Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum
@DiarmidCL
Head of WHO Climate Change Unit, occasional cyclist, stubborn optimist despite all evidence. All views expressed here are personal.
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Great opportunity for a paid internship with our friends and colleagues at the World Meteorological Organization World Meteorological Organization and GHHIN Global Heat Health Information Network, working on the rapidly escalating health threat of extreme heat. I hope to see you in Geneva!
Great news for people's health!
We congratulate the EuroParlement 🇧🇪 on this bold decision, and to all of those who worked very hard to make this possible. #BreatheLife
europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…
I’m very pleased to be introducing this webinar in just over 1 hours time.
1st in a free World Health Organization (WHO) series, using our technical resources, and experts from around the world, helping countries assess and address the health impacts of climate change.
Register bit.ly/3xQwJBs
✨In our new BMJ Global Health📰we present the first quantitative analysis of health community attendance at UN COPs 1995-2023👀
📈Most health actors at COP28 (1612), least COP1 (17)
📊Over time absolute # increased, but % of total pax constant
More👇
gh.bmj.com/content/9/4/e0…
World Health Organization (WHO) Technical Webinar Series on Climate Change and Health.
🫁 The air we breathe.
🥘 The food we eat.
🚰 The water we drink.
🌆 The environment we live in.
🔥 Climate change & destruction of natural habitats.
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All of these impact our health.
#HealthForAll : means protecting nature 🌎🌍🌏
The #ClimateCrisis is here and now. We salute this win and call on countries to step up their #ClimateAction to protect our health and planet!
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Does your city, region or country have a heat action plan or other governance plan that addresses heat impacts on health?
Submit it to Global Heat Health Information Network to inform their global inventory and analysis 👇
The lovely cycling doctors of Ride for Their Lives are at it again! Now through Birmingham with health workers and children - for clean air, healthy lungs & cooler planet. Seems they will cycle Paris-Geneva for the World Health Assembly. If you want to join - Ride for their Lives
The #ClimateCrisis is re-teaching us what humans have always known, but which, since the industrial revolution, we have forgotten or ignored – when we harm our environment, we harm ourselves.
We have no future but a common future. Band-aid solutions will not do.
Makerere University's Dr. Dr. JB Isunju & Ministry of Health- Uganda Health Geographer Mr. Didacus Namanya share Uganda's experience in Vulnerability & Adaptation Assessment at World Health Organization (WHO)- #ATACH meeting in Madrid, Spain. #ClimateHealth #COP27 #act4health
Follow along live as representatives from nearly 80 countries meet in Madrid for the first in-person meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health (ATACH) to move health systems towards climate resilience 👇
who.int/news-room/even…
#ATACH More than 300 participants, from 80 countries to transform health systems in the face of #climatechange . Focusing on solutions to build climate resilience and low carbon sustainable health systems. World Health Organization (WHO) AECID Ministerio de Sanidad Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mónica García Green Climate Fund
#ATACH Global meeting:🖍️Action on Climate Change and Health! Tomorrow in Madrid 🇪🇸 co-organized by Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Ministerio de Sanidad AECID World Health Organization (WHO) big thanks to all! 🙏UN Climate Change COP28 UAE COP27 COP26 COP29 AZ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
📢 Pre-announcement: Upcoming IDRC | CRDI funding opportunity on #climatechange and #health , with up to CAD $4m available for institutions to establish regional hubs to initiate and manage research sub-grants.
🗓️Virtual Q&A webinar will be held on 7 March
idrc-crdi.ca/en/funding/pre…