UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
@UKHealthClimate
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UKHACC brings together health professionals to advocate for responses to climate change that protect & promote public health.
United Kingdom
Joined March 2016
We are pleased to support this letter to the PM calling for a bold and fair climate plan that delivers cheap and reliable energy, warm homes, clean air, widespread public transport, thriving nature, healthy workplaces, & well-paid green jobs that are accessible to all communities.
53 UK businesses, unions, NGOs and organisations have signed our open letter calling for the Prime Minister to deliver a bold and fair climate plan. Read the full letter. 👇
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The July edition of our popular monthly bulletin is out now with.📰News.🔉Have your say.👫Get involved.💻Events.📑Reports.🧑💻Media.Check it out >>
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Monthly edition of the UKHACC bulletin with the latest news, opportunities to get involved and have your say, events and reports
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Chair of @ukhealthclimate @Richard56 has written to the PM reasserting concerns of the health risks associated with the Rosebank oilfield and calling for the gov to say no to future drilling of the field.@StopCambo.
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Chair of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, Richard Smith, has written to the Prime Minister to reassert concerns of the health community regarding the significant health risks associated with...
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Today, health workers across the UK will join with thousands of others in a mass lobby for people, climate and nature, and urge our MPs #ActNowChangeForever.💷 Support for hardest hit communities.💚 Warm homes, clean air, fair jobs.🌿 Thriving and resilient nature.@TheCCoalition.
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.@GOVUK plans to introduce mandatory healthy sales reporting must go beyond healthy sales to include key health and sustainability criteria. These include the split between plant and animal protein, fruit and veg sales and climate emissions. @Eating_Better.
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The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change has joined with alliances representing 200 organisations calling for mandatory reporting to go beyond healthy sales to incorporate key health and sustainabi...
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RT @Richard56: Another call for urgent action on the climate crisis from scientists. The science has proved accurate. The uncertain part of….
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RT @CemShweta: As @UKParliament debates a #FossilFuel ad ban, resharing this from @JemilahMahmood (@SunwayCPH) and @JeniMiller (@GCHAllianc….
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The promotion of oil, coal and gas is poisoning our environment, driving climate change and slowing the clean energy transition
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A commitment to environmental sustainability and resilience in the 10 year health plan for England is welcome. The challenge is to make it happen.
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The 10 year health plan for England published this week includes a commitment to prioritise actions to deliver a net zero health service by 2040 for emissions the NHS controls and by 2045 for...
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.@HealthyAirUK launches a new blueprint for government action on clean air 🏛️.🎯Healthy air targets.🚫🔥 End wood burning .🚗⬇️ Cut traffic .🌾✅ Cleaner farming.Everyone deserves clean air 🌬️.#CleanAir @SarahCoombesWB. 🔗
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The Healthy Air Coalition is proud to launch our landmark policy report: “Making Britain’s air cleaner, healthier and better to breathe: A blueprint for government action on clean air.” Air pollution...
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"Failing to tackle [climate] challenges would have far reaching consequences for our health, wellbeing, and health & care systems." @scotgov @GillianMSP response to our letter on oil and gas concerns.
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The Scottish Government has responded to a letter we sent last month calling for the health secretary to say no to oil and gas.
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UKHACC Director @DrElaineMulcahy was delighted to help plant the @RCPCHtweets conference legacy tree in Glasgow this week! Many thanks to @GlasgowCC and cllrs @MarthaWardrop & @SeonadHoy for their support.
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RT @LSHTM_Planet: How can city leaders use health as a driver for net-zero transitions?. Join our London Climate Action Week event tomorrow….
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RT @LSHTM_Planet: 🚨Still time to register for our free London Climate Action Week event exploring how sustainable cities and tackling super….
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Government must urgently address air pollution, poor housing and inequalities affecting children to protect child health > Important new report from @RCPCH Clean Air, Healthy Childhoods . Find out more >>
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RT @SusHealthcare: The 10-Year NHS Plan must tackle the climate crisis too. 3 shifts. 1 opportunity. Let’s make it count. 🏠 Community car….
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Health orgs have written to DEFRA raising concerns of the lack of representation from public health, nutrition, climate and environmental science and resource management communities on the new National Food Strategy Board >>
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In a letter to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs health organisations say the lack of representation from public health, nutrition, climate and environmental science and...
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RT @sccscot: The Scottish Government has published a statement confirming that, if approved by the Scottish Parliament, it will set new car….
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We’re building a healthier, safer, fairer future. Now we need our MPs to stand with us. 🗓️ Join us in Westminster on 9 July.🗣️ Speak to your MP and tell them: This is what we’re doing – what about you?.Great to see UKHACC trustee @emmrad in the hero film
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The new guidance for environmental impact assessments for oil&gas is an important milestone in establishing the incompatibility of new oil and gas fields with climate targets.
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New government guidance is an important milestone in recognising the incompatibility of new oil and gas fields with climate targets, UKHACC Director, Elaine Mulcahy writes.
The UK gov has just published new guidance for environmental impact assessments for oil & gas projects. Despite reports/industry spin, it includes a genuinely robust, credible approach to assessing the emissions caused by burning oil & gas. 🧵.
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As heat health alerts are issued across many parts of the country today, we welcome timely new guidance from @acutemedicine to support health professionals management of patients during extreme heat - check out the Heat Health Plan here >>
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The Society for Acute Medicine has produced the following guidance to supportclinicians working in acute services to:
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