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Few days ago, our team had the honour to intv. Izkia Siches Pastén
@izkia
- Pres. of Chilean Medical College
@ColmedChile
. As a strong advocate of environmental
#Health
, she is determined to change Chilean health system.
#ClimateAction
#PlanetaryHealth
…
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“Our handwriting may be bad, but our message is clear” - Health workers urge world leaders to take
#climateaction
to protect their patients’ health in this new animated film
#COP26
#ClimatePrescription
premiered at first-ever COP Climate & Health Presidency event.
@WHO
@HealthFdn
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Few days ago, our team had the honour to intv. Izkia Siches Pastén
@izkia
- President of Chilean Medical College
@ColmedChile
. As a strong advocate of environmental
#Health
, she is determined to change Chilean health system.
#ClimateAction
#PlanetaryHealth
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Over 40 million health professionals to
#G20
govts: prioritise covid recovery investment in
#publichealth
, clean air, clean water and a stable
#climate
to boost resilience against future health crises.
#HealthyRecovery
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New! Our short animated film with
#health
workers bearing witness of health impacts of
#climatechange
- "Our handwriting may be bad, but our message is clear” they say in this short animated film dedicated to world leaders at
#COP26
#ClimatePrescription
@COP26_tv
@globalhlthtwit
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After cycling 800km a group of
#pediatric
#healthcare
providers arrived in
#Glasgow
with an important msg for world leaders
#COP26
. Their
#RideForTheirLives
is for all the children to have the right to breathe
#CleanAir
& live in a world where
#climatecrisis
is limited to +1.5 °C
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"More than 1,000 scientists from over 25 countries took part in the protests to highlight the findings from a
#IPCCReport
stating humanity only has 3 more years to cut greenhouse gas emissions." by
@AODNewz
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💚Great turnout by Health sector at
#EndFossilFuels
march last Sunday in NYC.
Paediatricians, anaesthesiologists, nurses, surgeons - all witnessing health impacts of climate change & burning fossil fuels.
World leaders must listen to their call for a healthy climate for all.
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Breaking: 1,100 health professionals hand over petition to
@DrTedros
demanding health authorities currently taking part
@WHO
annual meeting "publicly state climate change is putting people at risk of death & act now to preserve life"
Via
@AFP
@nina_larson
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New York UN headquarters:
@GCHAlliance
along with dozens of doctors, nurses & other professionals working in the health sector join tens of thousands marching to
#EndFossilFuels
.
👉+Info:
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A big congratulations to
@DrMariaNeira
of
@WHO
, recognized today as one of the World's 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy! Great leadership by WHO on
#climate
and
#health
.
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At
#COP27
@WHO
@DrMariaNeira
&
@DiarmidCL
meets w/
@Tzeporah
@fossiltreaty
to bring together health sector demand for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty along w/
#HealthyClimatePrescription
, signed by 46m to avert impending health catastrophe.
Where next?💙
#FossilFuelTreaty
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Grateful to
@DrTedros
&
@WHO
for their unequivocal support for a
#FossilFuelPhaseOut
and showing great leadership in calling for a
#FossilFueltreaty
. 🧵
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📢New report:🔥
#LimitsOfLivability
looks at recent
#wildfires
. Because of climate change, fires are getting bigger & more intense & with unacknowledged
#Health
impacts from
#AirPollution
, health groups call for governments to take
#ClimateAction
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Because the health consequences of climate change can't be all encapsulated by a "Health Day at
#COP28
", some young health professionals decided to bring their call for ending fossil fuels, outside the venue.
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#breaking
- 45 Million Health Professionals Call for
#ClimateAction
Ahead of COP26 to Avert “biggest health threat facing humanity”
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🧵⚕️Today,
@GCHAlliance
released our Healthy NDC Scorecard: As ‘Health COP’ Approaches, Analysis Shows Big Emitting Nations Doing Too Little to Protect Health from Climate Change
#cop28
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#Breaking
: Letter From 46 Million Health Workers Calling for Global
#ClimateAction
Delivered to
#COP26
& COP27 Presidencies
#healthyclimate
#healthycop26
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Thread: Today we released our
#HealthyNDCs
Scorecard which exposes serious
#health
gaps in national climate policies ahead of
#COP26
. So who scored high and who scored zero?
