The Healthy Energy Initiative and its partner organizations have been involved in coordinating, endorsing, or supporting the following health sector statements, resolutions, and actions related to a transition away from fossil fuels and toward healthy energy.
2016
- Germany | German doctors calling for divestment from fossil fuels (April 2016)
- Global | Health professionals call on G7 nations to phase out coal (May 2016)
- Global | World Health Organization’s “Road map for an enhanced global response to the adverse health effects of air pollution” approved at the 69th World Assembly (May 2016)
2015
- Global | The Kolkata Call to Action (February 2015)
- Global | World Health Assembly’s Air Pollution Resolution (May 2015)
Statements and resolutions related to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21)
- Global | The Paris Platform for Healthy Energy (ongoing) — The Healthy Energy Initiative is seeking endorsements for this statement that serves as a guiding document — in the lead up to, during, and beyond COP21 — for the health sector’s efforts to mobilize globally and in key countries to advocate for healthy energy.
- Global | WHO Call to Action — The World Health Organization is calling on the global health community to add its voice to the call for a strong and effective climate agreement, that will save lives, both now and in the future.
- Global | Our Climate, Our Health — The Global Climate and Health Alliance is organizing this campaign to mobilize the global health community to act on climate change.
- Global | 2020 Health Care Climate Challenge (ongoing) — Health Care Without Harm’s Global Green and Healthy Hospitals program is coordinating this leadership pledge by hospitals, health centers and health systems from across the globe to take meaningful action on climate change.
- Global | Consensus Statement on the Health Impacts of Climate Change / Doctors for Climate Action — The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) is coordinating a Global Consensus Statement endorsed by international health and medical organisations, calling for meaningful action to be taken by leaders at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference, COP21, this December in Paris. RACP has also launched an online campaign, ‘Doctors for Climate Action,’ for individual doctors and health professionals around the world to add their name to this call for action on the health impacts of climate change at COP21.
2014
- UK | British Medical Association Commits to Divest from Fossil Fuel Companies (June 2014)
- Global | WHO Conference on Health and Climate Change (August 2014)
- Australia | Health industry’s $29bn fund to restrict thermal coal investments (September 2014)
- Global | WHO Director General Margaret Chan: How Climate Change can Rattle the Foundations of Public Health (September 2014)
- UK | Health Sector Issues Collective Statement on Climate (September 2014)
- Global | A Call for Physicians to Combat Climate Change (October 2014)
- US | Gundersen Health System freezes future corporate investments in fossil fuels (October 2014)
- Global | Commentary by WHO officials: “Health and climate change: the end of the beginning?” (December 2014)
- US | Guide and White House Roundtable on Health Care Resilience (December 2014)
- Global | World Medical Association Calls for Urgent Action on Climate (December 2014)
Earlier
- Global | Doha Declaration on Climate, Health and Wellbeing (December 2012)
- Global | The Durban Declaration on Climate and Health (December 2011)