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New Manifesto calling for emergency action to secure a healthy planet for all

05th August 2019

A new Manifesto calling for urgent action to secure a healthy planet for all was launched by the InterAction Council on 31 July 2019, in response to the increasing international and United Nations evidence of the severity of our global climate and environmental crisis.
144th WHO EB Statement on Item 5.6 Health, environment and climate change

28th January 2019

Statement on Executive Board 144 agenda Item 5.6: delivered by UICC supported by NCD Alliance.
Profit trumps people at UN climate meeting

17th December 2018

After overtime negotiations, the COP24 meeting in Katowice, Poland recently agreed on the ‘Paris Rulebook’ - the implementing guidelines of the Paris Agreement.
Conference considered how to address air pollution in response to NCDs

06th November 2018

The WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health was a chance for the NCD community to consider how to use its existing competencies to address the burden of air pollution attributable to NCDs.
Hiding in plain sight - the dark NCD legacy of asbestos

01st August 2018

This World Lung Cancer Day, Emily Walsh looks at the impact of asbestos on lives and explores what needs to be done to alleviate the avoidable risk to life and health.

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