#climateaction
#climatecrisis
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💥New report says: Slashing global
#Methane
emissions is crucial to human
#healthcare
👉 Find out more:
#CutMethane
@PCarterClimate
@ProfStrachan
@edmaibach
@DurwoodZaelke
@DrMariaNeira
@MikeHudema
@rahmstorf
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🔜 In 10 days, GCHA team will be in Dubai defending a "Health In All Policy" approach at
#COP28
climate talks.
💡 For those attending, GCHA is coordinating daily briefings to help our members & wide health community connect and share info.
👋 Get in touch!
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⚠️Everyone's talking about it: 200+
#health
orgs inc. WHO & thousands of health professionals calling for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
👉Find out more, join the
#FossilFuelTreaty
conversation with our experts.
🗓️Sept 22
🕒 8am CST, 3pm CEST
🔗
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Global Conference Health & Climate Change
#COP26
Registrations are opened!
Explore the relevance of the
#health
argument to key sectors for
#climateaction
: transport, food, energy... by joining this event we are proudly co-organising with
@WHO
🗓Nov 6th
🔗
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📢We are building a youth-lead network to influence policies on climate & health.
If you are between 18 & 35 & you care about people & the planet,
🌱Join us on zoom for the LAUNCH on May 4th:
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“The current burden of death and disease from air pollution is comparable to that of tobacco use, while the long-term effects of fossil fuels on the Earth’s climate present an existential threat to humanity – as do nuclear weapons.”
@DiarmidCL
#fossilfree4health
@ArthurNeslen
Health groups call for global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
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📢👇⏰“With people’s lives & humanity’s future at stake
#COP27
govs have a moral duty to stay at table toreach a robust agreement on establishment of
#lossanddamage
finance, that answers the needs of people already impacted by
#climatechange
”
@JeniMiller
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"What if we treated those 8.7 m. annual deaths from
#AirPollution
as an emergency & a crisis – & recognized that respiratory impact from particulates is only a small part of the devastating impact of burning
#fossilfuels
?" asks
#RebeccaSolnit
#HealthDay
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The science is clear:
#FossilFuels
are bad for our health. Communities near oil and gas drilling sites and refineries face greater health risks, including asthma, cancer, and adverse birth outcomes.
#ClimateIsHealth
#FossilFree4Health
#FossilFuelTreaty
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🔜In 10 days, GCHA team will be in Dubai defending a "Health In All Policy" approach at
#COP28
climate talks.
💡For those attending, GCHA is coordinating daily briefings to help our members & wide health community connect and share info.
👋Get in touch!
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“At
#COP26
, leaders must prioritise health & social equity over politics, profit & unproven technological fixes. Health & equity must be lynchpin around action to reduce global emissions, to mitigate impacts of climate change on human health”
@JeniMiller
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🆕🎬series of films exploring the urgent health challenges posed by climate change launches online today:
With COP28 just one month away,
#TheClimateAndUs
produced for
@GCHAlliance
by
@BBCStoryWorks
explores nexus between Health & CC and solutions 👉
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In major shift, experts say climate change finally being recognized as public health issue
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1,100 health professionals hand over petition to
@DrTedros
demanding health authorities currently taking part
@WHO
annual meeting to "publicly state climate change is putting people at risk of death & act now to preserve life"
#RedAlertWHO
Via
@Reuters
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🧵👇"World leaders have 2 weeks to demonstrate urgent action 2 protect people’s health from impacts of
#climatecrisis
inc just & rapid phase out of fossil fuels & financing 2 support low income countries for mitigation, adaptation &
#LossAndDamage
”
#cop27
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🙌We reached 10,000 followers & you are 1 of them!
Today
@GCHAlliance
celebrates health professionals who worldwide demand
#ClimateAction
to protect people's health & well-being.
❤️Thanks to you & our partners from the climate justice movement, we will keep up the good fight!
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Are you ready? Here's the *long graphic* - the full
#healthyndcs
scorecard showing how countries - including the EU are acting to protect their people's
#health
against
#climatechange
#cop26
#climateaction
#healthyclimate
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“A
#HealthyRecovery
means FFFW: a
#FossilFuel
Free World with
#cleanair
. I hope the world leaders are listening. The time to act is now” says Neha Tiwari, a nursing officer with Lung Care Foundation India
@icareforlungs
@DelhiBreathe
@airqualityindia
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"Accelerating a
#JustTransition
for Healthy People & Healthy Planet"
👋Join our
#COP28
side event!
