NEWS
Chile’s newly published NDC aims for health protection through climate action, though must be made more than voluntary to be effective
In April 2020, Chile officially presented its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the United Nations (UN), updating its commitments on how it will reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the mitigation of climate change, in line with the Paris Agreement...
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...
Education for sustainable development: Links between the planet’s wellbeing and human health
India Education Diary: The COVID-19 pandemic is spurring new global discussions on global health and sustainability. In December 2020, UNESCO’s online workshop series focused on the interconnectedness of the health of people and planet, highlighted by the pandemic, and the role of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in facilitating the transformation required for a more sustainable world.
Health Professionals Urged to Rise to the “Fierce Urgency” of the Climate Crisis
“Health professionals must join the growing global community of science-based advocates working to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement”, according to a call to action published today by members of the Board of Directors of the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) in The Journal of Climate Change and Health. manifesto, titled “Health professionals, the Paris agreement, and the fierce urgency of now”.
EVENTS
Climate & Health Dialogue – for a healthy, resilient, zero-carbon recovery, 9 November 2020
Organized by the World Health Organization in collaboration with Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA), the Wellcome Trust, Glasgow Caledonian University and its Centre for Climate Justice, the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, and the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
A Healthy Recovery: Charting the Way Forward
Join WHO representatives, economics and health experts on how governments can achieve #healthyrecovery from Covid19 crisis
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