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UKHACC response to consultation on environmental targets
Our response to the DEFRA proposals for air quality call for a more ambitious target. We provide examples of the harms of air pollution from across members of the alliance, [...]
Climate Action for a Healthy Future
This report summarises the findings relevant to health and wellbeing from the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. It is a resource for health stakeholders and policy-makers working at the intersection of [...]
PPP report calls for WHO to declare climate change a public health emergency
Public Policy Projects (PPP) have launched their first climate change report, The climate crisis and its health impacts, calling on the World Health Organization (WHO) to revise the narrow disease-specific definition [...]
The pathway to healthy air in the UK
A report commissioned by the Clean Air Fund shows that, if the government is successful in implementing planned environmental, transport and clean air policies, levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) [...]
Climate Action is Good for Your Health
Climate action has many great benefits for our health. We can all take these actions to benefit our health and the health of the environment around us. Win-win! The Australian [...]
A healthy future – tackling climate change mitigation and human health together
A report by the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences outlines how a focused effort that addresses the drivers and impacts of climate change could provide substantial opportunities [...]
Health emergency of climate change RSM series
The Health Emergency of Climate Change series unites leading healthcare experts to discuss the impact climate change is having on human health. The 10-part series tackles specific topics including respiratory [...]
Nine things you can do for your health and the planet
UK climate and health experts have come together to launch a series of recommendations for boosting human health in tandem with combatting climate change, following a major UN Report highlighting [...]
Vacancy: Fellow (Sustainable Surgery & Policy)
The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change is now are seeking applications for a dynamic and motivated Fellow to help shape and deliver a new commission on Net-Zero carbon [...]
Lancet Countdown UK Policy Brief: RCOG, RCPCH & UKHACC call for environmental action to protect maternal & child health
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change (UKHACC) welcome the Lancet Countdown: [...]
A Healthy Prescription For A Cleaner Future
In a powerful letter to be delivered during COP26, the world’s health community will call on world leaders to take real action to put the world on a path that [...]
“Emergency action on climate and nature crisis cannot wait for the pandemic”, says unprecedented joint editorial from health journals
Today medical, as part of an initiative coordinated by the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change nursing and public health journals across the world have simultaneously published an editorial [...]