in solutions-driven co-production of research is critical to ensuring actions empower communities and co-benefits manner
Identifying barriers to action
CHeCCS will identify barriers that otherwise constrain effective solutions and seek to support opportunities to overcome them
Needs-led research
CHeCCS will identify barriers that otherwise constrain effective solutions and seek to support opportunities to overcome them
Involved communities
The involvement of publics, including those impacted by change, those who implement change and other stakeholders, will ensure that research is embedded in lived realities
