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Contact: Anja Leetz +49 175 732 0657
HEAL and HCWH Announce Top-Level Delegation and Daily Briefings at COP-15 Negotiations
Brussels/Copenhagen — The Health and Environment Alliance and Health Care Without Harm are leading a 20-person, international delegation of health leaders to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Copenhagen.
Delegation:The delegation will meet and participate in a series of activities 14 - 17 of December.
The health leaders, representing a diversity of medical and public health organizations, will emphasize the fact that climate change profoundly impacts human health. They will underscore their call on world leaders for a “Prescription for a Healthy Planet” -- a strong, fair and binding treaty to address the problem.
Briefings: The health delegation will conduct daily ad-hoc briefings on December 15,16 and 17 in the morning (exact time to be confirmed). These meetings will review the state of the negotiations from a health perspective, the impacts of climate change on health and proposed solutions. To be advised of the locations and times of the meetings please contact Anne Stauffer at +32 473 711092.
Prescription for a Healthy Planet: HCWH and HEAL, together with the Climate and Health Council and other members of the delegation have jointly launched the Prescription for Healthy Planet – an initiative endorsed by leading health organizations and networks representing millions of health professionals from more than 120 countries (See 3 below for more information).
Contact:
Génon K. Jensen, Executive Director, Health & Environment Alliance (HEAL), E-mail: genon@env-health.org Website www.env-health.org, Mobile phone: + 32 495 808 732
Anja Leetz, Executive Director, Health Care Without Harm Europe (HCWHE), Email: anja.leetz@hcwh.org Website: www.noharm.org, Mobile phone: +49 175 732 0657
(Not in Copenhagen) Diana Smith, Communications and Media, tel: +33 1 55 25 25 84, Mobile: +33 6 33 04 2943.
Health Care Without Harm is an international coalition of more than 500 organizations in 53 countries, working to transform the health care sector worldwide, without compromising patient safety or care, so that it is ecologically sustainable and no longer a source of harm to public health and the environment. Visit the HCWH website for more information.
