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8th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen24 June, 2014
Activities in the WHO European Region
2013–2014
James CreswickTechnical Officer
8th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen24 June, 2014
Country support
• Flooding in the Balkans: on-site country support provided to Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
– Series of flooding factsheets produced
– Health assessment of the flooding
8th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen24 June, 2014
Country support: publications
• Protecting health from climate change : a seven-country initiativewww.euro.who.int/results-summary-of-seven-country-initiative
• Floods in the WHO European Region: health effects and their prevention(with Public Health England)www.euro.who.int/floods-in-the-who-european-region
8th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen24 June, 2014
Country support: publications
• Climate change and health: a tool for estimating health and adaptation costswww.euro.who.int/climate-change-economic-tool
• Atlas of health and climate (WHO/WMO)www.who.int/globalchange/publications/atlas/en/
• Integrated Health Information Portal (IHIP), including climate change
8th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen24 June, 2014
Research
• IMPACT2C: Quantifying projected impacts under 2°C warming
• Uses modelling to assess effects on water, energy, infrastructure, coasts, tourism, forestry, agriculture, ecosystems services, and health and air
• www.hzg.de/mw/impact2c
8th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen24 June, 2014
Research (cont.)
• RAMSES: Reconciling Adaptation, Mitigation and Sustainable Development for Cities
• Aims to deliver evidence of the impacts of climate change and costs and benefits of adaptation measures, focusing on cities
• www.ramses-cities.eu
8th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen24 June, 2014
Research (cont.)
• EUPORIAS: European Provision Of Regional Impacts Assessments on Seasonal and Decadal Timescales
• Aims to assess key knowledge gaps of important sectors and develop a few prototype predictions systems
• www.euproias.eu
8th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen24 June, 2014
Research & policy development
• Greening health systems: meeting held in August 2013 to discuss technical requirements and develop a roadmap
• UN Informal Interagency Task Team on Sustainable Procurement in the Health Sector (IIATT-SPHS)
8th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen24 June, 2014
Policy development: WHD2014
• World Health Day 2014: Vector-borne diseases
• Seven factsheets on: chikungunya, dengue, leishmaniasis, Lyme borreliosis*, malaria, tick-borne encephalitis*, West Nile virus
• Events at LHR and IAD
• www.euro.who.int/whd
8th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen24 June, 2014
Policy development: UNFCCC
• COP19 in Warsaw: WHO supported the global Climate and Health Summit, hosted two side-events and a WHO exhibit
• SBSTA40/SBI40 in Bonn: WHO hosted a side-event on relevance of IPCC finding for health, and had an exhibit.
• COP 20, Lima and COP21, Paris
8th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen24 June, 2014
Policy development: EHP
• Health in Climate Change (HIC) working group of the European Environment and Health Task Force (EHTF).
• Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the 2008 Parma commitments underway; conference in Israel, November 2014.
8th EIONET Workshop, Copenhagen24 June, 2014
Upcoming for 2014
• WHO Conference on Health and Climate, 27–29 August, 2014
– Enhance resilience and protect health from climate change.
– Identify the health benefits associated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
– Support health-promoting climate change policies.