🗓️Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 15:00 > 16: 00 GST/UTC+4
In person: side event room 4
Or watch livestream on Youtube
@UNClimateChangeEvents
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India: "This first-of-its-kind training programme is for health professionals and is aimed to sensitise and educate the medical fraternity about the perils of climate change and prepare doctors for the illnesses that could arise due to global warming"
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“When
#coal
stops being burned, nearby communities see almost immediately less asthma & cardiovascular diseases, better birth outcomes & load on health systems goes down. With
#cleanenergy
sources now available, it's time to power past coal” -
@JeniMiller
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New
@TheLancetPlanet
: "Long-term exposure to concentrations of PM2·5 & NO2 lower than current annual limit values was associated with non-accidental, cardiovascular, non-malignant respiratory, and lung cancer mortality in seven large European cohorts."
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IPCC: Key findings on health and wellbeing + Summary for Policymakers.
We summarised the IPCC report from April 2022. A collaborative work by
@healthy_climate
,Health & Climate Network
@AlisonDoig
,
@GCHAlliance
@JessicaBeagley
&
@ArthurWyns
.
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BREAKING:
@NHSEngland
promises to eliminate its net greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. “An extraordinary example for the
#health
sector around the world of the kind of
#climateaction
we need” says dr
@JeniMiller
@COP26
#HealthyRecovery
#ClimateChange
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#Breaking
- 45 Million health professionals call for
#ClimateAction
ahead of
#COP26
.
"This is 3/4 of the health pro. from the world" says
@JeniMiller
in closing adress of
@WHO
press conference.
#ClimatePrescription
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What if, in 2022, we resolved to improve our health by taking action against climate change?
#newyearresolutions
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Today in
#davos2023
UN Sec. General
@antonioguterres
declared that
#fossilfuel
expansion is “insanity [that] belongs in science fiction” when we know that “the ecosystem meltdown is cold, hard scientific fact”.
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Air pollution is a public health emergency & fossil fuels are the root cause of air pollution & climate crisis. Public health & medical experts call for cross-sectoral collaboration in resolving the air pollution crisis work for
#FossilFreeAir
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⚡️ The European Parliament just called on nations to:
🤝Develop a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
🏭Phase out fossil fuels asap
💰Halt all new investments in fossil fuel extraction
💸End fossil fuel subsidies
More:
#FossilFuelTreaty
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Today, 45 million
#HealthCare
professionals sent a message to world leaders ahead of
#COP26
- "If we don’t step up & call for action on
#climatechange
, we’re failing the patients & communities that we care for”-
@JeniMiller
#ClimatePrescription
-
@w_strz
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If
#COP25
focus is
#ClimateAction
, 2020 must be the year of health action. The
#ParisAgreement
enshrined the ‘right to health’ as core principle for
@UNFCCC
. Next months are critical, the implications for human health are immense. Join us at
#HealthSummit
:
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⚡️Happening now: Die-in at
#COP27
.
#Health
professionals protest about their patients dying from climate crisis.
🛟1.5 is crucial to protect the life & wellbeing of billions around the world.
#healthyclimate
#stopfossilfuels
@WHO
@GCHA
@IFMSA
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🆕report shows health impact of methane emissions & co-pollutants.
👉Now it's time to
#CutMethane
to fight climate change & enhances air quality.
@CCACoalition
@WeDontHaveTime
@SayNoToLNG
@ClimateReality
@LancetCountdown
@HealthandEnv
@HealthPolicyW
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What Would Make the Next UN Climate Conference
#COP28
the First True “Health COP”?
🧵👇
@GCHAlliance
opinion
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Check out this
#cop28
#health
interview with our Policy Lead
@JessicaBeagley
on BBC World Service's Newshour just now:
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Ahead of the
#G20
finance meeting, health professionals & people around the world ask governments for a Healthy Recovery from the
#Covid_19
crisis.
#ClimateAction
#HealthyRecovery
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The
#ClimateCrisis
is a health crisis. Emissions that cause
#globalwarming
also pollute the air we breathe, causing heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, and infections.
#AirPollution
is the new tobacco. Opinion by
@DrMariaNeira
#COP25
@WHO
@ProSyn
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🇻🇺
#Vanuatu
: 1st country calling for treaty to restrict fossil fuels
#UNGA
🩺Over 250+ health organizations inc.
@WHO
& thousands of health workers all over the world too.
