2 days to go until #ICUH24! Introducing our second plenary on "Protecting Minds, Shaping Futures: The Mental Health & Children's Well-Being Crisis in a Changing Climate" Looking forward to an important session on children's #health in the face of #climate change! #UrbanHealth

In Marrakesh for the 20th Urban Health conference, presenting tomorrow on accelerating climate action to protect urban health through an environmental lens

#ICUH day 2: Healthy by Design, Wellcome Trust - Philanthropy as first movers offers maximum effect from only 1% of climate funding. As Wellcome is able to take risks, can support upstream, foundational research (but still largely in silos). Calls open now for #climate #health

The 15 minute city - how we create liveable cities in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss #ICUH #IFLA #COP16 “One health” Proximity matters

This morning’s presentation, representing IFLA World went well. Being here with ISUH shows our commitment to urban health. Having people from World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Healthy Cities Network UN-Habitat Gehl support landscape architects’ work in health promotion feels great!

Carey Duncan, EXCO IFLA Africa, presenting on landscape architecture in Morocco and elsewhere! Join us now! #ICUH

Our human climate niche is at a tipping point. What we as landscape architects are doing and can do is well beyond ‘nice to have’. Greening our cities, nature based solutions are vital for #urbanhealth ⁦ISUH⁩ ⁦IFLA World⁩ #NatureBasedSolutions ⁦

That’s me closing this year! Evidence-based #NatureBasedSolutions are landscape led, so it’s appropriate ISUH’s world conference is in NZ next year, supported by IFLA World (design staff + students from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington will be out in force also!) Dr Bruno Marques

This year also saw some extraordinary breakthroughs for climate and nature. Here are some of the biggest wins for our planet from the past year.⁦ ⁦World Health Organization (WHO)⁩ #climatechange ⁦Global Climate and Health Alliance⁩ bbc.com/future/article…

The planning system rarely acknowledges the needs of children. In fact, in the main body of the National Planning Policy Framework for England, children are mentioned only once, and the words ‘youth’ and ‘young’ are entirely absent.

Alarmingly, 70% of all antibiotics are used within intensive farming systems. We are not using land wisely or well. Health is not just an urban issue. Agriculture must play its part. We can design healthy farming systems. We must.

China 🇨🇳 has launched a national plan to address the rapidly growing prevalence of #dementia, which authorities say is becoming "a widespread societal concern" and poses "significant challenges" to the well being of the elderly and their families. As #ageing is becoming a

Healthy land & water support & sustain healthy urban & rural communities. Environmental protections are put in place to support enduring, profitable economies. Stop destroying NZ’s freshwater protections #joinedupthinking forestandbird.org.nz/petitions/stop… # via Forest & Bird

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich ride public transportation.” – Former Bogotá Mayor Enrique Peñalosa (Enrique Peñalosa)

Less than a third of adult voters believe the Government is taking the nature crisis seriously enough (26%), is listening to local people in planning decisions (24%) and is achieving success in expanding nature-rich habitats (24%) #NotGoodEnough wildlifetrusts.org/news/planning-…

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