HCN health and climate working together

Advocating across sectors for urgent responses to the climate crisis which deliver health for all. Joining energy, food, transport, cities, climate and health.

[HCN health and climate working together @HCN_Network]

Health and Climate Network (HCN) is a community of experts and organisations working together to advocate for health-centred climate policy. We include expertise across sectors, including climate change, energy, transport, cities, food and diet, and health care.

[Recourse | @re-course.org on Bluesky @RecourseTeam]

Spotted in today's @CANIntl ECO 👀

"They say our billions will leverage private trillions. But ECO asks what these trillions will be for, other than profits and adding to shareholder value? The MDBs are looking increasingly like investment bankers, not climate bankers."

#COP29

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

NEW: How the UK became the first G7 country to phase out coal power 🧵

Four key ingredients in UK's success:

❌🏭Stopping new coal
❤️‍🔥☢️🌄Building alternatives
💷Making polluters pay
📢Clear political signals

But there's much more to say…

1/n

https://t.co/20aJgh1RT3

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

Imagine if heat pumps could make:

🍫chocolate
🥃whiskey
🧀cheese
🍺beer

Good news is they can.

And they decarbonise industrial heat at the same time.

A 🧵 with examples from around the world.

[Climate Action Network International (CAN) @CANIntl]

In case you missed it yesterday:

#COP28 has been promoted as 'the most inclusive COP ever'... but it what they meant is that it's the most inclusive for fossil fuel lobbyists.

Read the thread below — and read why we must #KickBigPollutersOut of @UNFCCC's climate negotiations ⬇️

[Hannah Ritchie @_HannahRitchie]

"Electrification is efficiency".

The energy transition will reduce final energy demand (and primary energy too).

Here's the transition for transport 👇

My new post on this:
https://t.co/U4XrHBsREE

[Dr Maria Neira @DrMariaNeira]

Compared to what countries pledged in the Paris Agreement, every year, they spend about six times that amount to subsidize fossil fuel consumption, which in turn exacerbates climate change, toxic air pollution, inequality, inefficiency, and mounting debt. https://t.co/dVNy9Y4K5B

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

The fossil fuel industry is at the heart of the climate crisis.

The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions. It’s fossil fuels—period.

Countries must progressively phase them out, moving to leave oil, coal & gas in the ground—and massively boost renewable investments.

[Dr Maria Neira @DrMariaNeira]

‘I’m a prisoner in my own home,’ asthma sufferer, 15, tells landmark US climate trial | Montana teen Mica is one of 16 plaintiffs in historic trial, alleging state has violated residents’ right to healthy environment and clean air. https://t.co/x1YvWukQ9q

[Professor Mark Maslin 👋 𝕏 @ProfMarkMaslin]

Evidence for #ClimateChange

1. 🌡️ Increased global temperatures

2. 🌊 Rising sea level

3. ❄️ Shrinking glaciers

4. ♨️ Increased heat content of oceans

5. 🧊 Reduced Arctic and Antarctic sea ice

All because human GHG emissions 🏭

https://t.co/MxOh6a6mn5

[Dr Maria Neira @DrMariaNeira]

YES! Scottish GPs call for air pollution to be included on certificates as a cause of death… https://t.co/XCcw7oxFug via @Sunday_Post

[Race & Health @raceandhealth]

Racism kills and climate change kills.

NEW research by Race & Health and Colleagues exploring racial injustice, climate change, and health is now out in @TheLancet . Read this paper and register for our upcoming event featuring this work using the link in our bio.

[HCN health and climate working together @HCN_Network]

“The most pressing reasons for urgent climate action are the impacts not in the future, but right now, on health” @DrTedros, @WHO #WHA76
https://t.co/9ZRKn2pvpS

[Dr. Nicole de Paula @nicoledepaula]

"The industrialized #food system is one of the biggest stressors on #planetaryhealth, contributing almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and causing immense #biodiversity loss." - @futureoffoodorg

https://t.co/15iQiyA7Px

[HCN health and climate working together @HCN_Network]

At #WHA76 taking place this week there is a growing group of countries and CSOs calling for a Resolution on Climate Change and Health to be agreed next year.

The resolution should call for healthy, sustainable diets, a fossil fuel phase out for clean air and health resilience.

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

The #WHA76 has begun! I am honoured to welcome Health Ministers from around the world to this historic World Health Assembly as we mark the 75th anniversary of @WHO. Together, we continue to work towards #HealthForAll, everywhere!

[Andrew Simms @AndrewSimms_uk]

Tobacco sponsorship was once all over sport, but fossil fuel pollution & global heating kill more & now the sponsors are major polluters - our new report on why sport needs to drop dirty sponsorships 👇👇👇

[HCN health and climate working together @HCN_Network]

This is why we need to act much faster on climate change - the health of people and planet are reaching a critical level

BBC News - Global warming set to break key 1.5C limit for first time
https://t.co/IqEAYgj1ha

[Dr Maria Neira @DrMariaNeira]

Do you all have a copy? Guidance on how the health sector and its operational basis in health systems can address the challenges increasingly presented by climate change. ⁦@WHO⁩⁦@UNFCCC⁩
⁦@EU_Commission⁩ https://t.co/USr05fegis

[HCN health and climate working together @HCN_Network]

‘Diverse, health diets for all’ #SustainableDietsforAll and #FoodSystemsforClimateLimit the interference of industrial food producers and industry and raise many voice of youth, women, Indigenous peoples, small scale farmers and consumers https://t.co/8XFaeyuSCs

[HCN health and climate working together @HCN_Network]

Try this @WWF calculator to assess the impact of your diet on your health and the planet, and read the @HCN_Network new brefing on why we need to have Diverse, healthy diets https://t.co/t7BPBz6yW4

[Brent Loken @brentloken]

The WWF Planet-Based Diet calculator is being discovered! Have you checked it out yet?

If not, test your diet here - https://t.co/JXJMb19yaf

https://t.co/9arTTw2Aj5

[HCN health and climate working together @HCN_Network]

Divers, health diets for all:
#SustainableDietsforAll and #FoodSystemsforClimate
require a move away from a focus on the big numbers of increasing quantity and yields of foods, and toward drivers of diversity, quality, and accessibility of a healthy diet
https://t.co/t7BPBz6yW4