Advocating across sectors for urgent responses to the climate crisis which deliver health for all. Joining energy, food, transport, cities, climate and health.
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Health and Climate Network (HCN) is a community of experts and organisations working together to advocate for health-centred climate policy. We include expertise across sectors, including climate change, energy, transport, cities, food and diet, and health care.
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Spotted in today's @CANIntl ECO 👀
"They say our billions will leverage private trillions. But ECO asks what these trillions will be for, other than profits and adding to shareholder value? The MDBs are looking increasingly like investment bankers, not climate bankers."
#COP29
The people fighting on the frontlines of the climate crisis are missing from #COP29Baku - impacting the negotiations.
There's a lot to mull over in today's ECO on how climate finance should be used to serve the needs of the people #PayUp
🔗read here - climatenetwork.org/resource/…
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NEW: How the UK became the first G7 country to phase out coal power 🧵
Four key ingredients in UK's success:
❌🏭Stopping new coal
❤️🔥☢️🌄Building alternatives
💷Making polluters pay
📢Clear political signals
But there's much more to say…
1/n
interactive.carbonbrief.org/…
HCN health and climate working together retweeted
Imagine if heat pumps could make:
🍫chocolate
🥃whiskey
🧀cheese
🍺beer
Good news is they can.
And they decarbonise industrial heat at the same time.
A 🧵 with examples from around the world.
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In case you missed it yesterday:
#COP28 has been promoted as 'the most inclusive COP ever'... but it what they meant is that it's the most inclusive for fossil fuel lobbyists.
Read the thread below — and read why we must #KickBigPollutersOut of @UNFCCC's climate negotiations ⬇️
⚡ BREAKING: A record breaking number of fossil fuel lobbyists are at #COP28.
At least 2400 lobbyists are in Dubai to promote fossil fuels — almost a 400% increase from last year.
🧵thread below, which puts this shocking number into perspective:
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"Electrification is efficiency".
The energy transition will reduce final energy demand (and primary energy too).
Here's the transition for transport 👇
My new post on this:
sustainabilitybynumbers.com/…
HCN health and climate working together retweeted
Compared to what countries pledged in the Paris Agreement, every year, they spend about six times that amount to subsidize fossil fuel consumption, which in turn exacerbates climate change, toxic air pollution, inequality, inefficiency, and mounting debt. blogs.worldbank.org/voices/h…
HCN health and climate working together retweeted
The fossil fuel industry is at the heart of the climate crisis.
The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions. It’s fossil fuels—period.
Countries must progressively phase them out, moving to leave oil, coal & gas in the ground—and massively boost renewable investments.
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‘I’m a prisoner in my own home,’ asthma sufferer, 15, tells landmark US climate trial | Montana teen Mica is one of 16 plaintiffs in historic trial, alleging state has violated residents’ right to healthy environment and clean air. theguardian.com/us-news/2023…
HCN health and climate working together retweeted
Evidence for #ClimateChange
1. 🌡️ Increased global temperatures
2. 🌊 Rising sea level
3. ❄️ Shrinking glaciers
4. ♨️ Increased heat content of oceans
5. 🧊 Reduced Arctic and Antarctic sea ice
All because human GHG emissions 🏭
climate.metoffice.cloud/dash…
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YES! Scottish GPs call for air pollution to be included on certificates as a cause of death… sundaypost.com/fp/gps-callin… via @Sunday_Post
HCN health and climate working together retweeted
Racism kills and climate change kills.
NEW research by Race & Health and Colleagues exploring racial injustice, climate change, and health is now out in @TheLancet . Read this paper and register for our upcoming event featuring this work using the link in our bio.
“The most pressing reasons for urgent climate action are the impacts not in the future, but right now, on health” @DrTedros, @WHO #WHA76
who.int/news/item/24-05-2023…
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"The industrialized #food system is one of the biggest stressors on #planetaryhealth, contributing almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and causing immense #biodiversity loss." - @futureoffoodorg
story.futureoffood.org/the-p…
At #WHA76 taking place this week there is a growing group of countries and CSOs calling for a Resolution on Climate Change and Health to be agreed next year.
The resolution should call for healthy, sustainable diets, a fossil fuel phase out for clean air and health resilience.
The #WHA76 has begun! I am honoured to welcome Health Ministers from around the world to this historic World Health Assembly as we mark the 75th anniversary of @WHO. Together, we continue to work towards #HealthForAll, everywhere!
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Tobacco sponsorship was once all over sport, but fossil fuel pollution & global heating kill more & now the sponsors are major polluters - our new report on why sport needs to drop dirty sponsorships 👇👇👇
Dangerous Driving - read our new report on the polluting car companies spending billions on sports sponsorship. They claim to be green while delaying climate action. By taking polluters money is sport blowing the final whistle on itself?
Read the report 👉 badverts.org/latest/car-make…
This is why we need to act much faster on climate change - the health of people and planet are reaching a critical level
BBC News - Global warming set to break key 1.5C limit for first time
bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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Do you all have a copy? Guidance on how the health sector and its operational basis in health systems can address the challenges increasingly presented by climate change. @WHO@UNFCCC
@EU_Commission who.int/publications-detail-…
‘Diverse, health diets for all’ #SustainableDietsforAll and #FoodSystemsforClimateLimit the interference of industrial food producers and industry and raise many voice of youth, women, Indigenous peoples, small scale farmers and consumers healthandclimatenetwork.org/…
Try this @WWF calculator to assess the impact of your diet on your health and the planet, and read the @HCN_Network new brefing on why we need to have Diverse, healthy diets healthandclimatenetwork.org/…
The WWF Planet-Based Diet calculator is being discovered! Have you checked it out yet?
If not, test your diet here - planetbaseddiets.panda.org/i…
alprofoundation.org/scientif…
Divers, health diets for all:
#SustainableDietsforAll and #FoodSystemsforClimate
require a move away from a focus on the big numbers of increasing quantity and yields of foods, and toward drivers of diversity, quality, and accessibility of a healthy diet
healthandclimatenetwork.org/…