🗝️Visit our webpage or
@fossiltreaty
to find out +
#FossilFree4Health
-
@Woodsideful
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GCHA team will soon be in Dubai defending a "Health In All Policy" approach at
#COP28
climate talks.
💡For those attending, GCHA is coordinating daily briefings to help our members & wide health community connect and share info.
👋Get in touch!
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📢MARK THE DATE: We are hosting two information sessions about the
#FossilFuel
Non-Proliferation Treaty with
@fossiltreaty
,
@HCWHGlobal
&
@PSRenvironment
.
July 12th @ 09:00 CEST - Time A: ➡️
July 12th @ 17:00 CEST- Time B: ➡️
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WHO just released updated
#AirQuality
guidelines. If applied globally, these new stricter limits for hazardous
#airpollutants
have "the potential to avoid 80% of the 7m deaths caused by
#airpollution
every year." says
@DrMariaNeira
#HealthyClimate
#ClimateHealthCrisis
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⚡️
#COP27
: “Health is the ultimate measure of progress on climate change” said
@DrMariaNeira
@WHO
“We will be able to count our success in breaking our
#FossilFuel
addiction in fewer cases of asthma in children & deaths from lung cancer.”
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#Breaking
#COP26
: Health and Climate Experts Warn of Climate-Related Health Crisis
@JuliaGillard
@DrTedros
@WHO
@Centre
@JeniMiller
@GCUclimatejust
@jafryt
@DrMariaNeira
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The health sector is adding its voice to the call for a
#FossilFuel
Non-Proliferation Treaty.
✍️The letter is open for sign on & is available in many languages:
💚To protect the health & lives of present & future generations.
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Congratulations to Sir Andy Haines for being awarded the 2022
@TylerPrize
for environmental achievement. +30 years ago, he alerted the world that changes to natural environment &
#ClimateChange
have dangerous implications for
#GlobalHealth
#PlanetaryHealth
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.
@TheLancet
: "It is a bold action for any health professional to take an explicit position calling for phase-out of fossil fuels & even bolder to do so in direct & pointed way, calling for intl legally binding mechanism”
@JeniMiller
#fossilfree4health
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🇨🇦⛽️“The minute we lower our oil & gas emissions, we save lives. I’m proud that Canada is the 1st major fossil fuel-producing country to commit to impose emissions limits on its energy industry...+Leadership is contagious." said
@courtghoward
👉://bit.ly/cop28canada
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We invite the health community to join
@GCHA
demand for a just
#FossilFuels
phase-out, by signing the call for a
#FossilFuels
Non-Proliferation Treaty.
👉To find out more & join this worldwide call that is so crucial for people's health:
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🧵Here's
@GCHAlliance
@JeniMiller
on
#LancetClimate22
: "To prevent catastrophic global warming and the ensuing devastation that will be wreaked upon people around the world, governments must commit to fully phasing out fossil fuels at
#COP27
" 1/2
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Non-communicable diseases – which are set to become dramatically worse as temperatures rise – are nowhere on
#COP28
agenda. Prevention of climate & heat-related diseases need to be on formal Conference's negotiating agenda – not just on the sidelines.
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Air pollution from fossil fuels ‘kills 5 million people a year’
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Breaking: 1,100 health professionals hand over petition to
@DrTedros
demanding health authorities currently taking part
@WHO
annual meeting "publicly state climate change is putting people at risk of death & act now to preserve life"
#REDALERTWHO
Via
@AFP
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The EU must ensure its recovery package responds both to the immediate
#COVID19
pandemic and keeps Europe on the path to a healthy society and sustainable economy, aligned with the
#EUGreenDeal
.
@GCHAlliance
@JeniMiller
's comment via
@euronews
:
#EUbdget
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1,100 health professionals hand over petition to Dr. Tedros demanding health authorities currently taking part
@WHO
annual meeting to "publicly state climate change is putting people at risk of death & act now to preserve life"
#REDALERTWHO
Via
@Reuters
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New: Majority of health pros *Alarmed* about
#climatechange
& ready to engage in advocacy for health-protecting climate solutions.
Find out more about how health professionals can embrace a stronger advocacy role.🧵
#ClimateHealthAdvocacy
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⚡️ GCHA launches the Clean Air NDC Scorecard.
Our new study finds G20 countries fall short on integrating air quality into climate plans.
