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Editor’s note
Exploring the Nexus with Health
Indeed, new common approaches need to be developed and a better understanding of the interrelations between various sectors should be promoted. We invite you to discover the added value of combining environmental goals with health targets and hope this will motivate you to discover how fascinating working on the nexus with other topics can be.
In this Newsletter, we explore the links of climate change and environmental issues with different health aspects. What additional co-benefits can be achieved by addressing air pollution not only from a health or from a climate mitigation point of view? What narratives can be developed jointly to mobilize more support and action to improve both health conditions and reduce global warming in a collaborative manner?
More and more people and institutions are realizing that tackling one issue alone doesn’t yield the expected results. The Sustainable Development Goals have paved the way for a more integrated understanding of necessary actions of everyone. This requires an open mind and the willingness to discover new and unfamiliar terrains.
Daniel Maselli, Senior Policy Advisor and Focal Point CC&E Network
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Thematic Focus: Climate Change and Health
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Changing patterns of pollution and disease – evidence and action needed
Currently we are witnessing a major epidemological shift from infectious diseases linked to poverty to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as ambient air pollution, soil metals and chemical pollution. SDC’s Global Programme Climate Change and Environment has already been very active for many years in establishing air pollution control in the building and transportation sectors in India, China and several Latin American countries, with the goal of supporting their transformation towards low-emission development pathways. Since determinants of health are increasingly receiving attention within SDC’s health engagement, there is a good chance that SDC will work even more closely on the interlinkages between environment and health in the future: on a global level through closer collaboration between the Global Programme Climate Change and Environment and the Global Programme Health; on the Swiss national level, by contributing to policy processes such as the current WHO European Environment and Health Process (EHP) and the upcoming Ostrava Ministerial Declaration; and finally also on a bilateral level, where in particular the issue of environmental health effects is addressed and related mitigation measures are introduced within the cooperation with Eastern Europe, (e.g. in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) in order to build resilient and environmentally friendly health Systems. Find here further readings on the nexus of climate change, environment and health.
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