Healthy people need a healthy planet

Healthy people need a healthy planet

The climate crisis is the greatest health threat of the 21st century and threatens not only biodiversity but also our health. For a long time, this threat has remained abstract - partly because of the way we have been communicating and highlighting the severe impacts...

COVID-19 Useful Links

COVID-19 Useful Links

We have compiled a non-exhaustive list of useful links to associations and organisations providing the latest information and guidelines about the coronavirus, causing an illness called Covid-19. The virus is spreading worldwide and it is important we all follow...

Our House is on Fire

Our House is on Fire

- by Frances MacGuire - A search for the Amazon on Google will throw up more than a dozen air pollution monitors for sale. This is surprising because, of all the thousands of words that have been written about the Amazon forest fires since mid-August, very few have...

IPCC Report: Our food system is at risk and doing harm — transforming it is essential for health and climate

IPCC Report: Our food system is at risk and doing harm — transforming it is essential for health and climate

In public health, we’ve known for years that our current food system isn’t healthy for people, and that there are ways to make it better. What the IPCC Lands report makes clear is that it’s also not healthy for our climate or the land on which we depend. Transforming how we approach food offers a win-win, for human health, for ecosystems, for a stable climate, but we must act now.

Coal, challenges and collaboration at COP24

Coal, challenges and collaboration at COP24

This guest blog by health professional Rashmi Venkatraman explores the implication for health and climate change through the lens of the recent COP24 meeting in Katowice, Poland.