Join us on the Road to Rio+20 and beyond! 

The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), commonly called Rio+20, due to its anniversary with the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 2012.

Rio+20 has highlighted seven areas which need priority attention including decent jobs, energy, sustainable cities, food security and sustainable agriculture, water, oceans and disaster readiness. The zero draft of the outcome document for RIO+20, titled “The Future We Want” serves as the basis for negotiations between now and the Conference.

The Center for Public Health and Climate Change at PHI is working with different Major Groups, NGOs and stakeholders to ensure that “the future we want” integrates public health, food and nutrition security, gender equality in climate resilient - sustainable development.  The Center for Public Health and Climate Change at PHI advocates to  advance the progress towards placing public health, climate justice and human rights in the center of sustainable development.

The Center is planning several events at Rio+20 to educate on the integration of food and nutrition security, health and gender in climate resilient sustainable development. We are developing key recommendations and identifying the necessary partnerships to establish a network to advance the issues of health, food and nutrition security and gender equality as key pillars of climate-resilient sustainable development beyond RIO+20.

 

Here's How You Can Get Involved: 

Join us in the Road to Rio by sending us resources and/or examples of successful interventions and policies that could be scaled up in order to meet these goals. Simply go to: http://www.climatehealthconnect.org/participate

Join the conversation on Twitter!

  • Follow us on Twitter for the latest news on the Road to Rio @ClimateHealthCX
  • Use the hashtags, #FutureWeWant and #Rioplus20
  • Follow the Conference's official Twitter account @UN_Rioplus20

Connect with us on Facebook!

ClimateHealthConnect Blog

by Cristina Tirado, Director of PHI's Center for Public Health and Climate Change, April 23, 2012

There are multiple pathways through which climate change may impact food safety, including: changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, ocean warming and acidification, and changes in contaminants’ transport pathways among others. Climate change may also affect socio-economic aspects related to food systems such as agriculture, animal production, global trade, demographics and human behavior which all influence food safety and health.

Read More...
by Cristina Tirado, Director of PHI's Center for Public Health and Climate Change, April 19, 2012

"we are working towards a paradigm shift in recognizing the leadership of women in responding to the climate crisis."  Eleanor Blomstrom (WEDO)

 

This year the priority theme at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) has been the empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges.

Read More...
by Kathy Dervin, CDPH/Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, April 19, 2012

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is pleased to announce the release of a new publication, Climate Action for Health: Integrating Public Health Into Climate Action Planning, for local governments and health planners.

Read More...
by Mary Pittman, DrPH, President and CEO of Public Health Institute, April 19, 2012

I am encouraged by President Obama's nomination of Dartmouth College president Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD, to head the World Bank. A physician and anthropologist, Dr. Kim’s experience in global health would bring critically important insights to an institution that focuses on alleviating poverty. We can't achieve the Millennium Development goals or reduce poverty without addressing the fundamental importance of health.

Read More...