Updates, opportunities, and resources on climate action.
Today, thirty health leaders including Presidents, Vice Presidents, Chairs, Directors, and Advisors from a number of organisations are cycling across London as part of Ride for Their Lives, a global campaign to inspire action on air pollution and the wider climate crisis.
The Green Surgery Project, supported by the Health Foundation involves key stakeholders from national institutions, aiming to produce an evidence-based guide and recommendations on how to mitigate the carbon footprint associated with surgical practice.
”The modern addiction to fossil fuels is not just an act of environmental vandalism. From the health perspective, it is an act of self-sabotage.” – Dr Tedros, Director-General, WHO
A letter urging PM Liz Truss to demonstrate the leadership the world needs in taking action to minimise the harms of climate change.
Shireen Kassam, Consultant Haematologist and Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician Founder and Director of Plant-Based Health Professionals UK, writes about her journey to authoring a new textbook on plant-based nutrition.
The submission highlights the health co-benefits of climate action.
The lack of meaningful discussion and engagement on health and climate – the two most pressing crises currently facing the UK, along with the rest of the world – in the conservative leadership contest is deeply concerning.
