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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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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