⚡#HealthyNDC Scorecards are back! 120 national climate plans analysed through a health lens. Want to see how your government is doing❓
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With @wellcometrust.bsky.social & @cleanairfund.bsky.social
💊😶🌫️ Pharmaceutical companies are collectively oblivious of their indirect ties to the fossil fuel sector, reveals new article by Scrip - pharmaceutical news publication.
Scrip contacted 14 large pharmaceutical companies and the findings are concerning.
👉 insights.citeline.com/scrip/esg/sh...
💊😶🌫️ Pharmaceutical companies are collectively oblivious of their indirect ties to the fossil fuel sector, reveals new article by Scrip - pharmaceutical news publication.
Scrip contacted 14 large pharmaceutical companies and the findings are concerning.
👉 insights.citeline.com/scrip/esg/sh...
Dr. María Neira's nomination as WHO Director General candidate is a good news. Her commitment to:
👉 science,
👉 climate & health,
👉 primary prevention,
👉 participation from civil society,
🟰are crucial for next WHO DG's agenda.
healthpolicy-watch.news/spain-to-nom...
⚡#AirPollution at the heart of an economical study!
‼️ It shows that poor air quality could explain up to 25% of the gap in exam performance between students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds & those from more advantaged ones.
wid.world/document/who... by
@wid.world
✅🥇You innovate in the health sector,
✅You hire a PR agency to build trust in your mission,
🤷♀️ But...that same PR agency also helps cancer-causing fossil fuel cies deny, delay & distract from climate action
🛑That relationship is toxic,
➕Details & solutions: tr.ee/-9txJf_w3P
So galling: Big Oil executives--who for decades have lied, deceived, and in every other way stonewalled legislation that would stop them from profiting by poisoning our bodies and our climate--are now asking for legal immunity for their crimes.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
Health orgs are taking a stand against PR and ad agencies that also work for the fossil-fuel industry.
@gchalliance.bsky.social highlights the conflict of interest when agencies promoting public health also help fossil fuel companies greenwash their image.
✅🥇You innovate in the health sector,
✅You hire a PR agency to build trust in your mission,
🤷♀️ But...that same PR agency also helps cancer-causing fossil fuel cies deny, delay & distract from climate action
🛑That relationship is toxic,
➕Details & solutions: tr.ee/-9txJf_w3P
🆕 Report by UNEP & Climate and Clean Air Coalition finds that tackling climate change & air pollution together can deliver major benefits.
👉144 million lives could be saved by 2050 by phasing out fossil fuels + implementing solutions that already exist.
Full report here: bit.ly/4xijdji
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Health Community Responds to UNEP Overshoot Report on Exceeding 1.5°C of Global Heating: We must be acting now to get on an ‘overshoot, peak, and decline’ pathway.
climateandhealthalliance.org/press-releas...
🚨 El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds 🚨
- "El Niño can supercharge global warming but also global warming can supercharge El Niño – that is what we are seeing"
#ElNino #climatecrisis
Story by @olliemilman.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
👏 Impressive improvements on London children's respiratory health after emissions reduced, following introduction of Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez).
👉 "Scientists "stunned" by how quickly young children's lungs began to recover & grow after pollution restrictions" www.bbc.com/news/article...
⚡ Our new report "Climate Change, Armed Conflict, and Global Public Health: A Reinforcing Cycle of Harm" is out.
👉 It presents current evidence on the relationship between climate change and armed conflict, and its implications for global public health. climateandhealthalliance.org/resources/re...
WHO says heat has claimed more than 200,000 lives across Europe in just the past four years. thediplomaticinsight.com/who-urges-eu...
