This October, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Climate & Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) launches the website of its joint campaign named BreatheLife2030.

This campaign aims to mobilize cities and individuals to protect our health and planet from the effects of air pollution. The target of the campaign is to cut the number of deaths caused each year by pollution in half by 2030.

BreatheLife2030 is a platform where governments and individuals can share their efforts to reduce urban air pollution. Through this platform, stakeholders provide …

A new report published by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), Health Care Without Harm’s Healthy Energy Initiative partner in Europe, together with several organizations, reveals that effective emissions limits could save thousands of lives every year, yet more than half of coal power stations in Europe are operating with ‘permission to pollute’ above limits set in EU law.

The report, entitled “Lifting Europe’s Dark Cloud: How cutting coal saves lives,” shows how improving environmental performance at European coal power stations could save 20,000 lives every year. By setting and …

As health and environment leaders meet this week in Manila for the World Health Organization’s Asia Pacific Regional Forum on Environment and Health (4th Regional Forum), Health Care Without Harm-Asia urges governments of Southeast and East Asian countries to protect public health from climate change and to invest in building low carbon and climate-resilient health facilities.

“Considering the climate change’s major impacts on people’s health, health care needs to help lead the efforts to address this, one of the greatest problems of our time.   Our …