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| COP15 delegates encourage WHO to press home the health message | ||
| 18 December 2009 | ||
| Make more noise! This was the message to WHO at their side event at the climate change conference on 17 December 2009. Climate change threatens human health, but as the audience pointed out, the wide-ranging health impacts have not been adequately emphasized and more importantly, neither have the considerable co-benefits to health that would be achieved by climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. | ||
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| Humanitarian agencies call for urgent climate action | ||
| 08 December 2009 | ||
| Humanitarian agencies, including WHO, have emphasized the urgency of taking prompt action on climate change to protect the poorest and most vulnerable people. They called for a strong and binding global agreement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. | ||
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| Finalizing the European framework for action on health and climate change | ||
| Bonn, Germany, 12 January 2010 | ||
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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.
| Climate change and health on the agenda of the 2010 Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health | |
 WHO/Europe supports its Member States in protecting health from the effects of global environmental changes within the European process for environment and health | ||
| 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 | |
