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WHO Releases Guidelines And Tools To Enhance Small Water Supplies

WHO Unveils Tools, Guidelines to Boost Small Water Supplies

Webinar: Launch of AirQ+ Spanish version - tool to evaluate the health impacts of air pollution

Join the WHO Air Quality, Energy and Health Unit for the webinar “Launch of AirQ+ Spanish version: tool to evaluate the health impacts of air pollution” to be held on 15 February 2024 at 16:00-17:00 h (CET). The webinar aims to: Introduce the new Spanish version of AirQ+, a valuable, publicly accessible, and rigorous tool for assessing the health impacts of air pollution.

Startling new data links common environmental factor to brain damage and cancer: 'It has completely crept under the radar'

“It is a global public health emergency.”

Health workers face 'dangerous neglect', warn WHO, ILO

Sierra Leone: New report highlights deplorable condition of sanitation workers in poor countries

By Kemo Cham Despite providing an essential public service crucial for safeguarding human health, sanitation workers in the developing world face some of the worst condition of living, a new report has revealed. The report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed that millions of sanitation workers in third world countries are forced to work in conditions that endanger

Governments negotiating on deaths, not just emissions, WHO official says as COP begins

At this year’s climate change talks, health will be formally included as a topic for the first time.

COP28 Green Pulse podcasts from Dubai: Voices from the climate crisis frontline

COP28 Green Pulse podcasts from Dubai Read more at straitstimes.com.

Why is Saudi Arabia spending so much on sport?

BBC sports editor Dan Roan visits Saudi Arabia to look into why it is investing so much money into global sport.

Climate action should learn from building design

Co-benefit climate action is the key to meeting the Paris Climate Agreement. Building design can help lead the way, writes Adele Houghton We are halfway through the timeline set by the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015 to transition the global economy away from its dependence on fossil fuels by 2030, and it is clear we are on the wrong track. While the Paris Climate Agreement mentions mitigation (for example by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases into Earth’s atmosphere), adaptation (i.e., increasing our resilience to climate change-related events), and the health effects of climate change as important pillars of the global response to the climate crisis, only mitigation is designated with a threshold (net zero) and a deadline (2030). Furthermore, signatories are not required to track progress below the country level or provide context to explain the co-benefits and co-harms associated with one mitigation strategy versus another. Unfortunately, the 2022 progress report for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)1 estimates that global greenhouse gas emissions are moving in the wrong direction—they are predicted to increase by 14% by 2030 (SDG 13). Population health indicators associated with the built environment and amplified by the climate emergency, such as infectious and non-communicable disease (SDG 3), are also flat or worsening at the global level. At first glance, these numbers are worrying. But, …