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| European governments adopt comprehensive plan to reduce environmental risks to health by 2020 | ||
| 17 March 2010 | ||
 The Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health closed in Parma, Italy, on 12 March 2010. In this first major gathering of health and environment ministers since the Copenhagen conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change last December, European governments pledged to integrate health issues into climate change mitigation and adaptation measures, policies and strategies in all sectors. | ||
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| Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health | ||
| Parma, Italy, 10-12 March 2010 Climate change was one of the main topics on the Conference agenda. | ||
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Global changes have already begun to affect human health. They involve global issues such as climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion, and issues of natural resource degradation such as land degradation and desertification.
WHO/Europe works to identify policy options to help prevent, prepare for and respond to the health effects of these changes, and supports its Member States in selecting and implementing most suitable strategies.
On mandate of the Third Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in 1999, WHO/Europe also promotes healthy environmental policies and coordinates a Europe-wide interagency network.
| Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, Parma Italy, 10-12 March 2010 | |
 The Conference recognized climate change as a priority for action | ||
| Protecting health from climate change | |
| Focusing on seven countries in the eastern part of the Region, this initiative aims to prevent and reduce the health effects of climate change | ||
| Collaboration with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) | |
| Climate change and health | |
