Cancun: Health Day at COP16 - Health Professionals Say: Don't Forget the Health Dividend
HCWH International – The "Cancun Climate and Health Statement" launched today, Health Day at COP 16, calls on negotiators to consider the "real costs" of climate change and the benefits of strong action by taking the human health dimension into account.  more

Cancun: Statement: Climate Change and Health, The Time to Act is Now
HCWH International – Leaders from different organizations presented a Declaration Statement on Climate and Health, asking negotiatiors at COP16 to take into account the significant human health dimensions of the climate crisis along with the health benefits of climate change mitigation and adaptation policies.  more

Saudi Arabia: Medical, Organic Waste Threatening Jeddah’s Environment
The Saudi Gazette – Members of the National Society for Human Rights branch in Makkah region and environmental experts have criticized the lack of filters to eliminate odors from the Medical Materials Recycling Factory in eastern Jeddah and the lack of facilities to accommodate Jeddah’s waste, which reaches 5,000 tons every day.  more

Philippines: Region 12 Leads in Mercury Phase-out in Hospitals
PIA – Hospitals in Region 12 lead the more than 600 hospitals in the country in complying with the Department of Health (DOH) mandate to phase out use of mercury-containing devices.  more

Mumbai: Dow Chemical Is Hit With Demand for Bhopal Payouts
Wall Street Journal – India's attorney general asked the country's supreme court Friday to force Dow Chemical Co. to pay an additional $1.1 billion in victims' compensation and environmental-cleanup costs related to an industrial accident that killed and injured thousands of people in Bhopal in 1984.  more

Europe: Health and Fiscal Co-benefits of Emissions Reductions: Summary for Negotiators
HCWH Europe – HCWH Europe, together with the Climate and Health Council and the Health & Environment Alliance, presented a one page briefing for negotiators on climate in Cancun, Dec. 2010. This briefing states clearly the health and fiscal co-benefits of emissions reductions.  more

Copenhagen: Anesthetic Gasses Have Significant Global Warming Potential
University of Copenhagen, Department of Chemistry – When doctors want their patients asleep during surgery they gently turn the gas tap. But Anaesthetic gasses have a global warming potential as high as a refrigerant that is on its way to be banned in the EU.  more

Nigeria: Plans to Establish E-waste Recycling Plants
All Africa – The National Environment Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) said the Federal Government had concluded plans to introduce electronic waste recycling plants across the country. With such plants in place, health and environmental hazards of the e-waste would be effectively managed.  more

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