Healthy Energy Initiative

Reports and Fact Sheets from the Healthy Energy Initiative

• Australia | Climate and Health Alliance – “Health and Energy Policy” Briefing Paper (2013)
• Australia | Climate and Health Alliance – “Health and Energy Choices” Background briefing paper and position paper (2014)
• Australia | Climate and Health Alliance – “Coal and Health in the Hunter: Lessons from one valley for the world” (2015)
• Australia | Climate and Health Alliance — “Investing in Health” (2016)
• China | Rock Environment and Energy Institute – “Unbearable Burden: Health Impact of Coal Combustion in China” (2014)
• Europe | Health and Environment Alliance – “The Unpaid Health Bill: How coal power plants make us sick” (2013), with ongoing releases of country- and region-specific reports and fact sheets (Germany, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Western Balkans)
• Europe | Health and Environment Alliance — “Europe’s Dark Cloud: How coal-burning countries are making their neighbours sick” (2016)
• Germany | Health and Environment Alliance — “Climate mitigation is win-win for public health” (2016)
• Global | Health Care Without Harm – “The Consequences of Coal and the Case for Divestment” (2015)
• Global | Health Care Without Harm and University of Illinois, Chicago School of Public Health — “Scientific Evidence of Health Effects from Coal Use in Energy Generation” (2013)
• Global | Healthy Energy Initiative — “From Extraction to Renewal: A Global Campaign for Healthy Energy” (2015)
• Global | Healthy Energy Initiative and University of Illinois, Chicago School of Public Health – “Energy Facts: Health Effects from Coal Use in Energy Generation” (2015)
• India | Coastal Resource Centre (The Other Media) — “Unfit to Breathe” (2016)
• Poland | Health and Environment Alliance — “Financing for coal power in Poland: a current and future health threat” (2015)
• Turkey | Health and Environment Alliance — “Air Pollution and Health in Turkey” (2015)
• Turkey | Health and Environment Alliance — “Toolkit: Coal power generation and health in Iskenderun Bay, Turkey” (2016)
• South Africa | groundWork – “The Health Impact of Coal: The responsibility that coal-fired power stations bear for ambient air quality associated health impacts” (2014)
• South Africa | groundWork — “Climate and Energy” (2015)

Other Resources

• China, US, Europe | NewClimate Institute — “Missed Health and Economic Benefits of Climate Commitments” (2015)
• Global | Global Climate and Health Alliance and NCD Alliance — “NCDs and Climate Change: Shared Opportunities for Action” (2016)
• Global | World Health Organization – “Preventing disease through healthy environments: a global assessment of the burden of disease from environmental risks” (2016)
• Global | ClimateWorks Foundation and World Bank Group — “Climate-Smart Development: Adding up the benefits of actions that help build prosperity, end poverty and combat climate change” (2014)
• Global | The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate – “The New Climate Economy” (2014)
• Global | International Monetary Fund – “Fiscal Policy to Address Energy’s Environmental Impacts” (2014)
• Global | Physicians for Social Responsibility – “Coal’s Assult on Human Health” (2009)
• India | Urban Emissions and Conservation Action Trust — “Coal Kills: Health Impacts of Air Pollution from India’s Coal Power Expansion” (2014)
• Japan | Kiko Network and Greenpeace — “Air quality and health impacts of new coalfired power plants in the Tokyo-Chiba and Osaka-Hyogo regions” (2016)
• Philippines | Greenpeace — “Coal: A Public Health Crisis. Diseases and deaths attributed to coal use in the Philippines” (2016)
• UK |  Medact, Healthy Planet UK, the Climate and Health Council, Medsin & the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare – “Unhealthy Investments” (2015)
• UK | Medact – “Health & Fracking: The impacts & opportunity costs” (2015)
• US | American Lung Association – Doctors for Climate Health and Red Carriage Advertisement