Linking environment and health through the 2030 Development Agenda An opportunity to accelerate gains in health and well-being Dr Bettina Menne WHO Regional Office for Europe
Five Features Universal No one left behind Unprecedented scope Integrated Indivisible
Preventing disease through a healthy environment
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How can you contribute? Towards the Sixth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health
SDG target 3.9. can only be achieved through joint action across sectors and settings Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns Goal 14: Sustainably use of resources for sustainable development Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable Goal 1: End poverty everywhere SDG Target 3.9: By 2030, substantially reduce deaths/illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination Goal 10: Reduce inequalities within and among countries Goal 2: improved nutrition and sustainable agriculture Goal 6: clean water and sanitation for all Goal 7: affordable and sustainable energy for all Goal 8: sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all Goal 9: resilient infrastructure and sustainable industrialization
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable AIR QUALITY For 88% of urban residents the WHO Air Quality Guidelines on PM are not met 482 000 premature deaths/year due to ambient air pollution Economic cost estimate of US$ 1.6 trillion WHO AQG = 20 µg/m 3
Waste management 11.6 By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste. 12.4 By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment 12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
Water and Sanitation The unfinished agenda 67 million people lack access to functioning toilets. 100 million people still lack access to piped drinkingwater on their premises. More than 6 million still rely on surface water as their primary water source, posing severe risks to health. Significant inequalities exist in access to drinking-water and sanitation services; rural dwellers and the poor are the most disadvantaged. 10 deaths per day attributable to WaSH in the Region
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts Target 13.2: integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies, and planning 24 European Member States developed climate change plans which include health However, only a handful included health in their national determined intended contributions (INDC) Significant further work is needed to reduce the health effects of climate change climatechange@euro.who.int
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts Target 13.2: integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies, and planning 24 European Member States developed climate change plans which include health However, only a handful included health in their national determined intended contributions (INDC) Significant further work is needed to reduce the health effects of climate change climatechange@euro.who.int
Clear action points for our cooperation Many of the interventions are well known
Means of implementation Governance One National health and national development and national environment policies Financing Partnership Measuring and accountability
http://www.euro.who.int/en/healthtopics/environment-and-health MENNEB@WHO.INT