May 2, 2016
Today we launch a new initiative, Unmask My City, to address the intertwined threats to our health and our climate from air pollution. Through Unmask My City, health professionals and organizations from Istanbul, to London, to Chennai, to São Paulo are raising...
Mar 31, 2016
Joint GCHA-NCD Alliance Policy Brief published We have just published a policy brief jointly with the NCD Alliance entitled ‘NCDs and Climate Change: Shared Opportunities for Action’ – click on the image or here to download the English version and...
Dec 9, 2015
The World Health Organization and a vast network of doctors and nurses calls for a climate deal to emphasize the danger to human health “For a very long time, policy makers have been hearing the same message about climate change, about biodiversity, about polar bears,...
Dec 2, 2015
50 organisations and individuals from the German health sector including HEAL are urging the German government to take more decisive action to protect our health from climate change. The Call’s messages are based on recommendations of the Lancet Commission on Health...
Jun 23, 2015
London, 23 June 2015 — The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost medical journals, today published its 2015 Commission on Health and Climate Change: “Policy Responses to Protect Public Health”, 6 years after the publication of its landmark 2009 Lancet...