🧵 Find out more :
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Via
@TheLancet
: “Govs’ collective failure to deliver clear commitment to phase out all
#fossilfuels
puts us beyond already dangerous 1.5C global temperature rise & locks in increase in
#lossanddamage
climate impacts on people’s health & livelihoods”
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Our newsletter is out! We talk about
#FossilFuels
:
🎚️Momentum building around the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty,
⚠️Latest research on FF toxicity,
♟️Actions health pro. & org. can take to challenge their Govs.
👉Subscribe (link at the bottom)
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"Some may wonder if youth climate activism is bearing fruit; our answer is yes: adolescents and youth are pioneering a
#humanrights
based approach to tackling climate change"
@bmj_latest
@giuliagasparri_
@omniaelomrani1
#cop27
2
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Breaking:
#COP26
, over 50 countries have committed to decarbonize their
#health
systems a first ever COP presidency event on climate & health.
Health sector is stepping up to decarbonize & calling global leaders to do the same!
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimatePrescription
@HCWHGlobal
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"It would be a mistake for Africa to opt for
#FossilFuels
instead of moving straight to renewable energy"-
@mohadow
@PowerShftAfrica
"He called for rich countries to make funds & support available for poorer countries to move to renewable energy instead."
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WATCH "Health Sector as leader of change" debate
@WHO
's first global conference on
#AirPollution
and
#Health
. Special guests
@DrMariaNeira
@kdrarvind
@fgodlee
#UnmaskMyCity
#CleanAir4Health
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⚡️OUT:
#LancetClimate23
report on Health & Climate. It reveals the imperative for a health-centred response & shows:
🌎Regional data & unequal health impacts
👨⚕️Global projections, grave & mounting health threats
❗Priority actions for healthy future.
🔗
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“The phase out of all fossil fuels, and of fossil fuel subsidies, is a public health imperative.” says
@JessicaBeagley
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🙏Great respect to all
@IPCC_CH
authors who gave their all on behalf of Science.
👌Your message is clear and heard by the global
#Health
community. Today's release of the Synthesis Report reminds all of us of the co-benefits from
#ClimateAction
:
#Health
#Finance
#Biodiversity
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IPCC: Key findings on health and wellbeing + Summary for Policymakers.
We summarised the IPCC report from April 2022.
A collaborative work by
@healthy_climate
, Health & Climate Network
@AlisonDoig
,
@GCHAlliance
@JessicaBeagley
&
@ArthurWyns
.
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LIVE NOW GCHA's
@jenimiller
&
@daktari1
@Amref_Worldwide
now speaking during
#COP28
📷
#Health
Day Opening Session: Unpacking Political and Finance Commitments. Watch:
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⚠️"The problem is not simply
#FossilFuels
emissions. It’s fossil fuels – period. The solution is clear: countries must progressively phase them out, moving to leave oil, coal & gas in the ground where they belong –& massively boost renewable investment."
@antonioguterres
#COP28
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Today is 50th
#EarthDay
- we are one with the planet: we must choose a sustainable path to prevent further crises and protect lives. Pandemics will happen again, unless we change how we travel, trade, power our communities, and produce. Read:
#globalhealth
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💚Always a thrill to connect with this bunch from the WHO-Civil Society Working Group for Action on Climate Change and Health.
Here we are reunited in Geneva during
#WHA76
.
👉Find out more about this long-lived
@WHO
@GCHAlliance
collaboration
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How to use:
-Weather & climate data to forecast
#health
impacts?
-Biophysical & economic models to quantify investments in adaptation & mitigation for relevant sectoral indicators & health co-benefits?
👉Find out more :
by
@WHO
@IISD
@HealthCanada
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Our newsletter is out! We talk about
#FossilFuels
:
🎚️Momentum building around the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty,
⚠️Latest research on FF toxicity,
♟️Actions health pro. & org. can take to challenge their Govs.
👉Subscribe (link at the bottom)
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"I think our greatest barrier to believing we’re capable of the scale of change that this crisis demands of us is that we tend to think about what we can do as individuals instead of what we can do collectively."
#mondaythoughts
💚🏥
#healthcare
community.
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BREAKING: Health sector at
#COP25
denounces lack of funds for global climate measures. New study shows climate vulnerable countries like Tuvalu lack access to finance support.👉
#ClimateHealthSummit
#ClimateAction
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⚡️New study: Countries taking the greatest action on air pollution are those bearing the brunt of the impacts, while G20 governments don’t even score half marks.
❓How does your country perform?
👉 Find out more with Clean Air NDC Scorecard:
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