HCWH and Partners’ Joint Letter for Negotiators in Cancun

Cancun — A side event organized by the WHO and the Mexican government (Wednesday, 8th Dec 2010) stressed the devastating impacts which climate change will bring to human health and wellbeing.

It also emphasized the massive benefits to health (and healthcare costs) which mitigating measures bring. This view was backs-up and reiterated through recent evidence (e.g. IPPC, The Lancet report, HCWH/HEAL Report, WHO).

Leading health organizations Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) and Climate and Health Council (CHC), together with some of the world’s largest medical, nursing and health organizations are calling on world leaders to take bold action to address climate change. They stress that failure to do so will result in widespread suffering and death.

Read ful letter: "What’s good for climate change is good for health AND the economy"

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.