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World Health Organisation’s 10 calls for climate


action to assure sustained recovery from COVID-19 The World Health Organisation’s COP26 Special Report on Climate Change and Health, which was launched on 11thOctober, before the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, states the global health community’s solution for climate action resultant of research that establishes the many and inseparable links between climate and health.


“The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on the intimate and delicate links between humans, animals and our environment,” stated Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “The same unsustainable choices that are killing our planet are killing people. WHO calls on all countries to commit to decisive action at COP26 to limit global warming to 1.5°C – not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it’s in our own interests. WHO’s new report highlights 10 priorities for safeguarding the health of people and the planet that sustains us.”


The WHO report is launched at the same time as an open letter, with signatures from over two thirds of the global health workforce - 300 organisations representing at a minimum of 45 million doctors and health professionals across the globe, demanding that national leaders and COP26 nations must increase climate action.


“Wherever we deliver care, in our hospitals, clinics and communities around the world, we are already responding to the health harms caused by climate change,” the letter from health professionals reads. “We call on the leaders of every country and their representatives at COP26 to avert the impending health catastrophe by limiting global warming to 1.5°C, and to make human health and equity central to all climate change mitigation and adaptation actions.”


The report and open letter come at a time when extreme weather events and other climate related factors are taking more of a toll on people’s lives and health. More ubiquitous extreme weather events, such as storms and fl oods, kill thousands and affect millions of lives, whilst hindering healthcare systems at a time when they in demand the most. Changes of weather and climate patterns are a threat to food security and pushing up food-, water- and vector-borne diseases while climate change is also having an adverse effect on mental health.


According to the WHO report: “The burning of fossil fuels is killing us. Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity. While no one is safe from the health impacts of climate change, they are disproportionately felt by the most vulnerable and disadvantaged.”


Air pollution, mainly resultant from burning fossil fuels, drives climate change, and causes 13 deaths every minute globally.


The WHO report concludes that protecting human health needs transformational action in all industrial sectors. It states categorically that the public health benefi ts from carrying out ambitious climate actions signifi cantly outweigh the costs.


“It has never been clearer that the climate crisis is one of the most urgent health emergencies we all face,” said Dr Maria Neira, WHO Director of Environment, Climate Change and Health. “Bringing down air pollution to WHO guideline levels, for example, would reduce the total number of global deaths from air pollution by 80% while dramatically reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that fuel climate change. A shift to more nutritious, plant-based diets in line with WHO recommendations, as another example, could reduce global emissions signifi cantly, ensure more resilient food systems, and avoid up to 5.1 million diet-related deaths a year by 2050.”


Attaining the goals set out by the Paris Agreement will save millions of lives thanks to improvements in air quality, diet, and physical activity, among other benefi ts. However, a vast majority of climate decision-making processes presently do not account for these health co-benefi ts and their economic valuation.


Project helps to clean up air quality monitoring in European cities


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Coordinated by the Spanish Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC) and the University of Helsinki (UHEL), and led by Xavier Querol (IDAEA-CSIC) and Tuukka Petäjä (UHEL), RI-URBANS brings together 11 cities and 28 partners across Europe in its objective of implementing advanced air quality monitoring observations in cities and industrial hotspots.


Researcher and RI-URBANS coordinator Xavier Querol commented: “This is a golden opportunity to apply advanced air quality research to assess the health effects of air pollution and to develop cost effective policies to reduce it, not only for the conventional air pollutants but also for non-regulated ones.”


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To pursue its strategy, RI-URBANS (Research Infrastructures Services Reinforcing Air Quality Monitoring Capacities in European Urban & Industrial AreaS) will focus on ambient nanoparticles and atmospheric particulate matter, their sizes, constituents, source contributions, and gaseous precursors, evaluating novel air quality parameters, source contributions, and their associated health effects to demonstrate the European added value of implementing such service tools.


RI-URBANS coordinator Professor Tuukka Petäjä said: “The project brings together local air quality monitoring networks and European Research infrastructures on atmospheric composition (ACTRIS and IAGOS). This allows two-way interaction to develop and pilot novel service tools and harmonize data streams in real city environments with a pan-European coverage.”


RI-URBANS will also improve modelling and emission inventories for policy assessment and will implement fi ve pilots in nine cities - Athens, Barcelona, Birmingham, Bucharest, Helsinki, Milano, Paris, Rotterdam-Amsterdam, Zurich. It will demonstrate these solutions for advanced air quality monitoring systems and evaluation of human exposure.


University of Birmingham Principal Investigator, Professor Roy Harrison commented: “Air pollution is the biggest environmental threat to public health, and participation in RI-URBANS will ensure that the UK, and especially Birmingham, stay at the forefront of air quality management.”


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Xylem calls on water sector to join “Race to Zero”


emissions commitment


Xylem have called on water sector leaders and organisations to join a global sustainability push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions related to water systems and water management. The encouragement comes after last month’s announcement that Xylem had formalised its commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions across its value chain before 2050. Attention to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the water sector has increased, especially following the recent COP26 – the UN Climate Change Conference. Water use and management accounts for up to 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions, today. Xylem is collaborating with a consortium of partners including the UNFCCC High Level Climate Action Champions, CDP, Water UK, the US Water Alliance, the International Water Association, GIZ and others to help water utilities commit to reducing GHG emissions.


“Water and climate crises go hand-in-hand,” said Claudia Toussaint, Xylem’s Chief Sustainability Offi cer. “We are a sector of sustainability stewards, and approaches exist, today, to dramatically reduce emissions from water systems -- especially using highly effi cient, advanced digital technologies. Together, we can make a meaningful contribution to containing climate change. We hope every part of the sector joins us, so we’re all part of the solution.”


“The science of climate change is clear and the evidence hard to ignore. The time for business-as-usual approaches to managing water is over. Applying new approaches to managing water, we could make signifi cant reductions of water’s GHG footprint,” said Cate Lamb, CDP’s Global Director for Water Security, and the UNFCCC COP26 High Level Action Champions Lead for Water. “Today, many of these solutions remain largely untapped, but we are seeing growing momentum. We hope to see more and more players across the water value chain set ambitious targets to reduce their emissions. This commitment from Xylem is mirrored by utilities and other water operators stepping up in the water sector’s ‘Race to Zero.’”


The United Kingdom’s water sector, through the industry group Water UK, recently published a sector-wide ‘route map’ to demonstrate how utilities across the country will achieve net zero on operational emissions by 2030.


The Race to Zero is a global campaign, under the banner of the UNFCCC, rallying support from businesses, cities, and regions to take rigorous and immediate action to halve global emissions by 2030 and promote sustainable growth.


The water sector’s Race to Zero is an international collaboration of partners promoting the vision of delivering net zero water service for the world’s homes and businesses. The campaign is encouraging water utilities, worldwide, to commit to their own net-zero targets. Utilities and water sector companies that have made net-zero commitments were highlighted at the Water & Climate Pavilion at the recent COP26 meetings, in Glasgow.


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