Investegate announcements from Tyler Prize, Prestigious Environmental Prize Awarded to World Expert on the Links Between Climate Change and Human Health
The 2022 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement – often regarded as the ‘Nobel Prize for the Environment’ – will be awarded to British physician Sir Andy Haines, one of the first scientists to sound the alarm that changes to the natural environment have dangerous implications for human health.
Sir Andy Haines, one of the first scientists to sound the alarm that changes to the natural environment have dangerous implications for human health, has been awarded the 2022 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
The award honours Andy’s 30+ year commitment to understanding the impacts of environmental change – especially climate change – on human health, and how to mitigate them.
Measures to tackle climate change could significantly benefit human health in the next few years, as well as in the long-term, says a new report from the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society.
Measures to tackle climate change could significantly benefit human health in the next few years, as well as in the long-term, says a new report from the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society.
The report calls on the UK government to make sure that the initiatives they establish to tackle climate change are also designed to deliver benefits to health.