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UNEP is working to highlight the complex interlinkages between climate change and health through playing a role in linking health to the environment. Climate change threatens the basic elements of life such as access to food, water, shelter and clean air, in turn severely impacting human health. UNEP aims to strengthen the ability of countries to integrate climate change responses into their national development processes, both by helping them to build resilience to a changing climate, and by facilitating a transition towards low carbon societies, which would in turn have a positive impact on human health worldwide. Highlights
WHO Warns of Growing Chemical Risks to Developing World
(13 May 2009)
[ Press Release ]
Press Releases Speeches Meetings
Governments unite to step-up reduction on global DDT reliance and add nine new chemicals under international treaty
(9 May 2009)
A Big Step Forward towards a DDT-Free World
(6 May 2009)
Food Security, Health & Environment at Risk As Pest Outbreak Looms in West Africa
(January 2009)
African Health and Environment Ministers Join to defend Health from Environmental Harm
(28 August 2008)
WHO and UNEP Join to Combat Environment-Related Disease in Africa
(22 August 2008)
Climate Change will Erode the Foundations of Health
(7 April 2008)
Africa Rubbish Tip Major Hazard to Children and the Environment
(5 October 2007)
World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO calls for global action to "protect health from climate change"
(23 October 2007)
New country-by-country data show in detail the impact of environmental factors on health
(13 June 2007)
   
   
 
Fourth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 4-11 May
by the UNEP Executive Director
(May 2009)
Need to Place Protection of Most Vulnerable at Heart of Global Climate Change Agenda
by the UN Secretary General
(7 April 2008)
The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health
by WHO Director-General
(7 April 2008)
Health in a Changing Climate
by WHO Director-General
(5 June 2007)
   
First Inter-ministerial Conference on Health and Environment in Africa:
Health Security through Healthy Environments

(August 2008)
Multimedia
Podcasts
» UNEP: World Water Week 2008-Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World
(18 August 2008 )
» UNEP: World Health Day
(7 April 2008)
» WHO: Health on the climate change agenda
(18 December 2007)
» WHO: The World Health Report 2007 on threats to global public health security
(5 September 2007)
» UNEP: A Safer Future: Collective security for health and the environment
(22 August 2007)
Publications Related Links
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Assesses the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being
Children in the New Millennium: Environmental Impact on Health
Illustrates the link between the environment and the well-being of our children
GEO Yearbook 2004/2005
Aims to inform, guide and stimulate further action for the health of our environment